03-08-2006, 06:21 AM
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Location: Maryland
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March 8th
1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Composer. Not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach.
1862 ~ The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1869 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer.
1917 ~ The first stage of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution started in St. Petersburg.
1942 ~ Death of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player.
1948 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 ~ The Soviet Union claimed to have an atomic bomb.
1959 ~ George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia.
1983 ~ President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1999 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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