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Post by Guest on Mar 11, 2010 23:01:59 GMT -5
"On the morning of March 11, 2004, 10 explosions occurred aboard four commuter trains in Madrid. The series of coordinated bombings killed 191 people and wounded 2,050, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain's history." encyclopedia.tfd.com/2004+Madrid+train+bombings1985: Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union 1990: Lithuanian Independence Day |
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Post by Guest on Mar 16, 2010 21:24:03 GMT -5
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Post by Guest on Mar 17, 2010 3:48:16 GMT -5
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Post by Guest on Mar 18, 2010 21:00:06 GMT -5
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Post by Guest on Mar 19, 2010 2:15:29 GMT -5
The Tuskegee Airmen, trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Army Air Field during WWII, made up the US military's first African-American flying unit. encyclopedia.tfd.com/Tuskegee+Airmen"On 19 March 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Pursuit being the pre-World War II descriptive for "Fighter") was activated at Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois.[2] Over 250 enlisted men were trained at Chanute in aircraft ground support trades. This small number of enlisted men was to become the core of other black squadrons forming at Tuskegee and Maxwell Fields in Alabama."
March 19th:1918: US Congress establishes time zones and daylight savings time |
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Post by Guest on Mar 20, 2010 22:25:49 GMT -5
Lava bread, anyone? Pompeii snack bar rises from the ashes after 2,000 years www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/lava-bread-anyone-pompeii-snack-bar-rises-from-the-ashes-after-2000-years-1924356.htmlMarch 20, 1995 - "members of the Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas, a nerve agent, on several lines of the Tokyo Metro system in five coordinated attacks, killing 12 and injuring thousands. Carrying homemade liquid sarin packaged in plastic bags, the perpetrators boarded the trains, punctured the packets, and left them to vaporize on the car floors. More than 10 Aum members were sentenced to death for their involvement in the incident." encyclopedia.tfd.com/sarin+gas+attack+on+the+Tokyo+subway
March 20th:1852: Harriet Beecher-Stowe's anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, published 1922: Emmy Award winning actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian, Carl Reiner born in the Bronx, New York 1956: Independence Day in Tunisia |
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Post by Sinbad on Mar 21, 2010 4:45:37 GMT -5
Sarah: Oh, I´ve been to Pompeii (in 2001), it´s quite fascinating.  |
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Post by Guest on Mar 21, 2010 5:22:34 GMT -5
Really, how was it?  Pompeii was the core of our Latin course in high school. |
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Post by Guest on Mar 21, 2010 13:40:34 GMT -5
March 21st
1788: Most of New Orleans burns to the ground
1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones travel around the world in 20 days by balloon
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Post by Guest on Mar 22, 2010 0:05:12 GMT -5
March 22, 1765 - Stamp Act was passed by Parliament encyclopedia.tfd.com/Stamp+Act+1765"Intended to help pay British debts from the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act established the first direct tax levied on the American colonies. It required all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies to bear a tax stamp. The act was vehemently protested by the colonists, and the Stamp Act Congress—the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure—petitioned for its repeal."
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Post by Guest on Mar 22, 2010 6:48:36 GMT -5
March 22nd
1638: Religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1873: Abolition Day in Puerto Rico
1960: First working laser patented
1993: Intel ships first Pentium chips (80586)
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Post by Guest on Mar 23, 2010 1:20:04 GMT -5
"On the night of the March 23, 1801, Paul was murdered in his bedroom in the newly built St Michael's Castle by a band of dismissed officers headed by General Bennigsen, a Hanoverian in the Russian service, and General Yashvil, a Georgian." encyclopedia.tfd.com/Paul+I+of+Russia"After his mother, Catherine the Great, suffered a stroke, Paul I ascended to the throne. The new czar instituted a number of reforms that angered the nobility and provoked a conspiracy against him. On the night of his murder, Paul was confronted in his bedroom and pressured to sign his abdication. When he refused, the assassins struck him with a sword, strangled him, and trampled him to death." March 23rd: 1775: Patrick Henry declares "Give me liberty, or give me death!" in Richmond, Virginia 1857: First Otis elevator installed in New York City 1882: Groundbreaking mathematician Emmy Noether born in Erlangen, Bavaria 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes dictator of Germany 1965: Gemini III launched from Cape Canaveral |
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Post by Sinbad on Mar 23, 2010 13:55:59 GMT -5
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes dictator of Germany Strictly speaking, this is historically incorrect. On March 23, 1933 an enablement act was signed and it became known as The Enablement Act of 1933 that was the ultimate step to gaining Hitler more power. Actually however, even though this was by far the enabling act with most far reaching influence, the possibility to pass an enabling act was a part of the constitution of the Republic of Weimar that had been made use of twice already by earlier governments. Basically the use of an enabling act was to give the government permission to pass laws before having to run them by and be ratified by the president and offices of the legislative. It was meant as a temporary solution in times of problems and need (well, that´s disputable of course...) So the idea wasn´t new, nor was it a first timer. What made it possible was a kind of grave error in the constitution of Weimar. Since Germany at the time had never been a democracy before people were kind of scared to make it a full blown democracy, not trusting the system (basically it was a democracy without democrats if you will and they just established it because Wilson made it a must for a peace treaty) and therefore they gave the president far too much power. One of the presidents powers were the so called emergency decrees that enabled the president to dismiss the parliament (constitution §25)when he thought it was necessary and in the time until a new parliament was elected (60 days) he could rule alone (constitution §48). That happened frequently in particular between 1930 and 1933 when the parties failed to reach consensus which was a frequent problem since the constitutioneven allowed parties that were against democracy and tehrefore you didn´t only have parties reaching from ultra right to ultra left but also many very small splinter groups. Therefore what happened not only in March 1933 but also before was something that was not done for a first time. Only when Hitler did it, the fact that it was a big sort of event with celebrations and SA / SS troops threatening the opposition, it remained more memorable in history. And also, this was therefore not what made him a dictator. What made him a dictator was when president Hindenburg died and Hitler decided to change the law and unify the office of chancellor and president taking upon himself the president´s powers as well. |
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Post by Guest on Mar 23, 2010 14:08:13 GMT -5
Like Marshall Law here.
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Post by Sinbad on Mar 23, 2010 14:11:27 GMT -5
You mean Martial Law?
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Pompeii was the core of our Latin course in high school.