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March 6th
1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter.
1521 ~ Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam. 1806 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet. 1853 ~ The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premiered in Venice. 1869 ~ Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. 1888 ~ Death of Louisa May Alcott, Novelist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, American economist. 1957 ~ U.K.colonies Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent Republic of Ghana. 1982 ~ Death of Ayn Rand, Author. 1992 ~ The Michelangelo computer virus began to affect computers. |
March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Italian Scholastic Philosopher.
1792 ~ Birthday of John Herschel, Astronomer. 1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster gave his Seventh of March speech in which he endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer. 1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464). 1936 ~ World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupied the Rhineland. 1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday. 1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies. 1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director. 2001 ~ The SpongeBob SquarePants You Wish TV special airs on Nickelodeon. |
March 8th
1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach.
1862 ~ American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. 1869 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer. 1917 ~ The first stage of the Russian Revolution, February Revolution breaks out in Russia. 1942 ~ Death of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player. 1942 ~ World War II: Japan captured Rangoon, Burma. 1948 ~ The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution. 1950 ~ The Soviet Union claimed to have an atomic bomb. 1983 ~ President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire. 1999 ~ Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh. |
March 9th
1454 ~ Birthday of Amerigo Vespucci, Explorer & Cartographer.
1862 ~ American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships - In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fought the CSS Virginia to a draw. 1900 ~ Birthday of Howard Aiken, Computing Pioneer. 1916 ~ Pancho Villa lead 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17. 1934 ~ Birthday of Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut, first human in space. 1943 ~ Birthday of Bobby Fischer, chess player. 1959 ~ The Barbie doll debuts. 1990 ~ Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirmed he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord. 1996 ~ Death of George Burns, Actor. 2005 ~ The final broadcast by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News. |
March 10th
241 BC ~ First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sank the Carthaginian fleet; ending the First Punic War.
1804 ~ Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony was conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. 1831 ~ The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. 1844 ~ Birthday of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist. 1893 ~ Côte d'Ivoire became a French colony. 1928 ~ Birthday of James Earl Ray, Assassin. 1951 ~ Henri Queuille became Prime Minister of France. 1957 ~ Birthday of Osama bin Laden, Terrorist. 1977 ~ Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus. 1982 ~ The U.S. placed an embargo on Libyan oil because of Libya’s support of terrorist groups. |
March 11th
1847 ~ Death of Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), Pioneer & Agronomist.
1864 ~ The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England killed more than 250 people. 1903 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Welk, Champagne musicmaker. 1942 ~ World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandoned Corregidor. 1952 ~ Birthday of Douglas Adams, science fiction/comedy novelist. 1955 ~ Death of Alexander Fleming, Biologist. 1968 ~ Death of John Wyndham, Author. 1978 ~ Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijacked a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliated by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani. 1996 ~ John Howard became the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia. 2004 ~ Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid killed 191 people. |
March 12th
1685 ~ Birthday of George (Bishop) Berkeley, Philosopher.
1894 ~ Coca-Cola sold in bottles for the first time 1912 ~ The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) were started in the U.S. 1913 ~ Canberra officially named. 1922 ~ Birthday of Jack Kerouac, Writer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Harry Harrison, Science Fiction author. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops occupied Austria; annexation declared the following day. 1985 ~ Death of Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor. 1987 ~ Les Misérables opened on Broadway. 1999 ~ Death of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. |
March 13th
1733 ~ Birthday of Joseph Priestley, Scientist & Minister.
1764 ~ Birthday of Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the U.K., obtainer of a popular bergamot tea recipe. 1781 ~ William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. 1855 ~ Birthday of Percival Lowell, Astronomer. 1906 ~ Death of Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist. 1925 ~ A law in Tennessee, the Butler Act, was passed, prohibiting the teaching of evolution. 1938 ~ Death of Clarence Darrow, Attorney. 1964 ~ Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all failed to help her, in an incident which shocked the world and prompted investigation into the Bystander effect. 1979 ~ The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousted Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada. 1996 ~ The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher were shot dead by a who then committed suicide. |
March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Johann Strauss Sr. 1835 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian Astronomer. 1879 ~ Birthday of Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 1883 ~ Death of Karl Marx, political theorist. 1900 ~ The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. 1923 ~ Pete Parker made the first-ever complete radio broadcast of a hockey game in the world, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. 1991 ~ After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" were freed when a court determined that the police fabricated evidence. 1996 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists. |
March 14th
44 B.C. ~ Ides of March: Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
1827 ~ The University of Toronto (née King's College) was chartered. 1877 ~ The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia. 1898 ~ Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist. 1906 ~ Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered. 1916 ~ President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 U.S. troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa. 1937 ~ Death of H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer. 1956 ~ My Fair Lady opens in New York City. 1975 ~ Death of Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate. 1991 ~ Germany formally regained complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the U.K., the U.S. and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights. |
March 16th
1521 ~ Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1736 ~ Death of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer. 1789 ~ Birthday of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist and developer of Ohm's law 1850 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was first published. 1898 ~ Death of Aubrey Beardsley, British Artist. 1900 ~ Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos on Crete. 1926 ~ Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1978 ~ Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and was later killed by his captors. 1984 ~ William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity. 1988 ~ The Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000. |
March 17th
180 ~ Death of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
461 ~ Death of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. 1673 ~ Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet began their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river. 1782 ~ Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Mathematician. 1834 ~ Birthday of Gottlieb Daimler, Engineer & Inventor. 1845 ~ The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry. 1861 ~ The Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed. 1919 ~ Birthday of Nat King Cole, Singer. Oh! what a singer! 1959 ~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India. 1992 ~ A suicide car-bomb killed 29 and injured 242 at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Holidays and observances Catholicism ~ Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland and Montserrat, widely celebrated in North America. |
March 18th
1844 ~ Birthday of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer.
1850 ~ American Express was founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo. 1858 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the compression ignition engine. 1909 ~ Einar Dessau used a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first to broadcast as a ham radio operator. 1962 ~ France and Algeria signed an agreement ending the Algerian War. 1965 ~ Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, and became the first person to walk in space. 1968 ~ Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. 1978 ~ Death of Leigh Brackett, Science Fiction author. 1990 ~ 12 paintings, collectively worth $100 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the largest art theft in U.S. history. 1992 ~ Microsoft shipped Windows 3.1. |
March 19th
1687 ~ Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, was murdered.
1813 ~ Birthday of David Livingstone, Missionary & Explorer. 1848 ~ Birthday of Wyatt Earp, Policeman & Gunfighter. 1861 ~ The First Taranaki War ended in New Zealand. 1906 ~ Birthday of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official. 1915 ~ Pluto was photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet. 1932 ~ Sydney Harbour Bridge opened. 1950 ~ Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author. 1982 ~ Falklands War: Argentines landed on South Georgia Island, precipitating war. 1987 ~ Death of Louis-Victor de Broglie, French noble, Physicist and 1929 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Holidays and observances The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. |
March 20th
1602 ~ The Dutch East India Company was established.
1727 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist. 1815 ~ Napoleon entered Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. 1828 ~ Birthday of Henrik Ibsen, playwright and dramatist. 1852 ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. 1916 ~ Albert Einstein published his theory of General Relativity. 1928 ~ Birthday of Fred Rogers, children's television host. 1993 ~ A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children. 1995 ~ Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 12 and wounded 1300 persons. 2003 ~ 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. |
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