1 March 1896 While studying the phosphorescence of uranium salts, the French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity
1 March 1966 The Soviet Venus 3 it is the first space probe to reach the planet Venus but crashes to the ground, becoming the first man-made object to land, albeit disastrously, on the surface of another planet
1 March 1980 The space probe Voyager 1 confirms the existence of Janus, one of Saturn's natural satellites
2 March 1969 The first experimental flight of Concorde, the supersonic transport aircraft in service between 1976 and 2003
2 March 2004 Thanks to the data sent by the Opportunity rover, NASA confirms the hypothesis according to which in the past the soil of Mars has seen the presence of water
3 March 1915 NACA is founded, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the US federal agency forerunner of today's NASA, with the aim of undertaking, promoting and institutionalizing aeronautical research
3 March 1969 Departs from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the launch base Apollo 9 space mission: objective, to test the lunar module in real conditions, i.e. in Earth orbit
4 March 1877 German inventor Emile Berliner patents the microphone, an essential component of the telephone, capable of transforming sound waves into electrical impulses
5 March 1970 A team of researchers from the University of Berkeley pinpoints with certainty for the first time dubnium atoms, the 105th element of the Periodic Table
6 March 1869 Russian chemist Dimitrij Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society of the elements ordered on the basis of their atomic number Z and the number of electrons present in the atomic orbitals s, p, d, f
8 March 1618 German astronomer, theologian and mathematician John Kepler discovers the Third Law which regulates the motion of the planets; she will be rejected by him shortly after but officially reconfirmed in May of the same year
9 March 1955 It is presented in Geneva, in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the Fiat 600, famous symbol of the Italian economic boom of the Sixties
9 March 2011 After completing 1984 flights since 39, NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing
10 March 1876 Obtained the patent, Alexander Bell makes the first phone call officer from his office in Boston by calling his assistant Watson who was in another room
11 March 2011 Un 9,0 magnitude earthquake hits the coasts of the Tohoku region in Japan, generating a subsequent tsunami and becoming the most violent earthquake ever recorded in the country, the fourth in the world
11 March 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declares the Covid-19 pandemic
12 March 1923 US scientist and film producer Lee De Forest presents the Phonofilm for adding sound to motion pictures
12 March 1994 At the University of Helsinki the first stable release of Linux, the free operating system for PC
13 March 1610 Galileo Galilei publishes the treatise on astronomy “Sidereus Nuncius”
13 March 1781 Sir William Herschel, a German naturalized British astronomer, accidentally discovers Uranus
13 March 1930 After the confirmation arrived from the photographs of the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the news of the discovery of Plutowhich took place on the previous 18 February
15 March 1985 The US company Symbolics, active in the production of computer software and no longer in business today, registers the first domain “.com”
15 March 1986 In Japan, Fujifilm launches the first disposable camera, the Fujicolor QuickSnap
15 March 2018 Millions of students take to the streets in 150 countries around the world with marches and demonstrations for the “FridaysForFuture”, the demonstration in support of the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's battle in defense of the climate
18 March 1944 The first phase of thelast eruption of Vesuvius: it will last a week and will mark the transition of the volcano from the active state to the quiescent state it is still in today
18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Archipovich Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space when, during a mission, he leaves the Voschod 12 space capsule for 2 minutes, performing the first extravehicular activity in history
20 March 1731 An earthquake with an intensity estimated around the XNUMXth degree on the Mercalli scale shakes the Tavoliere delle Puglie and the northern sector of the Murge, causing very serious damage and thousands of victims in Foggia
20 March 1800 In a letter addressed to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, Alessandro Volta announces the invention of flashlightgiving a first description
20 March 1916 In the academic journal "Annalen der Physik", Albert Einstein publishes his Relativity theory general of the famous E = mc2
20 March 1964 Following an agreement signed two years earlier, ESRO is founded, European Space Research Organisation, forerunner of today's ESA (European Space Agency)
20 March 2010 The first phase of theeruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjöll, which due to the enormous amount of ash emitted created serious problems for European air traffic for several weeks
22 March 1890 The last phase of thelast eruption of volcano, in the Aeolian Islands: since then the volcano has been in a state of intense degassing, which occurs from a fumarolic field located in the northern part of the Fossa crater
23 March 1903 Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright file a patent for the "Flying car" invented by them, the first airplane in history
23 March 1965 From base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Gemini 3 is launched, the first space capsule capable of carrying a crew of two astronauts
24 March 1882 Robert Koch announces in Berlin that he has succeeded in isolate the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
25 March 1655 The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, the largest of Saturn's satellites
26 March 1511 Un violent earthquake of estimated magnitude 6.9 affects the mountainous area al border between Italy and Slovenia
26 March 1930 From his laboratory vessel Elettra, moored in Genoa, Guglielmo Marconi turns on the lights of Sydney Town Hall via a radio signal
27 March 1969 NASA launches space probe Mariner 7 for a Mars fly-by, i.e. a high-speed fly-by; objective, to study the surface and atmosphere of the red planet
28 March 1797 The American Nathaniel Briggs files the patent for the first one washing machine
30 March 1842 The US doctor Crawford Williamson Long uses for the first time thediethyl ether as an anesthetic for surgery
31 March 1889 He comes to Paris Eiffel tower inaugurated, at the time the tallest building in the world
31 March 1994 An article published in the scientific journal 'Nature' announces the discovery in Ethiopia of first complete skull of Australopithecus afarensis