March 1
--Ohio became the 17th state, 1803.
--Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor, born 1848.
--Nebraska became the 37th state, 1867.
March 2
--Sam Houston, American political leader, born 1793.
--Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer, born 1824.
--Carl Schurz, American political leader, born 1829.
--Texas declared its independence from Mexico, 1836.
--Pope Pius XII born 1876.
--Kurt Weill, German composer, born 1900.
March 3
--Missouri Compromise passed, 1820.
--George Pullman, American inventor and businessman, born 1831.
--Florida became the 27th state, 1845.
--Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born 1847
--Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918.
March 4
--William Penn received grant of Pennsylvania, 1681.
--The first Congress under the U.S. Constitution met, 1789. This date was used as Inauguration Day until 1937.
--Vermont became the 14th state, 1791.
--Knute Rockne, American football coach, born 1888.
JEANNE (STEVENS) WHITE
March 5
--Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer, born 1512.
--British soldiers fired on a mob in the Boston Massacre, 1770.
--Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, born 1887.
--Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, died 1953.
March 6
--Italian artist Michelangelo, born 1475.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, born 1806.
--Santa Anna captured the Alamo, 1836.
--Ring Lardner, American humorist, born 1885.
DANNY & JEANNE WHITE
March 7
--Luther Burbank, American horticulturist, born 1849.
--Tomas Masaryk, cofounder of Czechoslovakia, born 1850.
--Maurice Ravel, French composer, born 1875.
--Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, 1876.
March 8
--Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., born 1841.
March 9
--Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, born 1454.
--The Merrimack (then called the Virginia ) fought the Monitor, 1862.
--Samuel Barber, American composer, born 1910.
March 10
--Arthur Honegger, French composer, born 1892.
March 11
--Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, born 1544.
MELISSA (DOWLER) AUSTIN
March 12
--Canadian politician William Mackenzie born 1795.
--Sir John J. C. Abbott, prime minister of Canada, born 1821.
--Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer, born 1831.
--Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian poet, born 1863.
--Juliette Low founded the Girl Scout movement in America, 1912.
--First transatlantic radio broadcast, 1925.
--President Harry S. Truman announced the Truman Doctrine, 1947.
March 13
--Joseph Priestley, English chemist, born 1733.
--Johann Wyss, Swiss author, born 1781.
March 14
--Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, 1794.
--Johann Strauss, Austrian composer, born 1804.
--Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist, born 1879.
March 15
--Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B.C.
--Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, born in Waxhaw settlement, either North Carolina or South Carolina, 1767.
--Maine became the 23rd state, 1820.
--American Legion founded, 1919.
DAVID WHITE
DANA (McKINNEY) WHITE
March 16
--James Madison, fourth President of the United States, born at Port Conway, King George County, Va., 1751.
--Georg S. Ohm, German physicist, born 1787.
--United States Military Academy founded at West Point, N.Y., 1802.
March 17
--St. Patrick's Day.
--British evacuated Boston, 1776.
KAY (DOWLER) PHILLIPS
March 18
--John C. Calhoun, American statesman, born 1782.
--Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, born in Caldwell, N.J., 1837.
--Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, born 1844.
--Rudolf Diesel, German inventor, born 1858.
PAUL "PORKY" WHITE
March 19
--Missionary and explorer David Livingstone born 1813.
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--Political leader William Jennings Bryan born 1860.
--Ballet producer Sergei Diaghilev born 1872.
March 20
--Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet and dramatist, born 1828.
--Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor, born 1890.
March 21
--Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, born 1685.
--Benito Juarez, Mexican political leader, born 1806.
--Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, born 1839.
March 22
--Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter, born 1599.
--Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator, born 1846.
--Robert Millikan, American physicist, born 1868.
March 23
--Patrick Henry, according to tradition, declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!" 1775.
--Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and Nobel Prize-winner for literature, born 1881.
KAYLIN WHITE
March 24
--William Morris, English poet and artist, born 1834.
--Andrew Mellon, American financier, born 1855.
March 25
--Lord Baltimore's colonists landed in Maryland, 1634.
--British Parliament abolished slave trade, 1807.
--Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, born 1867.
--Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer, born 1881.
March 26
--A. E. Housman, English poet, born 1859.
--Robert Frost, American poet, born 1874.
--James Conant, American chemist and educator, born 1893.
--Tennessee Williams, American playwright, born 1911.
--Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman justice of Supreme Court of the United States, born 1930.
March 27
--Louis XVII of France born 1785.
--Lithographer Nathaniel Currier born 1813.
--Wilhelm Roentgen, German physicist who discovered X rays, born 1845.
--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-born architect, born 1886.
March 28
--Pierre Laplace, French astronomer and mathematician, born 1749.
--Aristide Briand, French statesman, born 1862.
HAYLEY MIZE
March 29
--John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, born at Greenway Estate, Charles City County, Va., 1790.
--Parliament passed the British North America Act, 1867.
--Cy Young, American baseball player, born 1867.
March 30
--Francisco Goya, Spanish painter, born 1746.
--Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War, 1856.
--United States purchased Alaska from Russia, 1867.
--Amendment 15 to the U.S. Constitution, stating that a person cannot be denied the ballot because of race or color, proclaimed, 1870.
--Albert Einstein announced revised Unified Field Theory, 1953.
March 31
--Rene Descartes, French philosopher-scientist, born 1596.
--Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer, born 1732.
--Commodore Matthew C. Perry made the first treaty between the United States and Japan, 1854.
--United States took possession of the Virgin Islands by purchase from Denmark, 1917.
--Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the United States, 1918.
--Newfoundland became the 10th province of Canada, 1949.
