0322-BC Aristotle died
1321-Thomas Aquinas - philosopher & saint - dies
1583-Thomas Aquinas Day
1774-British close Boston port to commerce
1778-Capt. James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast - at Yaquina Bay
1848-In Hawaii - Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850-Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1876-Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1911-US sent 20 -000 troops to Mexican border
1912-Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole
1926-1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1933-Monopoly invented
1936-Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles - sends troops to Rhineland
1945-During WW II - US crosses Rhine River
1955-Mary Martin as Peter Pan televised
1959-1st aviator to fly a million miles in a jet (MC Garlow)
1962-US Orbiting Solar Observatory launched
1965-March by civil rights demonstrators broken in Selma - Ala
1973-Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1975-Senate revises filibuster rule - allows 60 senators to limit debate
1977-Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978-Canuck\s Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1981-Walter Cronkite\s final CBS anchor appearance
1986-Sen Jacob K Javits - R-NY - dies in Palm Beach - Fla