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Events
March 2006
 
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Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the Island of Elba 1815
German parliament building (Reichstag) destroyed by fire 1933

New Moon

Shrove Tuesday

The last British troops leave India 1948

Ash Wednesday

First American hydrogen bomb test on the island of Bikini 1954

Rhodesia gains independence 1970

The US adopt the 'Star Spangled Banner' as their national anthem 1931

1861- Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States

1933 - Franklin Roosevelt the 32nd President

 
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1918: Moscow becomes the new capital city of Russia

36th anniversary of the deaths of Weathermembers Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins, and Ted Gold in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion

!st Quarter

1965: American marines land in South Vietnam 1790: The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies   1969: James Earl Ray found guilty of the murder of Martin Luther King and sentenced to 99 years in jail 1983: Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, buried in Moscow
 
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1917: Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, founded

1930: Pluto discovered
1938: Nazi Germany invade Austria, making it a German Reich province

1964: Jack Ruby found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death

Full Moon

1937: The United States sets up its first central blood bank 1935: In Germany Hitler introduces conscription, renouncing the Treaty of Versailles

1649: Cromwell abolishes the monarchy and declares England a Commonwealth

St Patrick's Day

1965: Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space
 
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Born in 1813:

Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and opponent of slave trade

1956: Tunisia gains independence from France
1990: Namibia gains independence after 105 years

Vernal Equinox

 

1918: Offensive on the Somme begins, the last major offensive of World War I
1963: Alcatraz, maximum security prison on the island in San Francisco Bay, closes after 29 years

1945: Arab League formed by seven Middle East countries
1946: Jordan gains independence from British rule

 

Last Quarter

1925: The teaching of Darwins theory of evolution banned in Tennessee schools
1971: Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, proclaims its independence

1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England.

1957: Treaty of Rome signed by six nations, to establish the European Economic Community

1807: Slave trade in England abolished by the British Parliament
 
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British Summer Time Begins 1914: The first successful blood transfusion is performed

1979: A serious radiation leak occurs at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US

1871: Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall in London

New Moon

1867: Alaska purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America

1920: British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law

1578: Englishman William Harvey discovers blood circulation
 
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