March 7th – On This Day
1876 - The Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, patented the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
March 6th – On This Day
2018 - The world’s oldest message in a bottle was found. The bottle was discovered by a couple walking on a beach in Western Australia.
March 5th – On This Day
1936 - The British fighter plane Spitfire made its first test flight from Eastleigh, Southampton, powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.
March 4th – On This Day
1966 - John Lennon made a controversial statement saying that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”
March 3rd – On This Day
1995 - A bill which would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales became the first such proposal to get a second reading in parliament.
March 2nd – On This Day
1969 - The Concorde airplane was tested for the first time in Toulouse, France.
March 1st – On This Day
1998 - James Cameron’s Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, became the first film to gross more than $1 million worldwide.
February 29th – Birthdays and Events
1996 - The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.
February 28th – Birthdays and Events
1975 - In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.