Thursday, March 08, 2018

History for March 8

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History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841, Kenneth Grahame 1859, Alan Hale, Jr. 1918
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 Jim Bouton 1939 - Baseball player, author, Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor, Lester Holt 1959 - News anchor ("Today")
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 1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
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 1853 - The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.
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 1862 - The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" was launched.
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 1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.
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 1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.
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 1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
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 1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.
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 1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
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