Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people. Trans…
8 March 1937
Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins The Battle of Guadalajara was a military conflict that took place during the Spanish Civil War on…
7 March 1986
Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. The Challenger shuttle disaster was caused by the…
6 March 1992
The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. The Michelangelo computer virus is a notorious virus that was first discovered in 1991. It is named…
5 March 1616
Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published….
4 March 1665
English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Second Anglo-Dutch War was a conflict fought…
3 March 1938
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. Oil was first discovered in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia in 1938. It was discovered by an American geologist…
2 March 1992
Start of the war in Transnistria. The war in Transnistria was a conflict that occurred between 1990 and 1992 in the breakaway region of Transnistria,…
1 March 1845
United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. Texas became a state of the United…
28 February 1991
The first Gulf War ends. The first Gulf War, also known as the Persian Gulf War, was a conflict that took place in 1990-1991 between…