History by month
March
31 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.
March 1
1893 Nikola Tesla sparks a global communication revolution by demonstrating wireless
March 2
1962 Wilt Chamberlain dropped 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the Ne
March 3
1887 She was twenty years old, half-blind herself, and had spent most of her childhoo
March 4
1789 The first Congress convenes in New York City to enact the U.S. Constitution and
March 5
1770 British troops fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five men including Crisp
March 6
1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna crushed a desperate stand by 187 Texan defenders
March 7
1965 State and local police brutally attack 600 civil rights marchers on the Edmund P
March 8
1917 Thousands of women marched through the snow in St. Petersburg demanding bread an
March 9
1862 Ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia clash at Hampton Roads, compelling naval
March 10
1959 Rebels in Lhasa ignited a revolt against Chinese control, sparking armed conflic
March 11
2011 A 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sendai triggered a massive tsunami t
March 12
1930 Gandhi and eighty satyagrahis marched 390 kilometres to Dandi to break Britain's
March 13
1781 Sir William Herschel spotted a moving object in his garden telescope on March 13
March 14
March 15
44 Conspirators cornered Julius Caesar at Pompey's theatre, where a petition for hi
March 16
1968 American troops slaughtered between 347 and 500 Vietnamese civilians in the My L
March 17
461 Patrick died in Saul on March 17, 461, after four decades of preaching and build
March 18
1965 Alexei Leonov pushed out of Voskhod 2’s inflatable airlock, becoming the first h
March 19
2003 American and coalition forces launched a bombing campaign against Baghdad just a
March 20
1916 Albert Einstein unveils his general theory of relativity, redefining gravity not
March 21
1965 State troopers and sheriff's deputies beat 600 marchers with billy clubs and tea
March 22
1993 Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips, delivering over 100 MIPS and
March 23
1775 Patrick Henry delivered his "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech at St. Jo
March 24
1989 The Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef and dumped up to 38 million gallons of crude
March 25
1957 West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg signed the
March 26
1971 East Pakistan severs ties with Pakistan to declare the People's Republic of Bang
March 27
1977 Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway at Tenerife, killing 583 peop
March 28
1979 Stuck valves and confused operators triggered a partial nuclear meltdown at Penn
March 29
1867 The British North America Act of 1867 united three colonies into a single Domini
March 30
1867 William H. Seward secures Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, a deal critics mo
March 31
1889 Gustave Eiffel's company erected this iron lattice tower in 1889 as the entrance