1800 – Weber’s opera “Das Waldmadchen” premieres in Freiburg
1874 – American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire
1974 – 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)
1989 – Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
1993 – Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales
2012 – Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
1877 – Alben W Barkley, Graves County Ky, (35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53)
1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
1900 – Cornelius Kee, composer
1918 – Roley Jenkins, cricketer (English leg-spinner 1948-52)
1939 – Jim Northrup, baseball player
1970 – Jason Jacome, pitcher (KC Royals), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1948 – Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer, dies at 64
1990 – Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan
1991 – Anton Furst, production designer (Batman), dies at 47
1993 – Albert Collins, blues guitarist (Don’t Lose Your Cool), dies at 61
2003 – Anthony Hollis, British High Court Judge, dies at 76
2009 – Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards (b. 1923)