A 68-year-old man sets a motorcycle record. Pancakes are made in public for the first time. And Edward Bellamy – the author of a major book on socialism – is born.
It all happened the week of March 25, and it’s all discussed on this week’s edition of Providential History.
March 25
One Direction, motorcycle speed record, homeschoolers lose major case, pancakes go public.
March 26
Edward Bellamy’s book Looking Backyard.
March 27
Hymnwriter George Matheson, Rupert of Salzburg.
March 28
Hymnwriter Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Billy Graham, the first washing machine.
March 29
Ray Palmer, the first pencil eraser, Nazi Germany.
March 30
The Beatles, Alaska is bought from Russia.
March 31
Composer Franz Joseph Haydn, Daylight Saving Time.