This Day in History Class

On this day in 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar was assassinated.

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On this day in 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first Native American woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree.

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On this day in 1988, protests at Gallaudet University in support of naming the school's first deaf president ended. Dr. I. King Jordan, a deaf man, became the university's president.

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On this day in 1930, Gandhi and dozens of his followers set out on the Salt March to protest the salt tax and the British Raj. 

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The first public basketball game took place on this day in 1892. 

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Today on the show, we celebrate Women's History Month by honoring the life and work of Lillian Wald with special guest Marjorie Feld, who wrote the book "Lillian Wald: A Biography."

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On this day in 1959, the Barbie doll was introduced at the American Toy Fair in New York City.

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On this day in 1917, the February Revolution began in Russia.

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On this day in 1965, about 600 people set out from Selma, Alabama, to begin a 50-mile march to Montgomery. But not long after they left, law enforcement stopped the march with violence.

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Cassie Chadwick was a career con artist who claimed to be Andrew Carnegie's daughter. On this day in 1905, her trial began.

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