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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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