Construction of the upper level in 1907
The Queensboro Bridge, linking Manhattan to Long Island City, opened to the public on the 30th of March, 1909.
Proposals for a bridge spanning this area had been made from 1838, but the first successful plans didn’t emerge until 1903.
Circa 1908
Various delays meant the bridge took longer to construct than expected.
Construction of the bridge cost fifty lives and eighteen million dollars.
The murdered Hanna Johansdotter (1867-1889)
On the 28th of March, 1889, a mother and son took part in the murder of the son’s wife, Hanna Johansdotter, in Yngsjö, Sweden.
Mother and Son
Anna Månsdotter had a sexual relationship with her son, Per Nilsson, and it is said the marriage was arranged as a cover.
Though there were conflicting reports of what actually happened, it is believed the mother beat Hanna with a piece of wood, strangled her, and then she was dressed and posed to look like she fell down the stairs. It is believed the motive may have been that Hanna discovered the physical relationship between the two.
Anna moments before her execution on the 7th of August, 1890.
The executioner is second from the left, with the axe hidden behind his back.
Anna Månsdotter was executed the following year, making her the last woman to be executed in Sweden, while her son was eventually released from hard labour in prison before dying of tuberculosis in 1918.
(I apologise for the tiny print! I can’t make copied-and-pasted text bigger, and I need to copy and paste those Swedish words, because I can’t type them!)
At 4:37pm on the 26th of March, 1812, an earthquake hit Caracas, Venezuela. Measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale, it killed between 15 000 and 20 000 people.
Ruinas de Cúa después del Terremoto de 1812 by Cristóbal Rojas
Silent Sentinels of Maryland picket the White House for suffrage in March, 1917.
Notice at least one of the women is on roller skates!
On the 22nd of March 1939, Germany continued its invasion of Eastern Europe by taking Memel from Lithuania.
This picture is of Antanas Smetona in the Klaipdėda region being changed to Adolf Hitler Street the same year.
HMS Hood, the largest battlecruiser ever built, in Australia on 17th March 1924. Commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1920, and named for an 18th century admiral by the name of Samuel Hood, the Hood was in service from 1920 to 1941.
![Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai before being killed in the massacre, March 16, 1968.[13] According to court testimony, they were killed seconds after the photo was taken.](https://intimesgoneby.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/vietnamese-women-and-children-in-me1bbb9-lai-before-being-killed-in-the-massacre-march-16-1968-13-according-to-court-testimony-they-were-killed-seconds-after-the-photo-was-taken.jpg)
Apparently taken moments before they were killed.
I’m not even going to try and summarise this one. Below is a little bit from an article about it:
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (America) Infantry Division.
Women and children killed.
Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.
One soldier shot himself in the foot; another sets a building on fire.
Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offences, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted.
Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.
The Lost Squadron – a film about three World War One pilots who become Hollywood stunt pilots – premiered on the 12th of March, 1932. The film starred Richard Dix, Mary Astor and Robert Armstrong.
In Times Gone By... 
