Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile. On January 15, 2006, Michelle Bachelet became Chile’s first woman president-elect. Bachelet came in first…
10 March 1977
Astronomers discover the rings of the planet Uranus. For being the third largest body in our solar system not including the Sun, there really wasn’t…
9 March 2011
The Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Discovery braved the hellish fire of re-entry…
8 March 1974
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. Charles-de-Gaulle Airport keeps busy as Europe’s second largest airport, moving 62 million passengers in 2013, but as…
7 March 1965
Over 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. On March 7, 1965, state troopers and a sheriff’s…
6 March 1899
Bayer first registers “Aspirin” as a trademark. On 6 March 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid,…
5 March 1943
Britain’s first combat jet aircraft, the Gloster Meteor, has it first flight. The Gloster Meteor was the first British operational jet fighter and the only…
4 March 1882
Britain’s first electric trams run in east London. The first generation of trams in London started in 1860 when a horse tramway began operating along…
3 March 1938
Oil is first discovered in Saudi Arabia. By the early 1930s, geologists had a good idea that there was oil under the sands of the…
2 March 1956
Morocco gets its independence from France. March the 2nd, 1956 is a date almost forgotten in Morocco, yet it officially commemorates the day Morocco gained…