| 1496 |
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The Jews are expelled from Syria. |
| 1507 |
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Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain. |
| 1609 |
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The Bermuda Islands become an English colony. |
| 1664 |
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New Jersey becomes a British colony. |
| 1789 |
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The United States Post Office is established. |
| 1809 |
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Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country. |
| 1863 |
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President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address. |
| 1879 |
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The British Zulu War begins. |
| 1884 |
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Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women. |
| 1894 |
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Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. |
| 1903 |
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The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land. |
| 1909 |
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British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain. |
| 1911 |
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Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis. |
| 1912 |
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Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia. |
| 1917 |
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Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins. |
| 1930 |
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Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India. |
| 1933 |
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President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side. |
| 1933 |
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President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats. |
| 1938 |
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German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union)of Austria and Germany. |
| 1939 |
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Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome. |
| 1944 |
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Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany. |
| 1945 |
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Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp. |
| 1959 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii. |
| 1984 |
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Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war. |
| 1985 |
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The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva. |
| 1994 |
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The Church of England ordains women priests. |
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Born on March 12 |
| 1554 |
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Richard Hooker, English theologian (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity). |
| 1858 |
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Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of The New York Times. |
| 1862 |
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Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross. |
| 1890 |
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Vasav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer. |
| 1922 |
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Jack Kerouac, American novelist (On the Road). |
| 1928 |
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Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf). |
| 1946 |
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Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time). |
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