17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum
17/03/2026
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end ...
16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry Brigade
16/03/2026
Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...
15th March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne, ending more than three centuries of Romanov rule
15/03/2026
The abdication of Nicholas II removed a deeply entrenched autocracy, but the Provisional Government that assumed power struggled to assert control and, within months, its authority was challenged by the Bolsheviks, leading to the October ...
14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
14/03/2026
What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ...
13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement
13/03/2026
Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his ...
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