2005 - Supreme Court Outlawed the Death Penalty for Juveniles
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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