Also on February 27th, 1997- Divorce became legal in Ireland.

On February 28, 1854, the Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group...

Also on Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began

On March 1, 1692, in Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged...

Also On March 1st in 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.

On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

Also on March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country..."

On March 3, 1991, in a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th U.S. state...

On March 4, 1634 , Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, MA...

On March 5, 1770, "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter...

On March 6, 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone...

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Then also on March 7, in 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

On March 8th, 1965- The United States landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.

And on a related note, on March 8, 1954, France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina...

On March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va.

Also on March 9, 1454, Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his honor...

On March 10, 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. His death was announced on March 11th. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.

Also on March 10, 1656, in the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion...

On March 11, 1824, the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker became the first Indian to lead the Bureau...

On March 12, 1609, the Bermuda Islands became an English colony...

On March 13, 1519, Cortez landed in Mexico...

On March 14, 1907, Acapulco, Mexico, was hit by an earthquake...

Also on March 14th, in 1983, OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.

On Maech 15, 44 BC, Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the "Ides of March..."

On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.

Also on March 16, 1964, Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games...

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On March 17, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.

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On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.

On March 19, 1920, the United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49-35, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.

On March 24, 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.

Also on March 24, 1832, Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio...

Also on March 24th, in 1765 England begins the Quartering Act, requiring colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.

On March 25, 1634, Lord Baltimore founded the Catholic colony of Maryland...

Also on March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

On March 26, 1804, the U.S. Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana...

Also on March 26, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.

On March 27, 1836, in Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution...