March 13th 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.

March 13th 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

March 13th 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.

March 13th 1897 – San Diego State University is founded.

March 13th 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

March 13th 1900 – In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.

March 13th 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.

March 13th 1921 – Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.

March 13th 1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

March 13th 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.

March 13th 1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".

March 13th 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.

March 13th 1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.

March 13th 1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.

March 13th 1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.

March 13th 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

March 13th 1954 – Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.

March 13th 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.

March 13th 1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.

March 13th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

March 13th 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.

March 13th 1986 – Microsoft has its initial public offering.

March 13th 1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

March 13th 1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

March 13th 1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

March 13th 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.


Who would have thought that 76 years later it would be deemed a "dwarf" planet?! :o

March 13th 1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.


'Twas Friday the 13th...so it was probably bad luck for those folks! :(

March 13th 1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
Dunblane massacre

The tennis player Andy Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, where he experienced the Dunblane Massacre of 1996. Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people, mostly children who were in a younger age group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on himself. Murray himself took cover in a classroom. Murray says he was too young to understand what was happening and is reluctant to talk about it in interviews, but in his autobiography Hitting Back he says that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in her car.

Murray later attended Dunblane High School. Following the separation of his parents when he was aged nine, Murray and his brother Jamie lived with their father.

March 13th 1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

March 13th 1997 – The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.

March 13th 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

March 13th 2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

March 13th 2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

March 15th 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

March 15th 221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.

March 15th 351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

March 15th 933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.

March 15th 1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.

March 15th 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

March 15th 1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.

March 15th 1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .

March 15th 1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

March 15th 1776 – South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government.

March 15th 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.

March 15th 1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.

March 15th 1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.

March 15th 1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.

March 15th 1877 – The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.

March 15th 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

March 15th 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

March 15th 1917 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.

March 15th 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

March 15th 1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.

March 15th 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.

March 15th 1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.

March 15th 1939 –: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

March 15th 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.

March 15th 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.

March 15th 1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

March 15th 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

March 15th 1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

March 15th 1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.

March 15th 1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.

March 15th 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

March 15th 1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).


Interesting...I never knew about Internet domains names until the mid-1990's. ".com" and things like that.

March 15th 1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.


So today it celebrates its 190th anniversary of statheood!

Ten years from now would be its bicentennial.

Interesting...I never knew about Internet domains names until the mid-1990's. ".com" and things like that.


Right,Me Too.

Right,Me Too.

Probably because it was around then when they became more widespread.

Probably because it was around then when they became more widespread.


and that's when the Internet became popular.

and that's when the Internet became popular.

Yes, in the mid-1990's. I didn't use it for the first time until 1998, right around the time I graduated from high school.

Yes, in the mid-1990's. I didn't use it for the first time until 1998, right around the time I graduated from high school.


I knew about the internet after 1996.

March 16th 597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.

March 16th 37 – Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.

March 16th 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

March 16th 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.

March 16th 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

March 16th 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

March 16th 1660 – The Long Parliament disbands.

March 16th 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.

March 16th 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

March 16th 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

March 16th 1812 – Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War.

March 16th 1815 – Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

March 16th 1818 – Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.

March 16th 1861 – Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

March 16th 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough begins as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.

March 16th 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. wins the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

March 16th 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.

March 16th 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."

March 16th 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

March 16th 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

March 16th 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

March 16th 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

March 16th 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

March 16th 1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

March 16th 1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It explodes at lift-off.

March 16th 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.

March 16th 1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.

March 16th 1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.

March 16th 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1,870 millimetres (74 in) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.

March 16th 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

March 16th 1959 – EUROAVIA, the European Association of Aerospace students is founded, which is the very first initiative towards European cooperation in Aerospace.

March 16th 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.

March 16th 1963 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing 11,000.

March 16th 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

March 16th 1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.

March 16th 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

March 16th 1971 – Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.

March 16th 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.

March 16th 1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.

March 16th 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.

March 16th 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.

March 16th 1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.

March 16th 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.

March 16th 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.

March 16th 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

March 16th 1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.

March 16th 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

March 16th 1997 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.

March 16th 1998 – Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.

March 16th 2003 – The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.

March 16th 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

March 16th 2007 – The first three-way tie occurs on Jeopardy!

March 20th 1974 – Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

March 20th 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

March 20th 1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

March 20th 1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
...and shoes buying!

March 21st 717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.

March 21st 1188 – Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.

March 21st 1413 – Henry V becomes King of England.

March 21st 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.

March 21st 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.

March 21st 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

March 21st 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.

March 21st 1821 – First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.

March 21st 1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.

March 21st 1857 – An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.

March 21st 1859 – Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated

March 21st 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.

March 21st 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

March 21st 1844 – The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.

March 21st 1844 – The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
Known as The Great Disappointment

March 21st 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity.

March 21st 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.

March 21st 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.

March 21st 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.

March 21st 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

March 21st 1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.

March 21st 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.

March 21st 1937 – Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.

March 21st 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.

March 21st 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unfortunately they also hit a school; 125 civilians are killed.

March 21st 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

March 21st 1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.

March 21st 1963 – Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.

March 21st 1964 – In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").

March 21st 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

March 21st 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

March 21st 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.

March 21st 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

March 21st 1970 – Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.

March 21st 1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

March 21st 1980 – On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"

March 21st 1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.

March 21st 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

March 21st 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.

March 21st 1997 – In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.

March 21st 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

March 21st 2002 – In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

March 21st 2002 – British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

March 21st 2006 – Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.

March 21st 1556 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for heresy.

March 21st 1747 On a slave ship bound for England, during a violent storm at sea, English sea captain John Newton, 22, was dramatically converted to a living faith. It was more than a "foxhole religion," as Newton soon abandoned the sea, and from 1764 until his death (43 years later), he devoted his life as a clergyman in the Anglican Church.

March 21st 1969  John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

March 21st 1969  John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)

My family and I visited Amsterdam in Aug 1969...just missed it.

Tonight in Washington D.C. history will be made in the House of Representatives on health care reform. I will be watching it on t.v.



Cat

March 22nd


1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.

March 23rd 1775 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech to the Virginia  House of Burgesses, urging the legislature to take military action against the British Empire.

March 23rd 1940 – Pakistan Movement: During its three-day general session, the Muslim League drafted the Lahore Resolution, calling for greater autonomy in British India.

March 23rd 1983 – The initial proposal to develop the Strategic Defense Initiative, a ground-based and space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles, was released.

March 23rd 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, after the pilot's 15-year-old son, while seated at the controls, had unknowingly disabled the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.

March 23rd 1996 – Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

March 23rd 2007 – Iranian military personnel seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel from HMS Cornwall, claiming that the British ship sailed into Iran's territorial waters.

March 24th 1603 – After Queen Elizabeth I died at Richmond Palace, King James VI of Scotland acceded to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland, becoming James I of England and unifying the crowns of the four kingdoms for the first time.

March 24th 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

March 24th 1944 – World War II: Captured Allied airmen began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.

March 24th 1976 – Military leaders in Argentina led by Jorge Rafael Videla deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War.

March 24th 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million U.S. gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made environmental disasters at sea.

March 25th 1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone near Perth.

March 25th 1409 – The Council of Pisa, an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman Catholic Church held in Pisa that attempted to end the Western Schism, opened.

March 25th 1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.

March 25th 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.

March 25th 1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars.

March 25th 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

March 25th 1995 – The world's first wiki, a part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

March 25th 1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.

March 25th 1484 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.

March 25th 1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.

March 25th 1812 – A 7.6 ML earthquake caused extensive damage in the Venezuelan settlements of Caracas, La Guaira, Barquisimeto, San Felipe, and Mérida.

March 25th 1971 – After the Pakistan Army attempted to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in Operation Searchlight, East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh, starting the Bangladesh Liberation War.

March 25th 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.

March 27th 196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.

March 27th 1306 – Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.

March 27th 1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.

March 27th 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

March 27th 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

March 27th 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

March 27th 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

March 27th 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

March 27th 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

March 27th 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

March 27th 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.

March 27th 1836 – Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

March 27th 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.

March 27th 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.

March 27th 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

March 27th 1868 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

March 27th 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

March 27th 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.

March 27th 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

March 27th 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

March 27th 1906 – The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba

March 27th 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.

March 27th 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.

March 27th 1938 – The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.

March 27th 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.

March 27th 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

March 27th 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

March 27th 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.

March 27th 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

March 27th 1963 – Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.

March 27th 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

March 27th 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.

March 27th 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

March 27th 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.

March 27th 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.

March 27th 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

March 27th 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

March 27th 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.

March 27th 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.

March 27th 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

March 27th 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.

March 27th 1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

March 27th 1994 – The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.

March 27th 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

March 27th 1999 – An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.

March 27th 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.

March 27th 2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

March 27th 2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

March 27th 2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.

1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights Florida