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March 1, 2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
March 1, 1998 "Art," opens at Royale Theater New York City
March 1, 1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
March 1, 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City
March 1, 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
March 1, 1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
March 1, 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
March 1, 1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelipha, Sheryl Crow
March 1, 1995 Belgium ends military conscript
March 1, 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
March 1, 1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
March 1, 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
March 1, 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
March 1, 1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
March 1, 1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
March 1, 1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
March 1, 1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees
March 1, 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
March 1, 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances
March 1, 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances
March 1, 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
March 1, 1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 secs)
March 1, 1991 U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
March 1, 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
March 1, 1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
March 1, 1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
March 1, 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
March 1, 1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce
March 1, 1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
March 1, 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
March 1, 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
March 1, 1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
March 1, 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
March 1, 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
March 1, 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
March 1, 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
March 1, 1984 Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
March 1, 1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi
March 1, 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup
March 1, 1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
March 1, 1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
March 1, 1982 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
March 1, 1982 New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
March 1, 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
March 1, 1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances
March 1, 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison
March 1, 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
March 1, 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
March 1, 1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
March 1, 1980 Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
March 1, 1980 Snow falls in Florida
March 1, 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances
March 1, 1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 243 performances
March 1, 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
March 1, 1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
March 1, 1977 U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles
March 1, 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
March 1, 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
March 1, 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November
March 1, 1974 Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. NZ cricket at Wellington
March 1, 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
March 1, 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
March 1, 1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
March 1, 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
March 1, 1972 David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," premieres in New York City
March 1, 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
March 1, 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C.
March 1, 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
March 1, 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
March 1, 1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
March 1, 1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
March 1, 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
March 1, 1969 "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances
March 1, 1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
March 1, 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
March 1, 1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
March 1, 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
March 1, 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
March 1, 1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed
March 1, 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
March 1, 1967 Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain
March 1, 1967 House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (307 to 116)
March 1, 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
March 1, 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
March 1, 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
March 1, 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
March 1, 1965 Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct
March 1, 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
March 1, 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
March 1, 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95
March 1, 1962 K-Mart opens
March 1, 1962 U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
March 1, 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
March 1, 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall
March 1, 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
March 1, 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
March 1, 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
March 1, 1958 Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
March 1, 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
March 1, 1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan
March 1, 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances
March 1, 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
March 1, 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
March 1, 1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
March 1, 1955 Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
March 1, 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives
March 1, 1954 In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
March 1, 1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
March 1, 1954 U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
March 1, 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
March 1, 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
March 1, 1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
March 1, 1953 WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
March 1, 1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
March 1, 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
March 1, 1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa
March 1, 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
March 1, 1950 U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles
March 1, 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
March 1, 1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals
March 1, 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation
March 1, 1946 British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
March 1, 1946 Panama accepts its new constitution
March 1, 1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
March 1, 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
March 1, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference
March 1, 1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
March 1, 1945 U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach
March 1, 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
March 1, 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
March 1, 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
March 1, 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat
March 1, 1942 Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
March 1, 1942 J. Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago
March 1, 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
March 1, 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
March 1, 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
March 1, 1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book
March 1, 1941 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee
March 1, 1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
March 1, 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria
March 1, 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
March 1, 1940 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat and V Leigh win
March 1, 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
March 1, 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
March 1, 1937 Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
March 1, 1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
March 1, 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
March 1, 1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
March 1, 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
March 1, 1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
March 1, 1928 Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records
March 1, 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
March 1, 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
March 1, 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
March 1, 1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
March 1, 1921 Rwanda ceded to England
March 1, 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
March 1, 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
March 1, 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
March 1, 1917 1st federal land bank chartered
March 1, 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
March 1, 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
March 1, 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND
March 1, 1913 Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment
March 1, 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
March 1, 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City
March 1, 1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history
March 1, 1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
March 1, 1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia
March 1, 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
March 1, 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador
March 1, 1890 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
March 1, 1880 Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery
March 1, 1879 Library of Hawaii founded
March 1, 1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms in Farmington, Connecticut
March 1, 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883
March 1, 1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
March 1, 1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
March 1, 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
March 1, 1867 Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered
March 1, 1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later)
March 1, 1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
March 1, 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
March 1, 1864 Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
March 1, 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd)
March 1, 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again
March 1, 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
March 1, 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
March 1, 1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
March 1, 1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
March 1, 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
March 1, 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed
March 1, 1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
March 1, 1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
March 1, 1792 U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed
March 1, 1790 1st U.S. census authorized
March 1, 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
March 1, 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
March 1, 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
March 1, 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
March 1, 1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
March 1, 1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts)
March 1, 1642 Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
March 1, 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
March 1, 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
March 1, 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
March 1, 1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sa founds Rio de Janeiro
March 1, 1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
March 1, 1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
March 1, 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
March 1, 1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
March 1, 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
March 1, 918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
March 1, 743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
March 1, 705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
March 1, 492 St. Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
March 1, 492 St. Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope



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