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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1611 – George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1621 – Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1629 – Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands which marks the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:45 am
March 4th 1681 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1776 – The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1778 – The Continental Congress votes to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties are the first entered into by the United States government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1789 – In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the Constitution of the United States into effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, which cuts across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1791 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:46 am
March 4th 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:47 am
March 4th 1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:47 am
March 4th 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:47 am
March 4th 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:47 am
March 4th 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:47 am
March 4th 1813 – Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1824 – The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" is founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1837 – Chicago is incorporated as a city.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1861 – First national flag of the Confederate States of America (the 'Stars and Bars') is adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:48 am
March 4th 1863 – The Idaho Territory is created as a political division of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1865 – Third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1877 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1887 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:49 am
March 4th 1893 – Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:50 am
March 4th 1894 – Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:50 am
March 4th 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:50 am
March 4th 1902 – In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1911 – Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1917 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:51 am
March 4th 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:52 am
March 4th 1925 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:52 am
March 4th 1929 – Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:52 am
March 4th 1930 – Floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounding area in south-west France, resulting in twelve départements being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:53 am
March 4th 1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:54 am
March 4th 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:54 am
March 4th 1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:54 am
March 4th 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:54 am
March 4th 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1945 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1954 – Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1960 – French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:55 am
March 4th 1962 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:56 am
March 4th 1966 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:56 am
March 4th 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:56 am
March 4th 1972 – Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:56 am
March 4th 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1976 – The last flight of the second Concorde prototype aircraft to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at the Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1976 – The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1977 – Mario Kevin Furtado of Los Angeles was born.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1979 – The first encyclical written by Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (Latin for "The Redeemer of Man") is promulgated less than five months after his installation as pope.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:57 am
March 4th 1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1982 – NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1990 – Loyola Marymount University, All-American basketball player Hank Gathers dies on the court of a heart attack during a conference semifinal game.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:58 am
March 4th 1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 1994 – Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 1997 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 3:59 am
March 4th 2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:00 am
March 4th 2002 – Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:00 am
March 4th 2002 – Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:00 am
March 4th 2005 – The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers after it ran a roadblock in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:00 am
March 4th 2005 – The United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:00 am
March 4th 2006 – Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response is received.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:01 am
March 4th 2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:01 am
March 4th 2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/10 at 4:55 am
March 4th 1966 London's "Evening Standard" newspaper published an interview with Beatle John Lennon in which he remarked: 'Christianity will... vanish and shrink... We're more popular than Jesus Christ right now.' The quote touched off a storm of international protest, resulting in burnings and boycotts of the Beatles' records.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:31 am
March 5th 363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:31 am
March 5th 1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:31 am
March 5th 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:31 am
March 5th 1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:31 am
March 5th 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:32 am
March 5th 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:32 am
March 5th 1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:32 am
March 5th 1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:32 am
March 5th 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:32 am
March 5th 1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:33 am
March 5th 1894 – Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1942 – United States Navy Seabees established.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:34 am
March 5th 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:35 am
March 5th 1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:35 am
March 5th 1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:35 am
March 5th 1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:35 am
March 5th 1958 – The Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:35 am
March 5th 1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1973 – Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:36 am
March 5th 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios 2 all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite, arrives at the planet Venus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1984 – 6,000 Miners in the United Kingdom begin their historic strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:37 am
March 5th 2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/10 at 2:38 am
March 5th 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:16 am
March 6th 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:16 am
March 6th 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:17 am
March 6th 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:17 am
March 6th 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:17 am
March 6th 1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:17 am
March 6th 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:17 am
March 6th 1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:18 am
March 6th 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:18 am
March 6th 1857 – Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 3:18 am
March 6th 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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March 6th 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
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March 6th 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
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March 6th 1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
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March 6th 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
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March 6th 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
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March 6th 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
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March 6th 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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March 6th 1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
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March 6th 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
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March 6th 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
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March 6th 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
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March 6th 1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
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March 6th 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
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March 6th 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
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March 6th 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
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March 6th 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
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March 6th 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
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March 6th 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
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March 6th 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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March 6th 2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
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March 6th 2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/10 at 5:03 am
March 6th 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
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March 7th 321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
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March 7th 1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
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March 7th 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
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March 7th 1814 – Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
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March 7th 1827 – Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
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March 7th 1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
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March 7th 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
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March 7th 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
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March 7th 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating Antonio Meucci by just 4 hours.
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March 7th 1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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March 7th 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
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March 7th 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
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March 7th 1936 – World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
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March 7th 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/10 at 3:11 am
March 7th 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
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March 7th 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
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March 7th 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
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March 7th 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic "This time the struggle is for our freedom" speech at Ramna Race Course, calling upon the Bengali people to prepare for the freedom struggle ahead.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/10 at 3:12 am
March 7th 1985 – The song We Are the World had its international release.
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March 7th 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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March 7th 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/10 at 3:12 am
March 7th 1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/10 at 3:12 am
March 7th 2007 – British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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March 7th 1867 Birth of Peter Cameron Scott, founder of the Africa Inland Mission. In 1895, Scott led the first band of missionaries to reach Kenya. He died in Africa the following year, at 29, of blackwater fever. Over 700 AIM missionaries have since followed in Scott's footsteps.
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March 7th 1802 In Washington, D.C., the first Baptist church was organized with six charter members. Their first pastor Obadiah Brown was hired five years later, and Brown remained in that pulpit while involving himself in every important local Baptist program for the next 43 years!
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March 8th 1126 – Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
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March 8th 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
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March 8th 1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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March 8th 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
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March 8th 1775 – Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery is published.
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March 8th 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
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March 8th 1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
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March 8th 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
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March 8th 1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
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March 8th 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
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March 8th 1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
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March 8th 1917 – The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
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March 8th 1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
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March 8th 1924 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
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March 8th 1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
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March 8th 1942 – World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
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March 8th 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
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March 8th 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
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March 8th 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
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March 8th 1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
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March 8th 1966 – A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
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March 8th 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
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March 8th 1978 – The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
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March 8th 1979 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
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March 8th 1980 – The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
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March 8th 1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
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March 8th 1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
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March 8th 1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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March 8th 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
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March 9th 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
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March 9th 1230 AD – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
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March 9th 1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
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March 9th 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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March 9th 1566 – David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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March 9th 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
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March 9th 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
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March 9th 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
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March 9th 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
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March 9th 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
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March 9th 1856 – National Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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March 9th 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first fight between two ironclad warships.
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March 9th 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
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March 9th 1908 – Inter Milan is founded.
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March 9th 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
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March 9th 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico
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March 9th 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
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March 9th 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
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March 9th 1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
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March 9th 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
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March 9th 1956 – Soviet military suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
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March 9th 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
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March 9th 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
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March 9th 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
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March 9th 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
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March 9th 1977 – The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
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March 9th 1989 – A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
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March 9th 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
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March 9th 1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
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March 9th 1993 – Rodney King testifies against the four LAPD officers accused of violating his civil rights when they beat him during his 1991 arrest.
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March 9th 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
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March 9th 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
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March 9th 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
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March 9th 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
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March 9th 1931 The World Radio Missionary Fellowship (WRMF) was incorporated in Lima, Ohio, by co_founders Clarence W. Jones and Reuben Larson. Today, this interdenominational mission agency broadcasts the Gospel in 15 languages to South America and throughout Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/10 at 3:00 am
March 13th 1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
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March 13th 1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
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March 13th 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
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March 13th 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
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March 13th 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
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March 13th 1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.