On This Day

Mount Etna begins rumbling

11 March 1669.

Tibetans revolt against Chinese occupation

10 March 1959.

The Barbie doll makes its debut

9 March 1959.

Bayer patents aspirin

6 March 1899.

Charlotte Brontë declines marriage

5 March 1839.

FDR inaugurated

4 March 1933.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk concluded

3 March 1918.

Texas declares independence

2 March 1836.

Salem Witch Hunt begins

1 March 1692.

Chemical structure of DNA discovered

28 February 1953.

Christopher Marlowe is baptised

26 February 1564.

Communists take power in Czechoslovakia

25 February 1948.