This Week In #History ... March 21 - 27

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Mar 21
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1871 Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever
1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
2010 A suicide bomb attack in Geresh, Helmand Province, Afganistan kills ten people and injures 7

Mar 22
1457 Gutenberg's Bible became the 1st printed book
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1888 English Football League established
1914 World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1946 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
2010 The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives

Mar 23
1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
1794 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating
1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st U.S. auto speedway)
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry

Mar 24
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1882 Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1898 1st automobile sold
1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City, NC)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1982 U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
2008 Bhutan holds it's first public election

Mar 25
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's largest satellite)
1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece
1902 Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
2008 160 square mile part of the Antarctic ice shelf disintegrates

Mar 26
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor)
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1910 U.S. forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1986 Geffen records signs Guns and Roses
2010 Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem

Mar 27
1790 The shoelace invented
1794 U.S. Navy forms
1841 1st U.S. steam fire engine tested, New York City
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
2010 Thousands of 'red shirt' protesters demand fresh elections, causing Thai troops to retreat