Saturday, March 16, 2024
Today: 1. 1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, becoming the first European to arrive in the archipelago. 2. 1802: The United States Military Academy at West Point was established by an act of Congress. 3. 1926: Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts, marking a significant milestone in […]
Friday, March 15, 2024
Today: 1. 44 BCE: Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, sparking a series of civil wars in Rome. 2. 1493: Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas. 3. 1781: During the American Revolutionary War, the […]
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Today: 1. 1794: Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin, revolutionizing cotton production in the United States and increasing the demand for slave labor. 2. 1900: The Gold Standard Act was ratified, establishing gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money in the United States. 3. 1923: President Warren G. Harding became […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Today: 1. 1781: The astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. 2. 1852: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in book form for the first time after being serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. 3. 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated by members of the terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya. 4. […]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Today: 1. 1912: The Girl Guides (later known as the Girl Scouts) was founded in the United States by Juliette Gordon Low. 2. 1930: Mahatma Gandhi led a 240-mile salt march to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. 3. 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt conducted the first of his “fireside chats,” addressing the […]
Monday, March 11, 2024
Today: 1. 1702: The first daily English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London. 2. 1818: Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” is published anonymously in London. 3. 1918: The first confirmed case of the Spanish flu is reported at Fort Riley, Kansas, marking the beginning of the global influenza pandemic. 4. […]
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Today: 1. 1876: The first successful telephone conversation occurred when Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant, Thomas Watson, saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” 2. 1910: The French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot’s license. 3. 1945: The United States Army Air Force firebombed […]
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Today: 1. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call to his assistant, Thomas Watson, saying, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” 2. 1910: The first international women’s conference takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, focusing on women’s suffrage. 3. 1959: Tibetans revolt against Chinese rule, leading to the Dalai Lama […]
Friday, March 8, 2024
Today: 1. 1855: A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, known as the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge or Clifton Suspension Bridge. 2. 1965: The United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam, marking a significant escalation of its involvement in the Vietnam War. 3. 1983: President Ronald Reagan […]
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Today: 1. 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received the patent for the invention of the telephone. 2. 1876: The patent for the first practical typewriter, invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, was granted. 3. 1936: Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to reoccupy the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles. 4. 1965: Civil rights marchers, led by Martin […]