This Day In History March 31st
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- Published on Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:00
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| 1910 | Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. |
| 1951 | Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. |
| 1970 | The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968. |
This Day In History March 30th
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- Published on Friday, 30 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Events |
| 1939 | The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph. |
| 1944 | Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands from German fighters. In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II. |
| 1950 | The invention of the phototransistor was announced. |
This Day In History March 29th
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| Year | Event |
| 1886 | Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1945 | Patton takes Frankfurt |
| 1973 | Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. |
This Day In History March 28th
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- Published on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Event |
| 1915 | First American citizen is killed in the eight-month-old European conflict that would become known as the First World War. Leon Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer and native of Massachusetts, drowned when a German submarine, the U-28, torpedoed the cargo-passenger ship Falaba, on its way from Liverpool to West Africa, off the coast of England. |
| 1942 | World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. |
| 1979 | Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down. |
This Day In History March 27th
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| Year | Event |
| 1860 | The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn. |
| 1917 | The Seattle Metropolitans, of the Pacific Coast League of Canada, defeated the Montreal Canadiens and became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. |
| 1964 | The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. |
This Day In History March 26th
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- Published on Monday, 26 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Event |
| 1885 | Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY. |
| 1945 | The battle of Iwo Jima ended. |
| 1945 | In the Aleutians, the battle of Komandorski began when the Japanese attempted to reinforce a garrison at Kiska and were intercepted by a U.S. naval force. |
This Day In History March 25th
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| Year | Event |
| 1936 | The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Montreal Maroons in the longest hockey game to date. The game lasted for 2 hours and 56 minutes. |
| 1972 | Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals. |
| 1982 | Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season. |
This Day In History March 24th
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| Year | Event |
| 1898 | The first automobile was sold. |
| 1955 | The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service. |
| 1965 | NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. |
This Day In History March 23rd
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| Year | Event |
| 1840 | The first successful photo of the Moon was taken. |
| 1922 | The first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. |
| 1994 | Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's National Hockey League (NHL) career record with his 802nd goal. |
This Day In History March 22nd
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| Year | Event |
| 1894 | The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began. Montreal played Ottawa. |
| 1923 | The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. |
| 1979 | The National Hockey League (NHL) voted to accept 4 WHA teams, the Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers. |
This Day In History March 21st
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| Year | Event |
| 1963 | Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. |
| 1984 | A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan. |
| 2001 | Nintendo released Game Boy Advance. |
This Day In History March 20th
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| 1922 | The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. |
| 1982 | Joan Jett tops the pop charts with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" |
| 2003 | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. |
This Day In History March 19th
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- Published on Monday, 19 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Event |
| 1981 | The Buffalo Sabres set an NHL record when they scored 9 goals in one period against Toronto. |
| 1990 | The first world ice hockey tournament for women was held in Ottawa. |
| 1991 | Brett Hull, of the St. Louis Blues, became the third National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 80 goals in a season. |
This Day In History March 18th
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- Published on Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Event |
| 1899 | Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered. |
| 1945 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals. |
| 2002 | Spectator death forces new rules for NHL games |
This Day In History March 17th
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- Published on Saturday, 17 March 2012 01:00
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| Year | Event |
| 1966 | Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. |
| 1989 | A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada. |
| 2007 | Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) scored his 502nd and 503rd career goals making him the all-time U.S. leader in goal-scoring. |