18th March 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk
At approximately 10:34 a.m. Moscow time, Alexei Leonov floated outside the spacecraft Voskhod 2 and remained there for just over twelve ...
18 Mar 0s
17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end ...
17 Mar 0s
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 ...
16 Mar 0s
15th March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne, ending more than three centuries of Romanov rule
The abdication of Nicholas II removed a deeply entrenched autocracy, but the Provisional Government that assumed power struggled to assert control and, within months, its authority was challenged by t...
15 Mar 0s
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 ...
14 Mar 0s
13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement
Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his ...
13 Mar 0s
12th March 1933: The first “fireside chat” delivered by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the radio
Recognising that the broadcast had helped bridge the gap between government action and public understanding, fireside chats became a defining feature of Roosevelt’s leadership and over the next twelve...
12 Mar 0s
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 ...
11 Mar 0s
