| 483 |
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St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope. |
| 607 |
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The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurs. |
| 1519 |
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Hernando Cortez lands in what will become Mexico. |
| 1660 |
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A statute is passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia. |
| 1777 |
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Congress orders its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army. |
| 1781 |
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Astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus, which he names ‘Georgium Sidus,’ in honor of King George III. |
| 1793 |
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Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin. |
| 1861 |
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Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy. |
| 1868 |
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The U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. |
| 1881 |
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Czar Alexander II is assassinated when a bomb is thrown at him near his palace. |
| 1915 |
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The Germans repel a British Expeditionary Force attack at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in France. |
| 1918 |
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Women are scheduled to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men. |
| 1935 |
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A three-thousand-year-old archive is found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history. |
| 1940 |
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Finland capitulates conditionally to Soviet terms, but maintains its independence. |
| 1941 |
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Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the Soviet Union. |
| 1942 |
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Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army. |
| 1943 |
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Japanese forces end their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. |
| 1951 |
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Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees. |
| 1957 |
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The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges. |
| 1963 |
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China invites Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev to visit Beijing. |
| 1970 |
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Cambodia orders Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to get out. |
| 1974 |
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The U.S. Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty. |
| 1974 |
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Arab nations decide to end the oil embargo on the United States. |
| 1981 |
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The United States plans to send 15 Green Berets to El Salvador as military advisors. |
| 1985 |
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Upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union. |
| 1991 |
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Exxon pays $1 billion in fines and costs for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill. |
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Born on March 13 |
| 1615 |
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Innocent XII, Roman Catholic Pope |
| 1733 |
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Joseph Priestly, scientist credited with the discovery of oxygen. |
| 1764 |
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Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister |
| 1798 |
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Abigail Powers Fillmore, First Lady and wife of Millard Fillmore |
| 1855 |
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Percival Lowell, astronomer who predicted the discovery of the planet Pluto. |
| 1886 |
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Albert William Stevens, balloonist and photographer. |
| 1892 |
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Janet Flanner, writer ("Letter from Paris"). |
| 1900 |
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George Seferis, Greek poet. |
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