March3/12005 - Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.

1904 – Big Band composer Glenn Miller was born.

1867 - Nebraska became the 37th state.

1974 – 3 Former White House aides were indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in.

3/21867 - US Congress creates the Department of Education

1867 - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress

2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins

1866: 1st U.S. Company to make sewing needles by machine is created

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes declared president, wins by 1 electoral vote

3/31991 – beating of Rodney King captured on video

1791 - 1st US internal revenue act

2013 - the first child born with HIV to be cured

2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the 1st person to fly an airplane around the world solo

1992 - President George Bush apologizes for raising taxes

3/41681 - William Penn is granted a land charter for an area that later became Pennsylvania.

2012 - Vladimir Putin won a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election

1789 - The Constitution went into effect

1801 - 1st US President inaugurated in Washington DC

1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany

3/51946 - Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech

1770 - The Boston Massacre took place

1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections

1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73 after nearly three decades in power.

3/62014 - Crimea's parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea a part of Russia

2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

1998 - First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

1983 - US Football League (USFL) begins its 1st season

1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford

3/71857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone

1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented

1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call

1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing

3/81817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

1913 – IRS begins to levy & collect income taxes

1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II

1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam

1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered

3/91934 - Yury Gagarin, the world's first man in space, was born.

1862 - The ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours

1959 – Barbie makes her debut

1997 – Rapper notorious B.I.G. is killed

1985 – the first adopt-a-highway sign goes up.

3/111918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes Japan

2013 - European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals

1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

3/121999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests

1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland

1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons

1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"

3/131781 - William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus

1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut

1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

2013 - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis

2012 - Encyclopedia Britannica announced it will no longer publish printed versions

3/141879 - Albert Einstein was born

1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin

1964 - Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald

1967 - President Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to Arlington National Cemetery.

1884 - Karl Marx died

3/1544BC - Julius Caesar was assassinated

1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain

1972 - "The Godfather," premiered in New York.

1985 - The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered

1820 - Maine became the 23rd state.

3/161935 - Hitler violates Versailles Treaty

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines

1802 - Congress authorized the establishment of the Military Academy at West Point

1850 - "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.

1926 - Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid fueled rocket

3/1745BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.

1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day

1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act

1836 - Texas abolishes slavery

1845 - Rubber band patented by

Stephen Perry of London

3/181834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed

1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve

1892 - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)

1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)

1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain

3/192012 - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain

2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins

1995 - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months

1994 - Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in

Yokohama, Japan

1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered3/201815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1933 - Dachau, 1st Nazi concentration camp, completed

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published

1922 - WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions

1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall

return"

3/231808 - Napoleon's brother took the throne in Spain

1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)

1912 - Dixie Cup invented

1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House

1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

3/241990 - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)

1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska

1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC

1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland

3/251609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co

31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub

1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place

1863 - 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded

3/261827 -Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56.

1874 -Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.

2000 - Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.

1964 - The musical "Funny Girl," opened on Broadway.

1885 - The Eastman Dry Plate and

Film Co. manufactured the first commercial motion picture film.

3/272007 - NFL owners voted to make instant replay a permanent officiating tool.

1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Ohio

1794 – President Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.

1914 - 1st successful blood

transfusion (in Brussels)

1986 _Disney breaks ground on a new MGM Studio Tour in Florida