Scott Allsop's Blog, page 262
March 10, 2017
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 Kansas. Within 18 months...
March 9, 2017
10th March 1876: Bell transmits speech using the telephone
On the 10th March 1876, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call when he contacted his assistant, Thomas Watson. Bell recorded in his journal that he shouted the phrase, “Mr. Watson,...
March 8, 2017
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 law. The...
March 7, 2017
8th March 1950: VW Transporter aka ‘camper’ & ‘bus’ production begins
On the 8th March 1950, the Volkswagen Type 2 – more commonly known as the ‘transporter’, the ‘bus’ or the ‘camper’ – went into production at the company’s Wolfsburg factory. The VW transporter went on...
March 6, 2017
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 Rhineland. Although Germany had retained political control over the area following the Treaty of Versailles, it...
March 5, 2017
6th March 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table
On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. While not the first to attempt to classify the elements, Mendeleev’s system was the one to gain...
March 4, 2017
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, Missouri. Often interpreted as a key event...
March 3, 2017
4th March 1789: First US Congress meets under new Constitution
On the 4th March 1789, the United States constitution went into effect when the first US Congress met. However, the Congress was unable to actually vote on anything until the first week of April since...
March 2, 2017
3rd March 1918: Russia and Central Powers sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
On the 3rd March 1918 the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and the Central Powers. The treaty ended Russia’s participation in the First World War and was negotiated by the new Bolshevik government....
March 1, 2017
2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam
On the 2nd March 1965 the United States military, alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, began Operation Rolling Thunder as part of the Vietnam War. The operation continued for three and a half years,...
