MARCH
On this day in time
March 1
1872 Yellowstone becomes world's first
National Park
March 2
1836 Republic of Texas declares
independence from Mexico
March 3
1791 Congress establishes the US
mint
March 4
1933 FDR inaugurated as 32nd President,
"We have nothing to fear but fear
itself"
March 5
1770 Boston massacre; British troops
kill five in crowd
March 6
1323 Treaty of Paris
March 7
1936 Hitler breaks treaty of Versailles,
sends troops to Rhineland.
March 8
1999 Joe DiMaggio "The yankee Clipper"
dies at age 84; holds record for 56
consecutive game hitting streak in
baseball
March 9
1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack
(confed.) battle in Hampton Roads.
March 10
1876 First telephone call made
(Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
March 11
1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen as Pope
Leo x
March 12
1789 US Post Office established
March 13
1519 Cortez lands in Mexico
March 14
1900 US currency goes on gold
standard
March 15
1907 Finland becomes first European
country to give women the right to
vote.
March 16 1968
My Lai Massacre occurs (Viet Nam War);
450 die.
March 17 1969
Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of
Israel
March 18 1881
Barnum and Baileys Greatest show on
Earth opens
March 19 1628
Massachusetts colony founded by british
March 20 1760
Great fire of Boston destroys 349
buildings
March 21 1975
Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3,000 years
March 22 1457
Gutenburg Bible is the first printed
book
March 23 1775
Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty
or give me death"
March 24 1898
First automobile sold
March 25 1954
1954 RCA manufactures first color tv set
(12' screen at $1,000)
March 26 1953
Dvelopement of the salk Polio vaccine
announced.
March 27 1790
Shoelace invented
March 28 1885
US Salvation Army
officially organized
March 29 1827
20,000 attend Ludwig von
Beethoven's burial in Vienna
March 30 1867
Alaska sold to US by Russia for 7.2
million
March 31 1889
Eiffel Tower officially opens
(commemorates French revolution)
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