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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

March 12 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 12 History Highlights1609 – Bermuda was colonized by England1933 – President Roosevelt gave his first ‘Fireside Speech’1938 – Austria was invaded by Germany1998 – The Church of England ordained its first female priests.March 12 19** Birthday (fictional) Perry White, DC ComicsMarch 12, 19**Birthday (fictional) Homer Simpson,

March 11 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 11 History Highlights1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States.1918 – The ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic struck the I+United States.March 11, 2011 – Apple iPad 2 was released.2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus a

March 10 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 10 History Highlights1862 – The United States began using paper currency.1876 – Alexander Graham Bell spoke into his just-completed invention, the telephone. “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”1880 – The US Salvation Army began serving.1977 – Astronomers discovered the rings of Uranus.If you

March 9 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 9 History Highlights1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte married his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.1842 –

March 8 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 8 History Highlights1481 – William Caxton reprinted the illustrated book, Mirror of the World, from the original French.1913 – The Internal Revenue Service began collecting income tax on Americans’ income.2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the South China SeaIf you were born on March

March 7 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 7 History Highlights1850 – American Senator Daniel Webster gave his Seventh of March speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850.1869 – The Suez Canal opened for limited shipping.1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for (#174,465) the telephone.If you were born on March 7th,You were likely