On the 16th of Match 1802, The United States Military Academy–the first military school in the United States–is founded by Congress for the purpose of educating...
On March 15th 44BC, Julius Caesar, the”dictator for life”of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s...
On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically...
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,...