Elisha Otis was an American mechanic who invented the safety elevator, which featured a mechanism to prevent the platform from falling if the hoisting cable ...
Mar 22
The surprise attack was launched against English settlers by the the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Chief ...
Mar 21
By the time the concert began at 10pm on 21 March there were thousands of people outside the arena unable to get in who resorted to breaking through the ...
Mar 20
The party quickly built support and by 1856 it proved to be the dominant political force in the North when John C. Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate, won 11 of the 16 Northern ...
Mar 19
The heist was masterminded by James Honeyman and James Murray entered the bank late at night on 19 March where they raided the vault and safe deposit boxes. Together they left with approximately $245,000 in bank notes and coins, which is the equivalent of more than $50 million ...
Mar 18
Despite a reward of $10 million, and extensive investigations by the FBI, none of the works have ever been recovered and nobody has ever been arrested for the ...
Mar 17
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual ...
Mar 16
The dissolution of the Long Parliament signalled the end of the republican experiment initiated by the Civil War and cleared the way for Charles II to return to England as king, marking the beginning of the Restoration ...
Mar 15
By January 1917 he was still no closer to being caught, and Pershing’s forces were ordered to withdraw and return to the United ...
Mar 14
The creation of the First Slovak Republic represented a long-standing aspiration for Slovak autonomy, but came under the shadow of Nazi influence and ...
Mar 13
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