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March 5

The Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere

1770 - the Boston Massacre happened, where British soldiers killed five American civilians

1917 - President Woodrow Wilson was inagurated for a second term

1956 - King Kong was first shown on television

1867 - Andrew Johnson was impeached by the U.S. Senate

March 6

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.

1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.

March 7

A bust of Aristotle

• 1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1940)
• 1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
• 322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
• 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)

March 8

• 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but later on May 15 confirms the discovery).
• 1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
• 1917 - The February Revolution breaks out in Russia (February 23 O.S.).
• 1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.

March 9

• 1959 – The Barbie doll is first seen at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1936 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and swami (b. 1855)
• 2006 - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)

March 10

• 1452 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.]
• 2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.

March 11

• 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
• 1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• 2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

March 12

• 515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
• 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, First President of Turkey (d. 1938)
• 1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.

March 13

• 1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
• 1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
• 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1992 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.

March 14

• 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
• 1743 -The first town meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at Faneuil Hall.
• 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)