March 3rd, 1991In Los Angeles, a scene caught on amateur video sparks an outcry in the United States. Police officers severely beat black motorist Rodney King after he is stopped for speeding. The following year, the four white officers charged in th
March 5th, 1770The Boston Massacre takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreakof the American Revolution a few years later. It happens when British soldiers in Boston, taunted by a crowd of American colonists, open fire and kill five peopl
March 6th, 1836, So all of Texas will know and remember the Alamo. In San Antonio, the Alamo falls to Mexican forces ending a 13-day siege of rebel Texans fighting for their independence. 1857, the US Supreme Courts decision in the Dred Scott case br
March 7th, 1965A Bloody Sunday for Americas civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, thats where state troopers and a sheriffs posse attack civil rights marchers pushing to register black voters. The violence leads to two more high-profile marches an
March 8th, 1965, America deepens its military involvemnt in Southeast Asia, as the first US combat troops land in South Vietnam. 3,500 marines arrive to defend the US air base in Da Nang. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams is there. The marine
March 9th, 1954. Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joe McCarthys anti-Communist campaign. Murrow critically reviews McCarthys tactics on his See It Now Program on CBS. The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and
March 11th, 2004Bombs strike the commuter rail network in Spains capital, Madrid. The attack linked to the al-Qaide terror network, kills 191 people and wounds more than 2,000 others. 2006Former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead i
March 12th, 1938In Europe, Nazi Germany's troops march into neighboring Austria. The next day, Adolf Hitler annexes his homeland. Austria remains part of Nazi Germany until the final days of WWII. 1933,My friend, I want to talk for a few minutes with
March 13th,1852Uncle Sam, the iconic symbol of the United States debuts as a cartoon character in the New York newspaper. 1925, in Tennessee, a law that prohibits the teaching of the theory of evolution takes effect. Months later the law is challenge
March 4th, 1933. In Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president. He pledges to lead America out of the Great Depression in his inaugural address. So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
March 22nd, 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act to raise money from its American colonies. But the colonies balk the taxation without representation and the Act was repealed the next year. The conflict helps set the stage for American Revolution in th
March 14th, 1879Physicist Albert Einstein, considered the greatest scientist of the 20th Century, is born in Germany. It is intelligence, which is the ability to learn from experience, to plan ahead. It includes the capacity to give up immediate,
March 15th, 44BC, the ides of March in Ancient Rome, thats when Dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles included Brutus and Cassius. 1965, in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to pass an effective voting rights b
March 16th, 1968. The My Lai Massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lieutenant William Cally Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially cover up the incid
March 17th 461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saints for whom St. Patrick's Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patrick's death happened on this day but more than three decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President G
March 19th, 2003For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital, Baghdad. President George W. Bush tel
Mar 20th, 2003. American and British forces invade Iraq from neighbouring Kuwait. Associated Press correspondent Ross Simpson is with the US Marines. They got a T-55 Iraqi tank and give some mechanized infantry. Just a few minutes and we cross the be
March 21st, 1965Civil rights demonstrators led by dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to t
March 23rd, 1775. A famous call for American independence from Britain. Patrick Henry tells the Virginia Provincial Convention Give me liberty, or give me death. The American Revolution begins just weeks later. 1933. Germanys Parliament, the Reichsta
March 24th 1999NATO launches US-led airstrikes against Yugoslavia over the Kosovo crisis. President Bill Clinton tells the American people, We have acted with resolve for several reasons. We act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from
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