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Some historical moments from March 1 to 15
Learn about some events that happened during the first fortnight of this month, which left their mark on humanity.
March 1st
1712: National Library of Madrid opens to the public.
1810 – Polish composer Frederic Chopin was born.
March 3rd
1923: The first issue of Time magazine comes out in New York.
March 4th
1968: Pablo Picasso donates his series of canvases inspired by Las Meninas in Barcelona.
1678 – Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi is born.
March 6th
1853: Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ‘La Traviata’ premieres in Venice.
1983: The world’s first cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC, goes on sale.
1899: Bayer registers aspirin.
March 7th
1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
1917: The first jazz record, “The Dixie Jazz Band One Step”, is released.
March 8th
1959: the poems ‘Libertad bajo parole’ by Octavio Paz are published in Mexico. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
1974: Charles de Gaulle airport opens in Paris.
March 9th
1959: Barbie, the most famous doll in the world, goes on sale.
March 11th
1702: The Daily Courant, the first daily circulation newspaper in history, is published in London.
1851: Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto premieres in Venice.
March 14th
1879: Albert Einstein is born. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
1804 – Musician Johann Strauss is born.
March 15th
1962: ‘Mafalda’ comes out, a comic strip created by Joaquin Salvador Lavado – Quino.
Article by:
Jackeline Gonzalez L.
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