On the 11th of March 1990. Lithuania proclaims its independence from the USSR, the first Soviet republic to do so. The Soviet government responded by imposing...
On March 9th 1997, Christopher Wallace, a.k.a Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., is shot to death at a stoplight in Los Angeles. The murder was...
On the 8th of March 1982, The United States government issues a public statement accusing the Soviet Union of using poison gas and chemical weapons in...
Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand on this day in 1988. Although torrential rains caused significant flooding and landslides, only three deaths resulted from this powerful storm....
On 5th of March 1966, a jet breaks apart in mid-air and plummets into Japan’s Mount Fuji. All 124 people on board the aircraft were killed. The...
On March 4th 1861, Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States. In his inauguration speechLincoln extended an olive branch to the South, but also...
A DC-10 jet crashes into a forest outside of Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board, on 3rd March in 1974. The poor design of the plane,...
On the 1st of March, 1961 Newly elected President John F. Kennedy issues an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. It proved to be one of...
The city of Agadir in Morocco is reduced to ruins by an earthquake on February 29th in 1960. Northeastern Africa was not generally an area known for...
On February 27 1943, an explosion at the Montana Coal and Iron Company mine kills 74 workers. It was the worst mining disaster in Montana’s history. The...