On This Day In History
#OTD in 1996 at Dunblane Primary School, Gwen Mayor tried to shield her pupils, aged 5-6, from gunman Thomas Hamilton. He killed her and sixteen children. The 'Dunblane Massacre', the worst mass shooting in British history, prompted a UK ban on hand guns. https://t.co/X3TK5rb9Sj pic.twitter.com/yNKUEVhRK6
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 13, 2022
#OTD in 2013, Pakistani architect and social activist Perween Rahman was killed by four gunmen, ending her 28-year-long fight for land & water rights for Pakistan's poor. Rahman had been a critic of the land mafias in Karachi and their political patrons. https://t.co/A0bLClmd8a pic.twitter.com/BS3uEM9sGR
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 13, 2022
#OTD in 2020, 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police raiding her home. Her murder, like that of George Floyd a few months later, was a catalyst for Black Lives Matter demonstrations and protests across the US. https://t.co/F3N3VvkrVu pic.twitter.com/t8DNYiSOyk
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 13, 2022
On this day in 1944, a white bus driver in Alexandria, Louisiana, shot and killed Private Edward Green, a 23-year-old Black soldier, for refusing to sit in the segregated section of a city bus. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/6kkx2LMWUv
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 13, 2022
March 14th
1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1900 Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity and genetics
1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"
2013 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People's Republic of China
Did You Know?
FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
Today in History in 1950
Would You Believe?
South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid
Today in History in 1913
This day 29 years ago – 14 March 1991 – the Birmingham Six were released from prison.
The six men – all Roman Catholics from Northern Ireland – had served 16 years in prison after being falsely convicted of the bombing of two Birmingham pubs, in which 21 people had been killed. pic.twitter.com/xJvNCpdlLM
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 14, 2020
#OTD in 1889, Susan La Flesche graduated top of her class, one of the first Native Americans to earn a medical degree. She went on to campaign for public health and civil rights. At 8 years old, she had seen a tribal woman die when a white doctor did not answer calls to help. pic.twitter.com/PGZU5LBFyh
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 14, 2022
On this day in 1835, Missouri enacted a law requiring free Black residents to obtain a license to remain in the state. Those who did not faced fines, imprisonment, and expulsion from Missouri. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/RSk9cuszY4
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 14, 2022
Died this day in Black History! March 14, 1977
Fannie Lou Hamer! A voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader in the civil rights movement, she was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 DNC! pic.twitter.com/SVJimJqZwi
— 𝑼𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒂𝒘! (@AriesaSandino) March 14, 2022
Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo Galilei and died 4 years ago #today, at the age of 76, on the birthday of Albert Einstein and π day. A brief history of Stephen Hawking, remembering him 4 years since his death [read more: https://t.co/mkJgtib7oI] pic.twitter.com/ay8veaaV6A
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 14, 2022
March 15th
44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome
221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1917 Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
1962 Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter
2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg
Did You Know?
The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
Today in History in 1985
Would You Believe?
Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
Today in History in 1940
This day 276 years ago – 15 March 1745 – the Rotunda Hospital opened in George's Lane, Dublin.
Originally known as the Dublin Lying-In Hospital, it was founded by surgeon Bartholomew Mosse.
Today, it is the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. pic.twitter.com/XjYM5vmoKh
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 15, 2021
For #BrainAwarenessWeek we celebrate pioneer neuroscientist, Patricia Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003). Her work on the circuitry of the frontal lobes was vital to the understanding of brain disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. https://t.co/uJ4CNib5id #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/OzBM6VplKE
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 15, 2022
On this day in 1901, after a Black man accused of stealing a white man’s wallet escaped lynching in Rome, TN, the mob of white men instead seized and lynched Ballie Crutchfield, his sister. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/e0YfBNHDAn
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 15, 2022
March 16th
597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1527 Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga consolidating Mughal power
1660 English Long Parliament disbands
1792 King gustav iii of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29
1867 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in "The Lancet"
1935 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
Did You Know?
Sir Arthur Evans rediscovers the bronze age city of Knossos in Crete, home of the legendary Minotaur
Today in History in 1900
Would You Believe?
General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado
Today in History in 1968
This day 61 years ago – 16 March 1960 – the SS Canberra was launched at Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
It was the last cruise liner to be built at the yard, which produced some of the world's most famous ships, including the Titanic and its sister ships the Olympic and Britannic. pic.twitter.com/HASxOdX6X3
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 16, 2021
On this day in 1965, lifelong pacifist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz (aged 82) set fire to herself in Detroit, in protest against the Vietnam War. She died ten days later: the war continued for another ten years. https://t.co/VBqu5trmcN pic.twitter.com/CuJFxOACl9
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 16, 2022