This Day in History

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 15. In 44 BC, Roman dictator Julius Caesar failed to “beware the Ides of March” and gets stabbed to death by his fellow statesmen in the Roman Senate house. Over 60 conspirators, led by Marcus Brutus and Gaius Longinus,

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 14. In 1794, the cotton gin is patented. Its inventor, Eli Whitney, was inspired by English inventors Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, who developed the Rolling Spinning machine to mass produce cotton-made products. Its only issue was that the

Here’s a brief look back in time for this day, March 13. In 1813, Uncle Sam, the cartoon icon that’ll later be plastered on military recruitment posters across America, is first printed on an edition of the New York Lantern Weekly. Initially developed by Frank Bellew, it’s commonly attributed to

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 12. In 1933, 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation in his first fireside chat via radio. The content of the speech related to the sudden closures of banks across the country as the Great Depression continues

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 11 In 1861, seven southern states adopt the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America. These states were Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. The Confederacy seceded from the Union just a month prior in

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 10. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call a couple of days after receiving his patent for the telephone. This ability to talk with electricity was something originally thought impossible. His first call was to his

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 9. In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of a group of Africans who seized the Spanish slave ship La Amistad (The Friendship in Spanish) a couple of years prior as part of a mutiny. As previously

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 8. In 1782, 96 Native American members of the Delaware tribe are murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen towards the end of the American Revolution in Ohio Country. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, men, women, and children were bludgeoned to

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 7. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives his first patent for a method of transmitting “speech by telegraphy”, aka the telephone. Heavily inspired by the telegraph, Bell strived to make line-by-line transmission more efficient by introducing simultaneous two-way communication.

Here’s a brief look back in time on this day, March 6. In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo comes to a bloody conclusion after a two-week siege from the Mexican Army. The volunteer regiment held at the garrison were unable to hold their own, having only 200 members compared