This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 11

 

March 9^th: 1864, Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army during the American Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

 

March 10^th: 1876, the 1st telephone call made was by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson.

 

March 11^th: 1935, Hermann Goering officially creates the German Air Force, known as the Luftwaffe.

 

March 12^th: 1945, Anne Frank, best known for the Diary of Anne Frank, died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; aged 15 years old. It was likely Typhus that killed her as an epidemic of typhus spread through the camp. (Exact date wasn’t recorded, but later suspected to be this date.)

 

 

Anne Frank

 

March 13^th: 1935, Driving tests were introduced in Great Britain.

 

March 14^th: 1879, Birth of Albert Einstein. Born in Germany. He was a theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Best known for the theory of relativity.

 

Albert Einstein.

 

March 15^th: 44 BC, Julius Caesar, who was Dictator of the Roman Republic; was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

 

That's it for this week!

 

Claire

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