This Day in History - March

Can you guess these things that happened in the month of March?

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer
Mar 1	1998	This film becomes the first to gross $1 billion worldwide	Titanic
Mar 2	1946	Ho Chi Minh is elected President of this country	North Vietnam
Mar 3	1861	Serfdom is abolished in this country	Russia
Mar 4	1980	Robert Mugabe begins his long and disastrous reign as ruler of this African nation	Zimbabwe
Mar 5	1770	British troops massacre five Americans in this city	Boston
Mar 6	1869	Dmitri Mendeleev presents this table to the Russian Chemical Society	Periodic Table
Mar 7	1912	Roald Amundsen's discovery of this location is announced	South Pole
Mar 8	1957	This canal is re-opened following a crisis which had shut it down	Suez Canal
Mar 9	141 BC	Emperor Wu, of this dynasty, begins his 54 year reign as ruler of China	Han
Mar 10	1969	James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of this leader	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mar 11	2011	A 9.0 earthquake strikes this country	Japan
Mar 12	1938	In an event known as the Anschluss, this country is annexed by Germany	Austria
Mar 13	2013	This Pope is elected	Francis
Mar 14	1794	Eli Whitney is granted a patent for this invention, increasing the profitability of plantations in the American South	Cotton gin
Mar 15	44 BC	This leader is assassinated on the floor of the Roman Senate	Julius Caesar
Mar 16	597 BC	Jerusalem is captured by this empire	Babylon
Mar 17	1969	This woman becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel	Golda Meir
Mar 18	1992	South Africans pass a referendum to end this practice	Apartheid
Mar 19	1882	Construction begins on the Sagrada Familia church in this city (It's still under construction today)	Barcelona
Mar 20	2003	The U.S. invades this country, looking for weapons of mass destruction	Iraq
Mar 21	1963	This California prison, known as "The Rock", closes after 29 years	Alcatraz
Mar 22	1993	Intel ships this computer chip	Pentium
Mar 23	1919	This leader founds the Fascist movement	Benito Mussolini
Mar 24	1603	This Scottish king becomes King of England	James I
Mar 25	1584	Sir Walter Raleigh is given a royal patent to colonize this U.S. state	Virginia
Mar 26	1830	This Latter-Day Saints religious text is published	Book of Mormon
Mar 27	1968	Suharto follows Sukarno as President of this country	Indonesia
Mar 28	1854	This war heats up as the U.K. and France declare war on Russia	Crimean War
Mar 29	1961	The 23rd amendment is ratified, allowing citizens of this city to vote in U.S. Presidential elections	Washington D.C.
Mar 30	1959	This religious leader enters India, seeking asylum	Dalai Lama
Mar 31	1889	This tower, constructed for the 1889 World's Fair, is officially opened	Eiffel Tower

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62 Comments

Level 25

Mar 12, 2013

It's a bit disappointing that more people don't know about the Dalai Lama.

Level 73

Oct 4, 2013

Is it though? He claimed asylum because the uprising that he and the land-owning elite had started with CIA funding and training had failed. It failed in part because only the lamas and the rich Tibetans joined it; the vast majority of Tibetans had no desire to bring back the repressive and brutal rule of the Tibetan clergy, headed by the Dalai Lama. This was a regime built on slavery, while the religious elite lived in ostentatious opulence. I'm no fan of the Chinese system of government, but it's immeasurably better than the Tibetan theocracy was.

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Level 83

May 5, 2014

Uhhh, I think Zivi was just commenting that more people taking the quiz should have answered the Dalai Lama question correctly. It wasn't a comment on the geo-political impact.

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Level 81

Mar 1, 2015

Partially true. Tibet was one of the last holdouts for slavery. It was only abolished there after the region was annexed to China.

However, saying the Tibetan theocracy was immeasurably worse than living under Chinese rule I think is a gross overstatement. Maybe living in China today isn't so bad, but, in the 1950s during Mao's "great leap forward?" (which is when Tibet was first annexed)... I'd say it was probably equally bad or worse.

Level 77

Mar 1, 2021

Not to mention that the Dalai Lama was only like 14 when China invaded. He can't really be blamed for the state of Tibet at the time, and it's perfectly possible that he would have reformed a lot of the barbaric practices practiced in Tibet if he had the chance.

Level 71

Mar 1, 2021

Agree with kal, but I'd also say it extends to Tibet today. The human rights situation in Tibet is even worse than it is in mainland China. There are even signs that China is importing their model of internment from Xinjiang to use on the Tibetans now.

Also, this Dalai Lama seems like a pretty open-minded, reformist leader. While this may be a result of his exile and tumultuous life, I still feel like Tibet under him would be much better off than it is under China.

Level 85

May 12, 2014

It's far enough down the quiz that a lot of people probably run out of time before even reading the question.

Level 44

Mar 2, 2015

I knew it, I just couldn't spell it

Level 51

May 1, 2015

I probably would have thought of him, but I ran out of time.

Level 48

May 6, 2014

I only missed Titanic. I thought it was older than that.

Level 81

Mar 1, 2015

Got everything, but, re: Titanic, I think Jurassic Park passed the billion dollar mark in 1994. At least I had read that before. Box Office Mojo has its total at 1.029 billion, though that might include 45 million from JP 3D which, if accurate, would mean it made *just* under a billion dollars in its initial run.

Level 85

Aug 14, 2020

Yep, that does include the takings from JP 3D, so it didn't cross the billion dollar mark until 2013.

Level 81

Mar 1, 2021

Whatever I once read may have been rounding up. ::shrug::

Level 71

Feb 23, 2017

Should add without inflation to the movie question.

Level 70

Mar 4, 2021

Then the answer as given wouldn't be correct. Depending on how one does the math, that title would probably go to Gone With the Wind.

Level 47

Mar 1, 2018

Can you add a lot more type ins for alcatraz? like alkatroz and alkatraz and such

+17

Level 72

Jun 8, 2019

And albatros!

Level 51

Dec 8, 2020

And Alkatras!

+11

Level 78

Mar 1, 2021

And Azkaban and Arkansas

Level 68

Mar 1, 2021

And Abkhazia and Azerbaijan!

Level 34

Mar 1, 2021

And Armenia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, and Afnagninsgnsing

Level 80

Mar 6, 2021

Don't forget alka seltzer

Level 66

May 18, 2022

or, of course, alkaline!

Level 68

Mar 19, 2023

And alchemy!

Level 66

Apr 2, 2024

Alabama!

Level 73

Mar 1, 2018

Bummer, it's called pentium, not pentum or pentem.

Level 46

Mar 1, 2018

Quizmaster, I appreciate that in your wording of the question you used Latter-Day Saints. It's nice to see people using the actually name for the church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I understand that using Mormon in the question would have given the answer away, but thanks anyway.

Level 72

Jun 8, 2019

Man I can never get use to the fact that english calls medicine drugs.. Very confusing if you have heard all your life say no to drugs, drugs are bad etc etc. And suddenly it is a good thing..

My brain allways needs a second when hearing, I am going to the drugstore. What ?! you have stores for that?? (Well I think it used to be a second, now it is 0,0001 second, but still a little pause)

Level 80

Dec 21, 2020

Not only the 'English' call them drugs. And 'drugstore' is term only used in North America. The 'English' tend to call them 'pharmacies' or 'chemists'.

Level 90

Mar 1, 2021

I think Sifhraven is referring to the language, not the constituent country of the UK.

Level 80

Sep 1, 2021

Oh I see.

Level 43

Mar 1, 2024

Plenty of medicine can be just as harmful as drugs in sufficient quantities.

Level 79

Aug 14, 2020

I can't work out whether 'massacre' of 5 people is meant ironically.

Level 83

Aug 14, 2020

I think it is

+16

Level 89

Aug 29, 2020

I don't think the quizmaster is making a statement one way or the other, it's just that the event is commonly referred to as the Boston Massacre.

Level 77

Mar 1, 2021

I personally view it as a genocide

Level 80

Sep 1, 2021

of 5 people.

Level 68

Mar 1, 2024

That event becoming historically known as the Sons of Liberty’s propaganda version of the name is still one of the most hilarious twists of American history to me.

Level 66

Mar 4, 2024

Kill one and you'll get the electric chair. Kill many and you'll go to a psych war and be examined. Kill inummerable 1,000s and we can't handle it - we even admire it, congratulate the killing. -eddy izzard

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Level 83

Aug 14, 2020

The answer to the king question should be displayed as James VI. He became James I of England, but the question says "this Scottish king", and he was James VI of Scotland. (I am not suggesting either number should be required.)

Level 83

Aug 14, 2020

Chinese *emperor (not emporer)

Level ∞

Aug 14, 2020

+11

Level 88

Aug 14, 2020

I don't think Amundsen can be said to have "discovered" the South Pole. Its existence and location were pretty well known for a long time! I'd say his "arrival at this location" would be more accurate.

Level 75

Feb 2, 2021

I thought that too.

Level 66

Mar 2, 2021

My thoughts too, Amundsen can't have discovered the south pole if everyone knew it was there already, he was just the first person to go there.

It's like saying Apollo 11 discovered the moon!

Level 48

Nov 21, 2021

And if you keep that question, can you at least accept Antarctica as a answer?

Level 78

Nov 23, 2021

oh man...i REALLY want to start saying Neil Armstrong discovered the moon now.

Level 73

Aug 29, 2020

That’s a lot tougher than Feb.

A little more leeway on the Israeli leader would be nice. I got her name, first name and surname, but missed one letter from the latter.

Level 75

Mar 1, 2021

I love how the Quizmaster's personal hatred for Mugabe is manifested in so many quizzes.

Level 76

Mar 2, 2021

Well, there was plenty there not to like. That said, it took more than fifteen years for many of its worst manifestations to reach their peak. It would be possible to switch the Mugabe and Suharto questions so that Mugabe would have followed the Apartheid-like UDIers of Ian Smith; and with Suharto beginning his long and disastrous (and massively more murderous) reign immediately upon taking over.

Level 43

Mar 1, 2024

This is an interesting point people fail to realize. White Zimbabweans didn't start having their land taken away from them until the mid to late 1990s with the hyper inflation only getting bad in the 2000s. That's a whole decade+ into his reign.

Level 59

Mar 1, 2021

Can you accept antartica for the south pole as well?

Level 66

Mar 2, 2021

People had already been to Antartica before this point, Amundsen was the first person to the South Pole, not the first person on Antartica.

Level 66

Mar 6, 2021

The answer to the Scottish king should display as James VI. The question prompts the identity of the Scottish king who became king of England, not the king of England who had already been king of Scotland. James I of Scotland did not become king of England, and died in 1437, at which time Henry VI was king of England. The current combination of question and displayed answer is simply incorrect.

Level 79

Sep 28, 2021

But it really doesn't matter, he was both James VI and James I. I get your point, but it's insignificant.

Level 65

Feb 23, 2023

its not insignificant because James I of Scotland did not rule over England as well, therefore its actually incorrect as it asks who the Scottish king was.

Level 80

Jul 25, 2023

Quizmaster doesn't appear to care, but this is true and should be changed.

Level 83

Mar 26, 2023

dang it, I kept trying Muir (the co-founder of the Sierra Club) instead of Meir

Level 69

Jan 2, 2024

The Boston "massacre" resulted in 5 deaths? Not to demean their deaths, but 5 hardly qualifies as a massacre. The dictionary definition suggests "many people" with examples of thousands and entire villages.

Level 19

Mar 2, 2024

Yes it’s called the Boston massacre due to Paul revere and the sons of liberty propagandizing it. It seems like you don’t know much about American history

Level 23

Mar 2, 2024

80 percent, but it was embarrassing to sink on the Titanic, and forget Martin Luther King's alleged assassin.

Level 67

May 14, 2024

I think the fact that Quizmaster calls MLK a "leader", when he was a political activist who never lead any state, is highly misleading. When you say "leader" it makes you think of Heads of state, so it's a bit cheeky.

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