There doesn't appear to be a way to reply to a post by quoting it again. 

Anyway, to go back to Capt Scott, the three who died in the tent around 29 March were discovered eight months later in November, The tent was collapsed over them and marked as a grave. But they're not there today. As fresh snowfall over the years buried them still deeper they would have slowly sunk down into the ice before falling out into the sea far below, the same with Oates who crawled out of his tent to die a fortnight earlier. 

There doesn't appear to be a way to reply to a post by quoting it again. 

Anyway, to go back to Capt Scott, the three who died in the tent around 29 March were discovered eight months later in November, The tent was collapsed over them and marked as a grave. But they're not there today. As fresh snowfall over the years buried them still deeper they would have slowly sunk down into the ice before falling out into the sea far below, the same with Oates who crawled out of his tent to die a fortnight earlier. 

I'll have a go

31 March 1922 - The Hinterkaifeck Murders. 100 years ago today.

One of Germany's most infamous unsolved murders.

On 4 April 1922, after the six residents of Hinterkiafeck Farm in Bavaria had not been seen for four days, a search revealed the bodies of four family members in the barn with another plus a servant in the house. Investigations concluded that they had all been killed with a mattock on 31 March and that the killer(s) had remained in the house for several days after.  

A number of suspects were identified and questioned, but no-one has ever been charged with the murders.

The dead were - Andreas Gruber, 63; his wife Cäzilia, 72, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, 35; her daughter Cäzilia, seven - all found in the barn. In the house were Viktoria's son Josef, two and the maid Maria Baumgartner, 44.

A sad and grisly end for the family.  Forensics today might well have led to other suspects.  There had to be more than one killer.

Also on this 31 March in 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps was established in the U.S.

It would make a great thriller/horror film. If you look into it you'll see there was much going on in the days prior to the killings - strange noises in the attic, footsteps in the snow etc. The police believed the four victims found in the barn were lured there one by one before he/they moved into the house to kill the last two. 

1 April 1922 - Karl, Emperor of Austria-Hungary 1916-19, died. 100 years ago today.

Great-nephew of Emperor Franz Josef whom he succeeded in the midst of World War I. Within months of his accession Karl made tentative peace overtures, but his dependence on Germany, both militarily and economically, put an end to any such thoughts.

Austria-Hungary signed an armistice in early November 1918 and following the German surrender a week later Karl renounced the government of the Empire (but not the Crown) and retired to Schloss Eckartsau to await events. In April 1919 he was formally deposed in Austria and forced into exile in Switzerland; but crucially he was not formally deposed in Hungary. 

Following a series of short-lived governments and economic chaos Karl made two attempts to regain the Hungarian Crown in 1921, the second of which resulted in him being exiled from Europe and he and his family being carried away on a Royal Navy warship to the Portuguese North Atlantic island of Madeira.

Never in robust health he fell seriously ill in March 1922 with influenza and died at his villa of Quinta do Monte in Funchal aged just 34.

Both were released after just eight years when they were 18. One seems to have disappeared from the public eye, but the other has been twice back inside for breaching his parole conditions and the possession of child pornography.   

Going back to Emperor Karl. Marie Antoinette was several generations back. She was Karl's gt-gt-gt-grandfather's sister making her a distant cousin several times removed. 

I too got it wrong describing them as cousins, Marie Antoinette was Emperor Karl's gt-gt-gt-gt-aunt.

Here's the line of descent. Her brother was -

Emperor Leopold II b. 1747 d. 1792, his son -

Emperor Franz II b. 1768 d. 1835, his son -

Archduke Franz Karl b. 1802 d. 1878, his son -

Archduke Karl Ludwig b. 1833 d, 1896, his son -

Archduke Otto b. 1865 d. 1906, his son -

Emperor Karl b. 1887 d. 1922. 

His father Archduke Otto (the younger brother of the famous Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914) lived the kind of life one half expects to hear from a younger son of noble family but with no role in life - no interest in education, numerous affairs and illegitimate children, juvenile pranks (many involving nudity), alienation from Court, life abroad, illness (syphilis), physical decline (prosthetic nose) and early death.  

You're confusing the two battles. The first Battle of the Somme was the 4½ month epic, July to November 1916, which cost over 1.2 million dead and wounded. The second battle. which ended this day 1918, lasted for 16 days with around 400,000 dead and wounded, it was the the first great battle of Germany's massive 1918 spring offensive.  

Spare heirs sometimes don't live up to their potential.

As we're seeing today with the Dukes of York and Sussex. 

You're confusing the two battles. The first Battle of the Somme was the 4½ month epic, July to November 1916, which cost over 1.2 million dead and wounded. The second battle. which ended this day 1918, lasted for 16 days with around 400,000 dead and wounded, it was the the first great battle of Germany's massive 1918 spring offensive.  

Mark, I quoted directly from what I read for this day in history. I've no doubt you are right though

The perils of trusting too much in the internet.