Scott Allsop's Blog, page 41

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 ...

19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in U.S. history

The heist was masterminded by James Honeyman and James Murray entered the bank late at night on 19 March where they raided the vault and safe deposit boxes. Together they left with approximately $245,000 in bank notes and coins, which is the equivalent of more than $50 million ...

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 ...

16th March 1660: England’s Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session

The dissolution of the Long Parliament signalled the end of the republican experiment initiated by the Civil War and cleared the way for Charles II to return to England as king, marking the beginning of the Restoration ...

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 ...

14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany

The creation of the First Slovak Republic represented a long-standing aspiration for Slovak autonomy, but came under the shadow of Nazi influence and ...

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 ...

12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey

In a program that won broad support, America committed to providing $400 million in assistance to Greece and ...

11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

By providing substantial military assistance to Allied nations through the Lend-Lease Act, the United States played a crucial role in bolstering their ability to resist Axis aggression and played a major role in the Allied victory in the Second World ...