On March 12, 1930, Mohandas K. Gandhi set out from his ashram at Sabarmati with several dozen followers on a march to the coastal town of Dandi, some 240 miles away. Their mission: to make salt from seawater in defiance of British law. The British Raj had maintained a monopoly on salt production in India,…
On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard achieved one of the most significant milestones in the history of space exploration by launching the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket, which Goddard simply called “Nell,” was a modest device by modern standards. It stood about 10…
On March 15, 44 BCE, one of the most infamous assassinations in history took place in Rome. Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of Roman senators who called themselves the Liberatores. Caesar had been appointed dictator perpetuo (dictator in perpetuity) by the Roman Senate, which alarmed…
