Today in History

[Nana]

I hope you keep this thread going Gemini. I for one find it really interesting.

[Gemini]

Thank you Nana!

[Gemini]

March 21st 1788

Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire.

[Gemini]

March 22nd 1935
Persia is renamed Iran.

[Gemini]

March 23rd 1909
British Lt. Ernest Shackleton finds the magnetic South Pole.

[Nana]

There's me thinking Shackleton is a make of chair 😉

[Gemini]

There's me thinking Shackleton is a make of chair 😉

'Shakletons high seats for the elderly and arthritic. "My niece got this from Shakltons you know!" - remember that ad, Nana ?

[Gemini]

March 24th 1958
Elvis Presley trades in his guitar for a rifle and Army fatigues.

[Gemini]

March 25th 1969

John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.

[Nana]

I remember it well.

[Gemini]

March 26th 1827

German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later part of his life, but said on his death bed "I shall hear in heaven."

[Gemini]

March 27th 1976
Washington, D.C. opens its subway system.

[Gemini]

March 28th 1941
English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found

[Gemini]

_{March 29th 1886}

Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claims it can cure anything from hysteria to the common cold.

[Gemini]

March 30th 1987

		Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers is bought for $39.85 million.