Events in History
Historic Event
Mar 2 Jesse James' gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 killed
- Mar 8 British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's constitution for more than 100 years
- Mar 12 Last French troops leave Mexico
- Mar 15 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
- Mar 16 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in "The Lancet"
Historic Event
Mar 23 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Alaska Purchase
Mar 30 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre
Birthdays in History
- Mar 5 Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
Lillian Wald
Mar 10 Lillian Wald, American pioneering nurse and social activist who started American community nursing with the Henry Street Settlement in NYC, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
- Mar 15 Lionel Pigot Johnson, British poet and critic (Ireland & Other Poems), born in Broadstairs, Kent (d. 1902)
- Mar 18 Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
- Mar 22 Meijer Linnewiel [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
- Mar 25 John Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mt Rushmore), born in St. Charles, Idaho Territory (d. 1941)