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March 1, 1904 – Band Leader Glenn Miller

March 1, 2022 – Remembrance Park, (2)

March 2, 1839 – Napoleon P.O.

March 2, 2011 – Krysty Bujakowska, (2)

March 3, 1837 – Miners Bank Dubuque

March 3, 1839 – Iowa’s Military Road

March 3, 1865 – Tobacconist Otto Henry (O.H.) Fink

March 4, 1929 – Herbert Hoover Inaugurated, (2), (3)

March 5, 1857 – Iowa State Constitution

March 5, 1922 – Meredith Willson & The Sousa Band

March 5, 1951 – New Airport Administration Building

March 6, 1889 – Iowa City Mayor C.M. Reno

March 6, 1929 – Iowa Stadium Construction Begins

March 6, 2023 – Nile Kinnick – PBS

March 7, 1837 – George F. Boller U.S. Citizenship

March 7, 1881 – Iowa City Telephone Co.

March 7, 1955 – SUI Museum of Art

March 8, 1839 – John Gilbert Dies

March 8, 1845 – Iowa City’s First Mayor – J.P. DeForest

March 8, 2024 – The Caitlin Clark Effect

March 9, 1839 – Johnson County Claim Association

March 9, 1966 – Kenneth Belle of H.D. Short’s & Sons, (2)

March 10, 1804 – The Louisiana Purchase, (2)

March 10, 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke

March 11, 1858 – SUI Funding

March 11, 1894 – Iowa City’s Civil War Postmaster

March 11, 1910 – Burch The Bear

March 12, 1844 – Steamboat Agatha

March 12, 1853 – D&IC Railroad, (2)

March 13, 1850 – Asa Whitney

March 13, 1961 – Iowa & The Oak Tree, (2)

March 14, 1891 – Judge James Grant

March 14, 1902 – Iowa City’s Coast To Coast, (2)

March 15, 1855 – SUI First Classes, (2)

March 15, 1899 – T.C. Carson & Johnson County Court House

March 16, 1894 – Postmaster J.R. Hartsock

March 16, 1997 – Irving Weber Dies, (2)

March 17, 1945 – George & Dixie Boller, (2), (3)

March 17, 1975 – A&P Grocery Store

March 18, 1872 – The Clinton House

March 18, 1910 – Annexing Rundell/East Iowa City Neighborhood, (2)

March 19, 1914 – Dubuque’s Own Jay Berwanger

March 19, 1979 – SUI’s Professor of Speech & Debate A. Craig Baird, (2)

March 20, 1838 – Iowa’s First Lyceum

March 20, 1950 – Iowa State High School Boys’ Basketball, (2)

March 21, 1908 – Dr. Otto Kuntze, (2)

March 21, 1910 – Expanding Iowa City

March 22, 1858 – Iowa State College

March 22, 1963 – Bremers of Iowa City, (2)

March 23, 1937 – Iowa City’s John A. Springer

March 23, 1956 – Iowa Basketball & NCAA Championship, (2)

March 24, 1838 – James G. Edwards & The Fort Madison Patriot

March 24, 1864 – SUI North Hall, (2)

March 25, 1841 – Territorial Governor John Chambers

March 25, 1846 – James B. Harlan, (2)

March 26, 1913 – Abolitionist Joshua M. Shaffer, (2)

March 26, 1918 – WWI Memorial

March 27, 1846 – Iowa Boundaries

March 27, 1962 – Iowa City Mayor Dorr Hudson

March 27, 1975 – Johnson County Courthouse

March 28, 1896 – USS Iowa

March 28, 1925 – Des Moines Register’s Frank Miller

March 28, 1996 – Iowa City’s William Bostick House

March 29, 1874 – Lou Henry Hoover

March 29, 1905 – Newspaper Editor Edmund Booth

March 29, 1921 – Dixie C. Gebhardt

March 30, 1853 – Iowa City Mayor #1 – J.P. DeForest, (2)

March 30, 1863 – National Fast Day

March 31, 1881 – W.H. Boyer

March 31, 1936 – Amelia Earhardt In Iowa City

March 31, 1980 – Rock Island Railroad

March 31, 1981 – Bell Telephone

Below is a list of our weekly Pictures of the Week – posted in March…

March 29, 2026 – University of Iowa Pentacrest

March 22, 2026 – Iowa Basketball & NCAA Championship

March 15, 2026 – Mechanics Academy

March 8, 2026 – SUI’s Burch The Bear

March 1, 2026 – Iowa Stadium Construction

March 30, 2025 – Sears & Piggly Wiggly In Downtown Iowa City

March 23, 2025 – Iowa City’s East College Street

March 16, 2025 – CRANDIC Interurban Trolley #119

March 9, 2025 – CRANDIC Interurban Trolley #1

March 2, 2025 – Krysty Bujakowska

March 31, 2024 – Save The Slezak!

March 24, 2024 – North Hall – The Grandfather of SUI

March 17, 2024 – Iowa City’s Clinton Street – 1882

March 10, 2024 – Burlington Street Bridge – 1940’s

March 3, 2024 – SUI Mechanics Academy

March 26, 2023- Governor Lucas & The Honey War

March 19, 2023 – The Muddy Streets Of Iowa City

March 12, 2023 – Iowa City’s New Court House

March 5, 2023 – Klondike Bill Visits Iowa City

March 9, 2025 – SUI Pentacrest Ceremony on October 1, 1925.

From 2020 through 2023, we used this Did You Know? (DYK) theme throughout our website. As you browse through our web pages, this little icon will link you to corresponding DYK posts from the past.