On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French...
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.
On the 27th of March 1952 Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of the Toyota Motor Corporation, which in 2008 surpassed America’s General Motors as the world’s largest automaker,...
On the 25th of March 1975 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Faisal is shot to death by his nephew, Prince Faisal. King Faisal, son of King...
On the 24th of March 2015, the co-pilot of a German airliner deliberately flies the plane into the French Alps, killing himself and the other 149 people...
On the 23rd of March, 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, is gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town...
On March 22nd 1983 The Hummer was founded; the Pentagon awards a production contract worth more than $1 billion to AM General Corporation to develop 55,000 High...
On the 21st of March 1963, Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners. At it’s peak period of use in...
On 19th March in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock...
On the 17th Of March, 1990 The former Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania steadfastly rejects a demand from the Soviet Union that it renounce its declaration...