Anniversaries

4th March 1193 (822 Years)

Saladin, Iraqi-Egyptian sultan who led the Muslim opposition to the Crusaders in the Levant, died.

4th March 1493 (522 Years)

Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

4th March 1890 (125 Years)

The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

4th March 1913 (102 Years)

Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president of the United States.

4th March 1916 (99 Years)

Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, dies.

4th March 1917 (98 Years)

Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to hold national office in the United States: "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.".

4th March 1918 (97 Years)

The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

4th March 1922 (93 Years)

Expressionist horror film, Nosferatu, is released in Germany.

4th March 1928 (87 Years)

Alan Sillitoe, English author and poet, was born.

4th March 1932 (83 Years)

Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter, actress, and activist, was born.

4th March 1936 usa (79 Years)

German airship Hindenburg made its first flight. It was destroyed by fire in May 1937.

4th March 1952 (63 Years)

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis got married in Los Angeles, California.

4th March 1975 (40 Years)

Comic genius Charlie Chaplin is knighted.

4th March 1980 (35 Years)

Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.

5th March 1616 (399 Years)

Work of Copernicus banned by the Congregation of the Index.

5th March 1817 (198 Years)

The Rt Hon Sir Austen Henry Layard, English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and Niniveh was born.

5th March 1827 (188 Years)

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist known for inventing the battery, dies.

5th March 1868 (147 Years)

Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.

5th March 1953 (62 Years)

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, died.

5th March 1966 (49 Years)

Anna Akhmatova, Russian modernist poet and one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon, dies.

6th March 1475 (540 Years)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born near Arezzo, Italy.

6th March 1937 (78 Years)

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space, is born.

6th March 1986 (29 Years)

Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter of nature and the southwestern landscape, dies.

7th March 1965 (50 Years)

Selma Montgomery marches begin.

8th March 1917 (98 Years)

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German general and later aircraft manufacturer, who founded the Zeppelin airship company, died.

8th March 1917 (98 Years)

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German general and later aircraft manufacturer, who founded the Zeppelin airship company, died.

8th March 1917 (98 Years)

The Russian Revolution begins.

8th March 1945 (70 Years)

Anselm Kiefer, a German artist, was born.

8th March 1971 (44 Years)

Harold Lloyd, one of the most influential actor of the silent film era together with Chaplin and Keaton, died.

9th March 1934 (81 Years)

Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut and Soviet Pilot, was born.

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