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On March 12. 1795 William Lyon Mackenzie was born:
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On March 13, 1996- A gunman opened fire on a class of kindergarteners at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
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And since tomorrow is 3-14, it's appropriate that I post this just to remind everyone of how significant it is:
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Also on March 14th, 1879- Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
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On March 15th, 1965- President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
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On March 1th, 1994- Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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Also on March 16, 1955, Isabelle Huppert was born...
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Also on March 17th, 1906- President Theodore Roosevelt first used the term "muck-rake" as he criticized what he saw as the excesses of investigative journalism in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.
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On March 18. 1963, Vanessa Williams was born...
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Also on March 18th, 1959- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
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mmm, Ursula
Also on March 19th, 1931- Nevada legalized gambling. Even though there's no booze (yet) I can't get "Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear" out of my head now. |
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Also on March 20th, 1996- A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. (They are serving life without parole.)
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Also on March 21st, 1989- Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a police officer was overturned after the documentary "The Thin Blue Line" challenged evidence, was released from a Texas prison.
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Also on March 22nd, 1965- Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home" - his first featuring electric guitar - was released.
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On March 23rd, 1942- During World War II, the U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers.
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On March 24th, 1973- The album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd was released.
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Also on March 26th, in 1973, women are allowed on the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
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Women on the market floor? No wonder we're having so many probelms.
Also on March 26th, 1982- Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington, D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. |
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On March 27th, 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
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Also on March 27, 1969, Pauley Perrette was born...
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Also on March 28, 1979- America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa
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On March 29, 1973- the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Also on March 30th, 1870- Texas was readmitted to the Union.
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