History for March 3

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Herschel Walker 1962

• 1812 - The U.S. Congress passed the first foreign aid bill.
• 1845 - Florida became the 27th U.S. state.
• 1857 - Britain and France declared war on China.
• 1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company.
• 1903 - The U.S. imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.
• 1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."
• 1952 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
• 1969 - Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he killed Robert Kennedy.