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President Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.

1759 ~ Pope Clement XIII allowed Bible to be translated into various languages.

1827 ~ First commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered.

1901 ~ Birthday of Linus Pauling, Chemist & Peace Worker (Nobel Prize 1954 & 1962).

1915 ~ Birthday of Zero Mostel, Actor.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones.

1979 ~ Mr. Ed, talking horse died (This only makes sense to Americans).

1983 ~ Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs; record 125 million watch.

1986 ~ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm.

1991 ~ President George Bush announces a ceasefire in the Gulf after Iraq accepts all 12 UN resolutions.

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1504 ~ Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians. This will be reprised by Hergé in “Prisoners Of The Sun”, a Tintin adventure.

1692 ~ Warrant issued for Sarah good & Tituba, accused of witchcraft, Salem, Massachusetts.

1792 ~ Birthday of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer

1860 ~ Birthday of Herman Hollerith, Inventor (Electric Tabulating Machine).

1904 ~ Birthday of Jimmy Dorsey, Big Band Leader.

1940 ~ Frederic from G & S "Pirates Of Penzance" finally released from apprenticeship.

1968 ~ First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge.

1980 ~ Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals.

1984 ~ Pierre Trudeau, announced his resignation after more than 15 years as Canadian PM.

1988 ~ Nazi document implicates former UN General Secretary Kurt Waldheim in WW II deportations.

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On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.

1260 ~ Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, took Damascus.

1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.

1904 ~ England regains cricket Ashes from Australia.

1904 ~ Birthday of Glenn Miller, Big Band Leader.

1909 ~ Birthday of David Niven, Actor.

1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Singer & Actor.

1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for espionage.

1954 ~ U.S. detonated 20 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini atoll.

1974 ~ Watergate grand jury indicted 7 presidential aides.

1981 ~ Bobby Sands, IRA member, began 65-day hunger strike. He died from his efforts.

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1824 ~ Birthday of Bedrich Smetana, Composer (The Moldau, The Bartered Bride).

1836 ~ Republic of Texas declared independence from Mexico.

1904 ~ Birthday of Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel], Author.

1931 ~ Birthday of Mikhail S Gorbachev, Soviet Leader.

1946 ~ Ho Chi Minh elected President of Vietnam.

1956 ~ Morocco gained independence from France.

1969 ~ Concord flew for the first time.

1970 ~ Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, declared Rhodesia a republic.

1983 ~ Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125 million viewers.

2001 ~ The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

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1634 ~ First tavern in Boston opened.

1794 ~ First performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D.

1845 ~ Birthday of Georg Cantor, Mathematician.

1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor.

1875 ~ Georges Bizet's opera ‘Carmen’ debuted in Paris.

1917 ~ Nicholas II, last Russian Tsar, abdicated.

1931 ~ The "Star-Spangled Banner" adopted as the U.S. national anthem.

1956 ~ Morocco gained its independence.

1978 ~ The remains of Charlie Chaplin were stolen from his grave.

1985 ~ NUM decides to return to work with no resolution on over pit closures. Arthur Scargill announced “We face not an employer but a government aided and abetted by the judiciary, the police and you people in the media …”.

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1678 ~ Birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, Composer.

1681 ~ King Charles II granted William Penn royal charter for what would become Pennsylvania.

1748 ~ Birthday of Casimir Pulaski, General.

1789 ~ The Constitution of the United States went into effect.

1835 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Astronomer.

1885 ~ Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London.

1888 ~ Birthday of Knute Rockne, Football Coach.

1966 ~ John Lennon, said "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus".

1975 ~ Silent film comic Charlie Chaplin knighted.

1997 ~ President Clinton banned federally funded human cloning research.

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On March 4, 1933, the start of President Roosevelt's first administration brought with it the first woman to serve in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Cartographer.

1623 ~ The first temperance law in the colonies was enacted in Virginia. I would have expected it in New England.

1845 ~ The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S. Just think – the “Ghan” could have been running from Sacramento to San Antonio!

1846 ~ First track meet between Oxford and Cambridge.

1898 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer.

1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, Actor.

1924 ~ Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp. became IBM.

1931 ~ Birthday of Barry Tuckwell, Hornist

1946 ~ Winston Churchill's gave his "Iron Curtain" speech.

1976 ~ British £1 fell below $2 for first time.

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1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), one of the most inspired creators in the history of art.

1619 ~ Birthday of Cyrano de Bergerac, Satirist, and Dramatist.

1836 ~ The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Alamo fell.

1836 ~ HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard reached King George's Sound, Australia.

1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opera opened in Venice.

1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, Economist.

1944 ~ Birthday of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Singer.

1957 ~ The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana.

1960 ~ Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.

1992 ~ The computer virus "Michelangelo" fizzled out.

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1274 ~ Death of St. Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher, Theologian.

1844 ~ Birthday of Anthony Comstock, Social Reformer.

1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer,

1876 ~ Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

1896 ~ Gilbert & Sullivan's last operetta "The Grand Duke," premiered in London.

1902 ~ Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal.

1906 ~ Finland granted women the right to vote.

1933 ~ The board game “Monopoly” invented.

1936 ~ Adolf Hitler broke Treaty of Versailles, sent troops to Rhineland.

1939 ~ Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians recorded "Auld Lang Syne".

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It was on this day in 1933 that Charles Darrow created the game we know as Monopoly.

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0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.

1774 - The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce.

1799 - In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.

1848 - In Hawaii, the Great Mahele was signed.

1849 - The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.

1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer

1859 ~ Birthday of Kenneth Grahame, Author of “The Wind In The Willows”.

1930 ~ Mahatma Gandhi began civil disobedience campaign in India.

1934 ~ Edwin Hubble photo showed as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.

1942 ~ Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 ~ Birthday of Lynn Redgrave, Actress.

1965 ~ First U.S. combat forces arrived in Vietnam.

1971 ~ Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Boxing title.

1979 ~ Volcanoes on Io discovered y Voyager 1.

1983 ~ President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire".

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