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March 1 2931 (TA) |
Birth of Aragorn to Arathorn and Gilraen
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March 1 1872 |
Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
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March 2 1923 |
Time magazine debuts
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March 3 1887 |
Anne Sullivan arrived at the Keller home to become the teacher of their blind and deaf six-year-old daughter, Helen
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March 4 1678 |
Birth of composer Antonio Vivaldi
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March 5 1971 |
"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast
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March 6 1806 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England
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March 7 1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone
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March 8 1702 |
England's Queen Anne ascended the throne after the death of King William III
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March 9 1959 |
Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
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March 10 1916 |
Birth of James Herriot in Scotland
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March 11 1302 |
The wedding day of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
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March 12 1795 |
Birth of William Lyon Mackenzie
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March 13 1781 |
Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel
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March 14 1950 |
FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
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March 15 1603 |
French explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed on his first voyage to Canada
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March 16 1850 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
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March 17 1969 |
Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel
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March 18 1965 |
The first spacewalk took place by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov
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March 19 1914 |
The Royal Ontario Museum was officially opened
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March 20 1888 |
Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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March 21 1685 |
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany
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March 22 1931 |
Birth of William Shatner, Captain James T. Kirk, starburst Trek
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March 23 1752 |
Canada's first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, was printed by John Bushell
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March 24 1905 |
Sci-fi author Jules Verne dies at 77
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March 25 1609 |
Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
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March 26 1885 |
The outbreak of the Northwest Rebellion by Duck Lake, Saskatchewan
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March 27 1625 |
Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne
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March 28 1794 |
Louvre opens to the public
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March 29 1778 |
Explorer James Cook landed at Vancouver Island
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March 30 1842 |
Dr. Crawford W. Long of Georgia first used ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation
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March 31 1949 |
Newfoundland became Canada's 10th province
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