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March3/12005 - Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juveniles.

1904 – Big Band composer Glenn Miller was born.

1994 - Justin Bieber was born

1974 – 3 Former White House aides were brought up on charges related to the Watergate break-in.

1692 – Salem Witch-hunt begins.

3/21867 - Department of Education created

1867 - 1st Reconstruction act

2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan

1904 – Dr. Seuss born

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes declared president, wins by 1 electoral vote

3/31991 – Beating of Rodney King

1791 - 1st US internal revenue act

2013 - 2 year old becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured

2005 - Steve Fossett becomes 1st person to fly around the world solo

1992 - President Bush apologizes for raising taxes

3/41681 - England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land 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

1836 - 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 a part of Russia

2007 - Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty

1998 - First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

1983 - USFL Football League

1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America

3/71857 - Baseball decides on 9 innings

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 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes

1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II

1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)

3/82008 President Bush vetoed a bill that bans forms of torture.

1983 - President Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire"

1965 - The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.

1999 - Joe DiMaggio died

1930 - William Howard Taft died

3/91862 - Merrimac and the Monitor

1934 - Yury Gagarin was born

1959 - Barbie makes her debut

1997 - Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los Angeles

1985 - First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes up

3/101496 - Columbus concluded his second visit to the West

1985 – Chernenko died

1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to killing Martin Luther King Jr.

1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies

1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France

3/111918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people

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 announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia

3/1544 BC - Julius Caesar was assassinated

1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.

2003 - Hu Jintao became president of China.

1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered

1972 - "The Godfather," premiered in New York.

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 - Battle of Munda, Julius Caesar’s last military victory

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 discovered

3/201815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba

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"

3/211685 - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach

2006 - Twitter launched

1963 - Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay was emptied

1965 - Selma to Montgomery march begins

1943 - Another plot to kill Hitler foiled

3/221997 - Tara Lipinski became woman’s world figure skating champion at age 14

1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.

1945 - Arab League formed

1972 - Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress

1884 - First Stanley Cup championship played

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: 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

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 voted to make instant replay a permanent officiating tool.

1836 – 1st Mormon temple was dedicated in Ohio

1794 –creation of the U.S. Navy

1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion

1986 _Disney breaks ground on MGM Studio in Florida

3/281969 – Eisenhower died

1963 - The Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" premiered

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended

1930 - Constantinople became Istanbul

1854 - the Crimean War started

3/291867 - CY Young was born

1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage

1999 - Wayne Gretzky scored his last goal

1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam1945 - Patton takes Frankfurt

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1853 -Vincent Van Gogh was born

1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot

1946 - 1,000 Nazis seized attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.

1943 – Oklahoma opens on Broadway.

1870 - Readmitting Texas to the Union3/311889 - Eiffel Tower opens

1995 - Longest strike in MLB history ends

1492 - Spain expelled Jews

1918 - Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the U.S.

1968 - Johnson announced no re-election bid