U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same…
29 March 1973
Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barrel_Roll’]
28 March 1999
Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War’]
27 March 1915
Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would…
25 March 1931
The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys’]
24 March 1989
In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill’]
23 March 2001
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir’]
22 March 2017
A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Westminster_attack’]
21 March 1963
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary’]