# Today in History **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530 "2016-07-10T04:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 112
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2225 "2022-03-24T12:06:41Z")
March 24, 1603: Queen Elizabeth I officially closes out her Death Pool slot, aged 69. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2226 "2022-03-24T23:17:37Z")
**March 24, 1999:** NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had attacked a sovereign country. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2227 "2022-03-25T10:40:31Z")
**March 25, 1911** : The [Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire) kills 146 in New York City. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2228 "2022-03-26T05:33:04Z")
**March 26, 1942** : The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2229 "2022-03-26T06:35:06Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > **March 26, 1942:** The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The display of man’s inhumanity to his fellow man that this period represents is probably the closest yet mankind has come to Hell on earth, and it behooves us to make certain that generations yet unborn are never allowed to forget – or repeat – this. But current events show that it’s not going to be easy, _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2230 "2022-03-27T09:37:26Z")
**March 27, 1977** : Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2231 "2022-03-28T11:37:06Z")
**March 28, 1842** : First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Otto Nicolai. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2232 "2022-03-29T01:11:44Z")
**March 28, 1854;** During the [first] Crimean War, Britain and France declared war [special military operations] on Russia. [my topical edits] ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2233 "2022-03-29T05:41:56Z")
**March 29, 1886** : John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2234 "2022-03-30T00:25:02Z")
**March 29, 2004:** President George W. Bush welcomed seven former Soviet-bloc nations (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) into NATO during a White House ceremony. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2235 "2022-03-30T05:30:36Z")
**March 30, 1867** : Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2¢/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2236 "2022-03-31T07:40:40Z")
**March 31, 1492** : Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2237 "2022-04-01T06:39:02Z")
**April 1, 2001** : Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2238 "2022-04-02T04:13:41Z")
**April 2, 1800** : Ludwig van Beethoven conducts the premiere of his First Symphony, in Vienna. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2239 "2022-04-03T04:04:39Z")
also for April 2: **April 2, 1982:** Argentina invades and occupies the Falkland Islands under the guise of reclaiming its own territory, kicking off a ten-week long conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom before Argentina surrendered and returned the Islands to British control. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2240 "2022-04-03T08:42:57Z")
**April 3, 1860** : The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2241 "2022-04-04T06:50:19Z")
**April 4, 1968** : Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2242 "2022-04-04T22:05:29Z")
**April 4, 1949** : Twelve nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2243 "2022-04-05T21:16:24Z")
**April 5, 1951** : Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2244 "2022-04-06T05:16:01Z")
**April 6, 1973** : The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=111) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=113)