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MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012

Today is Monday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2011. There are 294 days left in the year. 1642 ― Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand 1848 ― Second Republic established in France 1912 ― Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane 1930 ― Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile (321-km) march protesting British salt tax 1945 ― New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment 1945 ― The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day 1951 ― Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1963 ― Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1977 ― Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel 1984 ― National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51-week strike

Mar 11, 2012

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 10, the 70th day of 2012. There are 296 days left in the year. 418 ― Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 1629 ― King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1862 ― U.S. issues first paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1,000) 1876 ― First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1880 ― Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity 1910 ― China ends slavery 1960 ― USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing 1969 ― James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 1982 ― President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1990 ― Fourth American Comedy Awards: When Harry Met Sally

Mar 9, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012

Today is Friday, March 9, the 69th day of 2012. There are 297 days left in the year. 1452 ― Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III Roman Catholic-German emperor 1496 ― Jews expelled from Carintha Austria 1497 ― Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation 1522 ― Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1617 ― Sweden and Russia sign the Peace of Stolbowa 1697 ― Czar Peter the Great begins a tour of West Europe 1796 ― Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1820 ― The Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die 1841 ― The U.S. Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) 1916 ― Germany declares war against Portugal 1918 ― The Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1918 ― Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda 1936 ― Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player 1945 ― Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China 1953 ― Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 1962 ― Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians 1979 ― France performs a nucle

Mar 8, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012

Today is Thursday, March 8, the 68th day of 2012. There are 298 days left in the year. 1658 ― Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark 1722 ― Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1782 ― Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians 1801 ― British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1894 ― New York passes 1st state dog license law 1911 ― International Women's Day (1st celebrated) 1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg) 1917 ― The U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time 1920 ― Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations 1930 ― Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1942 ― Japanese forces capture Rangoon, Burma 1943 ― Limited gambling legalized in Mexico 1944 ― The U.S. resumes bombing Berlin 1957 ― Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1957 ― The USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1968 ― Students demonstrate in Warsaw 1974 ― Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris 1979 ― China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam 1983 ― IBM releas

Mar 7, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012

Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 67th day of 2012. There are 299 days left in the year. 1138 ― Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king 1573 ― Turkey and Venice sign a peace treaty 1774 ― British close the port of Boston to all commerce 1778 ― Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 1852 ― Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law 1876 ― Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1906 ― The Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor 1921 ― The Red Army under Trotsky attacks sailors of Kronstadt 1925 ― American Negro Congress organizes 1933 ― Game of "Monopoly" invented 1936 ― Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland 1944 ― Japans begins offensive in Burma 1945 ― Yugoslavia government of Tito forms 1962 ― Beatles make their broadcasting debut on BBC radio 1971 ― Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire 1977 ― Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections 1991 ― Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait 1995 ― New York becomes 38th state to h

Mar 6, 2012

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 66th day of 2012. There are 300 days left in the year. 1521 ― Magellan discovers Guam 1853 ― Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``La Traviata" premieres in Venice 1899 ― ``Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann 1921 ― Police in Sunbury, Pa., issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee 1964 ― Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali 1964 ― Liz Taylor's third divorce (Eddie Fisher) 1970 ― Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K. 1981 ― Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News" 1985 ― Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of ``King & I" 1991 ― Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that ``aggression is defeated; the war is over" .co.kr

Mar 5, 2012

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012

Today is Monday, March 5, the 65th day of 2012. There are 301 days left in the year. 254 ― St. Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1461 ― Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses 1558 ― Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes 1623 ― 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1795 ― Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution 1836 ― Mexico attacks Alamo 1836 ― Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model 1896 ― Italian premier Crispi resigns 1900 ― American Hall of Fame is founded 1917 ― 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released 1933 ― FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday 1933 ― Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament 1942 ― Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1946 ― Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 1956 ― “King Kong” 1st televised 1959 ― Iran and the U.S. sign economic & military treaty 1963 ― Beatles record “From Me to You” & “Thank You Girl” 1964 ― Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due t

Mar 4, 2012

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2012. There are 303 days left in the year. 78 ― Origin of Saka Era (India) 1794 ― First performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 1861 ― Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1875 ― Georges Bizet's opera ``Carmen" premieres (Paris, France) 1887 ― Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1943 ― U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea 1955 ― Elvis Presley makes his first TV appearance 1977 ― Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms 1978 ― Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland 1992 ― President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

Mar 2, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012

Today is Friday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2012. There are 304 days left in the year. 1819 ― U.S. passed its first immigration law 1903 ― Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City 1919 ― First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1923 ― Time magazine debuts 1927 ― Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1933 ― ``King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy, NYC 1937 ― Mexico nationalizes oil 1944 ― 16th Academy Awards: ``Casablanca", Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win 1946 ― Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam 1969 ― Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)

Mar 1, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012

Today is Thursday, March 1, the 61st day of 2012. There are 305 days left in the year. 1 B.C. ― Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 293 ― Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy 1260 ― Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus 1872 ― Yellowstone becomes world's first national park 1912 ― Albert Berry makes first parachute jump from an airplane 1919 ― Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1933 ― Bank holidays declared in six states, to prevent run on banks 1934 ― Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1940 ― 12th Academy Awards: ``Gone with the Wind," Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win 1947 ― International Monetary Fund began operations

Feb 29, 2012

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