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On 13 March 1930 astronomers at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona telegraphed the Harvard College Observatory with the news of the discovery of a new planet, the first since Neptune in 1846. The discovery had been made on 18 February by Clyde Tombaugh less than a year after he had been assigned the Continue reading 13 March 1930: Discovery of Pluto Confirmed At 6:30am on 12 March 1930 seventy-eight Indian National Congress volunteers joined Mahatma Gandhi at the start of a march from Ahmedabad to Dandi on the Indian Ocean. Organised as the first part of Gandhi’s non-violent protest, Satyagraha, the Dandi March was an act of civil disobedience against the British salt tax. The Salt Continue reading 12 March 1930: Gandhi and the Dandi Salt March Map of Lithuania In 1944 Lithuania was liberated from Nazi occupation by the advancing Russian army, only to be absorbed into the Soviet system. For almost half a century the country formed part of the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. But the disintegration of the Soviet Union gave Lithuania the Continue reading 11 March 1990: Lithuania Declared Independence From the Soviet Union Samuel Ferguson Samuel Ferguson, poet, antiquarian, barrister and archivist, was born in Belfast on 10 March 1810. He was the youngest of the six children of John and Agnes Ferguson. His father’s family had lived in Ulster since the seventeenth century but their property in county Antrim did not provide them much towards Continue reading 10 March 1810: Birth of Samuel Ferguson, Irish Poet Raymonde de Laroche The “Baroness” Raymonde de Laroche was born on 22 August 1886 as Elise Raymonde Deroche and was the daughter of a plumber. On becoming an actress and singer as a young woman, Elise Deroche took the stage name of Raymonde de Laroche. An interest in engineering and flight led de Continue reading 8 March 1910: The First Woman to Receive a Pilot’s Licence Cuthbert Collingwood Cuthbert Collingwood was born on 26 September 1748 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eighth child of Cuthbert and Milcah Collingwood. He was the eldest of three sons. After a schooling at the Newcastle Free School, Collingwood went to sea on the Shannon at the age of twelve on 28 August 1761. Continue reading 7 March 1810: Death of Cuthbert Collingwood, British Admiral Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Daimler was born in Schorndorf, Württemberg on 17 March 1834. He trained as a gunsmith but had a fascination with engineering from an early age. After studying at the Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute he began a career in engineering. The inventor of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, Nikolaus A. Otto, employed Daimler Continue reading 6 March 1900: Death of Gottlieb Daimler, German Engineer The Boston Massacre by Paul Revere A great deal of tension existed between the American colonies and the British government in the 1760s. In 1767 the Townshend Acts were passed by the British parliament in an attempt to enforce trade regulations and establish its right to tax the colonies. The acts were unpopular Continue reading 5 March 1770: The Boston Massacre The Forth Rail Bridge, 1890 Before 1890 the only direct route between Queensferry and North Queensferry in the east of Scotland was the ferry across the Firth of Forth. The crossing was slow and often dangerous and the four ferries, Queen Margaret, Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots and Sir William Wallace, Continue reading 4 March 1890: Opening of the Forth Rail Bridge |
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