On This Day

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.

Gulf War ground offensive begins

24 February 1991.

George Washington is born

22 February 1732.

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

21 February 1848.