Anniversaries

1st March 1692 (329 Years)

Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

1st March 1872 (149 Years)

Yellowstone National Park is established.

1st March 1872 (149 Years)

Yellowstone National Park is established.

1st March 1932 (89 Years)

Son of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh is kidnapped.

1st March 1932 (89 Years)

Son of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh is kidnapped.

1st March 1938 (83 Years)

Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, playwright and politician, died.

2nd March 1791 (230 Years)

John Wesley, Anglican cleric and founder of the Methodist Church, dies.

2nd March 1797 (224 Years)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician, died.

2nd March 1895 (126 Years)

The French Impressionist Painter, Berthe Morisot died.

2nd March 1913 (108 Years)

National Woman's Party forms.

2nd March 1919 (102 Years)

The first Communist International or Third International meets in Moscow.

2nd March 1919 (102 Years)

Jennifer Jones, the actress, was born.

2nd March 1933 (88 Years)

King Kong premiers in New York City, USA, 85 years.

2nd March 1968 (53 Years)

Daniel Craig, English actor, was born.

2nd March 1991 (30 Years)

Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director, died.

3rd March 1816 (205 Years)

William James Blacklock, an English landscape painter, is born.

3rd March 1847 (174 Years)

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who patented the first practical telephone. was born.

3rd March 1914 (107 Years)

Asger Jorn, Danish painter and founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA, was born.

3rd March 1938 (83 Years)

Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

3rd March 1985 (36 Years)

NUM decided to end the Miner's strike.

3rd March 1996 (25 Years)

Marguerite Duras, a French writer of award-winning books such as L'Amant and film director, dies.

3rd March 2003 (18 Years)

Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913), died.

4th March 1193 (828 Years)

Saladin, Iraqi-Egyptian sultan who led the Muslim opposition to the Crusaders in the Levant, died.

4th March 1493 (528 Years)

Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

4th March 1890 (131 Years)

The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

4th March 1913 (108 Years)

Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president of the United States.

4th March 1916 (105 Years)

Franz Marc, a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement and a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, died in France.

4th March 1916 (105 Years)

Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, dies.

4th March 1917 (104 Years)

Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to hold national office in the United States: "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.".

4th March 1918 (103 Years)

The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

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