Maria Oktyabrskaya was one of ten children to a poor family. She married an officer in the Red Army in 1925. She joined the Military Wives Council and was trained to fire weapons and drive. When Germany invaded Russia, her Read more
On March 29, 1885, Dr. John Pemberton brewed up the first batch of Coca-Kola in his backyard. In 1886, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton was working on a non-alcoholic “nerve medicine” to sell in his drug store. He boiled a concoction Read more
During WWII, the city of Leningrad was besieged by the German army for 872 days. Before the siege began, the zoo employees moved 80 animals to another city. These included black panthers, tigers, polar bears, a tapir, and a Read more
On March 27, 1915, Typhoid Mary was arrested and sent back to quarantine after being on the lam for five years. Mary Mallon immigrated to America from Ireland at age 15 in 1883. She started as a domestic servant and Read more
On March 26, 1997, the last of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult committed ritual suicide. In 1972, Marshall Applewhite met a nurse named Bonnie Nettles at a psychiatric hospital. Applewhite, the son of a Presbyterian minister, had Read more
John Gutzon Borglum was born on March 25, 1871. Here are some interesting facts about his most famous achievement. The idea came from South Dakota historian Doane Robinson. He thought a carving of historical figures would be good for tourism. Read more
This is the anniversary of the death of a man who wrote one of the most famous poems about the Vietnam War. Capt. Michael O’Donnell was a helicopter pilot. On March 24, 1970 he was part of a mission to Read more
Elisha Otis (a descendant of Revolutionary hero James Otis) was a master mechanic. He invented a safety lift for a warehouse, but the company went out of business. He was headed for California in 1852 to seek gold when Read more
On March 22, 1941, James Stewart became the first Hollywood star to join the Armed Forces when he was inducted as a private in the Army Air Force. Stewart’s grandfathers had fought in the Civil War and his father Read more
Today in 1925, Tennessee became the first state to outlaw the teaching of evolution. This led to the famous Scopes Trial in July. The Butler Act had been passed earlier in 1925. It forbade the teaching of evolution in Tennessee Read more