• 455 – After arranging for the assassination of Valentinian
III, Petronius Maximus seized the throne of the Western Roman Empire, only to
be killed 11 weeks later during the sack of Rome.
• 1860 – The First Taranaki War began at Waitara, New Zealand,
marking an important phase of the New Zealand land wars.
• 1891 – The transatlantic steamship SS Utopia accidentally
collided with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less
than twenty minutes and killing 562.
• 1902 - Bobby Jones (3/17/1902
- 12/18/1971) American golfer; first to win the Grand Slam.
• 1950 – The synthesis of californium, a radioactive
transuranium element, was announced.
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