March 5th • Spring Meeting #1
Today in History
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| This Day in History |
| 1836 |
Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. |
| 1933 |
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. |
| 1934 |
Daniel Kahneman, Israeli- American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1940 |
Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. |
| 1960 |
Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. |
| 1964 |
A hula hoop was patented |
| 1981 |
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. |
