MessageToEagle.com – On 22 March 871, the Battle of Marton (or Meretum) was fought at a place recorded as Marton, possibly in Wiltshire or Dorset, England. Alfred the Great (849-899),
MessageToEagle.com – On March 21, 1916, Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) played 105 boards simultaneously during an exhibition held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. It was
MessageToEagle.com – On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) submitted his “Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” for publication in the journal ‘Annals of Physics’ (Annelen Der
MessageToEagle.com – On March 19, 1697, Tsar Peter the Great left Moscow to travel to Western Europe. He was the first Tsar to leave his country in peacetime and ‘opened a
MessageTo Eagle.com – On March 18 (or 19), 1314, Jacques de Molay, last grand master of the Knights Templars, an order of knighthood founded during the Crusades, was burned at the stake.
MessageToEagle.com – On March 17, 1880, Captain Lawrence “Titus” Oates, an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons, and later an Antarctic explorer, was born in London. He died
MessageToEagle.com – On March 16, 1485, Anne Neville, the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne Beauchamp, died mysteriously at the age of twenty eight years. Did tuberculosis
MessageToEagle.com – On March 15, 44 BC., Roman Dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated, not in the Senate but in a meeting room adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey. The
MessageToEagle.com – On March 14, 1757, John Byng, an admiral of the Royal Navy was executed by firing squad for neglect of duty. Byng was born on October 29, 1704, in
MessageTo Eagle.com – On March 13th, 1781, astronomer Sir Frederick William Herschel announced the discovery of the planet Uranus. Uranus wasn’t officially discovered until 1781. Ancient Babylonians knew about
MessageToEagle.com – On March 12, 1896, the first radiogram was sent by Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov. It traveled over 200 yards from one building of the St. Petersburg University to
MessageToEagle.com – On March 11, 1864, the so-called Great Sheffield Flood – the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England. This tragic accident was ‘largely forgotten because it killed northern ‘working-class people’
MessageToEagle.com – On March 10, 241 BC, the Carthaginian relieving fleet was totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily – the event is known as the Battle of
MessageToEagle.com – On February, 29, 1912, the Piedra Movediza, (the “shifting stone” or ‘moving rock’) located in Tandil, about 350 km south of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
