{"id":1632,"date":"2011-02-25T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2011-01-03T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T07:38:43","slug":"historical-anniversaries-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/historical-anniversaries-march-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Anniversaries for March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>150 years ago today (4th March 1861)<br \/>\nAbraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the USA<\/p>\n<p>75 years ago today (7th March 1936)<br \/>\nAdolf Hitler ordered his troops into the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago today (14th March 1991)<br \/>\nThe &#8216;Birmingham Six&#8217; were released from jail after their convictions for the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham, UK were declared unsafe<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago today (16th March 1911)<br \/>\nBirth of Josef Mengele, notorious German physician and Nazi officer who conducted medical experiments on inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp<\/p>\n<p>150 years ago today (17th March 1861)<br \/>\nThe Kingdom of Italy was officially proclaimed<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago today (19th March 1911)<br \/>\nThe first International Women&#8217;s Day was held<\/p>\n<p>200 years ago today (20th March 1811)<br \/>\nBirth of Napoleon II, King of Rome, only son of Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n<p>50 years ago today (21st March 1961)<br \/>\nThe Beatles gave their first performance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago today (25th March 1911)<br \/>\nBirth of Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner who shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald (alleged assassin of President Kennedy).<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago today (26th March 1911)<br \/>\nBirth of Tennessee Williams, American playwright of &#8216;A Streetcar Named Desire&#8217; and &#8216;Cat on a Hot Tin Roof&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>25 years ago today (30th March 1986)<br \/>\nDeath of James Cagney, legendary American film actor<\/p>\n<p>200 years ago today (31st March 1811)<br \/>\nBirth of Robert Bunsen, German chemist who pioneered the fields of spectrum analysis and photochemistry and invented several laboratory tools and analytical methods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 years ago today (4th March 1861) Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the USA 75 years ago today (7th March 1936) Adolf Hitler ordered his troops into the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland, breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact 20 years ago today (14th March 1991) The &#8216;Birmingham&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/historical-anniversaries-march-2011\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}