Daylight Saving Time
This Founding Father of the United States is frequently credited with inventing Daylight Saving Time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This woman was the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
On March 24, 1989, this oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska, resulting in 11 million gallons of oil leaking into the natural habitat over a stretch of 45 miles.
What is the Exxon Valdez?
This artist, born March 30th, in Zundert, Netherlands, painted over 2100 works in his 10-year career, including Starry Night, inspired by the view from his asylum bedroom.
Who was Vincent Van Gogh?
This was the first year Daylight Saving Time was observed in the United States.
What is 1918?
This scientist became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for physics in 1903.
Who was Marie Curie?
On March 31st, 1889, this iconic French landmark opened in Paris with the designer and a few hardy companions ascending the tower's stairs and raising an enormous French tricolor on the structure’s flagpole.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This American playwright was born in Mississippi and was famous for, The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .
Who was Tennessee Williams?
This was the president who signed the Standard Time Act into law.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
In 1976 this barrier-breaking journalist became the first woman co-anchor of a network evening news program.
Who was Barbara Walters?
March 1st, 1961, President John F. Kennedy created this organization which sends American Volunteers to developing countries.
What is the Peace Corps?
This inventor of the telephone was born on March 3rd, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This is the number of American states that do not observe DST.
What is 2?
Hawaii and Arizona
At 17 years old, this woman became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
On March 30th, 1981, this newly-elected president was shot in the chest while walking to his limousine following a speech at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This German-born physicist and mathematician who developed the "world's most famous equation" was born March 14th, 1879.
Who is Albert Einstein?
E=mc2 (mass–energy equivalence formula)
This US government department governs the “regulating, fostering, and promoting the widespread and uniform adoption and observance of standardized time”.
What is the US Department of Transportation?
In 1987 this woman became the first female artist inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
On March 28th, 1979, a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor occurred at this nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, becoming the worst nuclear accident in the United States.
What was Three Mile Island?
This world-famous illusionist and "escapologist" was born Erik Weisz on March 26th, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary.
Who is Harry Houdini?