Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.
5 March 1970
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
4 March 2001
A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real…
1 March 1981
Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
28 February 1947
Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
25 February 1986
People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines’ first woman president