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18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the world’s largest ever art theft
Despite a reward of $10 million, and extensive investigations by the FBI, none of the works have ever been recovered and nobody has ever been arrested for the ...
17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual ...
16th March 1660: England’s Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session
The dissolution of the Long Parliament signalled the end of the republican experiment initiated by the Civil War and cleared the way for Charles II to return to England as king, marking the beginning of the Restoration ...
15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
By January 1917 he was still no closer to being caught, and Pershings forces were ordered to withdraw and return to the United ...
14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany
The creation of the First Slovak Republic represented a long-standing aspiration for Slovak autonomy, but came under the shadow of Nazi influence and ...
13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United States
Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments ...
12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey
In a program that won broad support, America committed to providing $400 million in assistance to Greece and ...
11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
By providing substantial military assistance to Allied nations through the Lend-Lease Act, the United States played a crucial role in bolstering their ability to resist Axis aggression and played a major role in the Allied victory in the Second World ...
10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the dot-com boom was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to ...
9th March 1776: “The Wealth of Nations” published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith
The publication of "The Wealth of Nations" had a profound impact on economic thought and policy, laying the foundation for classical economics and providing justification for the rise of free-market ...