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Jupiter Dual Shadow Transit
The shadows of Jupiter's moons Io and Europa are visible on planet's
disk.
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191 /
5th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, Arizona
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Asteroid 1154 Astronomia Occults HIP 86819 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
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Asteroid 770 Bali Occults HIP 57328 (4.8 Magnitude Star)
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Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (2.441 AU)
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Events that occurred on this day:
1888 The Blizzard of 1888
1933 First "fireside chat"
1938 Germany annexes Austria
1993 Reno sworn in as attorney general
1952 The Wings Of The Gull
1864 Red River Campaign begins
1947 The Truman Doctrine is announced
1969 London police conduct drug raid on George Harrison's house
1923 First movie with sound recorded on film
1922 Jack Kerouac is born
1888 Chinese laborers excluded from U.S.
1968 McCarthy does well in the Democratic primary
1901 Carnegie Hands Out More Money
1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria
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IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy
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GANDHI LEADS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE:
March 12, 1930
On this day, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
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