March 3/1 2005 - 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. 3/2 1867 - 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 3/3 1991 – 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 3/4 1681 - 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 3/5 1946 - 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. 3/6 2014 - 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 3/7 1857 - 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 3/8 1817 - 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) 3/8 2008 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 3/9 1862 - 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 3/10 1496 - 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 3/11 1918 - 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 3/12 1999 - 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" 3/13 1781 - 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 3/15 44 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. 3/16 1935 - 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 3/17 45BC - 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 3/18 1834 - 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 3/19 2012 - 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 3/20 1815 - 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" 3/21 1685 - 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 3/22 1997 - 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 3/23 1808 - 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 3/24 1990 - 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

3/25 1609 - 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

3/26 1827 -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. 3/27 2007 - 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 3/28