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March: Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts |
| Women's History Month | |
| 1 | 1803 - Ohio became a state. 1867 - Nebraska became a state. 1961 - Peace Corps established by President John F. Kennedy. |
| 2 | 1836 - Texas independent of
Mexico. 1956 - Morocco independent. |
| 3 | 1845 - Florida became a state. |
| 4 | 1789 - United States
Constitution officially became the law of the land. 1791 - Vermont became a state. 1917 - First woman, Jeannette Rankin, sat in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1933 - First woman to serve in the president's cabinet, Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 5 | 1770 - Boston Massacre. |
| 6 | 1836 - Fall of the Alamo. 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Slaves not U.S. citizens and have no standing to sue in federal court, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. 1957 - Gold Coast and Togoland united as Ghana. |
| 7 | 1876 - Patent granted to
Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone. 1965 - Civil rights marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 8 | 1782 - Gnadenhutten, Ohio,
massacre of Delaware Indians. 1917 - Start of Russia's February Revolution. 1948 - Religious instruction in public schools declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 9 | 1796 - Marriage of Josephine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte. |
| 10 | 1629 - Parliament dissolved
by England's Charles I. 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratified by Congress (Mexican-American War). |
| 11 | 1941 - Lend-Lease Bill
signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (World War II). 1990 - Lithuania independent. |
| 12 | 1912 - Girl Scouts of
America founded by Juliette Gordon Low. 1938 - Hitler's Anschluss united Austria and Germany. 1947 - Truman Doctrine established by U.S. President Harry Truman. |
| 13 | 1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard University. |
| 14 | 1794 - Eli Whitney granted a patent for the cotton gin. |
| 15 | 44 B.C.E. - Ancient Rome's
Julius Caesar assassinated in the senate house on this, the Ides of
March. 1820 - Maine became a state. |
| 16 | 1521 - Philippines reached
by Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan. 1850 - Publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. 1968 - Vietnam's My Lai Massacre. |
| 17 | 1969 - Israel swore in
Golda Meir as prime minister. St. Patrick's Day |
| 18 | 1766 - Stamp Act repealed by Great Britain. |
| 19 | 1931 - Gambling legalized in Nevada. |
| 20 | 1602 - Establishment of the
Dutch East India Company. 1852 - Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1990 - Namibia independent. First Day of Spring |
| 21 | 1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, burned at the stake for heresy. |
| 22 | 1765 - Stamp Act enacted. |
| 23 | 1775 - "Give Me Liberty or
Give Me Death" speech given by Patrick Henry. 1919 - Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist party in Italy. |
| 24 | 1603 - Death of England's Elizabeth I. |
| 25 | 1634 - Maryland founded. 1911 - New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. 1957 - Establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC). |
| 26 | 1971 - East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh. |
| 27 | 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became leader of the Soviet Union. |
| 28 | 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs
granted a patent for his washing machine. 1939 - End of the Spanish Civil War. |
| 29 | 1867 - Dominion of Canada
established through the North America Act. 1973 - Last U.S. Troops withdrew from Vietnam. |
| 30 | 1842 - First use of
anesthesia during surgery. 1856 - Crimean War officially ended by Treaty of Paris. |
| 31 | 1492 - Jews expelled from
Spain during the Reconquista of Ferdinand and Isabella. 1917 - United States took control of the Virgin Islands. |
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