03-03-2006, 06:20 AM
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Location: Maryland
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March 3rd
1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.
1831 ~ Birthday of George Pullman, Inventor & Industrialist.
1845 ~ Birthday of Georg Cantor, German mathematician.
1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor.
1923 ~ TIME magazine first published.
1931 ~ The U.S. officially adopted The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in protest of the British rule in India.
1974 ~ Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reached an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator.
1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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