It’s time to brush up on your March historical facts! Read a little March history and find significant moments in history that happened in the month of March.
March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signs executive order #10924 establishing the Peace Corps.
March 3, 1913, in Washington D.C. a Women’s Suffrage March was attacked by onlookers as police stood by.
March 4, 1918, at Camp Funston in central Kansas, the first soldier known to have influenza reported ill. It became known as the Spanish Flu and killed between 50 and 100 million people.
March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell after 13 days of fighting.
March 6, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a “Bank Holiday” to stop panic withdrawals and the possible collapse of the American banking system.
March 11, 1941 “We must be the great arsenal of democracy,” President Roosevelt declared and the Lend-Lease Program began. Allowing allies to receive ships, planes, guns, ammunition, machines, raw materials, training and repair services, food, and clothing.
March 26, 1979, The Camp David Accord, fostered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, was signed thus ending 30 years of warfare between Israel and Egypt.
March 28, 1979, at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the uranium core in the reactor overheated due to the failure of a pump. A pressure relief valve then stuck causing the water level to plummet, threatening a meltdown.
March 31, 1968, as a result of the Vietnam war President Lyndon Johnson made a surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election.
