TODAY IN HISTORY

1762: New York held its first St. Patrick’s Day

parade.

1776: The Revolutionary War Siege of Boston

ended as British forces evacuated the city.

1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin

Delano Roosevelt in New York.

1941: The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.

1942: Six days after departing the Philippines during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater.

1950: Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, “californium.”

1966: A U.S. Navy midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb that had fallen from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. (It took several more weeks to actually recover the bomb.)

1969: Golda Meir took power in Israel, beginning a stint as prime minister that would last through five crucial years in the nation’s history.

1970: The United States cast its first veto in the U.N. Security Council, killing a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failing to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia.

2003: Edging to the brink of war, President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country. Iraq rejected Bush’s ultimatum, saying that a U.S. attack to force Saddam from power would be “a grave mistake.”

2010: Michael Jordan became the first ex-player to become a majority owner in the NBA as the league’s Board of Governors unanimously approved Jordan’s $275 million bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson.

2013: Two members of Steubenville, Ohio’s celebrated high school football team were found guilty of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl and sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that rocked the Rust Belt city of 18,000 people.

2016: Finally bowing to years of public pressure, SeaWorld Entertainment said it would no longer breed killer whales or make them perform crowd-pleasing tricks.