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03-19-2013, 07:35 PM
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03-20-2013, 08:19 PM
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March 21st
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway Impresario.
1945 ~ UK Troops liberated Mandalay, Burma.
1960 ~ Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 ~ The federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, was closed.
1965 ~ Rev. King led 3,200 people on the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1980 ~ President Carter announced a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1998 ~ Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.
2010 ~ Death Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt.
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March 22nd
1683 ~ Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1687 ~ Death of Jean Baptiste Lully, French Composer.
1832 ~ Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer & Poet.
1882 ~ U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy.
1923 ~ Birthday of Marcel Marceau, Mime.
1963 ~ The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denied improper involvement with the model Christine Keeler.
1963 ~ The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK.
1972 ~ The Equal Rights Amendment To The U.S. Constitution was sent to the states for ratification.
1993 ~ The Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips.
2004 ~ Death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.
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March 23rd
1749 ~ Birthday of Pierre Simon de Laplace, Mathematician & Astronomer.
1775 ~ Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech - "give me liberty or give me death" in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1857 ~ Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
1882 ~ Birthday of Emmy Noether, Mathematician. Now there's a lady who had a tough row to hoe!
1912 ~ Birthday of Wernher von Braun, Engineer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Roger Bannister, athlete, first man to run the "Miracle Mile"
1983 ~ President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept missiles.
1989 ~ Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1989 ~ A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid (4581 Asclepius) missed the Earth by 400,000 miles.
2001 ~ The Russian space station Mir was de-orbited, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1892 ~ Death of Walt Whitman, Poet.
1904 ~ Birthday of Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythologist.
1964 ~ The musical “Funny Girl”, starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway.
1973 ~ Birthday of Larry Page, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder of Google.
1979 ~ Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in Washington, DC.
1981 ~ The "Gang of Four", Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.
1984 ~ Birthday of Annette Schwarz, Porn Actress.
1997 ~ The 39 Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1999 ~ The Melissa worm infected e-mail systems around the world.
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March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.
1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer.
1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 ~ Birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect.
1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the USSR.
1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist.
1977 ~ A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people.
2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
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March 28th
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War.
1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist.
1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century played on radio.
1965 ~ Conclusion of the 'Selma to Montgomey' Civil Rights march.
1979 ~ One of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island was severely damaged in what remains as the largest nuclear incident in U.S. history.
1980 ~ Birthday of Birthday of Minori Aoi (葵みのり), Japanese Porn actress.
1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer.
2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor.
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March 29th
1867 ~ Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1899 ~ Birthday of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1912 ~ Death of Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer.
1973 ~ The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1981 ~ First running of the London Marathon.
1982 ~ Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1984 ~ The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night.
1985 ~ Death of Jeanine Deckers, better known as "The Singing Nun" due to her 1963 hit song "Dominique".
2004 ~ Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cook, Journalist.
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March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation.
1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter.
1945 ~ A defecting German pilot delivered a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to the Allies.
1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage.
1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured.
1998 ~ German automaker BMW bought Rolls-Royce for $570 million.
2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist.
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March 31st
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet.
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter.
1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum.
1968 ~ President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election.
1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burnt up when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
1976 ~ Birthday of Ashton Moore, Porn actress.
1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact.
1992 ~ The last active United States Navy battleship, the USS Missouri, was decommissioned .
1995 ~ Latina superstar Selena was killed by the president of her fan club.
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April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army.
1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.
1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer.
1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1945 ~ World War II: U.S. forces invaded Okinawa.
1970 ~ President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.
1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison.
2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collided with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew made an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and was detained.
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