Birth of Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born on April 9, 1830, in Kingston upon the Thames, Surrey, England.
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born on April 9, 1830, in Kingston upon the Thames, Surrey, England.
On March 27, 1912, US First Lady Helen Taft and wife of the Japanese ambassador Viscountess Chinda planted two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River. The plantings were in celebration of the Japanese gift of 3,020 cherry trees to the US government.
Naval officer John Barry was born on March 25, 1745, in Tacumshane, Ireland.
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On March 11, 1824, US Secretary of War John C. Calhoun created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
On this day in 1914, International Women’s Day was first celebrated on March 8.
Politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was born on March 7, 1850, in Hodonín, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic).
On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise into law.
On March 4, 1789, the US Congress met for the first time under the terms of the recently ratified US Constitution.