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Scott Allsop's Blog, page 81
March 15, 2023
16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade
Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...
March 14, 2023
15th March 1906: Rolls-Royce Limited established in Britain
Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry ...
March 13, 2023
14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ...
March 12, 2023
13th March 1920: Start of the Kapp Putsch in Berlin
The right-wing Kapp Putsch attempted to overthrow the Weimar ...
March 11, 2023
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) ...
March 10, 2023
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 ...
March 9, 2023
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 ...
March 8, 2023
9th March 1959: Barbie doll introduced at the New York Toy Fair
Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll made its debut at New York Toy ...
March 7, 2023
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, 2023
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 ...
