Today in History

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
 

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 Chornobyl 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 country's 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 monopoly on salt. 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.
 
Births On This Day, March 12th 🎂

1979 Pete Doherty
English singer-songwriter, guitarist

1947 Mitt Romney
American businessman, politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts

1946 Liza Minnelli
American actress, singer, dancer

1922 Jack Kerouac
American author, poet

1864 W. H. R. Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, psychiatrist

Deaths On This Day, March 12th 🪦

2015 Terry Pratchett
English author

1999 Yehudi Menuhin
American/Swiss violinist, conductor

1955 Charlie Parker
American saxophonist, composer

1925 Sun Yat-sen
Chinese revolutionary, politician, 1st President of the Republic of China

1914 George Westinghouse
American engineer, inventor
 
12th March

1470 War of the Roses - The Battle of Losecoat Field (also known as the Battle of Empingham). The outcome was a victory for Yorkists Forces over Lancastrian Forces.

1689 The start of the Williamite War in Ireland; a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland. The War was to have a lasting effect on Ireland, confirming British and Protestant rule over the country for over a century. The iconic Williamite victories of the Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne are still celebrated by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland today.

1868 Henry O'Farrell from Dublin, attempted to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria whilst he was on a tour of Australia. The attack caused great embarrassment in the colony, and led to a wave of anti-Irish sentiment, directed at all Irish people, including Protestant Loyalists.

1941 Islanders on the Hebrides hid thousands of bottles of shipwrecked whisky from government officials. The episode was celebrated in the film "Whisky Galore."

1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Marylebone Register Office to catch a glimpse of the couple.

2013
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
The people of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory. Of 1,517 votes cast in the two-day referendum - on a turnout of more than 90% - 1,513 were in favour, while just three votes were against.
 
13th March

1961 Black and white Bank of England five pound notes ceased to be legal tender.

1961 Three men and two women went on trial at the Old Bailey charged with plotting to pass official secrets to the Russians. All 5 were found guilty and sentences were passed, up to 25 years. An official report blamed lax security at the Admiralty for the spy ring.

1972 Britain and China resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of 22 years.

1996 Thomas Hamilton, a lone gunman carrying 4 handguns killed 16 children and their teacher at a school in Dunblane, Scotland. The killer fired randomly around the school gym in an attack that lasted just three minutes, but caused carnage in the class of five and six year olds. He then turned the gun on himself. Hamilton had been a scout master briefly before being sacked by the Scout Association. The event became a rallying point for anti-gun legislation.

2015 Lesley Simpson became the first female Guizer Jarl (chief Viking) in the 130-year history of Shetland's world famous fire festivals. The event is one of several Viking-themed torchlit processions that are held on Shetland every year.
 
On This Day In History, March 15th

1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes President of the Soviet Union
His economic and political reforms, as well as his advocacy of free speech, strengthened pro-democracy movements in other Eastern European countries and ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

1985 The world's first internet domain name is registered
symbolics.com was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. There are over 1 billion domains today.

1972 Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather is premiered
The gangster movie based on Mario Puzo's novel is one of the most popular films of all time.

1917 The last emperor of Russia abdicates
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated following the February Revolution. He was later executed together with his family and some of his servants.

1895 Enrico Caruso makes his stage debut
The Italian tenor is arguably the most famous opera singer of all time.
 

Births On This Day, March 15th 🎂

1979 Kevin Youkilis
American baseball player

1975 Eva Longoria
American actress, producer

1947 Ry Cooder
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1907 Zarah Leander
Swedish actress, singer

1638 Shunzhi Emperor
of China

Deaths On This Day, March 15th 🪦

2008 Mikey Dread
Jamaican singer-songwriter, producer

2001 Ann Sothern
American actress

1983 Rebecca West
English journalist, author

1938 Nikolai Bukharin
Russian politician

1937 H. P. Lovecraft
American writer
 
15th March

1672 King Charles II enacted the 'Declaration of Indulgence', a first step at establishing freedom of religion in England to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics. It suspended the laws that punished those who did not attend the services of the Church of England. The following year the Cavalier Parliament compelled him to withdraw this Declaration. When Charles II's Catholic successor (James II) attempted to issue a similar Declaration it led to the Glorious Revolution that ousted him from the throne.

1877 The first cricket test between Australia and England was played in Melbourne. Australia won by 45 runs. 🏏

1949 Clothes rationing, which had been introduced during the 2nd World War, was ended.

1976 The driver of a London Underground train was shot dead as he chased a gunman after a bomb exploded on the train.

1981 The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks were released in Syria.They were freed after the Pakistani Government agreed to the hijackers' demand to release 54 people from prison.
 
On This Day In History, March 16th

1988 A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah
The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.

1988 In Northern Ireland, an Ulster loyalist kills 3 people at a Provisional IRA funeral
Michael Stone was later convicted of the Milltown Cemetary attack, which was filmed by news crews.

1968 U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam
The 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre included many children and infants.

1960 Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho is premiered
The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.

1926 Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket
The idea for this revolutionary rocket engine first appeared in a book by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
 
Births On This Day, March 16th 🎂

1986 Daisuke Takahashi
Japanese figure skater

1954 Nancy Wilson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress

1953 Richard Stallman
American computer programmer

1917 Samael Aun Weor
Colombian author

1912 Pat Nixon
American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States

Deaths On This Day, March 16th 🪦

2008 Bill Brown
Australian cricketer

2006 Minnie Pwerle
Australian painter

2003 Rachel Corrie
American activist

1983 Arthur Godfrey
American radio, and television host

37 Tiberius
Roman Emperor
 
16th March

1190 The Crusaders massacred 150 Jews at Clifford's Tower, York, following a wave of attacks against Jews that had moved north from London, to Stamford, Lincoln, King's Lynn, Colchester and Bury St. Edmunds, before culminating in the bloodiest atrocity of them all, in York. Some Jews committed mass suicide rather than submit to baptism and they set the castle on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths.

1940 World War II. James Isbister became the first person killed in a German bombing raid; on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.

1953 Marshal Tito made historic visit to London. Marshal Josef Tito of Yugoslavia arrived in Britain, the first Communist head of state to visit the country. The Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden greeted him at Westminster at the start of his five-day visit.

1973 Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge

1978 Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome. Mr Moro's escort of five police bodyguards were killed when he was snatched at gunpoint from a car near a cafe in the morning rush-hour.
 
On This Day In History, March 17th

1992 Apartheid in South Africa comes to an end
In a referendum, 68.7% of white South Africans voted for the abolishment of racial segregation in the country.

1973 The photograph known as Burst of Joy is taken
Photographer Slava Veder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the image depicting a former U.S. prisoner of war being reunited with his family.

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's first female Prime Minister
In her country, Meir was known as the “Iron Lady” long before British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rose to power.

1959 The Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
Followers and advisers of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, feared for his life after a revolt had erupted in Lhasa against the Chinese.

1941 The National Gallery of Art opens in Washington. D.C.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the gallery, which today houses one of the world's finest art collections.
 

Births On This Day, March 17th 🎂

1967 Billy Corgan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1948 William Gibson
American/Canadian author

1919 Nat King Cole
American singer, pianist, television host

1883 Urmuz
Romanian judge, author

1834 Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer, businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft

Deaths On This Day, March 17th 🪦

2006 Oleg Cassini
French/American fashion designer

2005 George F. Kennan
American historian, diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union

1956 Fred Allen
American comedian, actor, radio host

460 Saint Patrick
Irish missionary, bishop

180 Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
 
17th March

1040 The death of Harold 'Harefoot' (Harold I), aged just 24, who was King of England for just 5 years. Harold Harefoot was the son of Canute and his first wife, Elfgifu. His body was exhumed several months after his death and, depending on which source you consult, was thrown into a fen, thrown into the Thames, publicly beheaded, or some combination of these. This was the act of Harthacnut, Harold’s successor and half-brother, who obviously had little love for his predecessor.

1891 SS Utopia collided with HMS Anson (a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy) in the Bay of Gibraltar and sank in less than 20 minutes, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

1899 The first-ever radio distress call was transmitted when the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. The message was received by the radio operator on duty at the South Foreland Lighthouse, who was able to summon the aid of the Ramsgate lifeboat.

1957 British European Airways withdrew their Viscount 701s from service after one of them crashed at Manchester Airport 4 days previously, killing 21 people.

1968 More than 200 people were arrested after demonstrators clashed in an anti Vietnam war protest outside the US embassy in London.

1995 Gangster Ronnie Kray died in Broadmoor hospital. He was serving a life sentence for heinous crimes after being arrested by Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read.
 
On This Day In History, March 18th

1990 East Germany holds its first and only free parliamentary elections
The election was held between the peaceful revolution leading to the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 and the German reunification in 1990.

1971 A 100 feet (30 meters) high wave destroys a Peruvian mining camp and kills hundreds of people
The tsunami was caused by a massive rock avalanche that crashed into Lake Yanahuani from a height of 1300 feet (400 meters).

1965 Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space
During the tethered spacewalk, which lasted 12 minutes, Leonov ventured up to 10 meters from his spacecraft, Voskhod 2.

1962 The Évian Accords are signed, ending the Algerian War
Algeria gained its independence from France as a consequence.

1892 Lord Stanley of Preston pledges to donate a challenge cup for the best ice hockey team in Canada
Today, the Stanley Cup is the world's most prestigious ice hockey trophy.
 
Births On This Day, March 18th 🎂

1981 Fabian Cancellara
Swiss cyclist

1932 John Updike
American author, poet, critic

1869 Neville Chamberlain
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer

1837 Grover Cleveland
American lawyer, politician, 22nd President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, March 18th 🪦

1936 Eleftherios Venizelos
Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece

1913 George I of Greece
1745 Robert Walpole
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1314 Jacques de Molay
Frankish knight

978 Edward the Martyr
English king
 
18th March

978 Edward the Martyr, King of England and the eldest son of King Edgar, was murdered at Corfe Castle. The murder is thought to have been ordered by his stepmother Aelfryth, mother of Ethelred the Unready who was eager to see her son crowned.

1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. It was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America and required many printed materials in the colonies to be produced on stamped paper produced in London. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War.

1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset were sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years for forming the first trade union and introducing collective bargaining for better wages. There was such an outcry that they were pardoned two years after sentencing and allowed to return to England.

1922 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was jailed for six years by the British authorities for encouraging public disorder. He was released in February 1924 for an appendicitis operation, having served only 2 years of his sentence.

2015 Two Polish men were rescued after trying to paddle from Britain to Calais in a rowing boat, after failing to find jobs in Britain. 🛶
 
On This Day In History, March 19th

1962 Bob Dylan releases his first album
Dylan is one of the world's most influential music artists. His songs “Blowin' in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” became anthems for the anti-war movement.

1954 Willie Mosconi sets the world record for running most consecutive Pool balls without a miss
Mr. Pocket Billiards, as the hugely successful American sportsman was often called, ran 526 consecutive balls.

1945 Adolf Hitler orders the destruction of all industries in Germany
The Nero Decree was issued in light of Germany's imminent defeat in World War II. It was never fully executed.

1911 The first International Women's Day is observed by over 1 million people in several European countries
German socialists Clara Zetkin and Luise Zietz initiated the observance, which has become an annual global event.

1895 The Lumière brothers record their first footage
Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon showed workers leaving their factory in Lyon. The film is about 50 seconds long. Auguste and Louis Lumière were the earliest filmmakers in history.
 
Births On This Day, March 19th 🎂

1955 Bruce Willis
German/American actor, singer, producer

1952 Harvey Weinstein
American film producer, co-founded Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company

1848 Wyatt Earp
American police officer

1821 Richard Francis Burton
English soldier, geographer, diplomat

1813 David Livingstone
Scottish missionary, explorer

Deaths On This Day, March 19th 🪦

2014 Fred Phelps
American pastor

2008 Arthur C. Clarke
English author

2005 John DeLorean
American engineer, businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company

1939 Lloyd L. Gaines
American activist

1406 Ibn Khaldun
Tunisian historian
 
On This Day In History, March 20th

2003 The United States invaded Iraq, assisted by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland
The Iraq War, which was termed illegal by then-UN Secretary, Kofi Annan, caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

1995 Japanese terrorists release poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway
12 people died and thousands were wounded after members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo, had placed containers leaking sarin on 5 different trains.

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry
After the wedding in Gibraltar, the artists spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam with a Bed-In for Peace, which lasted a whole week.

1916 Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity
The revolutionary theory describes the interdependency of matter on the one hand and space and time on the other. It is one of the most influential theories in Physics.

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
The anti-slavery story played an important role in setting the scene for the American Civil War.
 
Births On This Day, March 20th 🎂

1984 Fernando Torres
Spanish footballer

1959 Sting
American wrestler

1957 Spike Lee
American actor, director, screenwriter, producer

1939 Brian Mulroney
Canadian politician 18th Prime Minister of Canada

1828 Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian poet, playwright, director

Deaths On This Day, March 20th 🪦

2004 Juliana of the Netherlands

1925 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
English politician, Governor-General of India

1897 Apollon Maykov
Russian poet

1793 William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Scottish judge, politician

1726 Isaac Newton
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian
 

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