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March 1: Saint David's Day in Wales, Mărţişor in Romania, Martenitsa in Bulgaria
- 1562 - The French Wars of Religion began with a massacre of Huguenots.
- 1872 - Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was established.
- 1896 - Ethiopia won the decisive Battle of Adowa over Italy, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1919 - Japanese rule in Korea: The Samil Movement in Korea began with numerous peaceful protests nationwide, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army.
- 1947 - The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.
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March 2: Independence Day in Morocco (1956)
- 1836 - The Republic of Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
- 1943 - World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
- 1946 - Hồ Chí Minh became President of North Vietnam.
- 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game, still a record in the NBA today.
- 1998 - Water was discovered on Europa, a moon of the planet Jupiter.
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March 3: Hinamatsuri in Japan
- 1431 - Gabriel Condulmer became Pope Eugenius IV.
- 1878 - By the Treaty of San Stefano, which ended the Russo-Turkish War, Bulgaria became an autonomous principality in the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 - Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers and exited from World War I.
- 1923 - The first issue of TIME, a newsmagazine founded by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, was published.
- 1958 - Nuri as-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
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March 4: St. Casimir's Day in Lithuania and Poland
- 1461 - The Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then became King Edward IV.
- 1825 - Despite having lost in both the electoral and popular votes in the 1824 presidential election, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the sixth President of the United States.
- 1877 - Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
- 1975 - Actor and director Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- 1980 - Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union was elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.
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- 1770 - Boston Massacre: The pelting of snowballs at British soldiers during a military occupation soon escalated into violence in Boston.
- 1824 - Britain officially declared war on Burma, beginning the First Anglo-Burmese War.
- 1872 - George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains to stop more reliably.
- 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moved its capital to Moscow from Petrograd.
- 1946 - The term "Iron Curtain" was first used in a speech by Winston Churchill.
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March 6: Independence Day in Ghana (1957), Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom (2005), Laetare Sunday in Western Christianity (2005)
- 1447 - Tomaso Parentucelli became Pope Nicholas V.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan and his crew became the first Europeans to reach Guam of the Mariana Islands.
- 1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott Case, a landmark decision that led to several constitutional amendments.
- 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1987 - British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 on board.
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March 7: Teacher's Day in Albania
- 161 - Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded Antoninus Pius to become co-Emperors of the Roman Empire.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces won the Battle of Pea Ridge and cemented their control in Missouri.
- 1936 - Germany re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
- 1950 - The Soviet Union issued a statement denying that German nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs had served as a Soviet spy.
- 1965 - American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday.
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March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in Albania
- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 - Princess Anne of the House of Stuart became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1782 - Almost 100 Native Americans died in the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhütten massacre.
- 1844 - Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1966 - Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Horatio Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.
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March 9: Baron Bliss Day in Belize
- 1862 - Ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
- 1916 - General Pancho Villa led 1,500 Mexicans in a cross-border attack against Columbus, New Mexico, prompting a punitive expedition from the U.S. military.
- 1932 - Eamon de Valera became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
- 1945 - A bomb raid on Tokyo started a firestorm, killing 100,000.
- 1959 - The world's best-selling doll, Barbie, was first sold in New York City.
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- 241 BC - Rome defeated Carthage in the Battle of the Aegates Islands, ending the First Punic War.
- 1831 - The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful telephone call.
- 1952 - Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control in Cuba.
- 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom.
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March 11: Red Nose Day in the United Kingdom (2005)
- 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici became Pope Leo X.
- 1845 - Māori forces led by chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke destroyed the British settlement of Kororareka in New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.
- 1966 - In power since World War II, President Sukarno of Indonesia was ousted by Suharto and the military.
- 1990 - The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ceased to exist when Lithuania proclaimed the restitution of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2004 - The March 11th Attacks: A series of terrorist bombings on commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid.
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March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968)
- 515 BCE - Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the Dandi March, a 24-day, 320-km walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
- 1938 - Anschluss Österreichs: Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich.
- 1940 - The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic (right) was assassinated in Belgrade.
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- 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus were interred in Constantinople.
- 1639 - Already two years old but usually called simply "the New College", Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts was named after its first principal donor, John Harvard.
- 1781 - William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
- 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a Nihilist plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki.
- 1954 - Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the final battle in the First Indochina War.
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March 14: Commonwealth Day (2005), White Day in Japan, Pi Day
- 1590 - Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots decisively defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne in the Battle of Ivry.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin.
- 1964 - Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1984 - Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast, Ireland.
- 1991 - The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of murder and bombing pubs in Birmingham, England, were released after 16 years in prison.
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- 44 BCE - Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1877 - History of cricket: Cricketers representing England and Australia played the first Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1906 - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce.
- 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
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- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1815 - William I proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- 1872 - Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: American soldiers killed 347 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
- 1978 - Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by the Red Brigades.
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- 45 BC - Julius Caesar scored his final military victory in the Battle of Munda, defeating the Optimate forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger.
- 1901 - An exhibit of 71 paintings by Vincent van Gogh created a sensation in Paris, 11 years after his death.
- 1958 - Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite, was launched. It is the oldest human-launched object still in space today.
- 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, fled Tibet for India.
- 1969 - Golda Meir of the Labour Party became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
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March 18: Flag Day in Aruba (1976)
- 1229 - Sixth Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared himself King of Jerusalem.
- 1438 - Albert II of Habsburg became King of the Romans in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1921 - The Polish-Bolshevik War, which determined the borders between the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, formally concluded with the signing of the Peace of Riga.
- 1922 - Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.
- 1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov donned a spacesuit and ventured outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft to become the first person to walk in space.
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March 19: Saint Joseph's Day in Catholicism and Father's Day in various countries
- 1279 - The Song Dynasty in Imperial China ended with a Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen.
- 1687 - The search for the mouth of the Mississippi River led by French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle ended with a mutiny and his murder in Texas.
- 1915 - The planet Pluto was photographed for the first time, 15 years before it was eventually discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
- 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge, a major landmark in Sydney, Australia, was formally opened.
- 1982 - The Falklands War began with an Argentine occupation of South Georgia.
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March 20: Vernal equinox and International Earth Day (2005), Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2005), Independence Day in Tunisia (1956)
- 1413 - Henry V became King of England.
- 1602 - The Dutch East India Company was established.
- 1933 - The construction of the first Nazi German concentration camp at Dachau was completed.
- 1987 - The antiretroviral drug AZT became the first antiviral medication approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
- 1995 - The Aum Shinrikyo sect carried out a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring more than 6,000 with sarin.
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March 21: Benito Juárez Day in Mexico, Norouz in Iran, World Poetry Day
- 1556 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
- 1800 - Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
- 1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.
- 1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
- 1990 - Formerly known as South-West Africa, Namibia gained independence from South Africa, with Sam Nujoma swearing in as the first President.
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- 238 - Gordian I and Gordian II were proclaimed Roman Emperors.
- 1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, adding fuel to the growing separatist movement in colonial America.
- 1888 - William McGregor, director of Aston Villa F.C. in Birmingham, England, founded the Football League.
- 1945 - The Arab League was founded by 7 Arab states.
- 1995 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov of the Soyuz programme returned from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
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March 23: National Day in Pakistan (1956)
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- 1775 - American Revolution: Patrick Henry made his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
- 1801 - Tsar Alexander I acceded to the Russian throne after his father Paul I was brutally murdered.
- 1919 - Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
- 1978 - The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 1996 - Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
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March 24: Maundy Thursday in Western Christianity (2005)
- 1603 - King James I became the first British monarch to reign in Scotland, England and Ireland simultaneously.
- 1882 - Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
- 1944 - World War II: Captured Allied soldiers began "the Great Escape", breaking out of Stalag Luft III, a prison camp operated by the Luftwaffe.
- 1976 - Dirty War: President Isabel Perón of Argentina was kidnapped and deposed in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1989 - The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a major environmental disaster.
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March 25: Purim in Judaism, Good Friday in Western Christianity (2005); Independence Day in Greece (1821)
- 1306 - Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at the Scone Palace in Perth.
- 1634 - The English colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore and a group of Catholic settlers.
- 1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
- 1957 - West Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, France and Belgium signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.
- 1995 - Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the Portland Pattern Repository.
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March 26: Independence Day in Bangladesh (1971), Holy Saturday in Western Christianity, Rangapanchami (Holi) in Hinduism (2005)
- 1707 - By the Act of Union, England and Scotland merged to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1871 - The Paris Commune was formally established.
- 1881 - Domnitor Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was proclaimed the first King of Romania.
- 1973 - The first of more than eight thousand episodes of the American soap opera The Young and the Restless was broadcast on television.
- 1999 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an advocate for physician-assisted suicide, was found guilty of murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
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March 27: Easter Sunday in Western Christianity (2005)
- 1513 - Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León first sighted Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
- 1794 - The United States Navy was established.
- 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake struck Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska at a magnitude of 9.2, with subsequent tsunamis reaching as far as California and Hawaii.
- 1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners collided in the Tenerife disaster on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in one of the worst aircraft accidents in aviation history.
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