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March 25th
1634 ~ The first settlers arrived in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1807 ~ The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1867 ~ Birthday of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor. 1881 ~ Birthday of Béla Bartók, Composer. 1918 ~ Death of Claude Debussy, Composer. 1942 ~ Birthday of Aretha Franklin, Singer. 1957 ~ The European Economic Community was established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). 1975 ~ King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. 1992 ~ Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. 1998 ~ President Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that ''we did not act quickly enough'' to stop the slaughter of one million Rwandans four years earlier. |
March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1874 ~ Birthday of Robert Frost, Poet. 1881 ~ Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about industrial pollution. 1892 ~ Death of Walt Whitman, Poet. 1904 ~ Birthday of Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythologist. 1911 ~ Birthday of Tennessee Williams, Playwright. 1964 ~ The musical ''Funny Girl'', starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway. 1971 ~ East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh. 1979 ~ Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in Washington, DC. 1999 ~ The Melissa worm infected e-mail systems around the world. |
March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics. 1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer. 1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1886 ~ Birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect. 1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union. 1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. 1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist. 1977 ~ Two jumbo jets collided on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583. 2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel. |
March 28th
1854 ~ Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declared war on Russia.
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer. 1903 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist. 1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. 1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War. 1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist. 1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio. 1979 ~ A pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown. 1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer. 2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor. |
March 29th
1638 ~ Swedish colonists established first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
1799 ~ New York passed a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. 1867 ~ Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1. 1899 ~ Birthday of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader. 1912 ~ Death of Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer. 1981 ~ First running of the London Marathon. 1982 ~ Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. 1984 ~ The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. 2004 ~ Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members. 2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cooke, Television Host. |
March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation. 1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter. 1870 ~ Texas was readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. 1912 ~ France established a protectorate over Morocco. 1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage. 1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau. 1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer. 1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured. 1987 ~ Vincent Van Gogh's painting Sunflowers was bought for almost $40 million. |
March 31st
1596 ~ Birthday of René Descartes, Mathematician.
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet. 1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer. 1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter. 1855 ~ Death of Charlotte Brontë, Author. 1918 ~ Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the United States for the first time. 1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum. 1968 ~ President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. 1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burns up when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. 1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact. |
April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army. 1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor. 1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer. 1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force. 1945 ~ World War II: American forces invaded Okinawa. 1957 ~ The all time best April Fools hoax! Play the video and enjoy. 1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. 2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison. 2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collides with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and is detained. |
April 2nd
1725 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and writer.
1805 ~ Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer. 1875 ~ Birthday of Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer. 1917 ~ President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. 1917 ~ The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, took her seat as a representative from Montana. 1966 ~ Death of C.S. Forester, Author. 1978 ~ Dallas premieres on CBS, beginning a 13-year run. 1982 ~ Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands starting the war. 1986 ~ A grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter were sucked out of a TWA jet when it was bombed by a group calling itself the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells 2004 ~ Islamist terrorists involved in the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks attempted a bombing of the Spanish high-speed train near Madrid. |
April 3rd
1783 ~ Birthday of Washington Irving, Author.
1882 ~ Jesse James is shot in the back and killed for a $5,000 reward. 1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. 1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. 1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer. 1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario. 1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist. 1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines. 1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan. 1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin. |
April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer. 1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left Ł6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England. 1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States. 1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated. 1969 ~ Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart. 1984 ~ President Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons. 1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary. 1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. |
April 5th
1588 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1614 ~ In Virginia, Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe. 1792 ~ President Washington vetoed a bill. This was the first time the presidential veto was used. 1827 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lister, Surgeon. 1908 ~ Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor. 1930 ~ In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt. 1951 ~ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. 1955 ~ Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the U.K. due to failing health. 1964 ~ Death of General Douglas MacArthur, US Army. 1976 ~ Death of Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer. |
April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw. 1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. 1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. 1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1933 ~ HostessTwinkies were invented. 1974 ~ ABBA won the 19th Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, singing "Waterloo". 1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author. 1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital. 1998 ~ Death of Tammy Wynette, Country Singer. |
April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1770 ~ Birthday of William Wordsworth, English poet. 1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length. 1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario. 1947 ~ Death of Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist. 1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General. 1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360. 1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver. 1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of the first Request for Comment (RFC). 2003 ~ U.S. troops captured Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime fell two days later. |
April 8th
1820 ~ The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1848 ~ Death of Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer. 1889 ~ Birthday of Sir Adrien Boult, English Conductor. 1919 ~ Birthday of Ian Smith, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia. 1945 ~ Pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the POW camp at Flossenbürg. 1953 ~ Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of being a member of the Mau Mau. 1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist. 1975 ~ Frank Robinson managed his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. 1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, General. 2005 ~ The funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
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