Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/March

March

3rd
 * 1887 – Teacher Anne Sullivan meets Helen Keller for the first time in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

18th
 * 1887 – The first public secondary school in Thailand, Suankularb Wittayalai School, is established by King Chulalongkorn.

13th
 * 1996 – The Dunblane massacre, a multiple murder-suicide in which sixteen children and one adult are killed, occurs at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass homicide on children in the history of the United Kingdom.

18th
 * 1937 – A natural gas leak causes an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster kills in excess of 295 students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.S. school building.