Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis
23 March 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.
21 March 1965
Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
20 March 1922
The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
19 March 2013
A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
18 March 1834
Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
16 March 1978
Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil…