1887: The elections to the German Reichstag end with a victory for the cartel parties National Liberals, German Conservatives and German Reich Party.
1907: Premiere of the comic opera “Romeo and Juliet in the Village” by Frederick Delius at the Komische Oper Berlin.
1922: The military airship Roma explodes near Norfolk, Virginia. 40 people are killed.
1927: Premiere of the operetta “The Tsarevich” by Franz Lehár in Berlin.
1932: French Prime Minister André Tardieu proposes a “Danube federation” between Austria and Hungary and the three countries of the “Little Entente” allied with France – Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia.
1952: The American actress Liz Taylor marries her British colleague Michael Wilding in her second marriage. The connection is dissolved in 1957.
1962: World premiere of the play “The Physicists” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Zurich.
1967: Chancellor Josef Klaus pays an official visit to the Soviet Union. Moscow reiterates its reservations about Austria’s EEC membership.
1972: US President Nixon is the first US President to travel to the People’s Republic of China and is immediately received by party leader Mao.
1997: Serbian opposition politician Zoran Đinđić is elected mayor of Belgrade.
2012: After a 12-hour marathon meeting, the Eurogroup decides on the second Greek bailout package, which will then be finally approved on March 14. It has a volume of 130 billion euros and will run until 2014. The private sector will waive 53.5 percent of its claims, and participation will ultimately rise to almost 100 percent. By 2020, the national debt is to fall from more than 160 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 120.5 percent. As a prerequisite for the billions in aid, Greece must initiate a series of reforms. The rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is reacting to a “selective default” by downgrading Greece’s creditworthiness.
birthdays: José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (1817-1893); Wilhelm Speyer, German writer (1887-1952); Wystan Hugh Auden, British-US writer (1907-1973); Franziska Kinz, Austria Actress (1907-1980); Harald V, King of Norway (1937); Jilly Cooper, British writer (1937); Margaret v. Trotta, German actress, director, screenwriter (1942); Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor to US President George W. Bush (1947); Marius von Mayenburg, German dramatist (1972); Maximilian Thun-Hohenstein, Austria Actor (1977); Elliot Page, Canada. Actor (1987).
days of death: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (1632-1677); Emil Holub, Austria ethnologist, explorer of Africa (1847-1902); Georgij Adamovic, Russian poet (1892-1972); Walter Sorell, Austro-US cultural historian (1905-1997); Wolf Albach-Retty, Austria Actor (1906-1967).
name days: Petrus, German, Eleonora, Gunthilde, Damian, Randoald, Zacharias, Irene, Georg, Leodegar, Theodor.