March 1st

March 1, 1872 – Yellowstone National Park was established when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law, creating the world’s first national park.

March 1, 1873 – Production of the first typewriter began.Manufactured by E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, New York, the machine was based on a 1868 patent by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule.

March 1, 1873 – Henry Comstock discovered the Comstock Lode.The first major U.S. discovery of silver ore

March 1, 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. The French physicist made his groundbreaking discovery while trying to prove his erroneous theory that phosphorescent uranium salts absorb sunlight and reemit it as X-rays.

March 1, 1912 – The first parachute jump is made from a moving airplane by U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry.He jumped from a Benoist pusher biplane at 1,500 feet, descending 500 feet

March 1, 1932 – The 20-month-old son of aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnapped from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey. The Lindberghs then paid a $50,000 ransom. However, on May 12, the boy’s body was found in a wooded area a few miles from the house. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German immigrant and carpenter, was convicted of the crime and executed in 1936

March 1, 1936 – Hoover Dam was completed. Built to control the Colorado River, provide irrigation water, and generate hydroelectric power.

March 1, 1947 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was formed. The IMF’s primary goal of improving the economies of its member countries has frequently been overshadowed in the past by criticisms about the fund’s alleged support of dictatorships and negative impact on the environment.

March 1, 1961 – President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps, an organization sending young American volunteers to developing countries to assist with health care, education and other basic human needs.

March 1, 1995 – Internet giant Yahoo! was incorporated. The company was founded in January 1994 as Jerry’s guide to the World Wide Web by Jerry Yang and David Filo.

                                      March 2nd

March 2, 1855 – Alexander II became Tsar of Russia.

March 2, 1861 – US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories after restructuring land before the civil war

March 2, 1865 – British newspaper “Morning Chronicle” began publishing

March 2, 1866 – The 1st US company The Excelsior Needle Company made sewing needles by machine which was incorporated in Connecticut. It used a patented “cold swaging” method. It was founded by Orrin Hopson, Heman Brooks, and E.J. Manville, it later became The Torrington Company.
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March 2, 1867 – US Congress abolished peonage in New Mexico. Peonage was a system of involuntary servitude or debt slavery where a person (the peon) is coerced into working to pay off a real or pretended debt.

March 2, 1899 – President McKinley signed a bill creating Mt Rainier a National Park

March 2, 1901 – The US Steel Corporation was founded under J. P. Morgan, Sr. through merger of Carnegie Steel Company, Federal Steel Company, and National Steel Company

March 2, 1930 – D. H. Lawrence (English novelist) passed away

March 2, 1933 – Universal Studio’s “King Kong” film premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC

March 2, 1956 -“Lawdy Miss Clawdy” single cover was released by Elvis Presley

March 2, 1995 – The top quark was discovered. The existence of this elementary particle, the bottom quark’s counterpart, had been presumed since the 1970’s.

                                     March 3rd

March 3, 1791 – The United States Mint was created by the U.S. Congress.

March 3, 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey was played. At the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

March 3, 1887 – Anne Sullivan began teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller

March 3, 1913 – A women’s suffrage march in Washington D.C. was attacked by angry onlookers while police stood by. The march occurred the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Many of the 5,000 women participating were spat upon and struck in the face as a near riot ensued. Secretary of War Henry Stimson then ordered soldiers from Fort Myer to restore order.

March 3, 1923 – TIME magazine was published for the first time.

March 3, 1931 – “The Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814 are set to John Stafford Smith’s 18th-century tune “The Anacreontic Song”

March 3, 1938 – The world’s fastest steam locomotive was built. The LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard, The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).

March 3, 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.American geologists from Standard Oil of California struck oil at “Dammam Well No. 7,” near Dhahran

March 3, 1969 – Apollo 9 was launched for a 10 day mission

March 3, 1987 – Danny Kaye (American actor)passed away

March 3, 1991 – Footage was released of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry. The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

March 3, 1995 – Indiana Jones Adventure debuted in Disneyland

                                March 4th

March 4, 1681 – King Charles II of England granted a huge tract of land in the New World to William Penn to settle an outstanding debt. The area later became Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1789 – The first meeting of the new Congress under the new U.S. Constitution took place in New York City.

March 4, 1801 – Thomas Jefferson became the first US president to be inaugurated in Washington, DC.

March 4, 1830 – Former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts. He was the first ex-president ever to return to the House and served eight consecutive terms.

March 4, 1877 – An improved microphone was patented by Emile Berliner.The device used a diaphragm that varied pressure on carbon contacts as sound waves hit it.

March 4, 1830 – Former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts. He was the first ex-president ever to return to the House and served eight consecutive terms.

March 4, 1902 – American Automobile Association (AAA) was established.

March 4, 1918 – The first cases of the Spanish flu herald a deadly worldwide pandemic were documented. The disease quickly spread around the world, causing over 25 million deaths.

March 4, 1933 – Newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office and delivered his first inaugural address attempting to restore public confidence during the Great Depression. He stating, “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…” His cabinet appointments included the first woman to a Cabinet post, Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins.

March 4, 1972 – Bear Country (now Bayou Country since 2024) opened in Disneyland

March 4, 1980 – Robert Mugabe became Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister. A hero of the black struggle against the white minority rule in his country, Mugabe won a landslide victory. More recently, his oppressive style of leadership has been condemned domestically and internationally.

March 4, 2007 – The world’s first national internet election was held. Estonia was the first country to allow its citizens to vote in a parliamentary election through the world wide web.

                                     March 5th

March 5, 1770 – The Boston Massacre occurred as a group of rowdy Americans that harassed British soldiers who then opened fire, killing five and injuring six. The first man killed was Crispus Attucks, an African American. British Captain Thomas Preston and eight of his men were arrested and charged with murder. Their trial took place in October, with colonial lawyer John Adams defending the British. Captain Preston and six of his men were acquitted. Two others were found guilty of manslaughter, branded, then released.

March 5, 1868 – The U.S. Senate convened as a court to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson during impeachment proceedings. The House of Representatives had already voted to impeach the President. The vote followed bitter opposition by the Radical Republicans in Congress to Johnson’s reconstruction policies in the South. However, the effort to remove him failed in the Senate by just one vote and he remained in office.

March 5, 1872 – The air brake was patented by George Westinghouse.

March 5, 1933 – Amid a steadily worsened economic situation, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a four-day “Bank Holiday” to stop panic withdrawals by the public and the possible collapse of the American banking system.

March 5, 1946 – The “Iron Curtain” speech was delivered by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill used the term to describe the boundary in Europe between free countries of the West and nations of Eastern Europe under Soviet Russia’s control.

March 5, 1953 – Joseph Stalin (Soviet marshal, politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union) died of a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage at his Kuntsevo dacha

March 5, 1960 — Elvis received his honorable discharge from the army at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

March 5, 1963 – Patsy Cline (American singer-songwriter, pianist) passed away

March 5, 1982 – John Belushi ( of SNL fame ) passed away

March 5, 1983 – The original Journey into Imagination debuted at Epcot

                                            March 6th

March 6, 1646 – Joseph Jenkes received the 1st mechanical patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts

March 6, 1808 – First college orchestra in the US wasfounded at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts

March 6, 1831 – Edgar Allan Poe got court-martialed and dismissed from West Point military academy for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders

March 6, 1836 – Fort Alamo fell to Mexican troops led by General Santa Anna. The Mexicans had begun the siege of the Texas fort on February 23rd, ending it with the killing of the last defender. “Remember the Alamo” became a rallying cry for Texans who went on to defeat Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto in April.After 13 days of fighting, 1,500 to 3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182 to 257 Texans, including William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett

March 6, 1842 – Constanze Mozart (German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) passed away

March 6, 1857 – US Supreme Court rules African Americans cannot be US citizens. Known as Dred Scott Decision

March 6, 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society

March 6, 1899 – The painkiller Asprin was registered as a trademark. Acetylsalicylic acid was first isolated in 1897 by German chemist Felix Hoffmann. Today, the medication is sold by Bayer and is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines.

March 6, 1933 – Eleanor Roosevelt was the 1st First Lady to hold an official Press Conference at the White House

March 6, 1961 – 1st London minicabs were introduced. Welbeck Motors launched the first modern, branded minicab fleet in London, causing, in their time, a “diabolical liberty” by competing directly with traditional, regulated, black cabs. These original minicabs were known for offering 24-hour service, often cheaper than suburban trains

                                            March 7th

March 7, 1530 – Pope Clement VII denied English King Henry VIII’s request to annul his marriage to catherine of Aragon. which led to the break with the roman catholic church and the establishment of the church of england

March 7, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone and successfully transmitting the first human voice over a wire

March 7, 1881 – Southern University opened in New Orleans

March 7, 1926 – The first two-way transatlantic telephone took place. The conversation between the post office in London and Bell Laboratories in New York was established using a short-wave radio signal.

March 7, 1930 – William Howard Taft (American politician, 27th President of the United States) passed away

March 7, 1936 – The first stock car race was held in Daytona Beach, Florida.

March 7, 1950 – The Soviet Union first claimed to have an atomic bomb.

March 7, 1972 – First flight of the Goodyear blimp. Goodyear launched the Europa, its first Europe-based blimp, which began its maiden voyage from Cardington, England, and was later based in Italy

March 7, 1978 – The first episode of the radio comedy “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” broadcasted. Douglas Adams’ 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.

March 7, 1979 – The compact disc was presented to the public. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony. The companies later collaborated to produce a standard format and CD players.

March 7, 1983 – First broadcast of The Nashville Network (TNN). Originally The Nashville Network; later known as The National Network and The New TNN)

March 7, 1999 – Joe DiMaggio (American baseball player) passed away

March 7, 2016 -Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters opened in the Cars Land of California Adventure

                                           March 8th

March 8, 1531 – King Henry VIII was recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury

March 8, 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange was founded. The NYSE at 11 Wall Street in New York City is the world’s largest stock exchange.

March 8, 1820 – 5th US President James Monroe’s daughter Maria was the first child of a President to marry in the White House

March 8, 1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee argued 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.

March 8, 1887 – Everett Horton, CT, patented the fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

March 8, 1896 – Volunteers of America formed by social reformers Ballington and Maud Booth at Cooper Union’s Great Hall.. Established in New York City as a faith-based, non-profit organization, it was created to “reach and uplift” vulnerable people by providing food, shelter, and support services.

March 8, 1936 – The first stock car race was held in Daytona Beach, Florida.

March 8, 1959 – Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx had their final TV appearance together. The General Electric Theater episode “The Incredible Jewel Robbery,”

March 8, 1973 – Eisenhower Tunnel, world’s highest and US longest, opened 60km west of Denver, Colorado

March 8, 2013 – The Tangled themed bathrooms, opened in Fantasyland in Disney World

March 8, 2018 – US President Donald Trump authorized tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico

March 8, 2023 – Oldest known reference to Norse god Odin from fifth century, was revealed on gold disc from Vindelev hoard, Western Denmark, by Danish scientists

                                         March 9th

March 9, 1566 – David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, was murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

March 9, 1765 – After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.

March 9, 1798 – Dr George Balfour became the 1st naval surgeon in the US Navy

March 9, 1864 – Ulysses S. Grant was commissioned as a Lieutenant General and became commander of the Union armies.

March 9, 1935 – The cartoon character Porky Pig first appeared in “I Haven’t Got a Hat”.

March 9, 1931 – The electron microscope was invented. German physicist Ernst Ruska is credited with the invention of the microscope. His first instrument allowed a resolution of 50 nanometers (billionths of a meter).

March 9, 1959 – The first Barbie doll debuts. At the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Created by Ruth Handler for Mattel, the 11.5-inch plastic fashion doll was inspired by the German Bild Lilli doll. The iconic doll first appeared in a black-and-white striped swimsuit, ponytail, and sunglasses, priced at 3 dollars. Over 300,000 Barbie dolls were sold in the first year.

March 9, 1964 – The first Ford Mustang was built.A convertible with a 260-cubic-inch V8 engine, finished in Wimbledon White.

March 9, 1981 – Dan Rather became the primary anchor of CBS Evening News

March 9, 1889 – Kansas passed 1st general antitrust law in US. targeting monopolies and conspiracies in restraint of trade

March 9, 1996 – George Burns (American actor) passed away

March 9, 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed its final mission. The shuttle touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after its journey to the International Space Station (ISS).

                                           March 10th

March 10, 1847 – The 1st money minted in Hawaii. The copper “Keneta” (cent) was commissioned by King Kamehameha III. It was designed by Edward Hulseman

March 10, 1849 – Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions

March 10, 1862 – The US issued first paper money in the form of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000 notes general circulation paper known as “greenbacks” or Legal Tender Notes

March 10, 1880 – The Salvation Army was founded in the United States. The social service organization was first founded in England by William Booth and operates today in 90 countries.

March 10, 1913 – Harriet Tubman (American nurse, activist) passed away

March 10, 1937 – Benny Goodman was unofficially crowned the “King of Swing” at New York City’s Paramount Theater as his band plays before exuberant sell-out crowd filled with teenagers; unable to attend nightclub performances, kids dance in the aisles

March 10, 1965 – Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven got engaged

March 10, 1969 – James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

March 10, 1975 – Dog spectacles were patented in the United States. Known as Doggles. Doggles were invented by Roni Di Lullo

March 10, 1977 – Astronomers discovered the rings around Uranus.

March 10, 1988 – An avalanche at Swiss Ski resort Klosters nearly killed Prince Charles

March 10, 1997 – The PalmPilot was released. It was developed by Jeffrey Hawkins

March 10, 1997 – “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” premiered on the WB network.

March 10, 2000 – NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaked at 5132.52, signaled the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom

                                           March 11th

March 11, 1302 – The day of Romeo and Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare

March 11, 1918 – The ‘Spanish’ influenza first reached America as 107 soldiers become sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. One quarter of the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus, resulting in 500,000 deaths. The death toll worldwide approached 22 million by the end of 1920.

March 11, 1823 – The 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont. Reverend Samuel Read Hall established the first private normal school in the United States to train foundational elements of teacher training in America

March 11, 1927 – The Roxy Theatre opens in New York City. One of the largest and most luxurious movie palaces of its time. It symbolized the height of the movie palace era. It hosted major premieres, drew top-tier talent, and was a destination for both film and live entertainment

March 11, 1850 – The Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania( Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, WMCP ) opened,by Quaker abolitionists. It was the 2nd female medical school in the US

March 11, 1941 – During World War II, the Lend-Lease program began allowing Britain to receive American weapons, machines, raw materials, training and repair services. Ships, planes, guns and shells, along with food, clothing and metals went to the embattled British while American warships began patrolling the North Atlantic and U.S troops were stationed in Greenland and Iceland. “We must be the great arsenal of democracy,” President Roosevelt declared concerning the fight against Hitler’s Germany. The initial appropriation was $7 Billion, but by 1946 the figure reached $50 Billion in aid from the U.S. to its Allies.

March 11, 1955 – Alexander Fleming (Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate) passed away

March 11, 1971 – Philo Farnsworth (American inventor, invented the Fusor) passed away

March 11, 2020 – COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths

                                          March 12th

March 12, 1755 – The 1st steam engine in America was installed to pump water from a mine. It was known as a Newcomen atmospheric engine

March 12, 1881 – Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world’s first Black international football player and captain

March 12, 1884 – In Columbus, Mississippi the 1st US state college for women was established. The Industrial Institute and College (later Mississippi University for Women, or “The W”)was a mission to provide both academic, liberal arts education and vocational training to women.

March 12, 1894 – Coca-Cola were sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi

March 12, 1912 – Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low officially registered the first troop of 18 girls for the Girl Guides, in Savannah, Georgia. Known today as the girl scouts. aimed to foster independence, outdoor skills, and community service among young women at a time when they were often restricted by strict social norms

March 12, 1918 – Moscow became Russia’s capital city. St. Petersburg lost its status as the Russian capital following the Revolution of 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy.

March 12, 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began his famous 200-mile (320 km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax which was created to make illegal for idians to produce or sell salt

March 12, 1935 – Britain established the 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages.

March 12, 1951 – The first Dennis the Menace comic strip appeard in newspapers.

March 12, 1955 – Charlie Parker (American saxophonist, composer) passed away

March 12, 1957 – Random House and Houghton-Mifflin co-published “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss.

March 12, 1994 – The Church of England ordained 32 women as its first female priests. In protest, 700 male clergy members and thousands of church members left the church and joined the Roman Catholic Church which does not allow women priests.

March 12, 1999 – In Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became full-fledged members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It was less than ten years after exchanging communist rule for democracy and ending their Cold War military alliances with Soviet Russia

March 12, 2013 – Storytelling at Royal Theatre and The Royal Hall opened at Disneyland Park.

                                      March 13th

March 13, 1639 – Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.

March 13, 1781 – William Herschel saw what he thinks is a “comet” but actually discoverd the planet Uranus

March 13, 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto premiered. The German composer’s opus 64 is one of the most frequently performed violin concertos in history.

March 13, 1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuted in the New York Lantern Weekly

March 13, 1868 – Senate began US President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial. The impeachment was for violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without Senate approval.

March 13, 1877 – American Chester Greenwood patented earmuffs after inventing them at age 15

March 13, 1901 – Benjamin Harrison (American politician, 23rd President of the United States) passed away

March 13, 1906 – Susan B. Anthony (American activist) passed away

March 13, 1930 – Clyde Tombaugh announced the discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

March 13, 1961 – JFK set up the Alliance for Progress. It was a 10-year, multibillion-dollar development program to improve economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America

March 13, 1969 – Apollo 9 returned to Earth. It splashed down east of the Bahamas after being launched on march 3rd.

March 13, 1986 – Microsoft had its initial public offering and lists on the NASDAQ

March 13, 2005 – Bob Iger was named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner

March 13, 2019 – California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an indefinite moratorium on the death sentence in the state, saying it discriminates against marginalized communities

                                      March 14th

March 14, 1592 – “Ultimate Pi day”: on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)

March 14, 1794 – Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

March 14, 1858 – Seventh Day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White receives a vision of a2-hour “great controversy” vision regarding the cosmic battle between Christ and Satan while attending a funeral service in Lovett’s Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio. Which led to her writing her 219 page book.

March 14, 1883 – Karl Marx (German philosopher) passed away

March 14, 1900 – United States currency was placed on the gold standard.

March 14, 1903 – The 1st national bird reservation was established in Sebastian, Florida. President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

March 14, 1923 – US President Warren G. Harding became the 1st president to pay taxes

March 14, 1923 – The first-ever complete radio broadcast of a professional hockey game. happened on CKCK out of Regina, Saskatchewan and reported by Pete Parker.

March 14, 1931 – The first Trans-Lux Theatre, designed for rear-projection, opened at 58th Street and Madison Avenue in NYC. Newsreels and short films, running from 10 AM to midnight.with 158 seats.

March 14, 1942 – For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin. Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.

                                           March 15th

March 15, 44 B.C. – Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate chamber in Rome by Brutus and fellow conspirators. After first trying to defend himself against the murderous onslaught, Caesar saw Brutus with a knife and asked “Et tu, Brute?” (You too, Brutus?) Caesar then gave up the struggle and was stabbed to death.

March 15, 1493 – Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

March 15, 1867 – Michigan became the 1st state to “MILL-TAX” enacting as a property tax to support a university of Michigan. As the University was growing this secured a stable finanical foundation for the college

March 15, 1892 – The 1st escalator was patented by American engineer Jesse Reno. It was first used at Old Iron Pier at Coney Island, New York City

March 15, 1892 – The stat of New York unveiled the automatic ballot booth (voting machine)

March 15, 1909 – American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opened Selfridges department store on Oxford Street in London, England. Selfridge pioneered “browsing” for pleasure rather than necessity by placing cosmetics on the ground floor, and creating elaborate window displays. He is credited with the phrase, “The customer is always right”

March 15, 1913 – The 1st US presidential press conference happened while standing in a semi-circle in the oval office held by Woodrow Wilson. The point was to establish a new direct communication between president and press.

March 15, 1913 – Cleveland Municipal Court established the 1st small claims court. The officially named was the “Conciliation Branch”

March 15, 1915 – Carl Laemmle opened the film studio Universal Pictures Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles

March 15, 1928 – Benito Mussolini modified Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose). The new law introduced by the Fascist Grand Council required voters to accept or reject a single, state-approved list of 400 deputies nominated directly by the regime, replacing traditional democratic representation

March 15, 1937 – H .P. Lovecraft (American writer) passed away

March 15, 1956 – The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opened in New York City at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

March 15, 1985 – First internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered.

                                             March 16th

March 16, 1802 – West Point, the US Military Academy was established.

March 16, 1827 – First US newspaper, “Freedom’s Journal” owned and operated by African Americans began publishing in New York City

March 16, 1850 – The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published

March 16, 1926 – Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.

March 16, 1934 – Academy Award gold statuette was first called an Oscar in print by Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky when writing about the term in reference to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best Actress win for Morning Glory.

March 16, 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho premiered. The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.

March 16, 1968 – New York Senator Robert Kennedy announced his intention to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

March 16, 2002 – Walt Disney Studios Paris opened adjacent to Disneyland Paris

March 16, 2020 – COVID-19: France ordered a national lockdown, US recommends meetings 10 or less, 6 counties in San Francisco and surrounding counties told to “shelter in place”

                                          March 17th

March 17th – Celebration as Saint Patrick’s Day commemorating the patron saint of Ireland.

March 17, 460 A.D. – Saint Patrick (Irish missionary, bishop) passed away

March 17, 1756 – The first St. Patrick’s Day celebration in New York was at the Crown & Thistle Tavern

March 17, 1762 – First Saint Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City

March 17, 1776 – Early in the American Revolutionary War the British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege conducted by Patriots. The event is still commemorated in Boston as Evacuation Day.

March 17, 1845 – The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London

March 17, 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed.

March 17, 1868 – Postage stamp canceling machine patent was issued by Thomas Leavitt.His invention, designed to combat the labor-intensive hand-canceling process as mail volume grew, significantly increased efficiency, capable of processing 25,000 postal cards hourly

March 17, 1898 – John Philip Holland achieved a successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour and 40 minutes

March 17, 1905 – Albert Einstein finished his scientific paper detailing his quantum theory of light, a foundation of modern physics

March 17, 1905 – Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York

March 17, 1941 – The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington. D.C.. U.S. . President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the gallery, which today houses one of the world’s finest art collections.

March 17, 1968 – Bee Gees made their US TV debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” performing “To Love Somebody” and “Words”

March 17, 1973 –Photographer Slava Veder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the image depicting a former U.S. prisoner of war being reunited with his family. The photograph known as Burst of joy is taken.

March 17, 2005 – The ride Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters opened at Disneyland.

                                         March 18th

March 18, 1662 – The first public bus service began which was promoted by Blaise Pascal. It operated in Paris as the “Carosses à Cinq Sous” until 1675

March 18, 1850 – American Express was founded. Henry Wells & William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo, New York

March 18, 1878 – City of Anaheim in California incorporated for the 2nd time. The Dis-incorporation happened in 1872 Due to high taxes from the first corportation on Febraury 10, 1870.

March 18, 1881 – Barnum & Bailey Circus, traveled as “The Greatest Show on Earth”. It debuted at Madison Square Garden in New York City following the merger of two existing circus groups

March 18, 1882 – Morgan Earp was assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone. Morgan died shortly after, this prompted his brother, Wyatt Earp, to launch the violent “Earp Vendetta Ride” to hunt down those responsible.

March 18, 1909 – The first amateur radio broadcasted.

March 18, 1922 – British magistrate in India sentenced Mahatma Gandhi for six years imprisonment for disobedience. The sedition following his leadership in the non-cooperation movement, which involved boycotts and acts of civil disobedience.

March 18, 1931 – The 1st electric shavers went on sale in US. Jacob Schick, a retired U.S. Army Colonel developed the idea after experiencing difficult, freezing-cold shaving conditions in Alaska.

March 18, 1952 – The 1st plastic lens for cataract patients were fitted at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. It was performed by Warren Reese and Turgut Hamdi. The groundbreaking Rayner-manufactured polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) lens was designed to replace the eye’s clouded natural lens.

March 18, 1965 – Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became 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.

March 18, 1966 – Scott Paper began selling sleeveless A-line “Paper Caper” dresses for $1.25 . The dresses, made from a non-woven, fire-resistant cellulose material called “Dura-Weve,” were designed to be disposable—a nod to the era’s growing convenience culture and fascination with the Space Age.

March 18, 1967 -The ride Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland.

March 18, 1989 – Universal Studios Hollywood added attraction ride Earthquake: The Big One to the studio tour. Inspired by the 1974 film Earthquake, this immersive attraction simulates an 8.3 magnitude quake, featuring falling debris, a subway train derailment, fire effects, and 60,000 gallons of water.

                                            March 19th

March 19, 1895 – The Lumière brothers recorded 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.

March 19, 1918 – Time zones were established in the US.

March 19, 1953 – Academy Awards were first televised.

March 19, 2008 – Arthur C. Clarke (English author) passed away

March 19, 1920 – US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. Which was refusing to ratify the League of Nations’ covenant and maintaining a policy of isolation

March 19, 1882 – First stone was laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí

March 19, 1895 – Los Angeles Railway was established. The Yellow cars had a six mile radius through downtown Los Angeles. they were replaced by motor buses, with the last streetcar running in 1963.

March 19, 1949 – Oak Ridge, Tennessee created the 1st museum to devote exclusively to atomic energy

March 19, 2020 – The state of California has 910 cases of COVID-19. They were told to lock down and to “stay at home”

March 19, 2003 – The United States launched an attack against Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein from power. The attack commenced with aerial strikes against military sites, followed the next day by an invasion of southern Iraq by U.S. and British ground troops. The troops made rapid progress northward and conquered the country’s capital, Baghdad, just 21 days later, ending the rule of Saddam.

March 19, 2003 – The invasion of Iraq began

March 19, 2005 – John DeLorean (American engineer, businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company) passed away

                                             March 20th

March 20, 1345 – The conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the “cause of the plague epidemic” known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.

March 20, 1602 – United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) was formed and granted a monopoly on all Dutch sea-borne trade with Asia

March 20, 1726 – Isaac Newton (English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian) passed away

March 20, 1774 – The British parliament passed the first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party

March 20, 1819 – London’s famous Burlington Arcade opened, it was the world’s 1st shopping arcade.The 196-yard-long (179 m) walkway, designed by Samuel Ware, was one of the earliest covered shopping streets, featuring 72, later consolidated to 40, boutique shops.the arcade is famous for luxury goods, including jewellery, watches, leatherware, perfume, and fashion.

March 20, 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The anti-slavery story played an important role in setting the scene for the American Civil War.

March 20, 1883 – Jan Matzeliger received his 1st patent (number 274,207) for shoe lasting machine which complex mechanisms to automatically adjust and shaping the upper leather around the sole and secure the leather.

March 20, 1914 – The 1st international figure-skating tournament was held in US, New Haven

March 20, 1916 – Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in the German physics journal Annalen der Physik.

March 20, 1954 – The 1st newspaper vending machine were used in Columbia, Pennsylvania,

March 20, 1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono got married.

                                         March 21st

March 21, 1349 – Black Death Massacre occured. Between 100 and 3,000 Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe

March 21, 1413 – Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, became King Henry V of England upon the death of his father.Henry V’s reign is noted for transforming the English monarchy, restoring domestic stability, and renewing the military conflict with France.

March 21, 1788 – On Good Friday at 1:30pm, the Great fire of 1788 in New Orleans, Louisiana began. The fire that destroyed 856 of the 1,100 structures

March 21, 1868 – a journalist Jane Cunningham Crolya respected writer and member of the New York Press Club sought to attend a Press Club banquet honoring Charles Dickens, she was denied a ticket.The Press Club had decided to bar all women from the event. After the upset, she decided toform an all-women’s club.Croly named her women’s club Sorosis which comes from the latin word soror meaning “sister.” where gathering where professional and non-professional women alike could network, socialize, and educate themselves.

March 21, 1935 – Persia was officially renamed Iran upon Reza Shah’s request

March 21, 1943 – An assassination was attempted on Adolf Hitler fails. Suicide bombing attempt by Col. Freiherr von Gersdorff at the Zeughaus Museum in Berlin, which failed because the fuses did not have enough time to detonate.

March 21, 1947 – US President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have “complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States”

March 21, 1952 – The world’s first rock and roll concert was held in Cleveland, Ohio. DJ Alan Freed presented the concert which was closed down after only one song because of over-crowding.

March 21, 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. began marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

March 21, 1970 – Earth Day was celebrated for the first time. The first edition was limited to some cities in the United States. Today, Earth Day is observed by about 1 billion people around the world.

March 21, 1980 – J.R. Ewing was shot on Dallas leading to the catchphrase “Who Shot JR?

March 21, 2006 – Jack Dorsey sent the world’s first Twitter message, or tweet. The microblogging service revolutionized the communication and social networking landscape. In 2012, about 340 million tweets were posted per day.

                                         March 22nd

March 22, 1622 – The First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown, Virginia happened. 347 killed.the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Opechancanough, launched a coordinated surprise attack on English settlements along the James River in Virginia. The assault killed 347 colonists—roughly one-quarter to one-third of the white population—marking a major turning point in colonial Anglo-Indian relations.
The massacre was a direct response to the rapid expansion of English tobacco plantations, which encroached on Powhatan territory. In the aftermath, the English implemented stricter military tactics and began systematic efforts to wipe out local tribes

March 22, 1894 – The first playoff game for Hockey’s Stanley Cup. The Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Ottawa Hockey Club 3-1

March 22, 1945 – The Arab League was founded. The organization was founded to promote political, economic, and cultural collaboration amongst its member states, which include 21 African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries, from Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east.

March 22, 1960 – The first laser to operate within the visible light spectrum was built in by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles H. Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow and the optical amplifier patented by Gordon Gould.

March 22, 1963 – The Beatles released their first album; Please, Please, Me.

March 22, 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the US Supreme Court ruled that unmarried people have the same right to contraception as married people. This landmark decision significantly extended access to birth control for unmarried people and laid legal groundwork for the privacy rights affirmed in Roe v. Wade (1973)

March 22, 1972 – The Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Senate and then sent to the states for ratification. The ERA, as it became known, prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender, stating, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” and that “the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Although 22 of the required 38 states quickly ratified the Amendment, opposition arose over concerns that women would be subject to the draft and combat duty, along with other legal concerns. The ERA eventually failed (by 3 states) to achieve ratification despite an extension of the deadline to June 1982.

March 22, 1975- Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village opened in Disney World

March 22, 2023 – New DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair revealed he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B. It however didn’t explain his deafness

                                          March 23rd

March 23, 1806 – Explorers Lewis and Clark began their journey home from the Pacific Ocean.

March 23, 1839 – The first recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] appears in the Boston Morning Post.serving as a humorous abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular 1830s slang misspelling of “all correct”.

March 23, 1857 – The first elevator is installed. Elisha Otis installed the elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City.The five-story E.V. Haughwout & Co. building. It is located at the corner of Broadway and Broome Street.

March 23, 1868 – University of California was founded in Oakland, California

March 23, 1895 – The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum of Fine Arts opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

March 23, 1896 – The Raines Law was passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels

March 23, 1903 – The Wright brothers filed their 1st patent for a flying machine. After an initial rejection and with the help of attorney Henry Toulmin, they were granted U.S. Patent 3 years later in 1906.

March 23, 1933 – Adolf Hitler became Dictator of Germany. German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

March 23, 1936 – Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injected a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope. The first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope

March 23, 1945 – Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bombed the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II

March 23, 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor (English/American actress) passed away

                                            March 24th

March 24, 1603 – Elizabeth I of England passed away

March 24, 1603 – Scottish King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, uniting the English and Scottish crowns

March 24, 1629 – The first game law was passed in the American colonies by Virginia.focusing on restricting gambling.

March 24, 1880 – Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company incorporated in Connecticut. The incorporation was part of Connecticut’s long history of developing a robust insurance industry, often called the “insurance capital” of the world

March 24, 1837 – Canada granted its Black citizens the right to vote

March 24, 1853 – Anti-slavery newspaper “The Provincial Freeman” was first published in Windsor, Ontario. It was edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, she was the first black woman publisher in North America

March 24, 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American poet) pssed away

March 24, 1882 – Robert Koch discovered the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. The German scientist, who is regarded as the father of modern bacteriology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905.

March 24, 1905 – Jules Verne (French author) passed away

March 24, 1920 – 1st US coast guard air station was established (Morehead City, NC). It was established to test the utility of aircraft for coastal patrol, life-saving, and law enforcement. This station marked the beginning of official Coast Guard aviation

March 24, 1923 – Greece becomes a republic.

March 24, 1934 – The Philippine Islands in the South Pacific were granted independence by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after nearly 50 years of American control.

March 24, 1956, – Astro-Jets took to the skies in Tomorrowland at Disneyland.

March 24, 1956 — Elvis made his sixth and final appearance on “Stage Show,” hosted by the Dorsey brothers. Elvis sang “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Money Honey.”

March 24, 1958 — Elvis was inducted into the army in Memphis.

March 24, 1989 – One of the largest oil spills in U.S. history occurred as the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound off Alaska, resulting in 11 million gallons of oil leaking into the natural habitat over a stretch of 45 miles.

March 24, 2005 – The PlayStation portable was released

                                        March 25th

March 25, 1655 – Saturn’s largest moon named Titan was discovered.

March 25, 1807 – British Parliament abolished the slave trade throughout the British Empire. the penalty of £120 per slave was introduced for ship captains

March 25, 1882 – the 1st demonstration of pancake making was held at a department store in NYC. It marked as the first recorded public, retail-based demonstration of pancake making.

March 25, 1918 – Claude Debussy (French composer) passed away

March 25, 1954 – RCA manufactured the first color TV set. It featured a 12.5-inch screen and costing $1,000

March 25, 1961 – Elvis Presley performed live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial. His return to the concert stage after a stint in the US Army raises $60K and worldwide awareness of the project

March 25, 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama

March 25, 1967 – Who & Cream made their US debut at Murray the K’s Easter Show. The packed bill includedheadliners Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Wilson Pickett, and included The Who, Cream, Simon & Garfunkel, The Blues Project, and The Young Rascals.

March 25, 1969 – American singer Judy Garland gave her very last concert at Falkoner Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark

March 25, 1982 – Wayne Gretzky became the 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season

March 25, 2002 – TV reality show “The Bachelor” hosted by Chris Harrison debuted on ABC in the US

March 25, 2011 -Disney Junior – Live on Stage debuted at Disney California Adventure.

                                         March 26th

March 26, 1664 – The 1st naturalization act in American colonies passed.The Naturalization Act of 1790 passed on March 26, 1790, and was the first federal law establishing a uniform rule for U.S. citizenship. It allowed “free white person[s]” of good character residing in the U.S. for two years to become citizens, excluding non-whites, women, and the enslaved

March 26, 1790 -The United States passed its first Naturalization Act of 1790. It established the first uniform rules for granting U.S. citizenship

March 26, 1827 – Ludwig van Beethoven (German pianist, composer) passed away

March 26, 1845 – The patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster( precursor of band-aid.19th-century version set the stage) the recognized. Commercially successful Band-Aid® was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson, a Johnson & Johnson employee, which was patented in 1926

March 26, 1878 – Hastings College of Law was founded in San Francisco, California

March 26, 1892 – Walt Whitman (American poet, author) passed away

March 26, 1937 – Crystal City, Texas ” World spinach capital” paid tribute and placed a statue of Popeye the sailor man in front of the city building behind th police station

March 26, 1951 – United States Air Force flag was officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman.Designed by Dorothy G. Gatchell and Arthur E. Dubois, it features a navy blue field with the Air Force coat of arms, 13 white stars representing the original colonies, and a 3-star grouping representing the Departments of the National Defense Establishment.

March 26, 1953 – Dr. Jonas Salk announced that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio. The clinical trials began the following year

March 26, 1956 — Elvis signed the agreement that made Colonel Parker his “sole and exclusive Advisor, Personal Representative, and Manager.”

March 26, 1970 – San Francisco city made Golden Gate Park Conservatory a landmark

March 26, 1970 – The Police (Northern Ireland) Act became a law. The act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force

March 26, 1995 – Schengen Agreement went into effect.The agreement allows for the free movement of people by removing internal border controls and strengthening a common external border. today, The agreement has transformed travel within Europe, allowing millions to cross borders daily without checks

                                               March 27th

March 27, 196 BC – The Rosetta Stone and others like it were inscribed with the Decree of Memphis. Which was proclaiming the rule of the King of Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemy V

March 27, 1625 – Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascended the English throne

March 27, 1794 – United States Navy was refounded. The Continental Navy was disbanded after the Revolutionary War, the modern U.S. Navy was effectively refounded with the Naval Act of March 27, 1794, and the Department of the Navy was established on April 30, 1798.

March 27, 1849 – Joseph Couch patented a percussion rock drill. The drill steel passed through a piston. The steel was launched by steam like a lance, seized in a gripper box on the recoil when the engine valve released the driving pressure, and rotated after every stroke. It worked on granite blocks, but was not commercially successful.

March 27, 1855 – Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patented kerosene. A light petroleum distillate, also known as paraffin or range oil, primarily used as a combustible fuel for heating, lighting, cooking,

March 27, 1860 – M. L. Byrn patented a “covered gimlet screw with a ‘T’ handle,”. It’s popularly known as a corkscrew

March 27, 1866 – American Andrew Rankin patented the urinal

March 27, 1866 – US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill. It later becomes 14th amendment

March 27, 1871 – England and Scotland competed the first international rugby match. Like association football, rugby is a British invention. Today, it is a popular sport mainly in large parts of the British Commonwealth.

March 27, 1914 – The first successful non-direct blood transfusion was performed in Brussels. It marked it as a major milestone in medicine by allowing blood to be stored.Dr. Albert Hustin and Dr. Luis Agote independently demonstrated that sodium citrate prevented blood from clotting, allowing it to be stored.

March 27, 1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] was 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

March 27, 1952 – “Singin’ in the Rain,” a musical comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen and starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, premiered at Radio City Music Hall in NYC

                                               March 28th

March 28, 1885 – US Salvation Army officially organized and established as an evangelical part of the universal Christian church to serve the poor.

March 28, 1910 – The first seaplane was achieved by French engineer Henri Fabre at Étang de Berre near Marseille, France. His aircraft, named Le Canard (The Duck), took off from and landed on the water, covering about 500 meters on its historic maiden flight.

March 28, 1930 – Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.. The changes signified the transition from a multinational Ottoman Empire to a modern Turkish nation-state.

March 28, 1941 – Virginia Woolf (English author, critic) passed away

March 28, 1944 – Astrid Lindgren sprained her ankle after slipping on ice and begins writing “Pippi Longstocking”.The manuscript. The book was initially rejected for being too rebellious.

March 28, 1963 – Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” was released. The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.

March 28, 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower (American general, politician, 34th President of the United States) passed away

March 28, 1957 — Elvis wore his gold lamé suit in public for the first time. It was during a concert at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago.

March 28, 1958 – The Fred G. Gurley debuted on the Disneyland Railroad.

March 28, 1972 – Elvis Presley recorded his final Top Ten hit, a cover of “Burning Love”. The song written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander

March 28, 1989 – The Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei was inaugurated by French President François Mitterrand in Paris

March 28, 2009 – The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occurred in two people in California

March 28, 2017 – World’s largest dinosaur footprint, measuring 1.7 meters, was found in Kimberley, Western Australia

March 28, 2022 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction

                                           March 29th

March 29, 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, was founded

March 29, 1673 – English King Charles II accepted the Test Act. Which was Roman Catholics excluded from public functions.The act was designed to remove Roman Catholics from positions of power, including the King’s brother, James, Duke of York, who was forced to resign as Lord High Admiral.

March 29, 1795 – Ludwig van Beethoven had his debut performance as a pianist at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria> he was age 24

March 29, 1848 – Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream.

March 29, 1882 – Knights of Columbus officially chartered by the Connecticut legislature. It was founded by Father Michael J. McGivney at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven. It was established as a fraternal benefit society for Catholic men, it aimed to provide financial security for families, foster charity and unity, and counter anti-Catholic sentiment in the U.S

March 29, 1929 – US President Herbert Hoover had the 1st telephone installed on the desk at the Oval Office’s in the White House

March 29, 1971 – Charles Manson was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. The sentence was never carried out because the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty

March 29, 1974 – Mariner 10 became the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury.

March 29, 1978 – TV variety show “The Carol Burnett Show” aired it’s last show on CBS in the US

March 29, 1985 – The Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade opened in Disneyland

March 29, 2005 – The Walt Disney Company and Miramax Films announced they will not renew the co-founders Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein management agreement when it expires in September

March 29, 2004 – Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

                                          March 30th

March 30, 240 – BC First recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

March 30, 1842 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation. Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia, performed the first successful surgical operation using anesthetic ether.

March 30, 1856 – The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris, France, at the Congress of Paris. Marking the end of the Crimean War.

March 30, 1858 – Hyman Lipman patented a pencil with an attached eraser.

March 30, 1867 – The united States purchased Alaska for $7.2M from the Russian empire. It was negotiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward, the deal added nearly 600,000 square miles for less than 2 cents an acre, originally labeled “Seward’s Folly”

March 30, 1870 – The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race

March 30, 1925 – Rudolf Steiner (Austrian philosopher, educator) passed away

March 30, 1950 – Bell Telephone Laboratories announced invention of the phototransistor in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Dr. John Northrup Shive designed IT to operate by light rather than electric current, allowing it to directly operate a switch without initial amplification. It functions like a photodiode with built-in amplification, providing higher sensitivity, faster response times, and higher current output for detecting, counting, and switching applications in electronics.

March 30, 1964 – Jeopardy! Game shows aired for the first time on TV on network NBC.

March 30, 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan and three others, including press secretary James Brady,was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr

March 30, 1984 – New York police detective Robert Cunningham offered waitress Phyllis Penzo half of a $1 lottery ticket; the next day, they win $6 million. Movie made called it could happen to you

March 30, 2002 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother passed away at age 101.

                                              March 31st

March 31, 1870 – Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was the first African American to vote in the US under the provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution in a local election on the town’s charter

March 31, 1889 – Eiffel Tower officially opened for dignitaries and an award ceremony in Paris, France; designed by Gustave Eiffel and built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300 meters high, it holds the record for the tallest man-made structure for 41 years

March 31, 1918 – Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the USA for the first time.

March 31, 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, was founded. Unemployed men and youths were organized into quasi-military formations and worked outdoors in national parks and forests.

March 31, 1958 – US Navy formed the atomic submarine division. The Atomic Submarine Division 102 was under the command of Comdr. Roger G. Black, a WWII submarine veteran.

March 31, 1963 – Los Angeles officially ended its 90-year era of electric streetcar service

March 31, 1968 – President Lyndon Johnson made a surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election as a result of the Vietnam conflict.

March 31, 1983 – “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life,” was released in the US

March 31, 1985 – The first edition of WrestleMania was held in New York. The annual event is the world’s most important wrestling meet. It is the biggest event organized by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

March 31, 1992 – The television news program Dateline NBC premieres. It debuted as a weekly newsmagazine on Tuesday nights, originally anchored by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips.

March 31, 1993 – Actor Brandon Lee was accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.

March 31, 1999 – The film The Matrix was released. The science fiction story about the adventures of computer programmer, Neo, was not only a commercial success but also left a lasting impression on action film-making through its creative use of slow-motion and spinning cameras.