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February 27th
1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet (The Song of Hiawatha, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride).
1827 ~ The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans.
1873 ~ Birthday of Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor.
1887 ~ Death of Alexander Borodin, composer.
1900 ~ The British Labour Party was formed.
1902 ~ Birthday of John Steinbeck, Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962.
1912 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Durrell, Writer.
1933 ~ Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.
1951 ~ In a victory for freedom lovers, the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.
1991 ~ President Bush declared "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated", and announced a Gulf War ceasefire.
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March 3rd
1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.
1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor.
1923 ~ Birthday of James Doohan, Actor.
1931 ~ ”The Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem of the U.S.
1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast to protest the British rule in India.
1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator.
1985 ~ England’s coal miners accept defeat and vote to return to work after a year long strike.
1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
2002 ~ Switzerland voted to become a member of the United Nations.
2005 ~ Steve Fossett became the first man to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
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.
2000 ~ Death of Lolo Ferrari, French Porn actress.
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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1953 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
1997 perhaps?
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Yup! Sorry 'bout the date!
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March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer.
1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers.
1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies.
1969 ~ Golda Meir elected Prime Minister of Israel.
1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director.
2004 ~ An investiture ceremony was held for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop.
2006 ~ Apple was granted the patent to the iPod.
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