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March 11692: Salem witch hunt begins
March 2
1810: Pope Leo XIII born
March 3
1931: National Anthem adopted
March 4
1837: Martin Van Buren sworn in as president
1936: First flight of Hindenburg
March 5
1770: Boston Massacre
1946: Winston Churchill gives "iron curtain" speech
1953: Josef Stalin dies
March 6
1944: U.S. bombs Berlin
March 7
1904: Reinhard Heydrich is born
1936: Hitler invades the Rhineland
March 8
1930: William Howard Taft dies
March 9
1959: First Barbie doll does on display
March 10
1913: Harriet Tubman dies
March 11
1941: FDR signs Lend-Lease Act
March 12
1622: Ignatius of Loyola becomes a saint
March 13
1781: Uranus is discovered
March 14
1879: Albert Einstein is born
March 15
44 BC: Julius Caesar is assassinated
March 16
1945: U.S. takes Iwo Jima
March 17
461: St. Patrick dies
1762: First St. Patrick's Day parade
1776: British troops evacuate Boston
March 18
1940: Italy joins World War II
March 19
1905: Albert Speer is born
March 20
1413: Henry V becomes king
March 21
1918: Second Battle of the Somme
March 22
1765: Stamp Act passed
1972: Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment
March 23
1919: Fascist party founded by Benito Mussolini
1934: Hitler becomes Fuhrer
March 24
1603: Queen Elizabeth I dies
March 25
1634: Maryland settled
March 26
1979: Egypt and Israel sign peace agreement
March 27
1958: Khrushchev becomes premier of the U.S.S.R.
March 28
1969: Dwight Eisenhower dies
March 29
1790: John Tyler is born
1970: Secretariat is born
March 30
1945: U.S.S.R. invades Austria
March 31
1947: Al Gore is born
