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 ...
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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of ...
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5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri
Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech played a significant role in changing western perceptions of their former Soviet ...
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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII
The Forth Railway Bridge stretches almost 2.5km across the Firth of Forth, a large estuary area to west of ...
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3rd March 1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed between Russia and the Central Powers
The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial ...
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2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine
Chappe was born into a wealthy family in 1763 and originally trained as a member of the ...
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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park
Yellowstone became the first national park in the world after President Ulysses S. Grant signed The Act of Dedication ...
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