Mar/
1:
MCDANIEL WINS OSCAR:
February 29, 1940
Gone with the Wind is honored with eight Oscars by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. An epic Southern romance set during the hard times of the Civil War, the movie swept the prestigious Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, and Actress categories.
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1:
Events that occurred on this day:
1704 Deerfield razed in Queen Anne's War
1736 Shaker founder born
1968 Kerner Commission Report released
1908 On the Road To Standardization
1864 Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid splits
1952 Lattimore admits inaccuracies in previous testimony
1996 A pregnant teenager is shot while riding the bus to school
1936 Baby Snooks' radio debut
1996 Joan Collins wins lawsuit against Random House
1932 "Alfalfa" Murray on cover of Time
1972 South Korean troops withdrawn
1915 Minimum Working Age Raised
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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 Brontę 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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16:
FIRST LIQUID-FUELED ROCKET:
March 16, 1926
The first man to give hope to dreams of space travel is American Robert H. Goddard, who successfully launches the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926. The rocket traveled for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away. The rocket was 10 feet tall, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline.
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16:
Events that occurred on this day:
1802 U.S. Military Academy established
1985 Terry Anderson kidnapped
1961 A New Kind Of Jaguar
1865 Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina
1988 Reagan orders troops into Honduras
1881 A virtuous woman turns murderous
1964 Can't Buy Me Love released
1850 The Scarlet Letter is published
1903 Judge Roy Bean dies
1968 U.S. troops massacre South Vietnamese
1915 The Founding of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission )
1945 Fighting on Iwo Jima ends
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16:
First Liquid Fueled Rocket
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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Mar/
17:
VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SHOWN:
March 17, 1901
On this day, paintings by the late Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris. The 71 paintings, which captured their subjects in bold brushstrokes and expressive colors, caused a sensation across the art world. Eleven years before, while living in Auvers-sur-Oise outside Paris, van Gogh had committed suicide without any notion that his work was destined to win acclaim beyond his wildest dreams. In his lifetime, he had sold only one painting. One of his paintings--the Yasuda Sunflowers--sold for just under $40 million at a Christie's auction in 1987.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1762 First St. Patrick's Day parade
1776 The British evacuate Boston
1949 Porsche's Pride
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia
1990 Lithuania rejects Soviet demand to renounce its independence
1985 The Night Stalker terrorizes Los Angeles
1993 Helen Hayes dies
1894 Novelist and playwright Paul Green is born
1804 Jim Bridger born
1970 Results of Peers investigation announced
1862 The Treasury Backs Greenbacks
1940 Todt named Reich Minister for Weapons and Munitions
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18:
FRENCH-ALGERIAN TRUCE:
March 18, 1962
On March 18, 1962, France and the leaders of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) sign a peace agreement to end the seven-year Algerian War, signaling the end of 130 years of colonial French rule in Algeria
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18:
Events that occurred on this day:
1766 Parliament repeals the Stamp Act
1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs banished to Australia
1925 The Tri-State Tornado
1929 GM Acquires Opel
1864 Sanitary Commission Fair in Washington
1950 Nationalist Chinese forces invade mainland China
1999 Three women are murdered at Yosemite
1968 The Producers opens
1932 John Updike is born
1852 Wells Fargo and Company established
1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Sihanouk
1850 American Express Founded
1942 War Relocation Authority is established in United States
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19:
DEMILLE WINS OSCAR:
March 19, 1953
On March 19, 1953, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille wins the only Academy Award of his career when The Greatest Show on Earth takes home an Oscar for Best Picture. The film, a big-budget extravaganza about circus life, starred Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, and Cornel Wilde.
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19:
Events that occurred on this day:
1916 First U.S. air combat mission begins
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1952 One Million Jeeps
1865 Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
1949 East Germany approves new constitution
1831 America's first recorded bank robbery takes place
1928 Amos 'n' Andy premieres
1842 Balzac botches a publicity stunt
1864 Artist Charlie Russell born
1966 Seoul agrees to send additional troops
1985 IBM Pulls Plug on PCjr
1945 General Fromm executed for plot against Hitler
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20:
NERVE GAS ATTACK ON TOKYO SUBWAY:
March 20, 1995
At the height of the morning rush hour in Tokyo, Japan, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air. The terrorists then took a sarin antidote and escaped while the commuters, blinded and gasping for air, rushed to the exits. Twelve people died, and 5,500 were treated in hospitals, some in a comatose state.
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20:
Events that occurred on this day:
1413 Henry V ascends upon father's death
1854 Republican Party founded
1928 Death Of A Packard
1861 Willie and Tad Lincoln get the measles
1953 Khrushchev begins his rise to power
1995 Tokyo subways are attacked with Sarin gas
1952 Humphrey Bogart wins Oscar
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
1823 Ned Buntline born
1954 Americans alarmed about impending French defeat
1933 Roosevelt Takes on the Economy
1945 British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
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21:
SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH BEGINS:
March 21, 1965
In the name of African-American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol at Montgomery. U.S. Army and National Guard troops were on hand to provide safe passage for the "Alabama Freedom March," which twice had been turned back by Alabama state police at Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge
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21:
Events that occurred on this day:
1804 Napoleonic Code approved in France
1918 Second Battle of the Somme begins
1960 Massacre in Sharpeville
1950 Tucker Turns Tables
1863 Edwin V. Sumner dies
1980 Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott
1963 Alcatraz closes its doors
1952 Moondog Coronation Ball
1678 Reward offered for identity of pamphlet author
1882 "Broncho Billy" Anderson born
1967 North Vietnam rejects Johnson overture
1950 Tucker Turns Tables
1943 Another plot to kill Hitler foiled
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22:
NAVAL HERO KILLED IN DUEL:
March 22, 1820
U.S. Navy officer Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary Wars, is mortally wounded in a duel with disgraced Navy Commodore James Barron at Bladensburg, Maryland. Although once friends, Decatur sat on the court-martial that suspended Barron from the Navy for five years in 1808 and later opposed his reinstatement, leading to a fatal quarrel between the two men.
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22:
Events that occurred on this day:
1945 Arab League formed
1974 Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress
1926 River Rouge No More
1817 Braxton Bragg born
1947 Truman orders loyalty checks of federal employees
1984 Teachers are indicted at the McMartin Pre-School
1929 Fox signs Will Rogers
1913 Jack London writes authors asking for payment advice
1908 Louis L'Amour born
1968 Westmoreland to depart South Vietnam
1903 Mine Woes and the Birth of the Open Shop
1942 Cripps and Gandhi meet
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23:
ARTIFICIAL-HEART PATIENT DIES:
March 23, 1983
On March 23, 1983, Barney Clark dies 112 days after becoming the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. The 61-year-old dentist spent the last four months of his life in a hospital bed at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, attached to a 350-pound console that pumped air in and out of the aluminum-and-plastic implant through a system of hoses.
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23:
Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop
March 23, 1806
Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop. At 1 p.m. on this day in 1806, the Corps of Expedition set off up the Columbia River in canoes. After nearly a year in the wilderness, they had severely depleted the sizeable cache of supplies with which the expedition had begun. The expedition had expended almost all of its supplies. They continue to make observations to supply, correct or confirm those made on the outward journey according to President Jeffersons letter of June 20, 1803.
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23:
Events that occurred on this day:
1775 Patrick Henry voices American opposition to British policy
1919 Mussolini founds the Fascist party
1994 Leading Mexican presidential candidate assassinated
1956 The Independent Shuffle
1862 Battle of Kernstown, Virginia
1983 Reagan calls for new antimissile technology
1979 Former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier is murdered
1940 First episode of Truth or Consequences
1999 Thomas Harris delivers Hannibal manuscript
1806 Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop
1970 Prince Sihanouk issues a call for arms
1983 Democrats Rain On Reagan's Parade
1944 Germans slaughter Italian civilians
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24:
NATO BOMBS YUGOSLAVIA:
March 24, 1999
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The NATO offensive came in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against the Kosovar Albanians on March 20.
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24:
Events that occurred on this day:
1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies
1989 Exxon Valdez runs aground
1996 Shannon Lucid enters Mir
1954 The Making Of An Independent
1862 Wendall Phillips booed in Cincinnati
1977 United States and Cuba engage in direct negotiations
1998 A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas kills five
1934 Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour kicks off craze
1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens
1834 John Wesley Powell born
1975 North Vietnamese launch "Ho Chi Minh Campaign"
1900 Andrew Carnegie's Steel Trust
1944 Wingate dies in Burma
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25:
Events that occurred on this day:
1634 The settlement of Maryland
1975 King Faisal assassinated
1994 Last U.S. troops depart Somalia
1901 Mercedes Debuts
1865 Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia
1946 Soviets announce withdrawal from Iran
1932 The verdict is announced in the Scottsboro case
1957 Ricky Nelson records first hits
1955 U.S. Customs seizes Howl
1879 Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf surrenders
1968 Johnson meets with the "Wise Men"
1911 Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
1941 Yugoslavia joins the Axis
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25:
COMMON MARKET FOUNDED:
March 25, 1957
France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg sign a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market. The EEC, which came into operation in January 1958, was a major step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union.
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26:
SALK ANNOUNCES POLIO VACCINE:
March 26, 1953
American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952--an epidemic year for polio--there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradicate the disease, which is known as "infant paralysis" because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time
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26:
Events that occurred on this day:
1979 Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed
1997 Heaven's Gate cult members found dead
1932 Leland's Legacy
1864 McPherson takes over the Army of the Tennessee
1950 McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore is a Soviet spy
1987 A torture chamber is uncovered in Philadelphia
1947 Pot O' Gold's last episode
1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel published
1832 The steamboat Yellowstone heads for Montana
1975 Hue falls to the communists
1998 Chip King Changes The Guard
1941 Naval warfare gets new weapon
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27:
KHRUSHCHEV BECOMES SOVIET PREMIER:
March 27, 1958
Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSR's two top offices.
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27:
Events that occurred on this day:
1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
1964 Earthquake rocks Alaska
1939 Tough As Old Cale
1865 Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant meet
1990 TV Marti begins broadcasting to Cuba
1905 Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case
1952 Singin' in the Rain opens
1923 Poet Louis Simpson born
1836 Mexicans execute defenders of Goliad
1973 Bombing of Cambodia to continue
1836 The Father of Automotive Luxury
1945 Germans launch last of their V-2s
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28:
NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AT THREE MILE ISLAND:
March 28, 1979
At 4 a.m. on this day, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat.
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28:
Events that occurred on this day:
1939 Spanish Civil War ends
1969 Eisenhower dies
1941 Construction of Ford's Willow Run Plant began
1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass
1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report released
1814 The man behind the Guillotine dies
1920 Fairbanks & Pickford marry
1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, is born
1776 De Anza founds San Francisco
1961 Diem's popular support questioned
1834 Senate Takes Jackson to Task
1941 Cunningham leads fateful British strike at Italians
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29:
U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM VIETNAM:
March 29, 1973
Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam
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29:
Events that occurred on this day:
1879 British victory at Kambula
1974 Mariner 10 visits Mercury
1806 Federal Highway
1865 Appomattox campaign begins
1951 Rosenbergs convicted of espionage
1950 The Mad Bomber strikes in New York
1939 Clark Gable & Carole Lombard marry
1797 Writer Mary Wollstonecraft marries William Godwin
1806 Congress authorizes survey of Cumberland Road
1971 Calley found guilty of My Lai murders
1996 Wall Street Feels the Power
1945 Patton takes Frankfurt
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30:
PRESIDENT REAGAN SHOT:
March 30, 1981
President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.
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30:
Events that occurred on this day:
1814 Allies capture Paris
1855 Violence disrupts first Kansas election
1867 Seward's Folly
1870 15th Amendment adopted
1947 Look at this Tucker
1825 Samuel Bell Maxey born
1948 Henry Wallace criticizes Truman's Cold War policies
1981 Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinkley Jr.
1946 Academy Award radio show begins
1820 Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, is born
1891 "Sockless" Simpson rallies populist farmers
1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive
1824 Clay Stands By His Tariff
1940 Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking
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EIFFEL TOWER OPENS:
March 31, 1889
The Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower's designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1492 Jews to be expelled from Spain
1854 Treaty of Kanagawa signed with Japan
1959 Dalai Lama begins exile
1956 Dust, Death, And DePalma
1865 Fighting at White Oak Road and Dinwiddie Court House
1991 Warsaw Pact ends
1999 Evidence of murder is uncovered in New Mexico
1930 Production Code introduced
1836 First installment of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens' first novel
1895 Western novelist Vardis Fisher born
1972 Fighting intensifies with North Vietnamese offensive
1998 Smith Barney Sees Red over Blue Materials
1940 Germany's Atlantis launches
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