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This Day in History: March
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On this day in 1904, Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss, the author and illustrator of such beloved children's books as "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham," is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Also on this day in 1836..., Texas declared its independence from Mexico although the United States still did not acknowledge it. (1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 01:52 AM
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On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan's tutelage, including her pioneering "touch teaching" techniques, the previous...ly uncontrollable Keller flourished, eventually graduating from college and becoming an international lecturer and activist. Sullivan, later dubbed "the miracle worker," remained Keller's interpreter and constant companion until the older woman's death in 1936. (1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 04:54 PM
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On this day in 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. Also on this day in 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a protest march beginning in Selmer Alabama and ...ending in Montgomery. (1:00)
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September 10, 2012 at 11:19 PM
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On this day in 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces. Also on this day in 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (...1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 06:10 PM
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On this day in 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family's new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who becam...e an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son's empty room. The kidnapper used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and left muddy footprints in the room. (1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 01:46 AM
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On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his... "New Deal"--an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare--and told Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 05:01 PM
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On this day in 1942, the Quartermaster Corps (QMC) of the United States Army begins training dogs for the newly established War Dog Program, or "K-9 Corps." Also on this day in 1925, Tennessee outlawed the teaching of evolution leading to the famous ...Scopes Monkey trial. (1:00)
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September 9, 2012 at 11:20 PM
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In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on... all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice. (1:00)
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September 10, 2012 at 11:22 PM
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Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was... at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. (1:00)
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September 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM
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On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq's capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address,... "At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under Dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction. (1:00)
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September 10, 2012 at 12:01 AM
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