21st March 1804: The Napoleonic Code, officially known as the Civil Code of the French, comes into effect in France
Following its enactment on 21 March 1804, the Napoleonic Code became the foundation of the French legal system and was gradually extended to territories under French control during the Napoleonic ...
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20th March 1890: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany formally accepts Otto von Bismarck’s resignation
Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his ...
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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album
Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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