Today in History

25th March

1609 - English navigator Henry Hudson (Hudson Bay in Canada was named after him) set off on his third voyage in an attempt to find the north west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

1807 - The Slave Trade Act received the royal assent, eventually bringing an end to the slave trade. British merchants transported nearly three million black Africans across the Atlantic between 1700 and the early 19th century. The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act outlawed slavery itself throughout the British Empire but slaves did not gain their final freedom until 1838.

1940 - The United States agreed to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes for the war effort.
 

March 26th
1872
Thomas Martin patents fire extinguisher
1979
NCAA Basketball Championship game Mich St vs Indiana St. Mich won 75-64 featuring 2 future Hall of Fame players,Magic Johnson{Mich-LA Lakers} Larry Bird{Ind-Boston Celtics} This was the start of their rivalry in the NBA
 

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26th March

1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables. As far as is known, Caxton was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books.

1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent the first royal e-mail, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Worcestershire.

2015 - Richard III, the only English monarch without a marked grave, was reinterred at Leicester Cathedral after much wrangling, including High Court action over his final resting place. Richard III's body was buried in the now demolished Franciscan Friary in Leicester and was discovered in September 2012 under what had become a car park.
 
27th March

1881 Rioting took place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily promotion of rigid alcohol abstinence by the Salvation Army.

1899 Italian inventor Marconi achieved the first international radio transmission (a Morse Code message) between England and France.

1966 The stolen football world cup was found in south London by a dog called Pickles, whilst it was out for a walk with its owner.
 
March 28th
1979
A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown,PA resulted in the release of radioactive gas&iodine into the atmosphere, no deaths
On March 16th,the movie'The China Sydrome' was released in theaters.The story was an accident& coverup at a fictious Calif nuclear plant,.The movie starred Jack Lemmon,Jane Fonda,Michael Douglas
 
28th March


1942 - British commandos destroyed the U-boat base at St Nazaire. The destroyer Campbeltown rammed the dock gates at 20 knots with five tons of explosives on board. A German ship trying to cut off the British commandos as they made their getaway in fast launches was sunk, in error, by German guns.

1945 - Germany dropped its last V2 bomb on Britain.

2014 - Beryl Walker, 88, was named as the oldest paper girl in the world by Guinness World Records. "Beryl has been doing the round for 35 years, gets up at 6am every morning and hops on her bike 'Hercules' to deliver papers to homes in Gloucester. She works six days a week and cycles over eight miles a day.
 
30th March.


1775 - The British parliament passed an act forbidding its North American colonies from trading with anyone other than Britain.

1944 - saw the allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. 795 aircraft were despatched from along England's east coast , including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers met German fighter resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands. In total, 95 bombers were lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II.

2002 - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, (born August 4th 1900), died peacefully in her sleep, aged 101.
 
1939
The comic book"Detective Comics #27" appeared on newstands.This comic debuted 'Batman'
1984
NYC police detective,Robert Cunningham offers waitress,Phyliss Penzo half of a #1 lottery ticket. The next day they win $6 million
This true story was made into a movie "It Could Happen to You' "94 starring Nicholas Cage,Bridget Fonda,Rosie Perez
 
March 31
1736
The 1st U.S. public hosptial,Bellevue founded in NYC
2004
NFL owners adopted a 15 yard penalty for excessive celebrations
 
31st March

1855 - Charlotte Bronte, Yorkshire novelist and author of Jane Eyre, died during her pregnancy, aged 38.

1912 - Both the Oxford and the Cambridge boats sank in the annual university boat race.

1930 - Scottish engineer John Logie Baird installed a TV set at 10 Downing Street.

1972 - The Beatles' Official Fan Club closed down.
 
1st April

1873 - The British steamer RMS Atlantic ran onto rocks and sank off Nova Scotia, killing 547. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in history until the sinking of the Danish liner SS Norge in 1904.

1949 - The 26 counties of the Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland.

2000 - The Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages in the Second World War, was stolen from Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and a ransom was demanded for its return. The ransom was not paid, but in October 2000 the machine was sent, anonymously and with three of its rotors missing, to BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman.
 
1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
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1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
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1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
 
2nd April

1877 - The first Human Cannonball Act was performed at London's Amphitheatre when acrobat Lady Zazal, attached by elastic springs, was fired into a safety net.

1982 - Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, a British possession for 149 years. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force.
 
3rd April

1888...The first of 11 brutal murders of women occurred in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London. The crimes remain unsolved to this day. At various points some or all of the killings were ascribed to the notorious, unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

1987...The jewels of the late Duchess of Windsor, (the former Mrs Wallis Simpson who married Edward VIII of England after his abdication in 1936), fetched more than £31 million at auction, six times more than the expected figure.
 
April 4th
1949
NATO{North Atlantic Treaty Organization} signed in Washington,DC
1975
childhood friends,Bill Gates&Paul Allen co found Microsoft. Allen at the time was working for Honeywell,Inc,Gates was pre-law at Harvard Univ
 

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