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1991: The U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq.
1986: Dodge Morgan sails solo nonstop around the world in 150 days.
1986: Halley's Comet reached its perigee (point nearest the Earth) during its most recent passage near the planet.
1981: President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from hospital after recovery from an assassination attempt.
1974: The Judiciary committee subpoenas President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
1968: President Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
1961: Israel begins the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of war crimes during WWII.
1961: Folk singer Bob Dylan performs in New York City for the first time, opening for John Lee Hooker.
1953: Mathematician Andrew John Wiles, deviser of a proof of Fermat's last theorem, was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command of United Nations and U.S. forces during the Korean War.
1945: After two frustrating days of being repulsed and absorbing tremendous casualties, the Red Army finally takes the Seelow Heights north of Berlin.
1942: Detachment 101 of the OSS–a guerrilla force–is activated in Burma.
1941: Germany bombers blitz Conventry, England.
1898: American President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war with Spain.
1895: Cuban patriot José Julián Martí landed in Cuba at the head of an invading force whose goal was to win independence from Spain.
1893: Dean Acheson—U.S. secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, adviser to four presidents, and the principal creator of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War period following World War II—was born.
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria confirmed the March Laws, which formed the foundation of the modern state of Hungary.
1815: The eruption of Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia, killed about 10,000 people.
1814: On this day in 1814, during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Napoleon was facing an invasion of France by forces bent on his overthrow and, pressed by his own officers, abdicated unconditionally at Fontainebleau.
1783: After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on 13 March, Congress proclaims a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1713: The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, ending the War of Spanish Succession. France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain.
1512: The forces of the Holy League are heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna.
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