150 years ago today (4th March 1861)
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the USA

75 years ago today (7th March 1936)
Adolf Hitler ordered his troops into the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact

20 years ago today (14th March 1991)
The ‘Birmingham Six’ were released from jail after their convictions for the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham, UK were declared unsafe

100 years ago today (16th March 1911)
Birth of Josef Mengele, notorious German physician and Nazi officer who conducted medical experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

150 years ago today (17th March 1861)
The Kingdom of Italy was officially proclaimed

100 years ago today (19th March 1911)
The first International Women’s Day was held

200 years ago today (20th March 1811)
Birth of Napoleon II, King of Rome, only son of Napoleon Bonaparte

50 years ago today (21st March 1961)
The Beatles gave their first performance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool

100 years ago today (25th March 1911)
Birth of Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner who shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald (alleged assassin of President Kennedy).

100 years ago today (26th March 1911)
Birth of Tennessee Williams, American playwright of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’.

25 years ago today (30th March 1986)
Death of James Cagney, legendary American film actor

200 years ago today (31st March 1811)
Birth of Robert Bunsen, German chemist who pioneered the fields of spectrum analysis and photochemistry and invented several laboratory tools and analytical methods