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March 1st
1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.
1872 ~ U.S. Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park.
1896 ~ Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
1904 ~ Birthday of Glenn Miller, Bandleader.
1912 ~ Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the singing family memorialized in the musical "The Sound of Music", married Agathe.
1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Musician & Actor.
1932 ~ The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped.
1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
1954 ~ The Castle Bravo 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It produced the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the U.S.
1992 ~ Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
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If Castle Bravo scared you, read about Tsar Bomba, estimated yield about 50 megatons.
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And they're still making movies of Phil Dick's stories.
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03-03-2008, 12:43 PM
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03-03-2008, 04:32 PM
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20 years since we lost Danny Kaye?
Sadly missed, Mr Kaminsky.
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March 4th
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1887 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician & Composer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, English actor.
1946 ~ Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent…”.
1953 ~ Death of Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator.
1970 ~ The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into effect.
1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
1953 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
2004 ~ Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she dumped her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price dropped.
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I still thought it was Monitor V Merrimac. D'oh!
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That is also the way I was taught it - way back then. 
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March 10th
1844 ~ Birthday of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist.
1913 ~ Death of Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist.
1949 ~ Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally”, was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason.
1957 ~ Birthday of Osama bin Laden, Terrorist.
1965 ~ Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway.
1969 ~ James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1977 ~ Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus.
1982 ~ The U.S. placed an embargo on Libyan oil because of Libya’s support of terrorist groups.
1985 ~ Death of Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader.
1993 ~ Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.
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