363-Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire in a campaign that leads to his death 1046-Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins a seven-year Middle Eastern journey, which he later describes in his book "Safarnama" 1496-English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands 1770-British soldiers kill five men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks is the first to die and is later held up as an early Black martyr. The Boston Massacre or Incident on King Street galvanizes anti-British feelings. 1841-First continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate begins, as the Democratic minority attempt to run out the clock on a bill to establish a national bank, lasts until March 11 1904-Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation in Electrical World and Engineer 1946-Iran resumes petroleum exports 1995-Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St. Petersburg