March in History

Historical Events on March

1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.

1918 Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.

1939 In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.

2017 Nintendo releases the hybrid video game console Nintendo Switch worldwide to critical acclaim.

1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.

1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.

1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.

1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.

1965 Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.

2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.

2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

2006 The social media site Twitter is founded.

1870 Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

Famous Birthdays on March

1983 Carrie Underwood

1947 Mitt Romney

1459 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

1965 The Undertaker

1976 Peyton Manning

1976 Wladimir Klitschko

1970 Mariah Carey

1986 Lady Gaga

Famous Deaths on March

1953 Joseph Stalin

2013 Hugo Chávez

2012 Jean Giraud

2015 Lee Kuan Yew

2016 Johan Cruyff

1945 David Lloyd George

1941 Virginia Woolf

1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower

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