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March 6th1475: Michelangelo born1820: Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise1836: The Alamo fell to Mexican forces1857: The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.1896: First motor car in "Motor City"1899: Bayer patents aspirin1931: First radio newsreel debuts1981: Walter Cronkite retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.1983: Kohl elected West German chancellor

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March 6th1475: Michelangelo born1820: Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise1836: The Alamo fell to Mexican forces1857: The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.1896: First motor car in "Motor City"1899: Bayer patents aspirin1931: First radio newsreel debuts1981: Walter Cronkite retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.1983: Kohl elected West German chancellor
At least two of these should have become U.S. national holidays. They could have done a duel holiday or something.
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At least two of these should have become U.S. national holidays. They could have done a duel holiday or something.
Dred Scott day would be a bit of a downer.
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March 7th1862: Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone1916: BMW is born1918: WWI Finland signs treaty with Germany1936: Adolf Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact when he ordered troops to march into the Rhineland.1955: First Broadway play televised in color

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March 6th1475: Michelangelo born1820: Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise1836: The Alamo fell to Mexican forces1857: The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.1896: First motor car in "Motor City"1899: Bayer patents aspirin1931: First radio newsreel debuts1981: Walter Cronkite retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.1983: Kohl elected West German chancellor
Add2008 Kennedale High School reached the final 2 in UIL State Championship Basketball for the first time in school history
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Doh I suck @ consistencyMarch 8th1669: Mount Etna erupts1801: Anglo-Ottoman force takes Abukir Bay1917: Russia's February Revolution1936: First stock-car race run at Daytona1951: The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed1957: Egypt opens the Suez Canal1965: First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.1969: Firebird Trans Am debuts1971: Ali battles Frazier for heavyweight championship1999: Joe DiMaggio diedMarch 9th1916: Pancho Villa raids U.S.1916: Germany declares war on Portugal1925: National treasurer is born1933: FDR submits Emergency Banking Act1943: Bobby Fischer born1959: Barbie makes her debut1997: Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los AngelesMarch 10th1785: Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.1864: Lincoln signs Ulysses S. Grant’s commission to command the U.S. Army1876: Speech transmitted by telephone1918: First Warner Bros. film1926: First Book-of-the-Month Club selection is published1969: Ray pleads guilty to King assassinationMarch 11th1779: Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers1818: Frankenstein published1861: Confederate constitution adopted1918: First cases reported in deadly influenza epidemic1927: First armored-truck holdup1927: First rear-projection screen installed1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.1941: FDR signs Lend-Lease1985: Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed Chernenko1989: COPS makes TV debut1993: Janet Reno first female U.S. Attorney General. 1997: Paul McCartney knighted

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Doh I suck @ consistencyMarch 8th1669: Mount Etna erupts1801: Anglo-Ottoman force takes Abukir Bay1917: Russia's February Revolution1936: First stock-car race run at Daytona1951: The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed1957: Egypt opens the Suez Canal1965: First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.1969: Firebird Trans Am debuts1971: Ali battles Frazier for heavyweight championship1999: Joe DiMaggio diedMarch 9th1916: Pancho Villa raids U.S.1916: Germany declares war on Portugal1925: National treasurer is born1933: FDR submits Emergency Banking Act1943: Bobby Fischer born1959: Barbie makes her debut1997: Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los AngelesMarch 10th1785: Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.1864: Lincoln signs Ulysses S. Grant’s commission to command the U.S. Army1876: Speech transmitted by telephone1918: First Warner Bros. film1926: First Book-of-the-Month Club selection is published1969: Ray pleads guilty to King assassinationMarch 11th1779: Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers1818: Frankenstein published1861: Confederate constitution adopted1918: First cases reported in deadly influenza epidemic1927: First armored-truck holdup1927: First rear-projection screen installed1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.1941: FDR signs Lend-Lease1985: Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed Chernenko1989: COPS makes TV debut1993: Janet Reno first female U.S. Attorney General. 1997: Paul McCartney knighted
add 1942 General Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines saying, "I shall return."
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March 12th1831: Studebaker is born1864: Red River Campaign begins1888: The Blizzard of 18881912: Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.1923: First movie with sound recorded on film1930: Gandhi leads civil disobedience1933: FDR broadcasts first fireside chat1938: Germany annexes Austria1947: Truman Doctrine is announced1952: Mercedes introduces 300SL1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years2002: The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge2003: Police recover Elizabeth Smart and arrest her abductors

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March 12th1831: Studebaker is born1864: Red River Campaign begins1888: The Blizzard of 18881912: Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.1923: First movie with sound recorded on film1930: Gandhi leads civil disobedience1933: FDR broadcasts first fireside chat1938: Germany annexes Austria1947: Truman Doctrine is announced1952: Mercedes introduces 300SL1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years2002: The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge2003: Police recover Elizabeth Smart and arrest her abductors
This is inaccurate.Janet Reno is a man.
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You know you can see the front right?Download Gia instead.
QFTAVLAQuoted for truth albeit very late apparentley.(i think i may have spelled that wrong........maybe)
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QFTAVLAQuoted for truth albeit very late apparentley.(i think i may have spelled that wrong........maybe)
Quoted For Truth and Video Lesbian Action sounds soooooooooooo much better.
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March 13th1639: Cambridge College was renamed Harvard University1781: William Hershel discovers Uranus (teeeheeeeeeeeeeee!)1852: "Uncle Sam" cartoon appeared for the first time1865: Confederacy approves black soldiers1868: Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins1881: Czar Alexander II assassinated1906: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died1915: Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends1930: Clyde W. Tombaugh announced the discovery of the planet Pluto1961: Kennedy proposes Alliance for Progress

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March 14th1776: Alexander Hamilton is named captain of artillery company1794: The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney1812: War bonds go on sale1816: Second Bank of U.S. is established1879: Albert Einstein born1915: German cruiser Dresden sinks1931: First theater designed for rear projector1943: Germans recapture Kharkov1950: The FBI debuts 10 Most Wanted1964: Jack Ruby sentenced to death1967: JFK’s body moved to permanent gravesite1969: Nixon discusses the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawals1976: Busby Berkeley dies1990: Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union1991: Birmingham Six released

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