1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named Commanding General of the Union Army
1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins in England and lasts until March 13; Kills 200 people and 6,000 animals
1897 Cleveland Indians fans start calling the team "Indians" (in 1915 becomes official)
1916 Mexican General Francisco Pancho Villa invades the United States (18 killed)
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses
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1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC - he would've taken 1/2 a mil. to play ball
1959 Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York; over a billion have been sold worldwide since
1964 First Ford Mustang produced
1974 The last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the Philippines, surrenders 29 years after World War II ends2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US (didn't know that)
