History's Top 5 Events on March 28 Uncovered #historicalevents #historicalfacts #historymonth
Uncover history's top 5 events that happened on March 28 in this video! From important milestones to fascinating facts, learn all about March 28 in history. #historicalevents #historicalfacts #historymonth
37 Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula (which means "little soldier's boots"), accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate
1804 Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks
1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1881 "Greatest Show On Earth" formed by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey
1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
1910 1st seaplane to take off from water under its own power is piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon at Martigues, France
1922 1st microfilm device introduced
1930 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara
1935 Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1964 Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumor virus, identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in “Lancet"
1971 Last original edition of "The Ed Sullivan Show" broadcasts on CBS-TV
1979 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths
1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
2009 The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California
2013 Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
2017 Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting
2017 World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia
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10 historical events that shaped March 27th in History
Discover the significance of March 27 throughout history with these 10 key events that shaped this date in time. From political milestones to cultural moments, join us as we explore the impact of March 27 in history.
1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida
1625 Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascends the English throne
1790 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy
1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)
1863 American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for a day of fasting & prayer
1866 American Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1912 US First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.
1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1976 Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens
1979 US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
2012 On This Day launches a sister site in Spanish, Hoy en la Historia
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March 26: A Day to Remember in History
On March 26, significant events took place throughout history. From groundbreaking discoveries to important milestones, this day has left its mark in history. Watch this video to learn more about the events that make March 26 an unforgettable day in history.
1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
1885 1st modern, legal cremation held in England at Woking, Surrey
1910 US forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
1937 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed
1951 United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman
1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III”
1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature
1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago
1973 TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS
1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
1982 Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1999 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man
2018 US Federal Trade Commission confirms it will investigate Facebook over privacy concerns
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March 25: The Most Significant Events in History
Discover the most significant events that happened on March 25 throughout history. From major political events to cultural milestones, this video will give you a deeper understanding of this date's significance in history. Tune in to learn more!
31 The first Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
1584 English explorer Walter Raleigh granted seven-year royal charter by Elizabeth I to explore and colonize North America, after Humphrey Gilbert's death at sea
1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an attempt to find northwest passage to Asia for Dutch East India Company - explores North America instead
1634 Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland
1655 Astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan
1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for George Washington
1807 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific by the frigate Essex
1851 Yosemite Valley discovery made public by Major James D. Savage and Captain John Boling after being shown by Indian guides in California
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded to six army soldiers by US Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Washington
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, killing 21
1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1936 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
1954 RCA manufactures the 1st color TV set, featured a 12.5-inch screen and cost $1,000
1960 First guided missile launched from a nuclear powered submarine (USS Halibut)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1979 Space Shuttle Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Centre to prepare for its first launch, which would eventually happen in 1981
1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1987 The US Supreme Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act 1964
1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
2002 TV reality show "The Bachelor" hosted by Chris Harrison debuts on ABC in the US
2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping
2019 Apple introduces new TV streaming platform Apple TV+, news service Apple News+ and an Apple credit card at star-studded event featuring Oprah
2019 NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women
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March 24: Unforgettable Historical Events at this date
1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1801 Aleksandr Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 Mormon leader Joseph Smith is beaten, tarred and feathered in Hiram, Ohio
1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
1853 Anti-slavery newspaper "The Provincial Freeman" first published in Windsor, Ontario, edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, first black woman publisher in North America
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City, NC)
1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1942 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage
1947 US Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed “Nightline"
1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
2015 NASA's Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon
2019 US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense”
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Shocking Historical Events on March 23rd
From revolutions to inventions to tragedies, March 23rd has been a date filled with shocking historical events. Learn more about what happened on this day in history and how it has shaped the world we live in today. You won't believe the significance of March 23rd until you watch this video!
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech right here in Richmond in favor of Virginia troops joining US Revolutionary war. All of you in the other 49 States, you’re welcome
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 John William Draper takes 1st successful photo in US of the Moon (daguerreotype), in New York City
1857 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City
1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1882 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
1903 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later
1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.
1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist group Fasci di Combattimento (Italian Fighting Bands) in Milan, Italy - later reorganized into National Fascist Party
1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II
1945 The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1973 Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in USA
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars”)
1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
2006 The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply
2010 US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed 'Obamacare', expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance
2016 GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen
2021 First ever tweet by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr" sells for $2.9 million in digitally autographed version
2023 Utah is the first state to limit social media for minors, including an overnight curfew and parental consents
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March 22 Through the Ages: Revealed Secrets This Date In History
Explore the secrets and events that have happened throughout history on March 22. From famous birthdays to historical events, this video will reveal all that happened on this date in history. Take a journey through time and discover the significance of March 22!
1765 Stamp Act organized by British Prime Minister George Grenville, is passed by the British parliament thus becoming the 1st direct British tax on the American colonists,
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington
1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1861 1st US nursing school chartered
1871 William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, celebrated as Emancipation Day
1903 US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop’
1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1929 US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 FDR signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, legalizing the sale of low- alcohol beer and wine with up to 3.2% alcohol by volume
1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases in New York
1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II and, exactly three years later, on this very date, Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1972 In Eisenstadt v. Baird the US Supreme Court rules unmarried people have same right to contraception as married people.
1972 US Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment (still not ratified)
1988 US Congress overrides President Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia, seizing drugs
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
2010 NASA's rover 'Spirit' gets caught in a sand trap on Mars and ceases communications with Earth [1]
2023 Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980
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Unforgettable Moments From March 21 - This Date In History
1788 Olaudah Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), a freed slave, petitions King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes 1st commissioned officer in the Revenue Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the modern US Coast Guard
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1917 Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
1925 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran
1947 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have "complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States”
1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1980 On season finale cliffhanger of TV show "Dallas", villain J.R. Ewing is shot by unknown assailant
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 Arthur Ashe is nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida
1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
2006 First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr”
2019 A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
2019 Levi Strauss & Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York stock exchange
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March 20, 2024
Discover the most significant events that have taken place on March 20 throughout history in this trivia video. From groundbreaking discoveries to notable accomplishments, this date has been filled with memorable moments. Watch and learn about the events that have shaped our world on March 20!
1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1774 The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in Boston
1854 1854 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin Anti-slavery activists within the US Whig political party opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act form a new Republican Party; notable politicians who switched allegiance include Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison
1890 General Federation of Women's Clubs founded in the United States
1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier
1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky
1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines
1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
1952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan by US Senate
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1968 LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1976 American publishing heiress Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery for her part in a 1974 California heist
1984 US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour
2019 A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England
2019 The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion
2023 UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says world has less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming: must reduce greenhouse gases by half by 2030, and cease adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by early 2050s
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March 19: A Day to Remember In History
Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and explore the significant events that happened on this day in history, March 19. From historic battles to groundbreaking discoveries, this video will give you a glimpse into the past and remind you of the importance of this date. So come along and remember with us on March 19: A Day to Remember In History!
1748 Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize North American colonies
1822 Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city
1831 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000
1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
1911 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1918 US adopts Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act, a federal law implementing standard time (and daylight saving time) and defining five time zones for the United States
1920 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time, refusing to ratify the League of Nations' covenant and maintains a policy of isolation
1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty
1954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested in Alamogordo, NM
1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1979 US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1985 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
1987 American televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid rape accusation by his secretary, Jessica Hahn
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of the 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing federal holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1997 US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
2019 American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the 1st woman to win mathematics Abel Prize
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March 18 Historic Trivia You Need to Know!
On March 18th, many significant events have taken place throughout history. From political milestones to cultural moments, learn about the historic trivia that you need to know on this date in history. Expand your knowledge and impress your friends with these important historical facts!
1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1766 Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution
1818 US Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (900 feet long)
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo
1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1877 US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, traveling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts at Madison Square Garden in New York City following the merger of two existing circus groups
1882 Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone
1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1895 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by William Pickering
1902 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience
1922 The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
1925 Great Tri-State Tornado: Monstrous F5 (over 300MPH) tornado roars 219 miles across southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana; kills 695, injures over 2000, and destroys 15,000 homes
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1959 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk
1968 US Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1986 US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns are Jessica and Matthew
1990 A Tampa little leaguer dies after being struck by a pitch
1992 American businesswoman Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes”
2011 MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit
2018 First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona
2018 Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term
2021 US House Judiciary Committee hearing begins on rise of violence and discrimination against Asian-Americans with report saying 3,800 hate incidents recorded over 12 months
2021 US President Joe Biden agrees Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "killer" in ABC News interview. Putin responds "It takes one to know one" a day later.
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Shocking history on March 17 St. Patrick's Day In History!
Discover the shocking history behind St. Patrick's Day, celebrated on March 17 every year. This video will take you through the important events that happened on this day in history, making it more than just a day for green beer and parades. Tune in to learn something new!
180 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies leaving his son Commodus aged 18 as sole emperor
432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1775 Transylvania Land Company, headed by Richard Henderson, buys most of Kentucky through treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (later declared illegal)
March 17, 1776: The Redcoats were forced to evacuate Boston after the Patriots had built significant fortifications with cannons on Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston. Realizing their fate, over 11,000 British troops and Loyalists sailed to Nova Scotia
1778 Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
1842 Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School
1921 Vladimir Lenin proclaims the New Economic Policy to help the country recover from Russian Civil War
1930 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1958 US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
2008 Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end pr*st*t*te; David Paterson becomes acting governor
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March 16: Unbelievable historical moments in history
Discover some of the most unbelievable historical moments that took place on March 16 throughout history. From major world events to lesser-known facts, this video will take you on a journey through time highlighting important events that have occurred on this date. Expand your knowledge and learn about the significance of March 16 in history!
597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines, landing at Homonhon Island after crossing the Pacific Ocean
1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts
1641 General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1769 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's expedition of two ships completes first French circumnavigation of the world arriving in Saint-Malo, France (also carried 1st woman to circumnavigate the world, Jeanne Baré).
1792 Denmark becomes the first nation to ban the transatlantic slave trade, for financial reasons. Doesn't go into effect until 1803 causing a frenzy of activity amongst slave traders who even receive financial support. An estimated 120,000 enslaved Africans were transported from Africa to the West Indies aboard vessels flying the Danish flag.
1802 1st US Military Academy at West Point is established through Congressional act (opened July 4, 1802)
1802 US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1827 First US newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" owned and operated by African Americans begins publishing in New York City
1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1836 Constitution of the Republic of Texas approved, legalises slavery
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who is evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy (US Civil War)
1870 Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the US Senate
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1882 U.S. Senate ratifies the Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross
1883 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman graduate of a pharmacy college
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
1926 Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1934 Academy Award gold statuette 1st called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky
1934 US Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
1955 President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1964 LBJ asks Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
1966 Gemini 8 launched with Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott aboard, conducts the 1st docking of two spacecraft in orbit, flight aborted after critical system failure with the crew returned safely to Earth
1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1994 American figure skater Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on former Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment of US Constitution
1998 Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the H***caust
2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2016 US college student Otto Warmbier is sentenced to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a political poster, in Pyongyang, North Korea
2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses US Congress remotely pleading for further aid against the Russian invasion
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March 15th: A date to remember In History
Beware the Ides if March! 44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House; British troops under Cornwallis defeat American forces but their heavy losses led to ceding of territory and a strategic loss
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened Coup d’état
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1892 1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City
1906 Britons Henry Rolls, Charles Royce and Claude Johnson formalize their existing partnership as Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1913 1st US presidential press conference, held by Woodrow Wilson
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1923 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 US Information Service opens
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1962 Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
1972 "The Godfather", based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1973)
1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
1989 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1991 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy
2021 Deb Haaland confirmed as US Secretary of the Interior by the Senate, 1st Native American to lead a cabinet agency
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Unbelievable Events on March 14 In History
1743 1st American town meeting is held in Boston's Faneuil Hall
1793 Lieutenant Governor Simcoe of Upper Canada passes legislation for the first time against the importation of slaves, after a black female slave forcibly transported to New York state to be sold
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1812 US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1899 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon"
1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
1907 By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1933 US Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation program
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1996 Sarah Dearmon born
1997 US President Bill Clinton trips and injures his knee requiring surgery2004 WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
2022 Dolly Parton removes herself from the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying "I don’t feel that I have earned that right”
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March 13 History You Never Knew
1639 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1778 France informs Great Britain of their Treaty of Alliance with the US; Great Britain responds with a declaration of war against France four days later
1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus
1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers during last weeks of the US Civil War
1868 Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
1877 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
1900 In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris
1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1918 Leon Trotsky gains control of the Red Army
1923 American inventor Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1933 American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1986 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1987 John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family, is acquitted of racketeering
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
2013 North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
2018 National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.
2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump
2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom announces an indefinite moratorium on the death sentence in the state, saying it discriminates against marginalized communities
2019 Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump
2020 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company's board to focus on philanthropic activities
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Unforgettable Moments from March 12 in History
1664 New Jersey becomes an English colony
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1868 US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1912 Girl Scouts begin in the US as the Girl Guides, formed by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah
1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat" as US President via radio, speaking directly to 60 million listening Americans, eight days after his inauguration
1947 US President Harry Truman introduces the Truman Doctrine to fight communism
1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano’
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
2003 Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
2007 22nd Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Van Halen
2008 Streaming service Hulu launches for public access in the United States
2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2019 Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman
2021 Researchers say world has likely reached 'peak twin' with more twin births than ever before - 1.6 million twins born per year (1 in 42)
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Shocking events on March 11 throughout history
Did you know that March 11 is a significant date throughout history? From natural disasters to political events, this date has seen some shocking moments. Watch this video to learn more about the events that occurred on March 11 throughout history.
1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation
1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.
1791 Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as General-in-Chief of the US Army
1865 General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing US to provide material support to Great Britain's war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1963 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series
1968 Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously receive gold record for his single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay”
1977 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be presidency for life
2018 Superhero movie "The Black Panther" becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
2020 Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York
2020 Smallest dinosaur ever discovered - skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar, reported in "Nature"
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March 10: Shocking Historical Events Through Time This Date In History
1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament for the 4th time in his reign, summons new Parliament 11 years later, only to be dissolved after 3 months
1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching
1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1978 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1993 Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
2020 Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life
2023 Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms)
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Revealing Historical Events on March 9
Discover important historical events that happened on March 9 in this video. From major political decisions to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, you'll be surprised to learn what happened on this date in history!
March 9 is a significant date in history and this video will take you through some of the most notable events that took place on this day. If you're a history buff or just curious about the past, this video is for you. Expand your knowledge and impress your friends with these interesting facts about March 9!
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1776 Adam Smith publishes the influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations"’
1841 US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
1856 Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
1861 Us Confederate currency authorized - $50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named Commanding General of the U.S. (Union) Army
1933 US Congress is called into special session by President Franklin D Roosevelt, beginning its "100 days"
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb
1953 Joseph Stalin's funeral is held in Moscow after four days of national mourning
1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
1961 Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig
1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision: public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US
2023 Recording Industry Association of America's 2022 year-end report states vinyl record sales (41 million) exceeded CD sales (33 million) for the first time since 1987
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Secrets Revealed: March 8 Historical Events
Uncover the secrets behind significant historical events that occurred on March 8. From political milestones to cultural movements, this date has seen it all. Watch now to learn more about March 8's impact on history!
1531 King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1884 Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
1964 Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam
1983 President Reagan 1st known use of term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR) in speech in Florida
2013 North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
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March 7: A day to remember
On this day in history, March 7th, significant events took place that will always be remembered. From historical battles to impactful moments in pop culture, join us as we take a look at what happened on March 7th. Don't miss this trip down memory lane!
161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
1530 English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope
1774 King George III charges colonists in Boston with attempting to injure British commerce, paving the way for the closing of the port to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
1801 Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1843 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico
1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay to settle issues over slavery between states
1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
1887 North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”
1918 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site
1962 Ground-breaking report "Smoking and Health" published by the British Royal College of Physicians, first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking
1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras
1975 US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994 The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
2021 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says "no way I resign' amid accusations of sexual assault and his office concealing nursing home deaths
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Unforgettable Moments In History On March 6
On March 6, many unforgettable moments in history have taken place. From important events to notable births and deaths, discover what happened on this date in history with this video. Travel through time and learn about significant moments that have shaped our world today. Don't miss out on this journey through history on March 6!
1646 Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts
1775 1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston
1788 The British First Fleet arrives at Australian territory of Norfolk Island to found a convict settlement
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1829 President Andrew Jackson nominates John McLean to become an associate justice of the US Supreme Court
1831 Edgar Allan Poe court-martialed and dismissed from West Point military academy for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders
1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball
1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1902 Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress
1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1933 Eleanor Roosevelt is the 1st First Lady to hold an official Press Conference at the White House
1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday, to shut down the banking system, pass the Emergency Banking Act and restore public confidence
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
1950 Silly Putty goes on sale in the US
1951 Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union
1957 Centenary of Dred Scott slavery court decision marked by rediscovery of Scott's grave
1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name”
1967 Former union leader Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News”
1982 Susan Birmingham makes then world's loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I”
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
2018 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
2019 Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to turn the social media platform into a more "privacy-focused platform”
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March 5: Unforgettable Events In History
On this date in history, March 5th, many events took place that changed the course of history. From the Boston Massacre to the Space Race, let's take a look back at some of the most unforgettable moments that occurred on this day. Tune in to learn more in this informative and interesting video!
1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes
1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, NYC
1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.
1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's stature as a leading Patriot
1821 Monroe is 1st US President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sunday
1836 Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing Company manufactures first pistol, 36-caliber "Texas" model, in Paterson, New Jersey
1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
1858 Abolitionists establish "Crispus Attucks Day" in Boston
1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1904 Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation in Electrical World and Engineer
1904 Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation in Electrical World and Engineer
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday in the US in attempt stem bank failures and restore confidence
1948 US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height
1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang
2019 Second-ever person "cured" of HIV after stem cell transplant treatment in London, England results published in "Nature"
2022 Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance that sank in 1915, rediscovered in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica in excellent condition
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March 4: Forgotten Historical Events #POTUS
Join us for a journey through forgotten historical events and learn about what happened on March 4 throughout history. From significant events to lesser-known facts, this video will expand your knowledge and take you on a trip back in time. #potus #march4 #history
1628 England's King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1776 American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts
1789 1st US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1789 US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, Fx. Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session
1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of The United States, Thomas Jefferson 2nd Vice President
1801 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1809 James Madison becomes 1st US President inaugurated in American-made clothes
1817 James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th President of the United States
1825 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as the 6th US President
1826 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President
1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball
1837 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the 8th President of the United States
1841 Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words) by William Henry Harrison
1845 James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President
1849 US President Zachary Taylor delays his swearing-in and inauguration ceremony for one day due to religious reasons, rising to the false belief by some that Senator David Atchison (President pro tempore) technically assumed the office of President for one day
1861 Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th US President
1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
1865 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US President. The man who would assassinate him weeks later, John Wilkes Booth, is photographed attending the inauguration.
1865 US Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag”
1869 Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as 18th US President
1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as the 20th President of the United States of America
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War
1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd US President
1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US President (2nd term)
1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th US President
1901 William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President
1909 William Howard Taft inaugurated as 27th US President during 10" snowstorm
1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented military case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million [some sources cite date as March 11]
1921 Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States
1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as the 31st US President
1929 Republican Charles Curtis becomes the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
1954 James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
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