Today in History

Births On This Day, March 5th 🎂

1970 John Frusciante
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1951 Lat
Malaysian cartoonist

1948 Elaine Paige
English singer, actress

1898 Zhou Enlai
Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

1871 Rosa Luxemburg
Russian economist, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, March 5th 🪦

2013 Hugo Chávez
Venezuelan military officer, politician, President of Venezuela

1963 Patsy Cline
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1953 Sergei Prokofiev
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor

1953 Joseph Stalin
Soviet marshal, politician, and 4th Premier of the Soviet Union

1895 Nikolai Leskov
Russian author, playwright, journalist
 

5th March 1960
Sergeant Elvis Presley is officially discharged from the US army at Fort Dix, New Jersey and receives his final paycheck of $109.54.
He was later quoted as saying, "You can't breathe or even go to the bathroom without them knowin' about it... I never hated anything so much in my life as I have the army."
 
6th March

1893 The opening of the Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) which operated for 7 miles along the Liverpool Docks. The railway had a number of world firsts - it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling, electric colour light signals and electric multiple units and was home to one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station.

1926 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon was destroyed by fire. As the flames raged, a human chain was formed among staff and public to remove all books, costumes and paintings from the theatre.

1957 Ghana became independent, the first British colony to do so.

1985 The Conservative MP Ivar Lawrence made the longest speech of the 20th century in the House of Commons. He spoke for 4 hours and 23 minutes on the subject of the fluoridation of drinking water. 🚰

1987 The British-owned cross-channel ferry the 'Herald of Free Enterprise' left Zeebrugge, Belgium, with its bow doors open. The ferry capsized killing 193 passengers.

1997 A £650,000 Picasso was stolen from a London art gallery. 🖼️ The thief escaped in a taxi.
 
On March 6, 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt held a press conference. No US First Lady had ever held one before and ONLY women reporters were allowed to attend.

My uncle, a young reporter for the AP, Associated Press assigned to the White House was politely uninvited. March 6th was also his birthday. He eventually found himself in Italy following Mussolini.
 
On This Day In History, March 7th

1971 A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence
Bangladesh's founding leader made his historical speech at a time of mounting tensions between East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh, and West Pakistan, which became present-day Pakistan.

1965: Police brutally attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama
Scores of demonstrators were injured, and the day entered history books as Bloody Sunday. The event helped to shift public opinion in favor of the Civil Rights movement.

1945 U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen
The legendary capture yielded little strategic advantage, but it elevated the morale of the U.S. troops in pursuit of retreating German fighters,

1926 The first two-way transatlantic telephone call takes place
The conversation between the post office in London and Bell Laboratories in New York was established using a short-wave radio signal.

1900 The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore
The German transatlantic liner, owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd, was fitted with wireless communication to outdo its rival, Hamburg America Line.
 
Births On This Day, March 7th 🎂

1970 Rachel Weisz
English actress

1960 Ivan Lendl
Czech tennis player

1944 Townes Van Zandt
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1902 Heinz Rühmann
German actor

Deaths On This Day, March 7th 🪦

2006 Ali Farka Touré
Malian singer-songwriter, guitarist

1999 Stanley Kubrick
American director

1975 Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher

1952 Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian guru

1274 Saint Thomas Aquinas
Italian priest, philosopher
 
7th March

1530 – Pope Clement wrote to Henry VIII forbidding him to marry (Anne Boleyn) and threatened him with excommunication from the church.

1959 An independence movement leader - Kanyama Chiume, one of the leaders of the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) - wanted in the British territory of Nyasaland in central Africa, fled to London and went into hiding.

1969 Israel elected first female leader. Golda Meir.

1988 IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar. The IRA confirmed the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar were members of an active service unit.

2015 The one millionth Morris Minor to be produced was sold at auction by Surrey-based specialist car auctioneers 'Historics at Brooklands' for £25,760; 55 years after it rolled off the production line. The classic British car had 23,364 miles 'on the clock' and was still registered on the original number plate 1 MHU, meaning one million in engineering terms.
 
On This Day In History, March 8th

1979 The compact disc is presented to the public
Philips and Sony developed the CD. The companies later collaborated to produce a standard format and CD players.

1978 The first episode of the radio comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast
Douglas Adams's radio play was a major success with BBC Radio 4 listeners. The book version, consisting of five novels - A Trilogy in Five Parts - became a worldwide success.

1971 In the Fight of the Century, Joe Frazier triumphs over Muhammad Ali
Ali had been stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion title in 1967 for refusing to serve in the armed forces. As he was still undefeated, Frazier had to beat him to be recognized as the world champion.

1910 Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman with a pilot's license
The French aviatrix was also the first woman to fly solo. She died at the age of 36 when her experimental plane crashed at Le Crotoy airfield in northern France.

1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
The NYSE at 11 Wall Street in New York City is the world's largest stock exchange.
 
Births On This Day, March 8th 🎂

1990 Petra Kvitová
Czech tennis player

1952 George Allen
American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia

1907 Konstantinos Karamanlis
Greek politician, 3rd President of Greece

1879 Otto Hahn
German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American jurist

Deaths On This Day, March 8th 🪦

1999 Joe DiMaggio
American baseball player

1942 José Raúl Capablanca
Cuban chess player

1930 William Howard Taft
American politician, 27th President of the United States

1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin
German general, businessman

1869 Hector Berlioz
French composer
 
March 8th:
1913
Internal Revenue Service{IRS} begins to levy& collect income taxes
1927
Pan American Airlines{Pan Am} is incorporated was the largest international air carrier in the U.S. It filed for bankruptcy on Dec 4.1991, 7,5000 people lost their jobs
2014
Malaysia Airline Flight # MH 370 with 239 people on board loses contact & disappears shortly after take off never to been seen again
2023
according to scientists at Gyres Institute,171 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans. An increase from 16 trillion in 2005
 
On This Day In History, March 9th

2011 Space Shuttle Discovery completes its final mission
After its journey to the International Space Station (ISS), the shuttle touched down at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

1976 The deadliest cable car accident in history occurs in Italy
43 people died when the cable car plunged 160 ft (50 meters) to the ground after the steel cable had snapped. 14-year-old Alessandra Piovesana was the only survivor.

1961 Ivan Ivanovich, a human dummy, travels into space
On its test flight on board the Soviet spacecraft Korabl-Sputnik 4 (also known as Sputnik 9), the mannequin was accompanied by a dog, reptiles, mice, and guinea pigs.


1959 The Barbie doll goes on sale
The American toy company Mattel claims that more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold so far, with about 3 dolls being sold every second.

1931 The electron microscope is invented
German physicist Ernst Ruska is credited with inventing the microscope. His first instrument allowed a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter).
 
Births On This Day, March 9th 🎂

1964 Juliette Binoche

1943 Bobby Fischer
American chess player

1934 Yuri Gagarin
Russian pilot, astronaut

1915 Johnnie Johnson
English pilot

1890 Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs fr the Soviet Union

Deaths On This Day, March 9th 🪦

1997 The Notorious B.I.G.
American rapper

1996 George Burns
American actor

1994 Charles Bukowski
American poet

1992 Menachem Begin
Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate

1825 Anna Laetitia Barbauld
English poet, author, critic
 
1858
Albert Potts in Philadelphia patents street mailbox
1933
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt calls in U.S. Congress for a special session'100 days' where they pass 77 laws
1945
334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokoyo with 122,000 bombs
1959
'Barbie' doll debuts at American Toy Fair in NYC,over a billion have been sold worldwide since then
1964
The 1st Ford Mustang is produced,cost was $2,368 featured 170 cubic inch 6 cylinder engine,3 speed manual transmission
1987
U2's 5th album' The Joshua Tree' is released, featured 3 hit singles'With or Without You','I Still Haven;t Found What I'm Looking For', Where The Streets Have No Name'. They won 2 Grammys; Album of the yr,Best Rock Performance by duo or Group
2022
acc to Record Industry Association, Vinyl record sales of $41 mil exceeded CD sales $33 mil for the 1st time since 1987
 
On This Day In History, March 10th

2000 The dotcom bubble bursts when the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5408.60
The dotcom boom, which started in 1997, accompanied the advent of countless new Internet-based companies. When the speculative bubble burst, many small investors were affected.

1959 A revolt erupts in Lhasa, sparking the Tibetan uprising
Fearing the Dalai Lama's abduction by China, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded his palace.

1952 Fulgencio Batista assumes power in Cuba after a coup
The dictator was overthrown by rebels under the command of Che Guevara in 1959.

1945 The most destructive bombing raid in history hits Tokyo
About 100,000 Tokyo citizens died in the fires caused by the U.S. airforce's incendiary bombs.

1876 The first telephone call is made
Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the words “Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to see you” to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, who was in the next-door room.
 
Births On This Day, March 10th 🎂

1958 Sharon Stone
American actress, producer

1957: Osama bin Laden
Saudi Arabian terrorist founded al-Qaeda

1952 Morgan Tsvangirai
Zimbabwean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

1940 Chuck Norris
American actor, martial artist

1903 Bix Beiderbecke
American pianist, composer

Deaths On This Day, March 10th 🪦

2012 Jean Giraud
French author, illustrator

1992 Giorgos Zampetas
Greek bouzouki player, songwriter

1988 Andy Gibb
English/Australian singer

1948 Zelda Fitzgerald
American author

1913 Harriet Tubman
American nurse, activist
 
10th March

1629 Charles I dissolved the Parliament, beginning an eleven year period known as the Personal Rule. He had been harshly criticized by Parliament and realized that, as long as he could avoid war, he could rule without them.

1922 Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British governors of India and sentenced to six years in prison.

1956 Rioting and demonstrations broke out in the crown colony of Cyprus after the deportation by the British authorities of the head of the island's Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Makarios.

1969 James Earl Ray was jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting he carried out the murder of the American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King.

1973 The British governor (Sir Richard Sharples) and his assistant (Capt. Hugh Sayers) were assassinated in Bermuda, a British-dependent territory in the North Atlantic.

2023 Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Edward would be the new Duke of Edinburgh. King Charles gave the title to his youngest brother on Prince Edward's 59th birthday. The title is strongly associated with their father, Prince Philip, who was Duke of Edinburgh for more than 70 years, up until his death in 2021.
 
On March 10th 1949 American Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for treason. She was the voice of radio Nazi propaganda during WW2. During one broadcast she once told Allied soldiers assembled in England preparing for the invasion of Europe that the great undefeated German army was ready and waiting to beat them back into the sea.
 
On This Day In History, March 11th

2011 The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster strikes Japan
The nuclear meltdowns occurred after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. It was the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

2004 191 people die as several bombs explode on Madrid commuter trains
The bombings were conducted by an Islamist terrorist cell and came 3 days before Spain's general elections.

1990 Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to declare its independence
The Baltic countries' secession marked an important step in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1990 Patricio Aylwin becomes Chile's first democratically elected president since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship
Pinochet had been in power since a CIA-backed coup d'état in 1973. Under his command, thousands of political opponents were interned, tortured, and killed.

1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Rigoletto, receives its premiere
Rigoletto is one of the most popular operas of all time. The piece was premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.
 
Births On This Day, March 11th 🎂

1978 Didier Drogba
Ivorian footballer

1952 Douglas Adams
English/American author, playwright

1950 Bobby McFerrin
American singer-songwriter, producer, conductor

1931 Rupert Murdoch
Australian/American businessman, founded News Corporation

1916 Harold Wilson
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, March 11th 🪦

2006 Slobodan Milošević
Serbian politician, 3rd President of Serbia, Montenegro

1971 Philo Farnsworth
American inventor, invented the Fusor

1955 Alexander Fleming
Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

1898 William Rosecrans
American general, diplomat

1874 Charles Sumner
American politician
 
On This Day In History, March 12th

1967 Suharto rises to power in Indonesia
His presidency, which lasted 31 years, was overshadowed by crass human rights violations and the occupation of East Timor.

1947 The Truman doctrine is proclaimed
In his speech before Congress, U.S. President Harry S. Truman defined his foreign relations priorities, which included military and economic support to Turkey and Greece to prevent the spread of communism there.

1938 Hitler invades Austria
The occupation of Hitler's homeland is known as Anschluss, which is the German word for annexation.

1930 Mahatma Gandhi embarks on his Salt March
The 240-mile march was an act of civil disobedience to protest the British salt monopoly. It was one of the most significant events during the Indian independence movement.

1918 Moscow becomes Russia's capital city
St. Petersburg lost its status as the Russian capital following the Revolution of 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy.
 

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