March: This Month in History
What’s special about this month? With a little help from the History Channel, we’ve compiled a list of major (and obscure) historical events that happened this day in history for the month of March.
- March 1: Lindbergh baby kidnapped. (1932)
- March 2: Dr Seuss’ birthday (1904)
- March 3: Helen Keller meets her miracle worker (1887)
- March 4: Government under the U.S. Constitution begins. (1789)
- March 5: The Boston Massacre occurred. (1770)
- March 6: Bayer patents aspirin (1899)
- March 7: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. (1876)
- March 8: Mount Etna erupts (1669)
- March 9: First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes up (1985)
- March 10: Mine explosion kills 1,060 in France. (1906)
- March 11: Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein is published (1818)
- March 12: Police recover Elizabeth Smart and arrest her abductors (2003)
- March 13: U.S. Army launches K-9 Corps (1942)
- March 14: Albert Einstein’s birthday (1879)
- March 15: The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered (44 B.C.)
- March 16: First liquid-fueled rocket is successfully launched (1926)
- March 17: Franklin Roosevelt marries Eleanor Roosevelt (1905)
- March 18: The Tri-State Tornado kills 695 people 91925)
- March 19: David Livingstone’s birthday (1813)
- March 20: Nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway (1995)
- March 21: Selma to Montgomery march begins (1965)
- March 22: Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress. (1972)
- March 23: Patrick Henry voices American opposition to British policy (1775)
- March 24: Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska. (1989)
- March 25: The British Parliament abolished the slave trade. (1807)
- March 26: Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed. (1979)
- March 27: Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case (1905)
- March 28: Reactor overheats at Three Mile Island. (1979)
- March 29: U.S. withdraws from Vietnam (1973)
- March 30: Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday (1853)
- March 31: Eiffel Tower opens (1889)
Sources: History.com
