1st March
1872 Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
2nd March
1807 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808
1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
3rd March
1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Mumbai (Bombay) to protest against autocratic rule in India
4th March
1918, the first cases were reported of the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as Spanish flu. The flu killed approx 40 million people.
1825 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President of the USA
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees
5th March
1616 Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionists’ by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1949 The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1851 Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta.
6th March
1899 “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain
1915 Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
7th March
321 Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire
1973 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
