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Mar 12

Mar 12, 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide “fireside chats” on radio.

Mar 12, 1994: The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.

Mar 12, 1912: Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.

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Mar 11

Mar 11, 1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Mar 11, 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.

Mar 11, 1888: A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths.

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Mar 10

Mar 10, 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.

Mar 10, 1629: Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.

Mar 10, 1785: Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.

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Mar 09

Mar 9, 1796: Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution.

Mar 9, 1841: The Supreme Court ruled that the Amistad slaves were free.

Mar 9, 1862: The first battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor (Union) and Merrimack (Confederate) occurred, revolutionizing naval warfare.

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