2nd April 1932 - Charles Lindbergh left $50,000 in a New York City cemetery in hope of regaining his kidnapped son, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Sadly the infant was later found dead. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of kidnapping and murder and executed by electrocution on April 3, 1936.

1st April 1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed was captured by the Scottish from the English. 1826 - Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine. 1867 - Singapore became a British crown colony. 1873 - The British steamer RMS Atlantic sank off Nova Scotia, 547 people died. 1891 - The Wrigley Company was founded in Chicago, Illinois. 1918 […]

31st March 1918 - Daylight Saving Time was adopted as law in the US. 1948 - Congress passed the Marshall Aid Act, a plan to rehabilitate war-ravaged Europe. 1959 - The Dalai Lama fled Chinese-occupied Tibet and was granted political asylum in India. 1991 - The Warsaw Pact formally ended as Soviet commanders surrendered their […]

30th March 1853 - Vincent van Gogh was born. 1856 - The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War. 1858 - Hymen Lipman patented a pencil with an attached eraser. 1986 - James Cagney died.

29th March 1971 - Lt. William Calley was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison for his part in the My Lai massacre. He served one day in prison, before President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal. He subsequently served only three and a half […]

28th March 1854 - Britain and France joined the Ottoman empire in the Crimean War against Russia, to halt Russian expansion. 1930 - Constantinople was renamed Istanbul as part of Kemal Atatürk's campaign to create a secular Turkey.