Today in History

322 BC 
The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
161
On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.
1774
The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1799 
In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1809
Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard — the first person to make the an aerial voyage in the New World — died on March 7, 1809, at the age of 56.
1838 
Soprano Jenny Lind ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's opera Der Freischultz.
1847
U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1849
The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
1862
Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1904 
The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1906 
Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1912 
French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
1918
Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925
The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.
1927 
A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1933 
The board game Monopoly is invented.
1933
The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
1935 
Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
1936
Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.
1942
Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
1951
U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
1968 
The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971 
A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
1979 
Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.