Historical Events1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid1973 - St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday2008 - Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end prostitute; David Paterson becomes acting governor2013 - Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize2018 - China's National People's Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-presidentMore Historical Events »Famous Birthdays1877 - Albert Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1918)1880 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin, Colombian composer, born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 1971)1881 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris), born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1947)1931 - Lorraine Ellison, American soul singer ("Stay with Me"; "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)"), and songwriter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1983)1987 - Rob Kardashian, American television personality and only son of Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, CaliforniaMore Famous Birthdays »Famous Deaths1801 - Juan de Sesé y Balaguer, Aragonese composer, dies at 641910 - Joaquin Valverde Durán, Spanish composer, dies at 641956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935) and daughter of Marie Curie, dies of leukemia at 581992 - George Lovi, American columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies2025 - John A. Hemingway, Irish Royal Air Force pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War Ⅱ, dies at 105More Famous Deaths »