1732
The first President of the United States, George Washington, was born at his parent's plantation in the Virginia Colony.

1784
A U.S. merchant ship, the Empress of China, left New York for the Far East to trade goods with China.

1810
According to some sources, Polish composer Frederic Chopin was born.
(Chopin however claimed March 1st as his birthday.)

1819
Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1862
Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederate, was inaugurated for a six-year term
following his election in November 1861.

1879
Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a 5-cent store in Utica, New York.

1889
President Cleveland signed a bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union.

1892
"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde, was first performed, at London's St. Jame's Theater.

1909
The Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt,
returned after more than a year at sea.

1924
Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.

1934
The romantic comedy "It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

1935
It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.

1940
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was dethroned at age four in Lhasa, Tibet.

1959
The inaugural Daytone 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Florida, although Johnny Beauchamp was initially
declared the winner, the victory was later awarded to Lee Petty.

1973
The United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.

1980
The U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets at Lake Placid, New York, 4-3.

1984
A 12-year-old Houston boy known publicly as "David", who'd spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.

2003
Milton & Ethel Schroeder of St. Louis, Missouri and Cello Investments, LLC won the Powerball and
both took the cash option of $11,301,914.13.