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12th March 1930: Mohandas Gandhi began the 240-mile Salt March to the coastal village of Dandi

Gandhi intended to produce salt from seawater to avoid paying tax and thus undermine Britain’s salt ...

11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas

Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s ...

10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble

The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to ...

9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them ...

8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters production, also known as the Transporter or Bus

The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production ...

7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler

Hitler chose to send three battalions, or approximately 22,000 German troops, into the Rhineland in violation of the terms of the Treaty of ...

6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case

Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of ...

5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri

Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech played a significant role in changing western perceptions of their former Soviet ...

4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

The Forth Railway Bridge stretches almost 2.5km across the Firth of Forth, a large estuary area to west of ...

3rd March 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed between Russia and the Central Powers

The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial ...