597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37 - Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29th.
1815 - Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1945 - Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 - Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4th, 1991.
1988 - The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
Famous Birthdays
1399 -Emperor Xuande of China
1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony
1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan
1839 - John Butler Yeats, artist
1856 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France
1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States
1920 - Traudl Junge, secretary to Adolf Hitler
1941 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire
1960 - Jenny Eclair, comedienne, novelist and actress
1973 - Tim Kang, actor
1978 - Brooke Burns, actress
1984 - Hosea Gear, rugby player
1988 - Patrick Herrmann, footballer
1992 - Brett Davern, actor
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