This is a story that was always well known in Boston since the players were here when it happened.  It is taken as fact that Bell stole Grays schematics and when he heard Gray was going to patent apply for patent he went that same morning before Gray and got the patent on it.
This was covered on a UK TV programme, and this deserves a movie treatrment.

February 14th 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.


I guess they had no love that day.

I guess they had no love that day.
...many hearts were broken?

February 15th 1971 – The British pound sterling and the Irish pound were decimalised on what is called Decimal Day.

1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins (1814? - December 13, 1875) Minkins died in Montreal

2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

February 16th 1923 – English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.

0374  9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.

1932  1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree

1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

1857  Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington DC)

1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

February 17th 1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President of the United States, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election.

February 18th 1861 – Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of America.

February 19th 1986 – The space station Mir of the Soviet space program was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space.

No a Shetland Sheep Dog...like a small collie. They're bright and empathic. ;)


I'd really like to get another one. :) :)

No a Shetland Sheep Dog...like a small collie. They're bright and empathic. ;)
Larger than a sheeshzu?

Larger than a sheeshzu?


No, about the same size, maybe a little smaller.  They make great herding dogs...it's in their nature.

No, about the same size, maybe a little smaller.  They make great herding dogs...it's in their nature.
Hence the name.

February 19th 1881 - Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

Hence the name.


Yes :)

taking a break now...bbl

taking a break now...bbl
The same here!

On this date last year (February 19, 2007), my uncle was on TV. The hardware store he had managed for 28 years was closing its doors after 60 years in business, and the local news was covering that. He said a few words on camera.

Recently, I rode the bus down Ventura Blvd, past the store, and saw that something new was in its place: a drugstore of some sort.

February 20th 1913 – Australian politician King O'Malley drove in the first survey peg to mark the commencement of work on the construction of Canberra, a planned city designed by American architect Walter Burley Griffin.

February 21st 1804 – Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam engine or locomotive first ran in Wales.

February 21st 1893 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"

February 22nd 1986 – The People Power Revolution, a series of nonviolent mass street demonstrations in the Philippines against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, began.

February 23rd 1945 – American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, an image that was later reproduced as the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial.

1917 February revolution begins in Russia

 

1917 February revolution begins in Russia

 
An important day in Russian history

February 23rd 1820 – British authorities arrested the conspirators of the Cato Street Conspiracy, an attempt to murder Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and all the British cabinet ministers.

February 24th 1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, was elected to his first term as President of Argentina.

1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar

2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of the Council of State after nearly fifty years.

Febraury 25th 1986 – Corazon Aquino was inaugurated as the first female President of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after twenty years of rule because of the People Power Revolution.

1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence

It was used by a congressman, Dan Sickles, after he killed his wifes lover.  Sickels, himself, was known for having numerous affairs.

1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence

It was used by a congressman, Dan Sickles, after he killed his wifes lover.  Sickels, himself, was known for having numerous affairs.
No doubt this has been used many a time since.

No doubt this has been used many a time since.


by many congressmen

by many congressmen
"allegedly"?

Febraury 26th 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, a remote island off the coast of Italy whereto he was exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" rock & roll records

Febraury 26th 1991 – Nexus, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor, was introduced by British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Febraury 27th 1801 – Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

February 28th 1838 – Lower Canada Rebellion: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada.

1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA

1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop

1879 "Exodus of 1879" African Americans in the south flee political/economic exploitation

1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop

An ex-work colleague of mine worked for the ambulance crew that attended this disaster.

February 28th 1935 - Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers.

An ex-work colleague of mine worked for the ambulance crew that attended this disaster.


a lifetime of nightmares

a lifetime of nightmares
Yes he hated it when he thought back on it.

February 29th 1960 – Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner opened his first Playboy Club in Chicago, featuring the first service uniform registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 29, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move "toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal."

On this date:

In 1504, Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.

In 1792, composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy.

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a seven-member commission to facilitate completion of the Panama Canal.

In 1908, the artist known as Balthus was born in Paris.

In 1940, "Gone with the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939.

In 1956, President Eisenhower announced he would seek a second term of office.

In 1960, the first Playboy Club, featuring waitresses clad in "bunny" outfits, opened in Chicago.

In 1968, the discovery of the first pulsar, a star which emits regular radio waves, was announced by Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Cambridge, England.

In 1968, at the Grammy Awards, the 5th Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" won record of the year for 1967, while album of the year honors went to The Beatles for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

In 1984, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he was stepping down after more than 15 combined years in power.

Twelve years ago: About 30 television and entertainment industry executives met with President Clinton at the White House, where they promised to devise a TV ratings system. Daniel Green was convicted in Lumberton, N.C., of murdering James R. Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside holdup. (Green and an accomplice, Larry Martin Demery, were sentenced to life in prison.) A Peruvian commercial jetliner crashed in the Andes, killing all 123 people on board.

Eight years ago: George W. Bush won Republican presidential primaries in Virginia, Washington state and North Dakota, defeating John McCain; Vice President Al Gore crushed fellow Democrat Bill Bradley in Washington state. Six-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot by a fellow first-grader at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Mich. Sparky Anderson was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee along with Turkey Stearnes of the Negro leagues and 19th-century second baseman Bid McPhee.

Four years ago: Facing rebellion, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and left for exile in the Central African Republic. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards, including best picture; Sean Penn took the best-actor prize for "Mystic River" and Charlize Theron won best actress for "Monster." Playwright Jerome Lawrence died in Malibu, Calif., at age 88.

March 1st 1872 – Yellowstone National Park, one of the first national parks in the world, was established.

1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides

1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN

1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)

March 1st 1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.

March 2nd 1836 – Texas Revolution: At a convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.

March 3rd 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor was born (d. 1922)

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/bell08.gif

March 3rd 1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after watching the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, officially became the national anthem of the United States.

1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

March 3rd 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.

75 years ago...the date was written as 3/3/33! :D

75 years ago...the date was written as 3/3/33! :D
Correct for UK or the USA.

March 4th 1769 – French astronomer Charles Messier first noted the Orion Nebula, a bright nebulae visible to the naked eye in the night sky situated south of Orion's Belt, later cataloguing it as Messier 42 in his List of Messier objects.

1793 President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US

1801 Thomas Jefferson inaugurated as 3rd President

1809 Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes

1825 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President

1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President

1837 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th President

1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1845 James K Polk inaugurated as 11th President

1849 US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd

1861 Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living

1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President

1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President

1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President

1885 Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President

1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US President (2nd term)

1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US

1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President

1909 President Taft inaugurated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm

1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President

1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President

Is March 4th usually inauguration day?

Not anymore.  It is now Jan 20th.

Not anymore.  It is now Jan 20th.
Thanks.

What was the reason for the change of dates?

March 5th 1946 – The term "Iron Curtain" was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA.

Thanks.

What was the reason for the change of dates?


The ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution changed the beginning of the President and Vice President's terms to noon on January 20, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's second term in 1937. The next Inauguration Day will occur on January 20, 2009.
This amendment was adopted in 1933. The purpose of the amendment was to reduce the amount of time between the election of the President and Congress and the beginning of their terms. Under the Constitution as originally adopted, the terms of the President, the Vice President, and the Congress began on March 4, four months after the elections were held. While this lapse was a practical necessity during the 18th century, at which time a newly elected official might need several months to put his affairs in order and then undertake the arduous journey from his home to the national capital, it had the effect of impeding the functioning of government in the modern age.

The ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution changed the beginning of the President and Vice President's terms to noon on January 20, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's second term in 1937. The next Inauguration Day will occur on January 20, 2009.
This amendment was adopted in 1933. The purpose of the amendment was to reduce the amount of time between the election of the President and Congress and the beginning of their terms. Under the Constitution as originally adopted, the terms of the President, the Vice President, and the Congress began on March 4, four months after the elections were held. While this lapse was a practical necessity during the 18th century, at which time a newly elected official might need several months to put his affairs in order and then undertake the arduous journey from his home to the national capital, it had the effect of impeding the functioning of government in the modern age.
Thank you.

March 5th 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened.

Thank you.


anytime

1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B

1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B


I heard it last Sunday, one of his lesser known symphony and still shows the signs of the typical Beethoven sound.

March 6th 1899 – The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer registered aspirin as a trademark.

1946 France recognizes Vietnam statheood within Indo-Chinese federation-Viet Name, Cambodia, Laos

1946 France recognizes Vietnam statheood within Indo-Chinese federation-Viet Name, Cambodia, Laos

Is it still recognised?

Is it still recognised?



Despite the efforts of the U.S. "intervention" throughout the 60's and 70's, yes it is still recognized

March 7th 1945 – World War II: In Operation Lumberjack, Allied forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine in Remagen, enabling them to establish and expand a lodgement on German soil that changed the entire nature of the conflict on the Western Front.

1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church

1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church

...and changed the whole aspect of religion in England at that time.

March 8th 1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".

1917 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg)

1917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time

March 8th 1775 - Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America" was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery.

March 9th 1959 – Barbie the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.

1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours

1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana

people supported in institutions or "maintained wholly or in part by public expense. The law encompassed the "feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" – including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, the homeless and paupers."

1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.

March 10th 2000 – The NASDAQ stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom.

1906 London Underground opens Bakerloo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

1906 London Underground opens Bakerloo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)


I missed that!

My son should have travelled on it today.

March 10th 1801 - First census in Great Britain

March 11th 2003 – The International Criminal Court, a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, held its inaugural session.

1917 British troops occupy Baghdad

1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp

March 11th 1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.

March 12th 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

March 12th:

1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the U.S..

1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam

March 12th 1930 – Gandhi began the Dandi March, a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.

March 13th 1781 – German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus while in the garden of his house in Bath, Somerset, England, thinking it was a comet.

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

March 13th 1996 – In the deadliest attack on children in the history of the United Kingdom, a spree killer killed sixteen children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland before committing suicide.

One of the children that suffered on survived this dreadful massacre was the British tennis player Andrew Murray.

March 14th 1794 – American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin

1916 Battle of Verdun

March 14th 1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1629  England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony

March 14th 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme

March 16th 1978 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, about 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany, France, resulting in one of the largest oil spills ever.

March 17th 1969 – Golda Meir of the Labor Party became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

March 17th 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).

1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne

 

1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth

March 18th 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov donned a space suit and ventured outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, becoming the first person to walk in space.

1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen

    (never recovered)

March 19th 1982 – Argentine forces led by Alfredo Astiz occupied South Georgia, precipitating the Falklands War against the United Kingdom. 

March 19th 1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

1628 Massachusetts colony founded

1628 Massachusetts colony founded



So twenty years time, there will be big celebrations.

So twenty years time, there will be big celebrations.



Oy vez! I didn't think of that.  The Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the Mayflower, and all those groups are probably planning it right now.

March 20th 1852 – Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe about slavery in the United States before the Civil War, was first published.

1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed

1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers

1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

he lied

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

1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club

1964 Beatles' "She Loves You" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon

1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years

1918 During WWI Germany launches Somme offensive

1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever

1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL

1804 – The Napoleonic code, the French civil code established under Napoleon, entered into force.

March 22nd 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, adding fuel to the growing separatist movement in the Thirteen Colonies in British North America.

1903 Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought

1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1903 Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought

That must had been a rare sight, were there photographs taken at the time?

That must had been a rare sight, were there photographs taken at the time?


I don't know, there must be some somewhere. Sometimes the top layer will freeze

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/ny/niagara/postcards/nfwin.jpg

I don't know, there must be some somewhere. Sometimes the top layer will freeze

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/ny/niagara/postcards/nfwin.jpg
It is strange to see the Niagara Falls to be like this.

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.

^While owning slaves,  he said of slavery " I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them"


1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)

March 23rd 1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.

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

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world



What percentage is now in 2008?

What percentage is now in 2008?


Don't know.  We Americans kind of took over, now it looks like the Chinese will be next.

Don't know.  We Americans kind of took over, now it looks like the Chinese will be next.
Possible, and I am not doing the searching to find out.

March 24th 1603 – King James VI of Scotland acceded to the throne of England and Ireland, unifying the crowns of the three kingdoms for the first time.

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

1911 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York NY

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

March 26th 1636 – Utrecht University, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, was established.

March 27th 1998 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

March 28th 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent".

1935  Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket

March 28th 1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.

March 29th 1911 – The M1911 single-action, semi-automatic pistol developed by American firearms designer John Browning became the standard-issue side arm in the United States Army.

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)

1971 1st Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre

1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)



I use to listen to that.

March 29, 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged past 10,000 points for the first time ever.

March 30th 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular international game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.

March 30th 1981 – Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon

1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-dubbed Seward's Folly)

March 30th 1867 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.

SNAP!

1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-dubbed Seward's Folly)

March 30th 1867 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.

SNAP!
How much is it worth today?

March 31st 1903 – New Zealand inventor Richard Pearse reportedly flew in one of the first powered flying machines for a distance of several hundred metres, about nine months before the Wright brothers flew their Wright Flyer.

How much is it worth today?


It's worth its weight in gold(Klondike goldrush of 1896), and oil  ;)

1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity



...with the world listening in?

March 31st 1889 – The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in Paris, becoming a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

April 1st 1976 – Two college dropouts co-founded what is now Apple Inc. to sell their handicrafts, eventually offering them at a market-price of US$666.66 because they liked repeating digits.

This famous picture of the Loch Ness Monster was first published on this day in 1934.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Lochnessmonster.jpg

April 1st 1918 - The Royal Air Force is created by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)

1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain

April 1st 1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the 'poll tax'), is introduced in Scotland.

April 2nd 1863 - Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand the Confederate government to release emergency supplies.

1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA


1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland's Station)


1865 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg

1973  ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election

April 2nd 1982 – Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War.

April 3rd 1895 – The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

April 3rd 1882 – Jesse James, an outlaw in the American Old West, was shot in the back and killed for a bounty of US$5,000.