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MARCH 5 — 1770 Boston Massacre;1804 President Washington retires from office, opens world’s largest whiskey distillery; 2008Gilroy Gardens purchased by its California city MARCH 5 1770 – The Boston Massacre. Back in 1765 when the Stamp Act was enforced into

MARCH 4 — 1850 The Great Triumvirate (Clay, Calhoun, Webster) debate slavery; Pre-1933 Inauguration Day: 1933 FDR elected first term; 1829 Andy Jackson’s inaugural community event at White House; 1841 Pres. William Henry Harrison gives deathly boring inaugural speech (literally);

MARCH 4 — Pre-1933 Inauguration Day: 1933 FDR elected first term; 1829 Andy Jackson’s inaugural community event at White House; 1841 Pres. William Henry Harrison gives deathly boring inaugural speech (literally) + + MARCH 4 Big Inauguration Day. I know

MARCH 3 — 1931 Star Spangled Banner becomes America’s national anthem; I1884 Legal Tender Act is upheld in Juliard V Greenman; 1847 Happy Birthday Alexander Graham Bell; 1887 Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan; 1999 Music professor tries to sue Smashing

MARCH 2 -1749 Happy birthday Revolution Spy Austin Roe (the Paul Revere of Long Island); 1769 Happy birthday politician DeWitt Clinton (Eerie Canal mastermind) 11877 Compromise gives 1876 Presidential Election to Rudd Hayes;  SPORTS: 1951 1st NBA All-Star game; 1962

MARCH 1 — 1833 Pres. Jackson and South Carolina come to a head in the Nullification Crisis; 1964 Comic character Winter Soldier is killed; 1803 Ohio joins Union as 17th state; SPORTS: 1996 Lenny Wilkins sets NBA record, 1986 Earle

FEBRUARY 29 — 1932 Alfalfa Murray appears on cover of Time Magazine; 1960 Hugh Hefner opens Playboy Mansion in Chicago; 1780 Benjamin Franklin opens Omicron Delta Omega fraternity; MUSIC: Bing Crosby teams up with Mills Bros, 1980 Items from Buddy

FEBRUARY 28 –1754 Happy birthday Revolutionary spy Benjamin Tallmadge; 1893 Edward Acheson patents carborundum; 1867 U.S. and Vatican sever ties FEBRUARY 28

1973 American Indian Movement takes a knee; 1859 Daniel Sickles kills Daniel Keys; 1902 Happy birthday John Steinbeck; 2010 First monster truck backflip

FEBRUARY 26 — 1929 Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park; 1953 Allen Dulles becomes first director of the CIA; 1993 Al Quaeda tries to blow up WTC in New York; 1996 John Stockton gets 11,000 assist FEBRUARY 26 1929 –