Diana Ross made her farewell appearance with The Supremes, 1970
British pound hit $1.11, 1985
Humphrey DeForest Bogart, actor (“Maltese Falcon”), died, 1957
Treaty of Paris ratified, 1784
First docking of two manned spacecraft (Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5), 1969
“Today” show first aired, 1952
Eli Whitney received a US government contract for 10,000 muskets, 1799
The Human Be-In (San Fransisco), 1967
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll Dodgson), author, died, 1898
Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Henry Ford introduced the “assembly line” (Model-T each 90 minutes), 1914
Explosions on USS Enterprise (10 killed), 1969
George and Ira Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band” opened on Broadway, 1930
“Great Freeze” (lasted until March 22nd) England, 1205
National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia formed (New York City), 1938
Edmund Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, died, 1742