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25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech...

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23rd March 1857: The world’s first successful passenger elevator installed in a five-storey New York City...

Elisha Otis was an American mechanic who invented the safety elevator, which featured a mechanism...

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22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

The surprise attack was launched against English settlers by the the Powhatan Confederacy, led by...

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21st March 1952: Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio

By the time the concert began at 10pm on 21 March there were thousands of people outside the...

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20th March 1854: U.S. Republican Party founded at a meeting in a schoolhouse in Wisconsin

The party quickly built support and by 1856 it proved to be the dominant political force in the...

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19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in U.S. history

The heist was masterminded by James Honeyman and James Murray entered the bank late at night on...

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18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the world’s largest

Despite a reward of $10 million, and extensive investigations by the FBI, none of the works have...

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16th March 1660: England’s Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session

The dissolution of the Long Parliament signalled the end of the republican experiment initiated...

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15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho...

By January 1917 he was still no closer to being caught, and Pershing’s forces were ordered to...

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14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany

The creation of the First Slovak Republic represented a long-standing aspiration for Slovak...

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13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United...

Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse...

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12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey

In a program that won broad support, America committed to providing $400 million in assistance to...

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11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

By providing substantial military assistance to Allied nations through the Lend-Lease Act, the...

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9th March 1776: “The Wealth of Nations” published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith

The publication of "The Wealth of Nations" had a profound impact on economic thought and policy,...

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8th March 1971: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced each other in the ‘Fight of the Century’

The match went all the way to the 15th round before Frazier was declared the winner by unanimous ...

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7th March 1850: Senator Daniel Webster makes his “Seventh of March” speech in favour of the Compromise of 18

Daniel Webster’s "Seventh of March" speech saw the prominent senator from Massachusetts, who was...

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5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight

Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers, chief test pilot for Vickers, performed a series of exercises to...

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4th March 1865: Andrew Johnson, Vice President of the United States, delivers his inaugural address while drunk

Johnson’s drunkenness during his inaugural address was widely reported in the press and was a...

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3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time

When the two-day sale ended on 3 March, 429 slaves had been ...

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2nd March 537: First Siege of Rome begins as the Ostrogoth army encircle the Byzantine forces of the general Belisarius

Despite being driven north towards Ravenna by Emperor Justinian's forces, the Ostrogoths were...

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