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 ...
10 Mar 0s
9th March 1945: USAF begin Operation Meetinghouse, the firebombing of Tokyo in the most destructive bombing raid in history
Approximately 300 B-52 bombers dropped thousands of tons of incendiaries over the eastern districts of Tokyo, causing firestorms that overwhelmed firefighting efforts and killed around 100,000 people,...
9 Mar 0s
8th March 1950: Volkswagen Type 2 ‘Camper’ van enters production, also known as the Transporter or Bus
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production ...
8 Mar 0s
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 ...
7 Mar 0s
6th March 1820: The Missouri Compromise passed by the United States Congress to resolve disagreements over slavery in the western territories
Missouri was admitted as a slave state while Maine, previously part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a free state to preserve the numerical balance in the Senate. In addition, Congress established a ...
6 Mar 0s
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 ...
5 Mar 0s
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 ...
4 Mar 0s
3rd March 1878: Treaty of San Stefano lays the foundations for modern Bulgaria by ending five centuries of Ottoman control
The Treaty of San Stefano created a large, autonomous Principality of Bulgaria, stretching from the Danube to the Aegean Sea and from the Black Sea to Lake Ohrid with its own government, army, and ...
3 Mar 0s
