South Pole anniversary final week: comment by Mark Langridge (Correne Coetzer) Leader of the only team who retraced Scott’s route…
Month: March 2012
NEW YORK SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION
On October 27, 1904, New York City’s subway system officially opened, but talks to build an underground rail system began…
Stanley and Livingstone
Mar 21, 1871: Stanley begins search for Livingstone On this day in 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous…
Marie Antoinette
The teenage queen, now the subject of a new movie, was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she…
War in Iraq Begins: Mar 19, 2003
On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on…
Mar 18, 1766: Parliament repeals the Stamp Act
After four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to…
Saint Patrick Dies
Mar 17, 461: On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, dies…
Mar 15, 44 B.C.: Ides of March
Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall…
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879
Biography Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved…
Fall of the Berlin Wall
By Johannes Eisele, Reuters People walk next to giant domino pieces, placed along a stretch of the Berlin Wall’s original…
