And the next date in the calendar is....

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The internet company Yahoo! Inc. was incorporated on March 1, 1995

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

 

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2 March 1999 - Death of Dusty Springfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield

 

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The first issue of the Time magazine was published on March 3, 1923, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)

 

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4 March 1462 - Wars of the Roses - Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin who becomes King Edward IV.

 

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American violinist Eugene Fodor was born on March 5, 1950.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Fodor

 

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March 6

Toronto incorporated...1834
Michelangelo born...1475
Frankie Howerd born ...1917
Alan Greenspan born...1926

 

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7 March 1988 - Death of Divine (aka Harris Glenn Milstead)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_(Glen_Milstead)

 

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Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony was first performed on March 8, 1902.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Sibelius)

 

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9 March 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan.

 

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On March 10, 1876, Alexander Bell succeeded in sending the first clear telephone message, using the device he invented, to another person (his assistant): "Mr Watson—Come here—I want to see you."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

 

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11 March 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

 

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12 March 1664 – New Jersey becomes a colony of England.

 

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The New College of Massachusetts Bay Colony--the oldest institution of higher learning in American--acquired a new name, Harvard College, on March 13, 1639, after John Harvard, an English clergyman from Southwark, London, who left the school half of his estate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University

 

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14 March 1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.

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Expo '70 World's Fair was held in Osaka, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_'70

 

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March 16

0037, Caligula becomes Roman Emperor.
1815, the Netherlands gains a monarchy.

 

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17 March is Saint Patrick's Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Day

 

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Actor Peter Graves, primarily known for his starring role in Mission: Impossible, movie Airplane!, etc. was born on March 18, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Graves

 

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19 March 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph

 

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March 20, Earliest date for the vernal equinox.