1857 - Desjardins Canal Train Disaster: Canadian Great Western passenger train crashes through rotting timber bridge over Desjardins Canal‚ near Hamilton‚ Ontario‚ killing 59 people 1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned 260th Supreme Pontiff in a ceremony at the Vatican 1940 - Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow‚ surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory‚ ending the "Winter War" 1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera "Moses und Aaron"‚ in a concert setting in Hamburg‚ Germany 1989 - 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse‚ 88-79 1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35) 2005 - 26th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia‚ 68-59 2006 - 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina‚ 49-47 2013 - The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day 2018 - British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent More Historical Events »