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NASA launched Landsat 5 in 1984. 		2
Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot died in Paris in 1895. 		3
The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as America’s national anthem in 1931. 		4
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, in 1678. 		5
The U.S. launched Explorer 37 to study the Sun in 1968. 		6
U.S. author Louisa May Alcott died in 1888.
7
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876. 		8
The New York Yankees signed Babe Ruth to a two-year contract worth $160,000 in 1930. 		9
Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded an astronomical observation in 1497. 		10
Harriet Tubman, the black abolitionist responsible for establishing the Underground Railroad, died in 1913. 		11
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. 		12
Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died in 1925. 		13
Tennessee made it unlawful to teach evolution in 1925.
14
Albert Einstein was born in 1879. 		15
Julius Caesar, Roman dictator, was assassinated on March 15, 44 B.C. 		16
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was born in 1933. 		17
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. 		18
Mathematician Agnes Sime Baxter was born in 1870. 		19
The first recorded bank robbery in the U.S. took place in 1831. 		20
Navajo Indians left Fort Canby on the Long Walk of the Navajo in 1864.
21
“Broncho Billy” Anderson was born in 1882. 		22
The Joy Luck Club was first published in 1989. 		23
Fannie Farmer, cookbook author and domestic scientist, was born in 1857. 		24
The Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, resulting in the worst oil spill in U.S. history. 		25
The Mercedes was introduced by the Daimler Motor Corporation in 1901. 		26
Poet Robert Frost was born in 1874. 		27
The strongest earthquake to strike North America to date hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, in 1964.
28
The most serious nuclear accident in the U.S. to date occurred at Three Mile Island in 1979. 		29
The Mariner 10 spacecraft visited Mercury in 1974. 		30
Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for seven million dollars in 1867. 		31
In a famous letter to her husband, dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams discussed women’s rights.


 

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