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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Thursday, March 12. Today we’re checking out the first record of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Coca-Cola bottle, Gandhi’s famous march, FDR’s “fireside chats,” and much more—quick and to the point, all from the right sources.
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🚀 Time Machine
-538
Ostrogoth King Vitiges ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving it to Byzantine general Belisarius.
-1455
The first record of Gutenberg's Bible, a letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, refers to the Bible printed a year earlier.
-1894
Coca-Cola was sold in glass bottles for the first time.
-1918
Afraid of foreign invasion, Vladimir Lenin moved the capital of Soviet Russia from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow.
-1930
Mahatma Gandhi started his famous 241-mile (387 km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax.
-1933
Eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first "fireside chat" radio address from the White House.
-1938
German troops march into Austria to annex it for the Third Reich.
-1968
Oil is discovered in Prudhoe Bay—Alaska's northernmost coast—transforming the state.
-1994
Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at Bristol Cathedral.
-2020
Broadway theaters go dark for 32 days for the first time after COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings of more than 500 people.
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📸 Snapshot
Here's the evolution of the iconic Coca-Cola bottle through the years.
🗨️ Last Words
“It has all been most interesting.”