Scott Allsop's Blog, page 138

2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops

With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby ...

1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory

While flying over France, the formations experienced high winds that blew them dramatically off ...

31st March 1985: WrestleMania I takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City

WrestleMania grossed a reported $12 million and, although reviews of the first event were mixed, it marked the start of the longest-running professional wrestling competition in ...

28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station

The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to ...

25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech to a crowd of more than 25,000 ...

21st March 1952: Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio

By the time the concert began at 10pm on 21 March there were thousands of people outside the arena unable to get in who resorted to breaking through the ...

20th March 1854: U.S. Republican Party founded at a meeting in a schoolhouse in Wisconsin

The party quickly built support and by 1856 it proved to be the dominant political force in the North when John C. Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate, won 11 of the 16 Northern ...

18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the world’s largest ever art theft

Despite a reward of $10 million, and extensive investigations by the FBI, none of the works have ever been recovered and nobody has ever been arrested for the ...

15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

By January 1917 he was still no closer to being caught, and Pershing’s forces were ordered to withdraw and return to the United ...

13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United States

Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments ...