1952: King George VI was buried at St George's Chapel on his Windsor Castle estate. The King passed away in his sleep at the age of 56 on 6 February after 16 years on the throne, following the abdication of his brother Edward Windsor (King Edward VIII) in 1936.
1965: Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.
1971: The British Government launched a new decimal currency across the country. The familiar pound (£), shilling (s) and pence (d) coins were phased out over a period of 18 months in favour of a system dividing the pound into units of ten, including half, one, two, five, ten and 50 pence denominations.
1974: No hope of survivors from missing Gaul trawler. The air and sea search for a British trawler missing in the Arctic Ocean was called off. Nothing had been heard from the Gaul and its 36-man crew since it vanished in a force ten gale 70 miles (112km) north of Norway a week ago.
1977 - Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols replacing bassist Glen Matlock.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922.
1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1970 - Joe Frazier began his reign as the undefeated heavyweight world champion when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds. He lost the title on January 22, 1973, when he lost for the first time in his professional career to George Foreman.
1987 - John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
1989 - Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.
2002 - The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1924 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL. He later found fame as Tarzan.
1987: A group of Tamils from Sri Lanka seeking asylum in Britain protested at Heathrow airport by removing their clothes as they were about to be deported.
1992: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison by a court in Wisconsin for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys.
1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia, PA.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1878: Thomas Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).
1942: Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.
1968: Damages were awarded under a settlement agreed in the High Court to 62 children born with deformities, after their mothers took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
1985: Mickey Mouse was welcomed to China as part of the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The touring mouse played 30 cities in 30 days.
1985: Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1673: The first recorded wine auction took place in London.
1962: The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. Marine Lieutenant John Glenn, 40, travelled about 81,000 miles (more than 130,000km) as he circled the globe three times at more than 17,000 mph (27,000kph).
1986: The Soviets opened a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir. The successful launch of Mir came just over three weeks after the American space shuttle Challenger disaster, in which seven astronauts died.
1993: Two 10-year-old boys were charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. The toddler went missing from the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle last Friday and his body was found on a railway embankment less than three miles away two days later, on 14 February.
1997: Three men who were jailed for 18 years for the murder of 13-year-old paper boy Carl Bridgewater were released after the Court of Appeal ruled their convictions unsafe.
1804: The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
1842: John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
1965: 1965: Controversial black leader Malcolm X, who once called for a "blacks-only" state in the US, was assassinated.
1973: Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert. More than 100 people were killed.
1988: Jimmy Swaggart, America's leading television evangelist, resigned from his ministry after it was revealed he had been consorting with a prostitute.
1900: The Battle of Hart's Hill took place in South Africa between the Boers and the British army.
1940: Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" was released.
1963: Shocking wardens could be legal. A man who electrified his car to ward off traffic wardens may be able to evade the law. Peter Hicks, 40, a farmer from Sussex, is waiting to find out whether he will be prosecuted for rigging up an electric device on his Land Rover.
1972: A group of Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet in the skies over India released the crew and surrendered at an airstrip in the Yemen.
1972: Elvis and Priscilla Presley seperated.
2006: The iTunes Music Store reached 1 billion songs sold.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1938: The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
1955: Deep snow and freezing temperatures across Britain left many parts of the country cut off from essential supplies. More than 70 roads in Britain were blocked by snow, according to the Automobile Association and hundreds of vehicles were abandoned in snowdrifts as high as 30ft (9m).
1981: The Prince of Wales and the Lady Diana Spencer ended months of speculation with the announcement they are to be married.
1989: Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses". A bounty of one to three-million-dollars was also put on Rushidie's head.
1999: The report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence labelled London's police force "institutionally racist" and condemned officers for "fundamental errors".
1962: Four lads from Liverpool get together to form a band.... and the rest is history.
1570: England's Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1836: Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun".
1943: This day was commonly thought to be George Harrison's birthday. In 1992, Harrison was reported to have said, "I only learned recently after all these years that the date and time of my own birth have always been off by one calendar day and about a half hour on the clock." His birthday is actually February 24.
1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "That'll Be The Day." The song would be their first hit. A previously recorded version, on July 22, 1956, was produced poorly and the vocals were performed differently.
1964: Cassius Clay, 22, has been crowned heavyweight champion of the world after beating Sonny Liston in one of the biggest upsets in boxing's history.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.
1952: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1993: Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1995: Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain's oldest investment banking firm.
1998: Tommy Lee of Motley Crue was formally charged with abusing his wife Pamela Anderson Lee, and one of their sons, Dylan.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1827: New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1861: In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five protesting marchers were killed in the incident.
1900: In South Africa, the British received an unconditional surrender from Boer Gen. Piet Cronje at Paardeberg.
1971: British mentalist Derren Brown was born on this day.
1997: In Ireland, divorce became legal.
1998: Vince Neil of Motley Crue announced an agreement with Internet Entertainment Group and Vivid Video to distribute a 60-minute home video of him having sex with two adult film models in Hawaii.
1900: In South Africa, British troops relieved Ladysmith, which had been under siege since November 2, 1899.
1968: Frankie Lymon died of a heroin overdose.
1975: A London Underground train crashed at Moorgate, killing the driver and at least 29 passengers and injuring more than 70 in the worst-ever Tube disaster. The 0837 train from Drayton Park to Moorgate was packed with commuters going to work when it overshot the platform and ploughed into a dead-end tunnel at 0846.
1986: The Swedish prime minister died after being shot in a street ambush in central Stockholm. His wife was wounded.
1993: U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1288: Scotland established this day as one when a woman could propose marriage to a man. In the event that he refused the proposal he was required to pay a fine.
1940: Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Oscar. She won Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."
1960: A huge earthquake devastated the southern Moroccan city of Agadir killing thousands.
1964: The Queen's cousin, Princess Alexandra, gave birth to a son at her home in Surrey. The baby, who was more than a week overdue, is believed to be the first-ever royal baby to be born on 29 February.
1980: Buddy Holly's glasses and the Big Bopper's wristwatch were found in old police files by the Mason City Sheriff. The items were worn by the men when their plane crashed of February 3, 1959.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1562: In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The event started the First War of Religion.
1692: In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1811: Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali massacred the leaders of the Mameluke dynasty.
1815: Napoleon returned to France from the island of Elba. He had been forced to abdicate in April of 1814.
1954: The US produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.
1966: The Soviet probe, Venera 3 crashed on the planet Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.
1966: Britain to go decimal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan, confirmed the "historic and momentous" decision to change over to decimal coinage.
1994: Fred West was charged with two further murders following the discovery of more human remains in the garden of his Gloucester home.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1907 - In Hamburg, Germany, dock workers went on strike after the end of the night shift. British strike breakers were brought in. The issue was settled on April 22, 1907.
1917 - The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.
1933 - The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York. Mr Jinx says 'This is still the best version'.
1949 - The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, TX. The American plane had completed the first non-stop around-the-world flight.
1969 - In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made its first test flight.
1995 - Nick Leeson was arrested for his role in the collapse of Britain's Barings Bank.
2004 - NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.
1904 - Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a political document with Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1906 - A Frenchman tried the first flight in an airplane with tires.
1939 - In Bombay, Ghandi began a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.
1945 - Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1974 - About 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed just after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.
1978 - The remains of Charles Chaplin were stolen from his grave in Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. The body was recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.
1985 - Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."
1991 - Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video.
Due to a technical hiccup todays news was posted yesterday! The mistake has now been rectified. I've added a few new items to todays news as a bonus.
March 04.
1813 - The Russians fighting against Napoleon reached Berlin. The French garrison evacuated the city without a fight.
1877 - The Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" debuted.
1877 - Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
1946 - Canada reported that it had uncovered a spy ring that had been organized by the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. All four people accused admitted to being involved.
1947 - France and Britain signed an alliance treaty.
1950 - Walt Disney’s "Cinderella" was released.
1963 - Six people received a death sentence in Paris for plotting to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.
1969: The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, were given life sentences after being found guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court.
1970 - Janis Joplin was fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, FL.
1975 - Queen Elizabeth knighted Charlie Chaplin.
1977 - More than 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that affected southern and eastern Europe.
1986 - "Today" debuted in London as England’s newest, national, daily newspaper.
1993 - Authorities announced the arrest of Mohammad Salameh. He was later convicted for his role in the World Trade Center Bombing in New York City.
1994 - Four extremists were convicted in the World Trade Center bombing in which six people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.
2003 - In the southern Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack exploded and killed at least 19 people at an airport.
2003 - In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, at least 9 people were killed and 52 were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge.
2012: Villas-Boas sacked by Chelsea: AVB goes after just nine months.
1770: "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.
1836: Samuel Colt manufactured the first pistol (.34-caliber).
1864: For the first time, Oxford met Cambridge in track and field competition in England.
1933: The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections.
1953: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.
1966: A Boeing 707 crashed into Mount Fuji in Japan killing all 124 people on board. The BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) plane plunged into the wooded slopes of the dormant volcano, 25 minutes after taking off from Tokyo International Airport.
1973: Sixty-eight people were killed when two Spanish aircraft collided in mid-air over France where air traffic controllers are on strike. The dead, who included a two-year-old child and 47 Britons, were on board a Spanish Airlines DC9 from Palma, Majorca to London.
1982: Blues Brother John Belushi died of drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles at the age of 33.
1993: Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
"Astrology teaches us one thing and one thing only.... There's one born every minute!" Patrick Moore.