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16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry.

Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians...

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14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention....

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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant,...

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his...

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6th March 1869: Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society

While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed...

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4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time, and the United States Constitution goes into effect

The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many...

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2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons...

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1st March 1692: Salem witch trials begin in Massachusetts

Salem’s witch hysteria began in January 1692 when both the daughter and niece of the Reverend...

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28th February 1525: Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, executed on the orders of the Spanish conquistador Hernán...

While they were in Honduras, Cortés was informed of a rumour that Cuauhtémoc was conspiring to...

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24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates the throne amidst revolutions that were beginning to...

Louis Philippe’s reign began positively, but over time he faced mounting opposition. After...

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22nd February 1943: First three members of the White Rose resistance group put on trial and executed by guillotine in...

Centred around Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the small group of university friends who...

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20th February 1959: Jimi Hendrix plays his first live concert and is fired from the band after the first set

The band, whose name has sadly been lost, were auditioning Hendrix to join them but after an...

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19th February 1985: EastEnders, the BBC’s flagship soap opera, broadcast for the first time

EastEnders was first broadcast on 19 February 1985 as part of new BBC One controller Michael...

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18th February 1930: Nellie Jay, better known as Elm Farm Ollie, becomes the first cow to fly and be milked in an...

Elm Farm Ollie gave a total of 24 quarts (23 litres) of milk which was then packed into paper...

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16th February 1923: Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings

Having secured permission from the Department of Antiquities of Egypt to open the sealed door,...

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14th February 1929: St Valentine’s Day Massacre of seven men with connections to Chicago’s North Side Gang

Although nobody was ever brought to trial for the St Valentine's Day Massacre, it is generally...

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12th February 1429: Battle of the Herrings in the Hundred Years’ War fought between French and English forces near

The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with...

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9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State

The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington...

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6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609...

Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before...

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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime...

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2nd February 1852: World’s first modern flushable public toilets open in London

Despite their elegant mahogany and brass design, and an extensive promotional campaign that...

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