Scott Allsop's Blog, page 78

12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player

Andrew Watson’s 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) ...

11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper

The Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper, was published in ...

10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant, Thomas Watson

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with ...

9th March 1959: Barbie doll introduced at the New York Toy Fair

Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll made its debut at New York Toy ...

8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian ...

7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless ...

6th March 1869: Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society

While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed an element should exist, he was able to calculate the missing element’s atomic mass and ...

5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic world results in the Safarnama

The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the ...

4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time, and the United States Constitution goes into effect

The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many of the members didn’t arrive in time for the scheduled start ...

3rd March 1861: Tsar Alexander II signs the Emancipation Manifesto

Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation ...