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Events

• First U.S. foreign aid bill authorized $50,000 for relief of victims of an earthquake in Venezuela – 1812
• The Missouri Compromise was passed by U.S. Congress, with President James Monroe signing it on March 6. The legislation designated that Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. (Maine became a state on March 15, 1820; Missouri became a state on August 10, 1821.) – 1820
• Florida admitted to the Union as the 27th state – 1845
• Serfs were emancipated in Russia – 1861
• National Academy of Sciences signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln to advise the government on scientific and technical issues – 1863
• Carmen, by Georges Bizet, premiered in Paris – 1875
• First organized ice hockey match, Montreal, Canada – 1875
• Belva Ann Bennet Lockwood became first woman to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Court – 1879
• Anne Sullivan began teaching deaf/blind Helen Keller – 1887
• The U.S. Steel Corp. was formed – 1901
• Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, began taking prisoners’ fingerprints – 1903
• The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was founded – 1915
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and the Central Powers – 1918
• First international airmail delivery was made from Vancouver, BC, to Seattle, WA – 1919
• The Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated U.S. national anthem – 1931
• First annual meeting of General Wildlife Federation (later, NWF), 1937. – 1937
• Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth, with autonomy in internal affairs – 1952
• First fatal jetliner accident occured when a Canadian plane crashed in Karachi, Pakistan – 1953
• Pioneer 4, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit Sun, launched – 1959
• Apollo 9 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy – 1969
• Pierre Trudeau replaced Joe Clark as prime minister of Canada – 1980
• Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling, safely touching down in his custom-built plane 67 hours after taking off – 2005
• A 50-pound 6-ounce smallmouth buffalo fish was caught in Lake Fork, Texas – 2012