On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

[Captain WH Rollins]

23rdFebruary 1836 - the Alamo was besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna, the entire garrison was eventually killed

23rdFebruary1945 - US Marines raised American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. The photograph of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspired the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture

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[Captain WH Rollins]

24th February 1868 - the US House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson

24th February 1932 - Malcolm Campbell set world land speed record of 253.96 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida

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[Captain WH Rollins]

25th February 1862 - the First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing greenbacks into circulation

25th February 1939 - the first Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected

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[Captain WH Rollins]

29th February 1692 - first people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

29th February 1904 - Theodore Roosevelt, appointed a seven man Panama Canal Commission to proceed with the completion of a canal at the Isthmus

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[QF-Charles]

1st March 1872 - Yellowstone becomes the world's 1st national park (Wyoming, Montana & Idaho states)
1st March 1973 - Pink Floyd releases their album "Dark Side of the Moon". (The rest, as they say, is history)

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

1st March 1872 - Yellowstone becomes the world's 1st national park (Wyoming, Montana & Idaho states)
1st March 1973 - Pink Floyd releases their album "Dark Side of the Moon". (The rest, as they say, is history)

Thank you very much for the information, very few forum members post in this thread, I'm very pleased you did. Past events in history has always been of great interest. I have yet to check the past events for the 1st March. I will do this later on today. Many thanks once again.

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

2nd March 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander in Chief of the French Army in Italy

2nd March 1807 - US Congress baned the slave trade within the US, effective from January 1st 1808

2nd March 1861 - Government Printing Office purchased first printing plant, Washington

2nd March 1970 - American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

3rd March 1857 - the Second Opium War, France and the United Kingdom declared war on China

3rd March 1885 - the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporated

3rd March 1889 - US President Harrison announced the government would open the 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely at noon on April 22

3rd March 1894 - 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigned

3rd March 1939 - Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in Mumbai to protest against autocratic rule in India

3rd March 1943 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastated Japanese navy convoy

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

4th March 1776 - American War of Independence, the Americans capture Dorchester Heights, Boston, Massachusetts

4th March 1801 - Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

4th March 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th US President

4th March 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln opened Government Printing Office

4th March 1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President

4th March 1936 - the first flight of the airship Hindenburg took place at Friedrichshafen, Germany

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

5th March 1496 - English King Henry VII granted John Cabot a commission to explore for new lands

5th March 1868 - the Stapler patented in England by C.H. Gould

5th March 1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularized the term and drew attention to the division of Europe

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

6th March 1836 - Battle of the Alamo - after 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans

6th March 1886 - the first US alternating current power plant, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

6th March 1899 - "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer

6th March 1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget

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[Captain WH Rollins]

9th March 1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

9th March 1776 - Adam Smith published the influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations"

9th March 1933 - US Congress is called into special session by FDR, beginning its "100 days"

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[QF-Charles]

March 10 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's “liquid” transmitter design permitted the first transmission of speech by Bell to his assistant, Thomas Watson.

March 10 1933 - On this day, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution.

March 10 1969 - James Earl Ray pled guilty to murdering American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

March 10 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's “liquid” transmitter design permitted the first transmission of speech by Bell to his assistant, Thomas Watson.

March 10 1933 - On this day, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution.

March 10 1969 - James Earl Ray pled guilty to murdering American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Thank you very much for the information, it is most interesting to read. I did not find time yesterday to do this, I'm pleased you did. Very few forum members post in this thread, I think you are only the second to do so.

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

10th March 1783 - USS Alliance under Captain Barry fought and won last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral

10th March 1801 - the first official census in Great Britain, revealed a population of approximately 10 million

10th March 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patented the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching

10th March 1920 - the Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, divided Ireland into two parts; it was rejected by the Southern Counties, where the Ango-Irish war continued for a year

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

11th March 1744 - the English auction house Sotheby's held its first ever auction of books in London

11th March 1915 - the British declared a blockade of all German ports

11th March 1918 - the first confirmed case of the Spanish Flu in the US were reported at Fort Riley, Kansas

11th March 1930 - William Taft, the US 27th President and Chief Justice buried in Arlington Cemetary

11th March 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as the Soviet leader

11th March 1988 - the British pound note ceased to be legal tender and was replaced by the one pound coin

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[crescent moon (RIP)]

And let's not forget the 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan on 11 March 2011, followed by the devastating tsunami. That tsunami wiped out our harbor here on the Northern California coast.

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

And let's not forget the 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan on 11 March 2011, followed by the devastating tsunami. That tsunami wiped out our harbor here on the Northern California coast.

Yes, you are quite right to point this out, I'm not sure how I missed it. This event should have stood out, among all the other events, which took place, on this day in the past.

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Captain WH Rollins

 

[crescent moon (RIP)]

Yes, you are quite right to point this out, I'm not sure how I missed it. This event should have stood out, among all the other events, which took place, on this day in the past.

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Captain WH Rollins

An interesting story about the tsunami. Two years after the tsunami, in April of 2013, a small boat washed up on our shores. Since no one claimed it, the decision was made to have some of our high school students clean it up and see where it was from. Through the use of social media, it was discovered it was a training boat from a high school in the small fishing town of Rikuzentakata, Japan, 80% devastated by the tusami, with 1600 people dead. Arrangements were made to return the boat to Japan, thanks to the NOAA and the Japanese Consulate, where it now sits in a museum, and that small town is now our sister city. Our high school students were invited to visit Rikuzentakata, and their students have visited here.

 

[Captain WH Rollins]

An interesting story about the tsunami. Two years after the tsunami, in April of 2013, a small boat washed up on our shores. Since no one claimed it, the decision was made to have some of our high school students clean it up and see where it was from. Through the use of social media, it was discovered it was a training boat from a high school in the small fishing town of Rikuzentakata, Japan, 80% devastated by the tusami, with 1600 people dead. Arrangements were made to return the boat to Japan, thanks to the NOAA and the Japanese Consulate, where it now sits in a museum, and that small town is now our sister city. Our high school students were invited to visit Rikuzentakata, and their students have visited here.

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It is pleasing that some good came out of it, thank you for the information.

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Captain WH Rollins