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384 Episoade

1. 14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

   Publicat: 14.03.2025
2. 13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca

   Publicat: 13.03.2025
3. 12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss

   Publicat: 12.03.2025
4. 11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas

   Publicat: 11.03.2025
5. 10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France

   Publicat: 10.03.2025
6. 9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

   Publicat: 09.03.2025
7. 8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty

   Publicat: 08.03.2025
8. 7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler

   Publicat: 07.03.2025
9. 6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States

   Publicat: 06.03.2025
10. 5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri

    Publicat: 05.03.2025
11. 4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

    Publicat: 04.03.2025
12. 3rd March 1938: First commercial quantities of oil discovered in Saudi Arabia after engineers drill Dammam Well No. 7

    Publicat: 03.03.2025
13. 2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine

    Publicat: 02.03.2025
14. 1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park

    Publicat: 01.03.2025
15. 28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas

    Publicat: 28.02.2025
16. 27th February 1900: Labour Representation Committee founded, marking the start of what would later become the British Labour Party

    Publicat: 27.02.2025
17. 26th February 1935: Daventry Experiment proves the ability of using radio waves to detect aircraft, heralding the development of radar

    Publicat: 26.02.2025
18. 25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office

    Publicat: 25.02.2025
19. 24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

    Publicat: 24.02.2025
20. 23rd February 1903: US President Theodore Roosevelt leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in perpetuity

    Publicat: 23.02.2025