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March 7, 2010
Cereal Day - Mar. 7
Golda Meir is nominated as Prime Minister of Israel by the Labor Party she took office on Mar. 17 (1969) - Mar. 7
Goldie the Eagle escapes London Zoo and flies wild in Regent's Park for 13 days (1965) - Mar. 7
National Be Heard Day - 3/7
82nd Academy Awards (2010) - Mar. 7
National Crown Roast of Pork Day - Mar. 7
March 8, 2010
Anne Stuart (sister of Mary II of England) becomes Queen upon the death of her brother-in-law William II (1702) - Mar. 8
Beirut car bomb kills 45 and injures at least 175 in a failed attempt to assassinate Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1985) - Mar. 8
New York Stock Exchange is created and set up at 40 Wall Street (1817) - Mar. 8
Castle Gate Mine disaster occurs when a coal mine in Utah experiences 3 violent explosions that killed 172 men in total (1924) - Mar. 8
Eduard Dato e Iradier (Prime Minister of Spain) is assassinated by Catalan anarchists as he left parliament in Madrid (1921) - Mar. 8
Fight of the Century is a boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden - Joe Frazier wins the championship (1971) - Mar. 8
International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen Denmark by Clara Zetkin (1911) - Mar. 8
Io is discovered to have volcanos when images of the first extraterrestrial volcano reaches Earth (1979) - Mar. 8
Spanish Flu pandemic takes its first victim in a 2 year long pandemic during which 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide (1918) - Mar. 8
March 9, 2010
Antonio Novello is appointed Surgeon General by President George H.W. Bush (as the first female and Hispanic American to hold the position - 1990) - 3/9
Barbie Doll debuts (1959) - Mar. 9
Svetlana Stalin (Joseph Stalin's daughter) defects to the US in India (1967) - Mar. 9
Cable Car tragedy in Cavalese near Trento Italy results in the death of 42 people including 15 children when the suspension line gave way (1976) - Mar. 9
David Rizzio (secretary to Mary Queen of Scots) is stabbed 56 times in Holyroodhouse while in the Queen's presence despite her protests (1566) - 3/9
Eastern Airlines is forced into bankruptcy when Eastern's mechanics and ramp service employees go on strike (1989) - Mar. 9
George Burns (American comedian married to Gracie Allen) dies at age 100 from cardiac arrest (1996) - Mar. 9
Jean Calas (French Protestant) is tortured and executed on the wheel for the murder of his son (1762) and exonerated 3 years later (1765) - 3/9
Napoleon and Josephine marry (1796) - Mar. 9
March 10, 2010
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands weds Claus von Amsberg in Amsterdam (1966) - Mar. 10
Courrieres mine disaster (France) occurs when an explosion of dust kills 1,099 miners (including many children) 600 survived (1906) - Mar. 10
First successful telephone call is made by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Thomas Watson (1876) - Mar. 10
The French Foreign Legion is founded by Louis Philippe, King of the French (1831) - Mar. 10
Harriet Tubman (African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the US Civil War) dies from pneumonia at age 93 (1913) - Mar. 10
Lloyd Bridges (Emmy Award-nominated American actor) died from natural causes at age 85 (1998) - Mar. 10
Long Beach, CA Earthquake (6.4 Richter scale) kills 115 people (1933) - Mar. 10
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars (2006) - 3/10
Money Day (Break open your Piggy Bank) - 3/10
Organize Your Home Office Day (2nd Tuesday in March) - March 10
Prince Edward (youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II) is born (1964) - Mar. 10
Workplace Napping Day - Mar. 10
Rings of Uranus are discovered (1977) - Mar. 10
Telephone Day marks the world's first successful telephone call - Mar. 10
Tokyo is fire bombed by the US Army Air Force with the incendiaries destroying 267,000 buildings and killing over 100,000 civilians (1945) - Mar. 10
March 11, 2010
Sir Alexander Fleming (Scottish pharmacist credited with first discovering penicillin) dies of a heart attack at age 73 (1955) - 3/11
Bureau of Indian Affairs is established by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun (1824) - Mar. 11
Frankenstein (science fiction novel by Mary Shelley) is first published (1818) - 3/11
Michelle Bachelet becomes the first woman President of Chile (2006) - Mar. 11
Great Sheffield Flood (aka the Great Inundation) is a flood that was created when the Dale Dyke Dam in England broke killing 270 people (1864) - Mar. 11
Winnenden school shooting occurs in Baden-Wurtemmberg Germany resulting in 16 deaths including the suicide of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer (2009) - Mar. 11
International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague in Netherlands (2003) - Mar. 11
Lithunia declares independence from the Soviet Union (1990) - Mar. 11
Madrid Train Bombings is a series of coordinated bombings against the communter train system of Madrid that kills 191 and wounds 1,800 (2004) - Mar. 11
The Roxy Theatre in NYC (a 5,920 seat movie theater) opens with the silent film The Love of Sunya with Gloria Swanson (1927) - Mar. 11
The Daily Courant (1st daily newspaper published in the UK) is 1st published by Edward Mallet from above the White Hart pub on Fleet Street (1702) - 3/11
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) established 15 June 1775 is authorized by congress (1779) - 3/11
March 12, 2010
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (second son of Queen Victoria) is the victim of an assassination attempt by Henry James O'Farrell (1868) - 3/12
Bombay bombings result in at least 200 deaths and 800 injuries when 13 bombs explode in Bombay (1993) - Mar. 12
FDR (President of the USA between 1933 and 1944) started his famous series of radio fireside chats given during the depression (1933) - Mar. 12
Coca Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, MS (1894) - Mar. 12
Girl Scouts of America is founded as The Girl Guides by Juliette Gordon Law (1912) - Mar. 12
Great Blizzard of the Northeast occurs with record snowfalls of 40-50 inches and sustained winds of 45mph (1888) - Mar. 11 thru Mar. 14
Mauritius declares independence from the UK (1968) and becomes a Republic (1992) - Mar. 12
Morton Downey, Jr. (American talk show host of the 1980s) dies from lung cancer (2001) - 3/12
No Smoking Day - 3/12
Springfield, IL Tornado Outbreak Sequence lasted from 3/9 to 3/13 producing 105 confirmed tornadoes with at least 13 deaths (2006) - Mar. 12
St Francis Dam (once part of the Los Angeles, CA Aqueduct) suffers a catastrophic failure with the resulting flood killing 600 people (1928) Mar. 12
Serbia Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated by a Serbian Milorad Ulemek's soldier in Belgrade (2003) - 3/12
March 13, 2010
Alexander II (Czar of Russia) is assassinated by revolutionaries while on his way to review the Life Guards (1881) - Mar. 13 (NS)
Benjamin Harrison (23rd President of the USA) dies from influenza and pneumonia at his home at age 67 (1901) - 3/13
Illuminating Hadrian's Wall marks the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain in AD 410 by illuminating the Hadrian Wall Path from coast to coast (2010) - Mar. 13
Dunblane massacre occurs when an unemployed former shopkeeper walks into a school and begins shooting, killing 16 children and 1 teacher (1996) - Mar. 13
Quebec experiences the effects of a Geomagnetic storm causing circuit breakers to trip, which leaves six million people without power (1989) - Mar. 13
Susan B. Anthony (American civil rights leader and suffragette) dies in her Rochester, NY home at age 86 (1906) - Mar. 13
 
Uranus (7th planet from the Sun in our solar system) is discovered by Sir William Herschel (1781) - Mar. 13
 
March 14, 2010
Cotton Gin (a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton from the seedpods invented by Eli Whitney) is patented (1794) - Mar. 14
Albert Einstein (German-born theoritcal physicist best known for his theory of relativity) is born in Ulm Germany (1879) - Mar. 14
Gold Standard Act is ratified establishing gold as the only standard for redeeming US paper money (1900) - 3/14
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to its permanent resting place in Arlington, VA cemetary (1967) - Mar. 14
John Byng (a British admiral court-martialed for failing to "do his utmost" during the battle of Minorca) is executed by firing squad (1757) - Mar. 14
The Lakeview CA gusher (deemed the largest recorded U.S. oil well gusher) makes its debut when the drill bit reaches 2,440 feet (1910) - Mar. 14
LOT Polish Airlines flight crashes while attempting to land in Warsaw killing all 87 aboard including 22 members of the U.S. Boxing Team (1980) - Mar. 14
Pi Day (celebrates the mathematical constant of Pi - 3.14) first observed at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988 - Mar. 14
National Potato Chip Day (commemorates the day George Crum made the first potato chips in 1853) - Mar. 14
Princess Grace gives birth to Prince Albert of Monaco (1958) - Mar. 14
Susan Hayward (Academy Award-winning American actress) dies from complications of brain cancer at age 57 (1975) - Mar. 14
White Day (Japan and Korea) a reverse of Valentine's Day where women give gifts to men - Mar. 14
Daylight Savings Time begins (2010) - Mar. 14
Giovanni Schiaparelli (Italian astronomer and science historian) is born (1835) - Mar. 14
Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride to space on board a Russian (Soyuz TM-21 for Mir-18) vehicle (1995) - Mar. 14
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