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March Historic Notes of the Month
March Historic Notes of the Month
March is Women's History Month
March 1, 1781 - Maryland ratified the Articles of Confederation which were the first form of government of the former American Colonies after the Declaration of Independence. It was supplanted by the Constitution.
March 1, 1844 - Lillian M. N. Stevens who was a temperance reformer was born. She headed the Maine Women's Christian Temperance Union for many years.
March 1, 1872 - President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone in Wyoming.
March 1, 1961 - The Peace Corps was established in President John F. Kennedy's administration.
March 2, 1867 - Howard University. an historically Black university, was chartered. It is in Washington D.C. It played a large role in the Civil Rights Movement.
March 4, 1781 - Rebecca Gratz was born. She started a Hebrew Sunday School in Philadelphia and also the Female Association for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances. In 1815 she founded the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum. She was a friend of Sarah Hoffman, a founder of the New York Orphan Asylum in New York City. See March 15th.
March 4, 1789 - The first session of the United States Congress was held in Manhattan which was then the capital of the new Nation.
March 4, 1837 - The city of Chicago was incorporated. There were approximately 4,200 residents.
March 5, 1853 - Steinway & Sons, piano makers, formed a partnership and opened its first factory on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan.
March 9, 1976 - The first female cadets entered the United States Military Academy at West Point.
March 10, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell tested the first telephone in his Boston home, calling his assistant who was in the next room.
March 11-12, 1888 - "The Great Blizzard of 1888" blanketed New York City (then only Manhattan). Many telephone and electric wires came down. This led to putting telephone and electrical wires underground in Manhattan. It affected the Northeast.
Editor's Note: That storm makes this past month look not so bad!
Search the Internet for "The Great Blizzard of 1888" to see some wonderful photos!
March 11, 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, opened on Broadway. It was the first play produced on Broadway written by an African-American woman. The director, Lloyd Richards, was the first African-American director to have a play on Broadway. Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee starred in it.
March 12, 1777 - The Continental Congress voted to buy blankets for the soldiers during the American Revolution.
March 12, 1871 - Jane Delano was born. She was a pioneer in women's nursing and worked extensively with the Red Cross. She was also Director of the Army Nurse Corps. After World War I ended, she went to France to work there. She became ill and died. She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
March 12, 1993 - Janet Reno became the first female Attorney General of the United States.
March 14, 1629 - England granted a Royal Charter to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. The Puritans arrived the next year and settled in Boston and surrounding towns. They were led by the first governor, John Winthrop.
March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein was born. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
March 14, 1927 - Subway Service on the IRT Flushing Line was extended to Times Square in Manhattan.
March 15, 1806 - The Orphan Asylum Society was founded by Mrs. Isabella Graham, her daughter, Mrs. Joanna Bethune, and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton (the widow of the first Secretary of the Treasury who was killed in a duel in 1804.) In 1977, it merged with Windham which was originally the Society for the Relief of Half-Orphans which had been founded in 1835. Today it is Graham Windham which assists thousands of children and families.
March 15, 1913 - President Woodrow Wilson held the first presidential press conference.
March 15, 1947 - John Lee was promoted to be the first African-American Naval Officer in the United States Navy.
March 16, 1827 - Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper was published for the first time.
March 20, 1778 - King Louis XVI of France officially received American dignitaries as allies during the American Revolution.
March 22, 1965 - More than 3,000 people, led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., began the Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
March 22, 1972 - The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was passed by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification. It has never been ratified.
March 23, 1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright filed a patent for their airplane design.
March 24, 1996 - Shannon Lucid, an American astronaut, boarded the Mir Space Station, becoming the first female astronaut to live on a space station.
March 26, 1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, was born.
March 26, 1780 - Seven African-Americans challenged England about taxation without representation.
March 26, 1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tested a vaccine against polio.
March 30, 1867 - The United States bought Alaska from Russia. It was called Seward's Folly after Secretary of State William Seward.
HAPPY SPRING & Daylight Savings Time!
compiled by Phyllis Barr, 2010, from various sources, on-line and the old fashioned way!
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Edited: Mar 1st, 2010
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