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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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