march

MARCH

1. This is St David’s Day. St David is the saint patron of Wales, who died on this day in 589. Peopl

usually wear one of the symbols of Wales, a leek in the hatband, or a daffodil in the buttonhole. This

flower traditionally blooms in March.The day was declared a national day of celebration within Wales

in the 18^th century.

●.Europeans first heard news of the New World when Martin Alonso Pinzón, member of Christopher

Columbus’s expedition, returned to Spain in the Pinta, in 1493.Columbus arrived back two weeks later.

●.Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia, in 1992.

●.The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro, in 2002..

1. ●.Russian statesman and Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931.

●. A US Air Force50 aeroplane, Lucky Lady II, landed in Texas on this day of 1949, having completed

the first non-stop round-the-world flight; it had taken off from the same air force four days earlier,

and refuelled four times in mid-air.

1. ●. Beethoven’s sonata no 14, Moonlight, was published in 1802.

●.Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish scientist and inventor, was born in 1847. He was one of the leading

developers of the telephone.

1. ●.Italian Baroque violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi was born in 1678.His best known work is

“The Four Seasons”

●.French Egyptologist Jean F.Champollion died in 1832. He translated the Rosetta Stone, which helped

to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

●.The première of the ballet Swan Lake, by P.I. Tchaikosky, was held at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, in

1877.

1. ●. Don Vicente Sos Baynat (1895-1992),Spanish geologist who was born in Castellon, could vote in 1979 in the first democratic elections after the Spanish Civil War.

●Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator was born in 1512.He is remembered for

Mercator’s projection, a method of map-drawing using in nautical charts.

●.Water, in the form of ice, was discovered in 1998, at the north and south poles of the Moon by NASA

Luna Prospector spacecraft.

1. ●.Italian sculptor,painter and poet Michelangelo was born in 1475. He is considered the archetypal

Renaissance man. Best-known for his scultures-the Pietà and the David, and the paintings in fresco on

the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

●.Commercial Aspirin was patented in Berlin by German chemist Felix Hoffman, in 1899.

●. German engineer and inventor of the motorcycle Gottlieb Daimler died in 1900.

7. ●.Italian scholastic philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas died in 1274. Best-known for his

“Summma Theologica”.

●. Scottish scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was one of the leading developers of the

telephone, was given the US patent number 174,465 for the first telephone, in 1876.

●.US screenwriter, film producer and director Stanley Kubrick died in 1999. He is well-known by the film

“Clockwork Orange”.

●.Apple Inc. is given the patent to the iPod, in 2006.

1. ●.International Women’s Day is celebrated on this day every year since1975. It is a day of global

celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.

1. ●.Italian-born Spanish explorer Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1451. The continent of America was

named after him.

●.The Barbie doll went on sale for the first time in 1959, at the American Toy Fair in New York. Produced

by Mattel, Inc., and created by the American businesswoman Ruth Handled. This day is considered

Barbie’s official birthday.

1. ●.The first US banknotes were issued in 1862.

●.On this day in 1876, a complete sentence of intelligible speech was transmitted by telephone for the first

time, when Alexander Graham Bell rang his assistant, Thomas Watson with the words:” Mr. Watson,

come here, I want you”.

1. ●.The first English daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published in 1702.

●.Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming died in 1955.

●.On this day in 2004, in Madrid, Spain, a series of bomb explosions on commuter trains killed at least 200

people and injured 1,000 in one of Europe’s worst ever terrorist attacks.

1. ●.Cambridge University challenged Oxford University to a rowing race; the resulting Boat Race was

held on 10 June 1829.

●. Australia ‘s new federal capital was formally named Canberra, in 1913.

●. US singer and actress Liza Minelly was born in 1946. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in

the film Cabaret.

1. ●.The planet Uranus was discovered by the German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel, in

1781. It was given the name of a Greek mithological figure, in accordance with the other planets.

●.The discovery of the planet Pluto was confirmed by US astronomer ClydeTombaugh, in 1930.

1. ●.German–Swisss US mathematical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein was born in 1879.

He was the formulator of the Theory of Relativity. He is considered one of the greatest physicists who

ever lived. In popular culture, the name “Einstein” symbolises genius.

●. German social, political and economic theorist Karl Marx died in London in 1883. Co-founder (with

Engels) of marxism, he is considered the father of comunism. He wrote Das Kapital.

●.George Eastman, US inventor of the roll film and the Kodak camera, died in 1932.

1. ●.Having reached the New World, the explorer Christopher Columbus arrived back in Spain, where he

was received with the highest honours, in 1493.

●. US-born British merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge, opened his department store, Selfridges, in Oxford

Street, London, in 1909.

1. ●.Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was born in 1941. His film “The Last Emperor” was awarded

nine Oscars.

●.Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge in 1973; the old bridge had been sold and rebuilt in

Arizona, USA.

1. ●.This is St Patrick’s Day, the feast of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is a national holiday in

the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is celebrated worldwide by people of Irish ascent. The

St Patrick’s parade in Dublin, Ireland, is part of a five-day festival, with over 500,000 participants. The

largest St Patrick’s day parade is held in New York City and it is watched by approximately two million

spectators.

●.Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev was born in 1938. His influence on the world of ballet changed the

perception of male dancers.

●.Golda Meir became Israel’s first woman prime minister, in 1969

1. ●. German engineer and inventor of the compression-ignition engine Rudolf Diesel was born in 1858.

●.The world’s first scheduled bus service began in Paris in 1662.

●.USA enters war in Iraq, in 2003.

1. ●.Fallas are a Valencian tradition which celebrates St Joseph’s Day in Valencia,Spain. The term fallas

refers to both the celebration and the monuments created by each neighbourhood of the city. The falla is

eventually burnt on the final night, around the midnight on this day. This is known as the cremá.

1. ●.Isaac Newton died in 1727. His most famous contribution to science is the law of gravity, inspired by the

fall of an apple in his garden. He also formulated three laws of motion, the third of which states that

“to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction”.

●Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono in 1969.

1. ●.German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685. The Brandenburg Concerts,

the Orchestral Suites and the Violin Concertos are among his most popular works.

●.Native American Princess Pocahontas died in London in 1617.

1. ●.World Water Day, since 1993, when UN member nations started following UN recommendations and

promoting water-related activities in their countries. The idea is to focus public attention on the importance of fresh water and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. This year’s topic is Water and Food Security:The World is Thirsty Because We are Hungry.

●.The first public showing of a celluloid cinematographic film, showing employees leaving a factory in

Lyon, was held by brothers Lumière, in Paris, in 1895.

1. ●This day is World Meteorological Day to remember the World Meteorological Organization's establishment on this date in 1950. The World Meteorological Organization plays a crucial role in contributing to people's safety and welfare. Its work is important in providing food security, water resources and transport. World Meteorological Day has been observed on March 23 each year since 1961.Each year a different theme is chosen, this year’s topic is Powering our Future with Weather, Climate and Water.

●.The film Titanic won eleven Oscars in 1998.

1. ●.French novelist and pioneer of scinece fiction Jules Verne died in 1905.His best-known novels are

“Journey to the Center of the Earth”, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” and “Around the World

in Eighty Days”.

1. ●.English pop singer, songwriter and pianist Elton John was born in 1947.He has sold over 250 million

records and has had over 50 Top 40 hits, making him one of the most successful musicians of all time.

1. ●.German composer and virtuoso pianist Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827.He composed

symphonies,concerti, piano sonatas, string quartets, masses, an opera and a lieder.

●.The Grand National horse race was televised for the first time in 1960.

1. ●.It is said that on this day in 1790 English shoemaker Harvey Kenney invented the shoelace as a

means of fastening footwear. Before shoestrings, shoes were commonly fastened with buckles.

●.US film-maker Billy Wilder died in 2002. He won three Oscars (producer, director and writer) for

“The Apartment”.

1. ●.Spanish mystic and writer St. Teresa de Ávila was born in 1515. She wrote “Camino de perfección” y

“Las Moradas”.

●. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939 as Franco and the Nationalists entered Madrid.

1. ●.The first London Marathon was run on this day in 1981, between Greenwich Park and Buckingham

Palace

30. ●.The Flemish impressionist painter Vicent Van Gogh was born on this day in 1853. “The Popato Eaters”

and “Sunflowers” are among his best-known works.

●.Spanish artist Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos (Zaragoza) in 1746. He painted “Los

fusilamientos del 2 de Mayo”, “La maja desnuda” y “La familia de Carlos IV”.

●.The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places (2004).

31. ●. Ewan McGregor was born in 1971. He is an Scottish actor who has starred in many successful films

such as “Trainspotting”,” Moulin Rouge” and “Star Wars”.