Today In History: March

Lindbergh Baby Featured

March 1st

  • 1872: Yellowstone Becomes The First U.S. National Park
  • 1877: Jack McCall Is Executed
  • 1912: Albert Berry Makes The First Successful Parachute Jump From A Moving Plane
  • 1932: The Lindbergh Baby Is Kidnapped
  • 1954: The Castle Bravo Nuclear Test Takes Place
  • 1971: Weather Underground Bombs The U.S. Capitol Building
  • 2008: Charlie Wilkinson Murders The Caffey Family

Dr Seuss Featured

March 2nd

  • 1836: Texas Declares Independence From Mexico
  • 1904: Dr. Seuss Is Born
  • 1917: Puerto Rico Becomes A U.S. Territory
  • 1955: Shoko Asahara Is Born
  • 1969: The Concorde Takes Its Maiden Flight
  • 1998: Natascha Kampusch Is Kidnapped

Rodney King Featured

March 3rd

  • 1847: Alexander Graham Bell Is Born
  • 1861: Emperor Alexander II Frees Serfs In The Russian Empire
  • 1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner" Becomes The U.S. National Anthem
  • 1923: The First Issue Of TIME Is Published
  • 1991: Los Angeles Police Beat Rodney King

John Candy Featured

March 4th

  • 1461: Edward IV Becomes King Of England
  • 1678: Antonio Vivaldi Is Born
  • 1789: First Meeting Of The U.S. Congress Takes Place
  • 1877: Swan Lake Premieres
  • 1922: Nosferatu Premieres In Berlin
  • 1992: Pamela Smart Trial Begins In New Hampshire
  • 1994: John Candy Dies

Stalin Death Featured

March 5th

  • 1133: King Henry II Of England Is Born
  • 1770: The Boston Massacre Takes Place
  • 1953: Joseph Stalin Dies
  • 1969: Jim Morrison Is Accused Of Exposing Himself During A Concert
  • 1982: John Belushi Dies

Alamo Featured

March 6th

  • 1475: Michelangelo Is Born
  • 1836: The Alamo Falls
  • 1899: Bayer Patents Aspirin
  • 1951: The Rosenberg Trial Begins
  • 1981: Marianne Bachmeier Shoots Her Daughter's Killer Dead In Court
  • 2008: Viktor Bout Is Arrested In Thailand

Bloody Sunday In Selma Featured

March 7th

  • 161 C.E.: Marcus Aurelius Becomes Emperor Of Rome
  • 1765: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce Is Born
  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Receives A Patent For The Telephone
  • 1933: The First Monopoly Game Is Created
  • 1942: The First Class of Tuskegee Airmen Graduates
  • 1965: The "Bloody Sunday" Attack Takes Place In Alabama
  • 1971: "Amazon Review Killer" Todd Kohlhepp Is Born

February Revolution Featured

March 8th

  • 1702: Queen Anne Takes The English Throne
  • 1917: The February Revolution Begins In Russia
  • 1921: Eduardo Dato Is Assassinated
  • Hachikō, The Famous Japanese Akita, Dies
  • 1951: The Lonely Hearts Killers Are Executed
  • 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Vanishes Over The Indian Ocean

Barbie Doll Featured

March 9th

  • 1796: Napoleon Bonaparte Marries Joséphine De Beauharnais
  • 1959: The Barbie Doll Debuts
  • 1974: Hiroo Onoda Surrenders
  • 1993: "Silent Twins" Jennifer Gibbons dies
  • 1997: The Notorious B.I.G. Is Murdered

Bombing Of Tokyo Featured

March 10th

  • 241 B.C.E.: The Battle Of The Aegates Occurs
  • 1913: Harriet Tubman Dies
  • 1928: Christine Collins' Son, Walter Collins, Disappears in Los Angeles
  • 1945: The Firebombing Of Tokyo Takes Place
  • 1969: James Earl Ray Pleads Guilty To Assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

Blizzard Of 1888 Featured

March 11th

  • 1845: Māori Warriors Burn Kororāreka
  • 1888: The Great Blizzard Of 1888
  • 1944: "Cropsey Killer" Andre Rand Is Born
  • 2011: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
  • 2011: The Lululemon Murder

Salt March Featured

March 12th

  • 538 C.E.: Gothic Siege Of Rome Ends
  • 1912: Girl Scouts Is Founded
  • 1930: Gandhi's Salt March Begins
  • 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt Holds The First "Fireside Chat"
  • 1945: Sammy Gravano Is Born
  • 1975: Olga Hepnarová Is Executed

Phoenix Lights Featured

March 13th

  • 1781: William Herschel Discovers Uranus
  • 1881: Czar Alexander II Is Assassinated
  • 1964: Kitty Genovese Is Murdered
  • 1996: The Dunblane Massacre Takes Place
  • 1997: The Phoenix Lights UFO Incident Occurs

Nicholas Winton Featured

March 14th

  • 1794: Eli Whitney Patents The Cotton Gin
  • 1879: Albert Einstein Is Born
  • 1939: Nicholas Winton Rescues Jewish Children From Prague
  • 1950: The FBI Releases The First Ten Most Wanted List
  • 1964: Jack Ruby Is Sentenced To Death

Assassination Of Julius Caesar

March 15th

  • 44 B.C.E.: Julius Caesar Is Assassinated
  • 1493: Christopher Columbus Completes His First Voyage To The New World
  • 1917: Czar Nicholas II Abdicates The Russian Throne
  • 1933: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Born
  • 1946: The NKVD Ceases Operations
  • 2011: The Syrian Civil War Begins

Emperor Caligula

March 16th

  • 37 C.E.: Caligula Becomes Emperor Of Rome
  • 1621: Samoset Contacts Plymouth Colonists
  • 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publishes The Scarlet Letter
  • 1903: Judge Roy Bean Dies
  • 1968: The My Lai Massacre Takes Place
  • 1970: Tammi Terrell Dies Of Brain Cancer
  • 1984: Gary Plauché Kills Son's Rapist In The Airport
  • 2003: Rachel Corrie Is Killed
  • 2009: Josef Fritzl's Trial Begins

Painting Of St. Patrick

March 17th

  • 180: Marcus Aurelius Dies
  • 461: Saint Patrick Dies
  • 1861: Victor Emmanuel II Becomes King Of Italy
  • 1905: Franklin D. Roosevelt Marries Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 1942: John Wayne Gacy Is Born
  • 1944: Mount Vesuvius Erupts
  • 1999: Hello Kitty Murder Victim Is Abducted

Space Walk

March 18th

  • 1882: Morgan Earp Is Assassinated In Tombstone, Arizona
  • 1913: King George I Of Greece Is Assassinated
  • 1965: Alexei Leonov Walks In Space
  • 1977: Marien Ngouabi Is Assassinated
  • 1980: John Favara Accidentally Runs Over Frank Gotti
  • 1990: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Takes Place

Bombing Of Baghdad

March 19th

  • 1813: David Livingstone Is Born
  • 1848: Wyatt Earp Is Born In Monmouth, Illinois
  • 1918: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson Establishes Daylight Savings Time
  • 1931: Nevada Legalizes Gambling
  • 1953: The Academy Awards Are First Broadcast On Television
  • 1970: David Bowie Marries His First Wife, Angie Bowie
  • 2003: The War In Iraq Begins

Mugshot Patty Hearst

March 20th

  • 43 B.C.E.: Ovid Is Born
  • 1413: Henry V Becomes King Of England
  • 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte Returns From Exile
  • 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe Publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • 1928: Fred Rogers Is Born
  • 1976: Patty Hearst Is Convicted Of Armed Robbery

March To Montgomery

March 21st

  • 1617: Pocahontas' Funeral Is Held
  • 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach Is Born
  • 1788: New Orleans Is Destroyed By Fire
  • 1918: The 'Paris Gun' Is Used For The First Time
  • 1963: Alcatraz Prison Closes
  • 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. Begins Marching To Montgomery
  • 1998: Amy Lynn Bradley Boards The Rhapsody Of The Seas

Jamestown Massacre

March 22nd

  • 1622: The Jamestown Massacre Takes Place
  • 1765: The British Government Passes The Stamp Act
  • 1935: Persia Is Renamed Iran
  • 1978: Karl Wallenda Falls To His Death
  • 1999: David Parker Ray Is Arrested

Wilbur Brothers

March 23rd

  • 1775: Patrick Henry Says "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!"
  • 1903: The Wright Brothers File A Patent For The Airplane
  • 1918: The Paris Gun Is Shot For The First Time
  • 1919: Mussolini Founds The Fascist Party
  • 1933: Philip Zimbardo Is Born
  • 1970: Carlo Gambino Is Arrested
  • 2006: Desmond Doss Dies
  • 2011: Élan School Announces Its Closing

Harry Houdini In Cuffs

March 24th

  • 1603: Queen Elizabeth I Dies
  • 1721: Bach Dedicates The 'Brandenburg Concertos'
  • 1874: Harry Houdini Is Born
  • 1909: Clyde Barrow Is Born
  • 1919: Jack The Ripper Suspect Aaron Kosminski Dies
  • 1966: Virginia Hill Dies
  • 1987: Josefina Riveria Escapes Serial Killer Gary Heidnik
  • 1989: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

March 25th

  • 421 C.E.: Venice Is Founded
  • 1306: Robert The Bruce Is Crowned King Of Scotland
  • 1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  • 1948: Yoshiko Kawashima Is Killed
  • 1964: Gangster Neil McCauley Dies
  • 1990: The Bronx Happy Land Fire

King And Malcolm X In 1964

March 26th

  • 1827: Ludwig Van Beethoven Dies
  • 1874: Robert Frost Is Born
  • 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Meet
  • 1997: Heaven's Gate Cult Members Found Dead
  • 2000: President Vladimir Putin Is Elected As President Of Russia
  • 2012: James Cameron Descends To Challenger Deep

Corpse Of Maurizio Gucci

March 27th

  • 1785: King Louis XVII Is Born
  • 1899: Guglielmo Marconi Sends The First International Radio Transmission
  • 1977: The Tenerife Airport Disaster
  • 1984: Bobby Joe Long Murders His First Victim
  • 1995: Maurizio Gucci Is Murdered

Spanish Civil War

March 28th

  • 1881: Barnum And Bailey's "Greatest Show On Earth" Opens
  • 1895: William Armstrong Purchases Bamburgh Castle
  • 1930: Constantinople Becomes Istanbul
  • 1939: The Spanish Civil War Ends
  • 1941: Virginia Woolf Dies By Suicide
  • 1979: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

March 29th

  • 1461: Battle of Towton
  • 1886: John Pemberton Makes The First Batch Of Coca-Cola
  • 1951: The Rosenbergs Are Convicted Of Espionage
  • 1973: The Last American Troops Leave Vietnam
  • 1974: The Terracotta Army Is Found

Loving Van Gogh Premier Og

March 30th

  • 1849: Britain Wins The Second Anglo-Sikh War, Resulting In The Exchange Of The Koh-i-Noor Diamond
  • 1853: Vincent Van Gogh Is Born
  • 1858: The Pencil Eraser Is Patented
  • 1867: The U.S. Purchases Alaska
  • 1981: Ronald Reagan Is Almost Killed In An Assassination Attempt
  • 2017: Donald Harvey Dies

Selena

March 31st

  • 1596: René Descartes Is Born
  • 1889: The Eiffel Tower Is Completed
  • 1909: Construction Of The RMS Titanic Begins
  • 1943: Oklahoma! Debuts On Broadway
  • 1993: Brandon Lee Is Killed
  • 1995: Selena Quintanilla Is Murdered