Scott Allsop's Blog, page 153
March 13, 2020
14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory ...
March 12, 2020
13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated in Saint Petersburg
On the 13th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the Peoples Will revolutionary ...
March 11, 2020
12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player
Andrew Watsons father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) ...
March 10, 2020
11th March 1918: First confirmed case of ‘Spanish Flu’
On the 11th March 1918 the first confirmed case of what was to become known as Spanish Flu was identified at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, a huge military facility in ...
March 9, 2020
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 ...
March 8, 2020
9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slave case
On the 9th March 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the Amistad ship had been taken into slavery illegally and were therefore free under American ...
March 7, 2020
8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian ...
March 6, 2020
7th March 1936: Germany remilitarises the Rhineland
On the 7th March 1936, the German Army under control of Adolf Hitler violated international agreements by remilitarising the ...
March 5, 2020
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 ...
March 4, 2020
5th March 1946: Churchill makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
On the 5th March 1946, Winston Churchill described the post-war division of Europe as an “iron curtain” in his “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton, ...
