March 1, 1873: E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
March 1, 1910: The Stephens Pass Avalanche buries a train under snow in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. 96 die, making this the deadliest avalanche in United States history.
March 2, 1877: Just two days before the inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the November 7, 1876 Presidential election, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
March 3, 1974: Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes outside of Paris killing all 346 aboard. This is the deadliest single plane aircraft crash without survivors in history.
March 3, 1904: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
March 4, 1966: In an interview in the London Evening Standard, John Lennon declares that The Beatles are “more popular than Jesus now”, and that rock music might outlast Christianity.
March 5, 1953: Joseph Stalin dies.
March 6, 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
March 6, 1836: The fall of the Alamo.
March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
March 9, 1959: The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
March 10, 1906: The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1,099 miners in northern France.
March 11, 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood in England kills between 240 and 300. The disaster is caused by the failure of Dale Dyke Dam as its reservoir is being filled for the very first time.
March 11, 1818: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, is published.
March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam in California fails, sending a wall of water into the San Francisquito Canyon west of Los Angeles. Somewhere between 450 and 600 people are killed. After the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, this is California’s deadliest disaster.
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, 1906: Susan B. Anthony dies at age 86.
March 13, 1997: The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
March 14, 1961: A B-52 airplane carrying 2 nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The crew had been forced to bail out at 7000 ft after running out of fuel. Fortunately the safety devices on the weapons prevent detonation.
March 14, 1592: Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.