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    Today in History - March 28

    March 28 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented the washing machine. 1854 - During the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. 1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, that Wong, who was born in the United States to Chinese immigrants, was an...
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    Today in History - March 27

    March 27 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted present-day Florida. 1625 - Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I. 1794 - Congress authorized the U.S. Navy. 1866 - President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill which would later become the 14th...
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    Today in History - March 26

    March 26 1812 - An earthquake devastated Caracas, Venezuela, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths. 1827 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56 in Vienna, Austria. 1945 - The World War II Battle of Iwo Jima ended; about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured in the fighting and...
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    Today in History - March 25

    March 25 1634 - Maryland was founded by settlers sent by the late Lord Baltimore. 1894 - Jacob Sechler Coxey and his "army" of unemployed men began their march from Ohio to Washington, D.C. to demand help from the federal government. 1911 - A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York...
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    Today in History - March 22

    March 22 1765 - The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The act was repealed a year later.) 1820 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron. 1882...
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    Today in History - March 21

    March 21 1556 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic. 1685 - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. 1804 - The French Civil Code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth. 1871 - Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his...
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    Today in History - March 20

    March 20 1413 - England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V. 1602 - The Dutch East India Company was established. During its 196-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies. 1727 - English physicist and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London at age...
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    Today in History - March 19

    March 19 1853 - During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital). 1920 - The United States Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. 1931 - Nevada legalized gambling. 1942 - During World War II, President...
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    Today in History - March 18

    March 18 1584 - Russian czar Ivan IV, or Ivan "The Terrible", died at age 53. 1766 - After months of American protests, the British repealed the Stamp Act. 1922 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two...
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    Today in History - March 15

    March 15 44 - On the "Ides of March," Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus. 1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first visit to the Western Hemisphere. 1820 - Maine became the...
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    Today in History - March 14

    March 14 1743 - The first town hall meeting was held in Boston at Faneuil Hall. 1794 - The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney, an invention that revolutionized the cotton industry. 1879 - Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was...
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    Today in History - March 13

    March 13 1639 - Cambridge College changes its name to Harvard University. 1781 - German-born astronomer Sir William Herschel discovers the planet Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus. 1852 - "Uncle Sam" appeared for the first time in an issue of the New York Lantern weekly. 1862 -...
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    Today in History - March 12

    March 12 1864 - Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumed command as General-in-Chief of the Union armies in the Civil War. 1912 - Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia founded the Girl Scouts (then known as the "Girl Guides"). 1925 - Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died in Beijing. 1930...
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    Today in History - March 11

    March 11 1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution. 1862 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies, leaving him in command of the Army of the Potomac, a post McClellan also ended up losing...
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    Today in History - March 9

    March 9 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution. (The couple later divorced.) 1841 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. The Amistad, ruled 7-1 in favor of a group of illegally enslaved Africans who were...
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