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Also on February 27th, 1997- Divorce became legal in Ireland.
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On February 28, 1854, the Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group...
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Also on Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began
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On March 1, 1692, in Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged...
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Also On March 1st in 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
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On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
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Also on March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country..."
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On March 3, 1991, in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.
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On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th U.S. state...
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On March 4, 1634 , Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, MA...
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On March 5, 1770, "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter...
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On March 6, 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto...
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On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone...
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It is still today, right?
Then also on March 7, in 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse. |
On March 8th, 1965- The United States landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.
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And on a related note, on March 8, 1954, France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina...
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On March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va.
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Also on March 9, 1454, Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his honor...
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On March 10, 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. His death was announced on March 11th. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.
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Also on March 10, 1656, in the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion...
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On March 11, 1824, the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker became the first Indian to lead the Bureau...
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On March 12, 1609, the Bermuda Islands became an English colony...
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On March 13, 1519, Cortez landed in Mexico...
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On March 14, 1907, Acapulco, Mexico, was hit by an earthquake...
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Also on March 14th, in 1983, OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
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On Maech 15, 44 BC, Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the "Ides of March..."
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On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.
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Also on March 16, 1964, Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games...
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On March 17, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
Happy St. Pats day everyone! |
On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
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On March 19, 1920, the United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.
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On March 24, 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.
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Also on March 24, 1832, Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio...
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Also on March 24th, in 1765 England begins the Quartering Act, requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
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On March 25, 1634, Lord Baltimore founded the Catholic colony of Maryland...
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Also on March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
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On March 26, 1804, the U.S. Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana...
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Also on March 26, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.
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On March 27, 1836, in Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution...
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Also on March 27th in 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
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On March 28, 1933, in Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools...
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On May 28, 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
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On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam...
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On March 30, 1822, Florida became a U.S. territory...
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On March 31, 1932, he Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine...
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On April 1, 1924, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch..."
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Also on April 1st, in 1970 American Motors introduced the Gremlin.
Google Image Result for http://www.cartype.com/pics/1158/full/gremlin_rs_70.jpg I had a Gremlin in the mid-nineties when I was in college.:) Lindy |
On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore...
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Are you ready for this? On April 3, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida. He had sighted the land the day before...
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On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side...
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Also on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
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On April 5, 1985, John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis..."
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Also on April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
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Also on April 5, in 1792, George Washington exercised the first presidential veto, returning the Apportionment Act to Congress. Presidents have used the veto 2563 times since then.
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On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.
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Also on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in Seneca, NY...
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On April 7, 1864, the first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California...
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Also on April 7, in 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
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Also on April 8th in 1987- Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned after saying on ABC's "Nightline" that blacks may lack some of the "necessities" for becoming baseball managers.
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On April 9, 1833, Peterborough, NH, opened the first municipally supported public library in the United States...
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Also on April 9th, 1959- NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
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On April 10, 1866, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated...
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Also on April 10th in 1912- The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
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On April 11th, 1945- American soldiers liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
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Also on April 11, 1921, the first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee...
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On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president.
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Also on April 12, 1864, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there...
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On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
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Also on April 13, 1849, the Hungarian Republic was proclaimed...
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On April 14, 1925, WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2...
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Also on April 14th, 1902- J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
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OnApril 15th in 1808- A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect.
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Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball playing for the brooklyn dodgers |
Also on April 15, 1784, he first balloon was flown in Ireland...
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And to help out aerophobes like me, Rand-McNally, on April 15, 1924, introduced the first Road Atlas.
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On April 16, 1705, Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton...
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Also on April 17, 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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On April 17, 1524, New York Harbor was discovered by Giovanni Verrazano...
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Also on April 17th in 1892- The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
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On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.
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Also on April 18, 1676, Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians...
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On April 19, 1939, Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years...
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Also on April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.
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April 19, 1775 marks the beginning of the revolutionary war.
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On April 20, 1912, Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox...
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Also on April 20th 1972 The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.
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On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.
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Also on April 21, 1918, German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I...
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On April 22nd 1864 Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.
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Also on April 22, 1914, Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles...
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Also on April 22, in 1954, Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motorcar Company merged to form American Motors Corporation.
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On April 23, 1924, the U.S. Senate passed the Soldiers Bonus Bill...
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Also on April 23rd in 1971- The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.
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On April 24, 1805, the U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli...
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Also on April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
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On April 25th, 1945- U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
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Also 0n April 25, 1792, the guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier...
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On April 26, 1906, in Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time...
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