Historical Events on March

  • Concorde

    1969

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

  • World War I

    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.

  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    1939

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

  • Nintendo Switch

    2017

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

  • Joseph Stalin

    1953

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

  • Muhammad Ali

    1964

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

  • American Revolutionary War

    1777

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

  • Arab

    1920

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

  • Myanmar

    1942

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

  • Suez Crisis

    1957

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

  • Vietnam War

    1965

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

  • 2011 Japanese tsunami

    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 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

    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.

  • Jerusalem

    597 BC

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

  • 2003 invasion of Iraq

    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.

  • Treaty on the Adoption of the Republic of Crimea to Russia

    2014

    The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

  • Twitter

    2006

    The social media site Twitter is founded.

  • Reconstruction Era

    1870

    Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

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