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1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin. [11] 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people. [12] 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. [13]
He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4. 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor , the first female member of the United States Cabinet . 1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree .
1913 – A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, while an ongoing flood in the Ohio River watershed was killing 650 people. [3] 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners ...
Saint Patrick’s Day, on March 17, is notably March’s most famous annual holiday. Plus, Women’s History Month is also in March, helping to celebrate women throughout history and their amazing ...
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. [2] 1174 – A conspiracy against Saladin, aiming to restore the Fatimid Caliphate, is revealed in Cairo, involving senior figures of the former Fatimid regime and the poet Umara ...
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England. [14] 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. [15] 1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom. [16]
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people. 1943 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. [9] 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest ...
Data collected over the past 20 years shows that the most popular birthday falls around Labor Day.