March 3, 1847 – Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell’s invention borrowed techniques from his vocation of teaching deaf people to speak.
March 4, 1888 – American football legend Knute Rockne is born in Voss, Norway. He coached Notre Dame football for 13 seasons amassing a record of 105 wins, 12 losses, and five ties.
March 6, 1475 – Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet Michelangelo (famous for such works as a statue of David and the paintings adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel) is born in Caprese, Tuscany .
March 9, 1451 – Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci is born in Florence, Italy. He explored South America and the Amazon River. Believing Vespucci discovered a new continent, a German mapmaker makes the first notation of the land as “America.”