44 BC Marc Antony thrice offers a crown to Caesar, who refuses it0 Roman Feast of the Lupercalia

590 Coronation of Shah Khosrow II of Sassanid Persia (590 to 628)

1637 Ferdinand III (1637-1657) succeeds Ferdinand II (1619-1637) as Holy Roman Emperor

1645 Parliament creates "The New Model Army," insuring the defeat of Charles I, and the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell

1760 The 90-gun ship-of-the-line HMS 'Ramillies' is wrecked at Bolt Head near Plymouth; only 21 of c. 850 aboard survive

1775 Giovanni Angelico Braschi elected Pope as Pius VI (1775-1799)

1856 USS 'Supply' loads 21 camels at Smyrna, Turkey, for the US Army

1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1896 Battle of Alequa: Italians defeat the Abyssinians

1898 Havana Harbor: Second class battleship USS 'Maine' blows up from undetermined causes, 258 die.

1915 "Sepoy Mutiny" in Singapore: c. 800 Indian troops run amok until subdued by loyal troops and police

1933 Anarchist Giuseppe Zangara attempts to kill Pres-elect FDR, mortally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak m/w. dies Mar 6

1936 Hitler orders production of the Volkswagen

1942 Dutch destroyer 'Van Ghent' runs aground in Banka Strait and is abandoned.

1942 German U-Boat shells Antillian oil refinery

1942 Japanese First Air Fleet departs Palau for the Dutch East Indies.

1942 Japanese airborne naval troops attack Palembang against heavy resistance

1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese; greatest disaster in British military history

1943 The Allies form AIRSOLS (Aircraft Solomons Command), to coordinate air operations in the SW Pacific

1944 Italy: Allies commence bombing & shelling the Monastery of Monte Cassino

1944 Northen Solomons: New Zealand troops land on Green Island

1945 Philippines: As US troops land on Bataan, Japanese troops in Manila are surrounded

1948 China: People's Liberation Army occupies Jenan

1965 Canada adopts the "Maple Leaf" flag

1989 Gen. Boris Gromov leaves Afghanistan, ending Soviet intervention

2013 The Chelyabinsk Meteor: A 20 meter, c. 12,500 ton, bolide exploded at c. 30 km above the earth with a force of 500 kilotons