by qdmhistory | Mar 31, 2022 | Popular
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, factions in Ireland (a part of Great Britain at the time) started agitating for independence from Britain, leading to half a century of strife between the island nations. On March 31, 1920, Britain passed the Irish Home...
by qdmhistory | Mar 30, 2022 | Popular
Odd as it may seem today, for most of the nineteenth century, Alaska was actually a part of Russia. But on March 30, 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for just about 2 cents an acre. While the penny was worth a lot more back then, that was still an...
by qdmhistory | Mar 29, 2022 | Popular
On March 29, 1961, the tide of apartheid began to turn in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was acquitted in court of treason charges after a trial that had lasted more than four years. It was more than just a victory in one man’s court trial, though. It was also...
by qdmhistory | Mar 28, 2022 | Popular
It’s March 28, 1946. The atomic bomb had recently been used for the first time, and the Cold War was just starting. In response to the sudden nuclear danger, a report was compiled on dealing with the dangers of nuclear proliferation. It called for control of the...
by qdmhistory | Mar 27, 2022 | Popular
On March 27, 1914, the first successful modern blood transfusion was performed. There had been a long history of attempted blood transfusions before then, but they always had something wrong with the setup. Thus, they all ended badly. Belgian doctor Albert Hustin had...
by qdmhistory | Mar 26, 2022 | Popular
On March 26, 1871, following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Paris’s students and the working-class population joined together to form a revolutionary government historically known as the Paris Commune. Paris had been under siege by the...
