March 10, 1906: The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1,099 miners in northern France.
March 11, 1818: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or The modern Prometheus, is published.
My favorite part is how he teaches himself to read using the easily-read by near illiterates Milton’s Paradise Lost, portions of Plutarch’s Lives, and Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther .
March 11, 1708 - Queen Anne refuses royal assent to the Scottish Militia Bill, passed by both the Commons and the Lords, the last time the British monarch refused royal assent. Instead of giving the traditional phrase, “La Reine le veult” (“The Queen so wishes”), she used the polite negative, “La Reine s’avisera” (“The Queen will consider it.”)
March 12, 1930: Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
March 13, 1997: The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
March 13, 1954: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam began during the First Indochina War as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who were defeated nearly two months later.
March 14, 1592, at 6:53 a.m.: Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
March 15, 1985: The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, is registered.
March 15, 1954: CBS Morning Show premieres with Walter Cronkite
& Jack Paar.
March 16, 1995: Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
March 17, 1958: The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. It was the first satellite to be solar powered. Although communication with it was lost in 1964, it remains the oldest manmade satellite still in orbit.
March 18, 1990: Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
March 19, 1945: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed, to prevent their use by Allied forces. The decree is deliberately disobeyed by Albert Speer.
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March 20, 1987: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
March 21, 1952: Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
March 22, 1972: In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
March 23, 1775: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me liberty, or give me death!” – at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
March 24, 1944: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.