1st
1900
Edna
Swithenbank (later Manley) is born to Englishman, Thomas
Swithenbank and his Jamaican wife, Ellie Shearer,
in England. She will become one of Jamaica's foremost
painters and sculptors as well as the prime activist for the
recognition and encouragement of a truly Jamaican style of
art. She also becomes the wife of National Hero, Norman
Manley, and the mother of Prime Minister Michael Manley.
1927 On March 1st 1927
Harold George Belafonete (Harry
Belafonte) is born in New York to Harold George
Belafonete of Martinique and his Jamaican wife Melvine (nee
Love).
1939
The Board of the
Jamaica Agricultural Society receives a case
of a new variety of citrus developed by D. D. Phillips of
Manchester. The fruit called by Phillips a tangelo then an
ortanique, is a cross between an orange and a tangerine and
has smooth, orange skin and sweet, juicy pulp (ORange + TANgerine + unIQUE).
1948 Winston Rodney (Burning Spear) is born in St. Ann's
Bay.
3rd
1951 For the first time in the history of the Police
Force, a member of the rank and file is commissioned as an
officer. Det. Sgt. Sydney Anderson is promoted to Assistant
Superintendent.
6th
1997 Former Prime Minister,
Michael Manley, dies at his home
in St. Andrew after a long fight with prostate cancer.
8th
1912
Gladys Longbridge (Lady Bustamante) is born in
Westmoreland to Frank Longbridge and Rebecca Blackwood.
1939 Mary Morris-Knibb, teacher and social worker,
becomes the first woman to hold a political post when
she wins the by-election for a seat in the K. S. A. C. She
wins 1231 votes, double the votes of both her rivals
combined.
12th
1956 A bottle with a letter washes up near St Ann's Bay. The
letter is dated July 1750 and was a farewell to his family
written by someone on board the ship the Brethren of the
Coast as it was being consumed by fire in the
Mid-Atlantic.
17th
1948 Daisy Chambers is admitted by the Court of Appeal
as Jamaica's first woman solicitor.
18th
1847 Dr Charles Campbell, dentist, of Kingston,
performs the first tooth extraction under anaesthetic: sulphuric ether. The process was invented in New York only
six months before. The anaesthetic machine used was built by
Mr Arnaboldi in his shop on King St, Kingston.
19th
1747 Construction begins on a building at the
Bath Mineral
Springs, St Thomas to accommodate the sick and infirm
visiting the spring.
20th
1936 Rainford Hugh Perry (Lee
Scratch Perry) is born in Kendal, Manchester.
22nd
1933
Marcus Garvey lays the foundation stone for
Liberty
Hall, the headquarters of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, UNIA, at 76 King St.
25th
1920 Arthur Stanley Wint is born in Plowden,
Manchester to Rev. John Wint, a Presbyterian Minister and
his wife Hilda, a school teacher.
27th
1849 Members of the House of Assembly are shocked when
they learn that Jamaica's Chief Justice earns £3,000 per
year, two and a half times more than the Chief Justice of
the United States. The Governor of Jamaica also earns more
than the President of the United States.
1923
Louis Simpson is born in Kingston to Aston and Rosalind
(Marantz) Simpson.
1945
Iris Collins, the first woman Member of the House of
Representatives, causes controversy when she enters
Headquarters House without a hat. Dress code requires that
women attending the House and sitting in the Gallery wear
hats and "unhatted" women have previously been
escorted out. However, there is nothing in the Standing
Orders regarding dress code for female Members as there has
never before been any.
30th
1992
P J Patterson, QC, is sworn in as Jamaica's
sixth Prime Minister by Governor-General, Sir Howard
Cooke.
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