Browsing: March

A Brief History Today, we look at the five most notable people who had so far officially declared their candidacy for US president in 2024 by March 29, 2023. Digging Deeper Joe Exotic (born 1963), aka Joseph Allen Maldonado, businessman, zoo owner, convicted felon, and self-proclaimed “Tiger King,” is hoping to become the Libertarian Party’s nominee. Nikki Haley (born 1972), former State Representative, Governor of South Carolina, and Ambassador to the UN, is seeking to become the Republican Party nominee. Vivek Ramaswamy (born 1985), businessman and conservative activist, is also running to become the Republican Party nominee. Donald Trump (born…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 28, 845 A.D., a Viking raiding party led by Ragnar Lodbrok (a.k.a. Lothbrok) sacked Paris, the future capital of France, proving that it was not just coastal towns that were susceptible to such raids. On March 28, 1910, aviation history was made when French aviator, Henri Fabre, made the first take off by an airplane from water in a seaplane of his own…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 27, 1794, the United States Congress authorized the building and purchase of a fleet of 6 frigates, ships that would become the core of what became a standing US Navy, a naval fighting force that would eventually rule the oceans for many decades, ruling the waves from World War II to the present. On March 27, 1915, the woman history…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 26, 1812, the first use of the term “gerrymander” appeared in the Boston-Gazette in conjunction with a political cartoon making fun of the ridiculous boundaries drawn for new Massachusetts Senate election districts. On March 26, 1934, the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland instituted their first ever practical examination of automobile drivers’ competence in order to be issued a…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 25th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 25, 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley was booted from the University of Oxford (England) for the publishing of a pamphlet titled The Necessity of Atheism, a continuation of a long history of discrimination and persecution of atheists and agnostics by religious believers. On March 25, 1865, the long drawn out series of battles known to us as The Siege of Petersburg…