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Mar/ 1: PEACE CORPS ESTABLISHED: March 1, 1961 President John F. Kennedy issues Executive Order #10924, establishing the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State. The same day, he sent a message to Congress asking for permanent funding for the agency, which would send trained American men and women to foreign nations to assist in development efforts.

Mar/ 1: Events that occurred on this day:
1692 Salem Witch Hunt begins
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists wound five representatives
1966 Soviet probe crashes into Venus
1897 Winton & Co.
1864 Grant nominated for lieutenant general
1961 Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
1932 The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped
1971 Zanuck and Brown join Warner Bros.
1921 E.M. Forster takes a passage to India
1872 Yellowstone Park established
1965 U.S. informs South Vietnam of intent to send Marines
1937 The U.S. Steel Deal of '37
1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis

Mar/ 1: Workshop: MHD Couette Flows - Experiments and Models, Catania, Italy

Mar/ 2: Rosetta Ariane 5 Launch (Comet Orbiter & Lander), Successful

Mar/ 2: Symposium: The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar/ 2: TEXAS INDEPENDENCE PROCLAIMED:
March 2, 1836
During the Texas Revolution, a convention of American Texans meets at Washington-on-the-Brazos and declares the independence of Texas from Mexico. The delegates chose David Burnet as provisional president and confirmed Sam Houston as the commander in chief of all Texan forces. The Texans also adopted a constitution that protected the free practice of slavery, which had been prohibited by Mexican law. Meanwhile, in San Antonio, Santa Anna's siege of the Alamo continued, and the fort's 185 or so American defenders waited for the final Mexican assault

Mar/ 2: Events that occurred on this day:
1807 Congress abolishes the African slave trade
1877 Congress approves Hayes' election; Reconstruction ends
1972 Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
1918 Tatra Of The High Mountains
1865 Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia
1969 Soviet Union and Chinese armed forces clash
1929 Congress passes the Jones Act
1925 DeMille founds studio
1942 John Irving is born
1793 Sam Houston born
1965 First Rolling Thunder raid conducted
1824 Steamboats, States' Rights and the Battle Over Interstate Commerce
1943 The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

Mar/ 2: Workshop: MHD Couette Flows - Experiments and Models, Catania, Italy

Mar/ 3: Comet P/2003 UD16 (LONEOS) Perihelion (3.651 AU)

Mar/ 3: 35th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 9 Launch

Mar/ 3: Symposium: The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar/ 3: POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEO:
March 3, 1991
At 12:45 a.m. on March 3, 1991, robbery parolee Rodney G. King stops his car after leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles, California. The chase began after King, who was intoxicated, was caught speeding on a freeway by a California Highway Patrol cruiser but refused to pull over. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cruisers and a police helicopter joined the pursuit, and when King was finally stopped by Hansen Dam Park, several police cars descended on his white Hyundai.

Mar/ 3: Events that occurred on this day:
1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1863 Congress passes Civil War conscription act
1918 Russia makes a separate peace
1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes official
1985 Lyons And Jaguars And Cars, Oh My!
1865 Freedman's Bureau created
1952 Supreme Court rules on communist teachers
1873 Congress bans sending obscene materials through the mail
1915 Birth of a Nation opens in New York
1926 James Merrill is born
1879 United States Geological Survey created
1971 U.S. 5th Special Forces Group withdraws
1873 Birth of a Labor Leader
1945 Finland declares war on Germany

Mar/ 3: Comet P/2004 DO29 (Spacewatch-LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.261 AU)

Mar/ 3: Mercury Superior Conjunction Mercury passes behind the Sun and is lost in the Sun's glare.

Mar/ 3: Jupiter Opposition Jupiter is opposite the Sun with respect to Earth and rises at sunset.

Mar/ 4: Jupiter At Opposition

Mar/ 4: Symposium: The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar/ 4: FDR INAUGURATED:
March 4, 1933
At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his "New Deal"--an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare--and told Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Mar/ 4: Events that occurred on this day:
1789 Government under the U.S. Constitution begins
1887 Daimler's First Car
1861 Lincoln inaugurated
1954 Dulles asks for action against communism
1944 The head of Murder, Inc. is executed
1942 Joan Fontaine and Hedda Hopper battle
1952 Ernest Hemingway finishes The Old Man and the Sea
1868 Founder of Chisholm Trail dies
1968 Task Force sends memo to the president
1909 Hello to Harry Helmsley
1941 Britain launches Operation Claymore

Mar/ 4: Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.608 AU)

Mar/ 4: Jupiter Dual Shadow Transit The shadows of Jupiter's moons Io and Europa are visible on planet's disk.

Mar/ 5: Asteroid 2004 CE39 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)

Mar/ 5: Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.652 AU)

Mar/ 5: 25th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 1, Jupiter Flyby

Mar/ 5: Symposium: The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar/ 5: THE BOSTON MASSACRE:
March 5, 1770
On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation.

Mar/ 5: Events that occurred on this day:
1815 Innovator of hypnotism dies
1875 Inventor Wanted, Wisconsin state $10,000 to any man who could supply "a cheap and practical substitute for the work horse.
1864 John C. Breckinridge assumes command
1946 Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
1969 Jim Morrison is charged with lewd behavior at a Miami concert
1960 Elvis discharged from army7/8/2004 6:47PM
1839 Charlotte Brontý declines marriage
1766 Antonio de Ulloa tries to govern Louisiana
1971 "Blackhorse" departs South Vietnam
1933 The Bank Holiday of 1933
1953 Joseph Stalin dies

Mar/ 6: Triad Starfest, Jamestown, North Carolina

Mar/ 6: Symposium: The Future of Life and the Future of Our Civilization, Thessaloniki, Greece

Mar/ 6: MICHELANGELO BORN:
March 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts.

Mar/ 6: Events that occurred on this day:
1857 Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case
1983 Kohl elected West German chancellor
1915 Who Better Than Resta?
1857 Dred Scott decision
1953 Georgi Malenkov succeeds Stalin
1951 The Rosenberg trial begins
1947 Last episode of Hour Glass
1928 Gabriel Garcia Marquez is born
1986 Georgia O'Keefe dies
1971 Operation Lam Son 719 continues
1886 The Knights of Labor vs. Jay Gould
1945 Dutch Resistance ambushes SS officer--unwittingly

Mar/ 6: FULL MOON:
Tonight's full moon is known as a "harvest moon," the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox (that is, the beginning of autumn). A Full Moon is opposite the Sun, which means that the moon rises around sunset and sets at around sunrise. It occurs two weeks after New Moon, a week after First Quarter Moon, and a week before Last Quarter Moon. If you use the same reasoning as we do with "quarter" Moons, you would call this the "Half Moon," since we see only half the surface of the Moon.

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Mar/ 6: Full Moon Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise and is visible all night.

Mar/ 7: STANLEY KUBRICK DIES:
March 7, 1999
American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70. One of the most acclaimed film directors of the 20th century, Kubrick's 13 feature films explored the dark side of human nature

Mar/ 7: Events that occurred on this day:
1936 Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland
1973 Bangladesh's first democratic leader
1932 March on Hunger
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas
1950 Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs served as its spy
1981 Drugs and murder uncovered in San Francisco
1960 Jack Paar returns to the Tonight Show
1923 "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is published
1885 Kansas quarantines Texas cattle
1967 Republic of Korea forces operation launch
1889 Windom Takes Over as Treasurer
1941 British forces arrive in Greece

Mar/ 7: Purim
Jewish Holiday of Purim
Purim is the most festive of Jewish holidays, a time of prizes, noisemakers, costumes and treats. The Festival of Purim commemorates a major victory over oppression and is recounted in the Megillah, the scroll of the story of Esther. Purim takes place on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar, the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar.

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Mar/ 8: Commonwealth Day (UK and Australia) Commonwealth Day (UK and Australia) http://www.col.org/comday.htm http://www.commonwealthday.co.uk/

Mar/ 8: Asteroid 7 Iris At Opposition (9.0 Magnitude)

Mar/ 8: FEBRUARY REVOLUTION BEGINS:
March 8, 1917
In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar) begins when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd. One week later, centuries of czarist rule in Russia ended with the abdication of Nicholas II, and Russia took a dramatic step closer toward communist revolution.

Mar/ 8: Events that occurred on this day:
1801 Anglo-Ottoman force takes Abukir Bay
1957 Egypt opens the Suez Canal
1936 Down at Daytona
1862 C.S.S. Virginia terrorizes Union navy
1982 United States accuses Soviets of using poison gas
1951 The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed
1993 Bandleader Billy Eckstine dies
1935 Thomas Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, is published
1893 Emmet Dalton goes to prison
1965 U.S. Marines land at Da Nang
1985 Reaganomics and the Millionaire Boom
1942 Dutch surrender on Java

Mar/ 9: Yury Gagarin's 70th Birthday (1934)

Mar/ 9: Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)

Mar/ 9: PANCHO VILLA RAIDS U.S.:
March 9, 1917
In the early morning of March 9, 1917, several hundred Mexican guerrillas under the command of Francisco "Pancho" Villa cross the U.S.-Mexican border and attack the small border town of Columbus, New Mexico. Seventeen Americans were killed in the raid, and the center of town was burned.

Mar/ 9: Events that occurred on this day:
1841 Supreme Court rules on Amistad mutiny
1847 U.S. forces land at Vera Cruz
1862 Battle of the Ironclads
1932 China's last emperor is Japanese puppet
1901 Olds On Fire - fire destroyed the Olds Motor Works factory in Detroit, Michigan
1862 U.S.S. Monitor battles C.S.S. Virginia
1954 Republican senators criticize Joseph McCarthy
1997 Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los Angeles
1938 Bob Hope's film debut
1913 Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel, The Voyage Out
1916 Pancho Villa attacks Columbus, New Mexico
1965 Marines continue to land at Da Nang
1933 The Emergency Banking Act
1945 Firebombing of Tokyo

Mar/ 10: Asteroid 2002 CD Near-Earth Flyby (0.167 AU)

Mar/ 10: Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.322 AU)

Mar/ 10: 5th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, Arizona

Mar/ 10: SPEECH TRANSMITTED BY TELEPHONE:
March 10, 1876
On this day, the first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent just three days before.

Mar/ 10: Events that occurred on this day:
1945 The Firebombing of Tokyo
1969 Ray pleads guilty to King assassination
1964 Mustang Sallies Forth
1865 William H. C. Whiting dies
1948 Strange death of Jan Masaryk
1993 Dr. David Gunn is murdered by an anti-abortion activist
1938 Jezebel released
1926 First Book-of-the-Month Club selection is published
1864 Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade
1970 Army captain charged with My Lai war crimes
1902 Trustbusters Take on Northern Securities
1940 Sumner Welles makes a "peace proposal"

Mar/ 10: Workshop: Arthur Eddington: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mar/ 11: Workshop: Arthur Eddington: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mar/ 11: Mercury Occults HIP 117820 (8.6 Magnitude Star)

Mar/ 11: MACARTHUR LEAVES CORREGIDOR:
March 11, 1942
After struggling against great odds to save the Philippines from Japanese conquest, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur abandons the island fortress of Corregidor under orders from President Franklin Roosevelt. Left behind at Corregidor and on the Bataan Peninsula were 90,000 American and Filipino troops, who, lacking food, supplies, and support, would soon succumb to the Japanese offensive.

Mar/ 11: Events that occurred on this day:
1861 Confederate constitution adopted
1990 Lithuania proclaims its independence
1885 The Knighted Rider
1862 Lincoln shuffles the Union command
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed Chernenko
1897 Domestic murder is discovered at the sausage factory
1950 Last broadcast of National Barn Dance
1818 Frankenstein published
1884 Gunslinger Ben Thompson dies
1967 Heavy battle rages during Operation Junction City
1941 The Great Arsenal of Democracy
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease

Mar/ 11: 5th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, Arizona

Mar/ 12: Jupiter Dual Shadow Transit The shadows of Jupiter's moons Io and Europa are visible on planet's disk.

Mar/ 12: 5th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, Arizona

Mar/ 12: Asteroid 1154 Astronomia Occults HIP 86819 (6.7 Magnitude Star)

Mar/ 12: Asteroid 770 Bali Occults HIP 57328 (4.8 Magnitude Star)

Mar/ 12: Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (2.441 AU)

Mar/ 12: 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

Mar/ 12: IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy

Mar/ 12: 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.

Mar/ 13: 5th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tucson, Arizona

Mar/ 13: MB-Sat 1 Atlas 3B Launch, Successful

Mar/ 13: Venus Occults PPM 118153 (8.4 Magnitude Star)

Mar/ 13: Microsymposium 39: "Geological Evidence for Climate Change in Mars History and Models for Climate Evolution, Houston, Texas

Mar/ 13: IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy

Mar/ 13: IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF ANDREW JOHNSON BEGINS:
March 13, 1868
For the first time in U.S. history, the impeachment trial of an American president gets underway in the U.S. Senate. President Andrew Johnson, reviled by the Republican-dominated Congress for his views on Reconstruction, stood accused of having violated the controversial Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress over his veto in 1867

Mar/ 13: Events that occurred on this day:
1781 William Hershel discovers Uranus
1881 Czar Alexander II assassinated
1996 Tragedy at Dunblane
1969 Walt Disney released The Love Bug
1865 Confederacy approves black soldiers
1961 Kennedy proposes Alliance for Progress
1989 Black magic, voodoo, and murder occurs at Rancho Santa Elena
1940 The Road to Singapore premieres
1891 Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens in London
1836 Houston retreats from Santa Anna's army
1975 Ban Me Thuot falls
1946 UAW Takes on General Motors
1944 London suspends travel between Ireland and Britain

Mar/ 13: LAST QUARTER MOON: The Last Quarter Moon, also called a Third Quarter Moon. Last Quarter moon occurs approximately one week after Full Moon and one week before the next New Moon. This moon happens when a line drawn from the Sun to the Earth is at 90 degrees from a line drawn from the Earth to the Moon, and the Moon is to the west of the Sun. Called a Quarter Moon because you are seeing half of the side facing Earth, which accounts for only one-fourth of the total surface of the Moon. more info....
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Mar/ 13: Last Quarter Moon Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon.

Mar/ 14: IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy

Mar/ 14: Albert Einstein's 125th Birthday (1879)

Mar/ 14: ALBERT EINSTEIN BORN:
March 14, 1879
On this day, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb

Mar/ 14: Events that occurred on this day:
1964 Jack Ruby sentenced to death
1991 Birmingham Six released
1914 Father Of The King
1862 Battle of New Bern, North Carolina
1990 Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union
1950 The FBI debuts its "10 Most Wanted" list
1976 Busby Berkeley dies
1887 Sylvia Beach, bookstore owner and publisher of Ulysses, is born
1919 Max Brand publishes his first novel
1965 Allies launch second wave of Rolling Thunder
1812 War Bonds Go on Sale
1943 Germans recapture Kharkov

Mar/ 15: IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy

Mar/ 15: Eutelsat W-3A Proton M Launch, Successful

Mar/ 15: Comet C/2003 H1 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.334 AU)

Mar/ 15: Asteroid 10199 Chariklo Occults TYC 6091-00320-1 (12.8 Magnitude Star)

Mar/ 15: 1st Virtual Meeting on Amateur Astronomy

Mar/ 15: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, League City, Texas

Mar/ 15: Astronomical Polarimetry Meeting: Current Status and Future Direction, Waikoloa, Hawaii

Mar/ 15: Sedna Planetoid Discovery NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto.

Mar/ 15: THE IDES OF MARCH:
March 15, 44 B.C.
Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

Mar/ 15: Events that occurred on this day:
1820 Maine enters the Union
1917 Czar Nicholas II abdicates
1906 Rolls And Royce
1831 Edward A. Perry born
1989 Gorbachev calls for radical agricultural reform
44 B.C. The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered
1954 The dawn of doo-wop
44 B.C. Julius Caesar is stabbed
1767 Andrew Jackson born
1965 Army Chief of Staff reports on South Vietnam
1985 S&L Woes in Ohio
1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia

Mar/ 15: Conference: Planet Formation: Terrestrial and Extra Solar, Santa Barbara, California

Mar/ 16: IAU Colloquium #195: Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italy

Mar/ 16: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, League City, Texas

Mar/ 16: Astronomical Polarimetry Meeting: Current Status and Future Direction, Waikoloa, Hawaii

Mar/ 16: First Liquid Fueled Rocket. On March 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard successfully launched the first liquid fueled rocket. The launch took place at Auburn, Massachusetts, and is regarded by flight historians to be as significant as the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk.

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