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March3/12005 - Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.
1904 – Big Band composer Glenn Miller was born.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th state.
1974 – 3 Former White House aides were indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in.
3/21867 - US Congress creates the Department of Education
1867 - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins
1866: 1st U.S. Company to make sewing needles by machine is created
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes declared president, wins by 1 electoral vote
3/31991 – beating of Rodney King captured on video
1791 - 1st US internal revenue act
2013 - the first child born with HIV to be cured
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the 1st person to fly an airplane around the world solo
1992 - President George Bush apologizes for raising taxes
3/41681 - William Penn is granted a land charter for an area that later became Pennsylvania.
2012 - Vladimir Putin won a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election
1789 - The Constitution went into effect
1801 - 1st US President inaugurated in Washington DC
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
3/51946 - Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech
1770 - The Boston Massacre took place
1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections
1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73 after nearly three decades in power.
3/62014 - Crimea's parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea a part of Russia
2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
1998 - First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1983 - US Football League (USFL) begins its 1st season
1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
3/71857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
3/81817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1913 – IRS begins to levy & collect income taxes
1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II
1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam
1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered
3/91934 - Yury Gagarin, the world's first man in space, was born.
1862 - The ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours
1959 – Barbie makes her debut
1997 – Rapper notorious B.I.G. is killed
1985 – the first adopt-a-highway sign goes up.
3/111918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes Japan
2013 - European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
3/121999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
3/131781 - William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus
1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
2013 - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
2012 - Encyclopedia Britannica announced it will no longer publish printed versions
3/141879 - Albert Einstein was born
1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin
1964 - Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald
1967 - President Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to Arlington National Cemetery.
1884 - Karl Marx died
3/1544BC - Julius Caesar was assassinated
1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain
1972 - "The Godfather," premiered in New York.
1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered
1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.
3/161935 - Hitler violates Versailles Treaty
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines
1802 - Congress authorized the establishment of the Military Academy at West Point
1850 - "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.
1926 - Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid fueled rocket
3/1745BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
1845 - Rubber band patented by
Stephen Perry of London
3/181834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed
1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve
1892 - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
3/192012 - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain
2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins
1995 - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months
1994 - Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in
Yokohama, Japan
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered3/201815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1933 - Dachau, 1st Nazi concentration camp, completed
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published
1922 - WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall
return"
3/231808 - Napoleon's brother took the throne in Spain
1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
3/241990 - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
3/251609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub
1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place
1863 - 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded
3/261827 -Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56.
1874 -Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.
2000 - Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
1964 - The musical "Funny Girl," opened on Broadway.
1885 - The Eastman Dry Plate and
Film Co. manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.
3/272007 - NFL owners voted to make instant replay a permanent officiating tool.
1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Ohio
1794 – President Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.
1914 - 1st successful blood
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