Scott Allsop's Blog, page 40

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 ...

30th March 1900: Archaeologists at the ancient site of Knossos discover the first clay tablet inscribed with Linear B

Evans’ excavation of the Linear B tablets at Knossos shed light on the complex and sophisticated nature of the Minoan ...

29th March 1806: Construction of the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway, authorised by U.S. Congress

The Cumberland Road quickly became a vital artery for trade and transport, facilitating the movement of people, goods, and ideas between the eastern seaboard and the western ...

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 ...

27th March 1964: Most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Alaska

The colossal earthquake, registering a magnitude of 9.2, struck Southcentral Alaska and is the most powerful on record in North America and the second-largest ...

26th March 1351: Combat of the Thirty fought between English and Breton soldiers during the Breton War of Succession

Although the event was of little military importance overall, the chivalric nature of the battle was celebrated by chroniclers, balladeers, and artists, while survivors of the Thirty were held in held ...

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 ...

23rd March 1857: The world’s first successful passenger elevator installed in a five-storey New York City department store

Elisha Otis was an American mechanic who invented the safety elevator, which featured a mechanism to prevent the platform from falling if the hoisting cable ...

22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

The surprise attack was launched against English settlers by the the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Chief ...