4th March 1936 (83 Years)
German airship Hindenburg made its first flight. It was destroyed by fire in May 1937.
4th March 1980 (39 Years)
Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
5th March 1817 (202 Years)
The Rt Hon Sir Austen Henry Layard, English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and Niniveh was born.
5th March 1827 (192 Years)
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist known for inventing the battery, dies.
5th March 1850 (169 Years)
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
5th March 1868 (151 Years)
Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
5th March 1936 (83 Years)
The Supermarine Spitfire, the prototype of a British single-seat fighter aircraft took off on its first flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome (later Southampton Airport).
5th March 1953 (66 Years)
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, died.
5th March 1966 (53 Years)
Anna Akhmatova, Russian modernist poet and one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon, dies.
6th March 1986 (33 Years)
Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter of nature and the southwestern landscape, dies.
6th March 1986 (33 Years)
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, an American painter of nature and the southwestern landscape, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
7th March 1936 (83 Years)
The Rhineland is remilitarized by the German Army: it was the first time since the end of WWI that German troops had been in this region, thus violating the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
8th March 1917 (102 Years)
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German general and later aircraft manufacturer, who founded the Zeppelin airship company, died.
8th March 1917 (102 Years)
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German general and later aircraft manufacturer, who founded the Zeppelin airship company, died.
8th March 1971 (48 Years)
Harold Lloyd, one of the most influential actor of the silent film era together with Chaplin and Keaton, died.
9th March 1959 (60 Years)
The Barbie doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
