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March 23, 1965: Gemini 3 becomes NASA’s first ever two-man space flight

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March 22, 1765: British Parliament passes Stamp Act to levy American colonies for loot

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March 20, 1915: Albert Einstein unveils the general theory of relativity

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March 19, 1918: President Wilson signs Standard Time Law, approving Daylight Saving Time

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March 18, 1850: Henry Wells and William Fargo found American Express

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March 15, 1493: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after maiden trip to the Americas

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March 13, 1761: William Herschel discovers Uranus

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March 12, 1894: Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Mississippi

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March 11, 1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted

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March 10, 1969: James Earl Ray admits to murdering Martin Luther King, Jr.

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March 9, 1796: French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais

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March 8, 1817: The New York Stock Exchange is founded

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March 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

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March 6, 1899: Bayer trademarks Aspirin

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March 5, 1953: Joseph Stalin dies

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March 4, 1797: John Adams inaugurated as second President of the United States of America

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March 3, 1939: Gandhi commences hunger strike, protesting autocratic rule in Britain’s India

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March 2, 1933: ‘King Kong’ premieres and ‘wows’ audiences

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March 1, 1962: First three women tried for witchcraft in the notorious Salem Witch Trials

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February 28, 1983: Highly anticipated ‘M*A*S*H’ finale airs

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February 27, 1968: Walter Cronkite denounces the Vietnam War

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February 26, 1616: Galileo is banned from the Catholic Church

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February 25, 1920: The Warsaw Pact is established

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February 24, 1803: Marbury v. Madison motivates judicial review

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February 23, 1903: Cuba signs a lease to the US for Guantánamo Bay

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