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March 30 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 30 History Highlights1822 – The Florida Territory was created in the United States.1856 – The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War.1981 – President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest outside a Washington, DC hotel by John Hinckley Jr. He later told his

March 29 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 29 History Highlights845 – Paris was sacked by Viking raiders, possibly under Ragnar Lodbrok.1848 – Large blocks of ice blocked Niagra Falls until April 1.1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage with the Soviet Union.1999 – The Dow Jones Index

March 28 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 28 History Highlights1842 – The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra debuted, conducted by Otto Nicolai.1881 – ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ Barnum and Baily Brothers Circus debuted.1979 – The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred.If you were born on March 28th,You were likely conceived the week

March 27 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 27 History Highlights1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reached the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever ID’d in the United States, was put in quarantine.1952 – Singin’ In The

March 26 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 26 History Highlights1484 – William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop’s Fables.1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymander” to describe oddly shaped electoral districts.1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention came into force.1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter

March 25 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 25 History Highlights1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted permission to colonize Virginia.Until 1752, March 25 was considered New Year’s Day in Great Britain and its colonies.1807 – The Slave Trade Act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

March 24 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 24 History Highlights1765 – Great Britain passed the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.3rd Amendment to the US Constitution, 1791: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time

March 23 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 23 History Highlights1857 – Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.1868 – The University of California was founded in Oakland, California.1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement.1933 – The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933,

March 22 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 22 History Highlights1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians killed 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.1945 – The Arab League was founded in Cairo, Egypt.1993 – Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chipsMarch 22, **** Birthday (fictional) Diana of Themyscira (Wonder

March 20 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 20 History Highlights1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroyed 349 buildings, but no reported deaths.1916 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published in Annalen der Physik.1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing.March

March 21 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 21 History Highlights1913 – 20,000 homes were destroyed, and over 360 people were killed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.1965 – 3,000 civil rights demonstrators participated in the walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph

March 19 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture History March 19 History Highlights 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ended the Song dynasty in China.Over 100,000 people died in the sea battle. 1918 – US Standard Time Act established standard time zones in the United States. 1962 – Bob Dylan released

March 16 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 16 History Highlights1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers was established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.1926 – Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, MA.1968 – The My Lai Massacre involved the killing of 3000 noncombatant Vietnam

March 15 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 15 History Highlights44 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house, by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. #bewaretheidesofMarch1820 – Maine became the 23rd US state1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian

March 14 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 14 History Highlights1950 – The FBI released its first ‘Ten Most Wanted’ criminals list.March 14, 19** Birthday (fictional) Selena Kyle, Catwoman, DC ComicsOfficially Pi Day is 3/14. Unofficial Pi Day is Approximation Day, 7/22.The circumference of a circle with radius r is 2pr.If you were born

March 13 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 13 History Highlights1871 – The Planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.1943 – “Operation Flash”, an attempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler failed.1969 – Apollo 9 returned safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.The 1993 Storm of the Century affected the Eastern US, dropping feet of