Tuesday, March 11, 2014

11 March History and Importance of The Day



World Day of Muslim Culture


1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" was published

1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 - The 'Spanish' influenza first reached America as 107 soldiers become sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. One quarter of the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus, resulting in 500,000 deaths. The death toll worldwide approached 22 million by the end of 1920.

March 11, 1941 - During World War II, the Lend-Lease program began allowing Britain to receive American weapons, machines, raw materials, training and repair services. Ships, planes, guns and shells, along with food, clothing and metals.

1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina.  It created a crater 75 feet acrosss, but fortunately,  the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches.


Birthday
British prime minster and statesman Harold Wilson (1916-1995).









11 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Monday, March 10, 2014

12 March History and Importance of The Day

Birthday of WWW

Mauritius National day



1609 - The island of Bermuda was colonized by the British after a ship on its way to Virginia was wrecked on the reefs.

March 12, 1888 - A Great Blizzard struck the northeastern U.S. The storm lasted 36 hours with snowfall totaling over 40 inches in New York City due to which over 400 persons died.

March 12, 1938 - Nazis invaded Austria.

12 March 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee presented his paper on the concept of Word Wide Web. Hence this is the birthday of WWW.
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html


1994 - The Church of England ordained 32 women as its first female priests.

1999 - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic became full-fledged members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Birthday

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938). Following World War I, he led the Turkish revolution and became Turkey's first president.

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12 March History and Importance of The Day




12 March 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee presented his paper on the concept of Word Wide Web. Hence this is the birthday of WWW.
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html