Sylvester "Pat" Weaver(creator of NBCβs Today and Tonight shows)β
Ron Silver(actor)β
Eugene Parker(American astrophysicist; proposed the idea of solar wind in 1958
)β
Events
Sister St. Stanislas Hachard became the first Catholic nun ordained in Americaβ
Maine was admitted to the Union as the 23rd stateβ
Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, was named the first American Cardinal by Pope Pius IXβ
The first escalator was patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno of New York Cityβ
Woodrow Wilson held the first presidential press conference after being in office for only 11 daysβ
U.S. troops entered Mexico in futile search for revolutionary bandit Pancho Villaβ
The American Legion founded by war veterans in Parisβ
The first motion picture, My Little Chickadee, featuring both Mae West and W.C. Fields, was releasedβ
The King Cole Trio led by Nat King Cole had the first #1 LP on the first Billboard magazine top-selling record album chartβ
Lerner and Loewe’s play My Fair Lady started what became a 2,717-performance run in New Yorkβ
Police in Orangeburg, SC, arrested more than 350 African Americans as sit-in demonstrations and sporadic racial violence spread throughout the Southβ
Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain scored his 4,000th point of the season, averaging 50.4 points per gameβ
Actress Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton (for the first time) on the 8th floor of the Ritz-Carlton in Montrealβ
U.S. government eased restrictions on travel to China by U.S. citizensβ
The film The Godfather premiered in New York Cityβ
The family drama Eight is Enough premieredβ
Martin Buser captured his second Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in the record time of 10 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes and 39 secondsβ
Highway line painting apparatus patentedβ
Due to President Barack Obama’s presidential proclamation (issued on February 28, 2011), flags were flown at half staff on this day of the internment of Army Corporal Frank W. Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, and in remembrance of the generation of American veterans of World War Iβ
Weather
A tornado hit McPaul, Iowaβ
Blizzard in North Dakota and Minnesota, 71 killedβ
Dr. Wallace E. Howell was hired by N.Y.C. to make rainβ
Boston broke its record for snowiest winter on record when 2.9 inches fell on this day, bringing the winter total to 108.6 inchesβ