{"id":11201,"date":"2022-03-03T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=201326"},"modified":"2022-03-03T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:22:09","slug":"3-march-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/3-march-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"3 March: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 03 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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3 March 1913: Women\u2019s suffrage takes off in Washington DC<\/h3>\n

Thousands of women march through the US capital to the sound of jeers and abuse<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On 3 March 1913, Washington DC was a city waiting for its new master. The next day, Woodrow Wilson was due to be sworn in as the president of the United States, and there was a palpable sense of anticipation.<\/p>\n

For thousands \u2013 perhaps millions \u2013 of women, however, it was 3 March itself that was the real red-letter day. The day before Wilson\u2019s inauguration had been chosen for the capital\u2019s first suffragist parade, organised by the National American Woman Suffrage Association \u201cin a spirit of protest against the present political organisation of society, from which women are excluded\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although the parade got off to a slow start, it was soon evident that this was no passing demonstration. Never before had so many women marched together in pursuit of their right to vote. Marching down Pennsylvania Avenue with two dozen floats, nine bands and four mounted brigades, they were led by the figure of the lawyer and activist Inez Milholland, atop a white horse and wearing a white cape.<\/p>\n

For all too many of the marchers, however, the parade quickly became an ordeal. After a few blocks, the women began to be jeered and harassed by men on the sidewalks. Observers reported hearing torrents of \u201cindecent epithets\u201d and \u201cbarnyard conversation\u201d. Instead of intervening, the Washington police did nothing; indeed, some of them joined in the abuse. | Written by Dominic Sandbrook<\/strong><\/p>\n

Julian Humphrys rounds up smaller anniversaries<\/h4>\n

3 March 1710<\/h6>\n

The French exploded a mine under the English-held citadel of Alicante. It killed 54 men, including the commander Colonel John Richards, who was standing on the parade ground to encourage his men, but the castle held out for a further five weeks.<\/p>\n

3 March 1792<\/h6>\n

Scottish neoclassical architect and interior designer Robert Adam died in London, aged 63. His architectural works include London\u2019s Apsley House, Pulteney Bridge in Bath and the Register House in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

3 March 1808<\/h6>\n

Death in Kiel of Danish entomologist Johann Christian Fabricius. During his life he named and classified about 10,000 species of insect.<\/p>\n

3 March 1847<\/h6>\n

Telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

3 March 1911<\/h6>\n

The original \u2018blonde bombshell\u2019, film actress Jean Harlow, was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n

3 March 1923<\/h6>\n

The first issue of Time Magazine<\/em> was published. Joseph Gurney Cannon, the Republican politician who retired from the House of Representatives on the same day, featured on the cover.<\/p>\n

3 March 1959\u00a0<\/h6>\n

After refusing to take part in a work party at the British detention camp at Hola in Kenya 11 Mau Mau prisoners are beaten to death by their guards while many need hospital treatment. Attempts by the local authorities to ascribe the deaths to water poisoning are soon exposed as lies and the Hola Massacre, as it became known, attracts universal opprobrium. Enoch Powell joins Barbara Castle in condemning the affair in the Commons but no criminal charges are brought against any individuals for the deaths.<\/p>\n

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