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Mar 22, 1895: Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.

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Mar 21, 1556: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.

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Mar 20, 1602: The Dutch East India Company was established. During its 196-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies.

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Mar 19, 1853: During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'en-ching (Heavenly Capital).

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Mar 18, 1963: The Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.

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Mar 17, 1963: Mount Agung on Bali erupted, killing 1,184 people.

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Mar 16, 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was published.

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Mar 15, 1820: Maine became the 23rd state.

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Mar 14, 1794: The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney.

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Mar 13, 1781: The German-born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus.

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Mar 12, 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.

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Mar 11, 1930: William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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Mar 10, 1969: James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.

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Mar 9, 1796: Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of a former French officer executed during the revolution.

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Mar 8, 1917: Russia's February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the csarist government, began.

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Mar 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.

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Mar 6, 1857: The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.

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Mar 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.

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Mar 4, 1791: Vermont became the 14th state in the United States.

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Mar 3, 1845: The U.S. Senate passed legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.

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