On this day in the year 399 before the common era (BCE) Socrates, a citizen of Athens from an ancient and venerable family, is sentenced to death by his fellow citizens for the crime of “corrupting the minds of several young men from leading families in Athens, including Alcibiades, who attempted to overthrow the democratic government of Athens in favor of a Republic led by men like him and counselled by men Socrates.
On this day in the year 732 of the common era (CE) the teacher Ho-tse Shen-hui engages in a disputation with the founder of Northern Ch'an School of Mahayana Buddhism, which becomes Zen Buddhism when it travels to Japan.
On this day in the year 1220 CE the Khwarezmian city of Bukhara is taken by Genghis Khan's Mongol army after a 12-day siege and the death of approximately thirty thousand people.
On this day in 1804 CE, New Jersey becomes last northern state in the United States to abolish slavery’ sixty-five years later charges of treason are dropped against the traitor Jefferson Davis for the leading the confederate south, as its President, into rebellion against the Union in the American Civil War. Ten years after that, in 1879 CE, the United States Congress authorizes female lawyers to practice law and make arguments before the United States Supreme Court; seventy-seven years later the Pittsburg Pirates and Kansas City Athletics cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama due to a local ordinance barring black players from playing against white players.
In 1870 CE, ground is broken for the Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minnesota.
In 1903 CE the first teddy bear is introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom; ten years later the first avant-garde art show in America opens in New York. New York. Five years after that, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar.
In 1922 CE. Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex; four years later contract air-mail service begins in the United States.
1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survives assassination in Miami, Florida, attempt but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is mortally wounded, he would die on March 29th; six years later the German battleship, Bismarck is launched. Four years after that the wartime propaganda poster We Can Do It! is produced by J. Howard Miller and posted on the walls of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company's plants throughout the Midwest.
In 1962 CE the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; seventeen years later we do it again, and eleven years after that. Ten years later the Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails; thirteen years after that the Chelyabinsk meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over one thousand two hundred people, exploding with twenty-six to thirty-three times the energy of the one quarter megaton atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. On this same day an asteroid with a fifty meter diameter came within 27,700 kilometers of Earth.
In 1978 CE escaped mass murderer, serial rapist and killer Ted Bundy is recaptured in Pensacola, Florida; on this same day Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in fifteen rounds for heavyweight boxing championship title. Fourteen years later, Jeffrey Dahmer is found sane and guilty of the murder and cannibalization of fifteen boys and young men.
In 1985 CE The Breakfast Club is released, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy
In 2001 CE the first draft of the complete human genome is published in the journal, Nature.
In 2011 CE, United States president Barack Obama awards writer and activist Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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