This Week in #History ... March 28th - April 3rd
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Mar 28
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
1922 1st microfilm device introduced
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1964 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
2010 The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed
Mar 29
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II
1961 After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1987 Wrestlemania III - 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago, Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM
2010 At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury
Mar 30
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1889 John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1970 U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1991 1st exhibition of baseball game at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees - Orioles)
2010 8 Indian vessels are hijacked and 120 sailors are abducted by Somali pirates and off the cost of Kismayo
Mar 31
1831 Quebec and Montreal incorporated
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1918 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
2010 Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues
Apr 1
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates
1826 Samuel Morey patents internal combustion engine
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1948 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants of october uprising
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
2010 Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless
Apr 2
1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1792 U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president
1902 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
2007 8.1 earthquake triggers tsunami in the Solomon Islands
Apr 3
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1860 Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1948 1st U.S. figure skating championships held
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
2010 Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week