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#: Monthly stuff
3:National Peanut Month
#: Events depending on weekdays
S(3/7) :Iditarod race begins (1st Saturday).
#: Normal events
3/1      :National Pig Day.
3/2/1789 :Law prohibiting theatrical performances repealed (PA).
3/3/1875 :1st organized hockey match (Montreal).
3/4/1774 :1st recorded observation of the Orion Nebula (William Herschel).
3/5/1770 :Boston Massacre (5 killed, 6 injured).
3/6/1831 :Edgar Allen Poe was expelled from West Point.
3/7/-322 :Aristotle died.
3/8/1894 :1st dog-licensing law enacted in the nation.
3/9/1822 :1st patent for false teeth (C. Graham).
3/10/1862:1st US paper money issued.
3/11/1892:First publicly played basketball game.
3/12/1877:1st department store opened (Wanamaker's, Philadelphia).
3/13/1877:Earmuffs patented (Chester Greenwood).
3/14/1794:Cotton gin (removes seeds) patented (Eli Whitney).
3/15     :Buzzards return to Hinckley Ohio.
3/16/1830:Slowest trading day on the NY Stock Exchange (31 shares).
3/17/1845:Rubber band patented.
3/18/1909:1st ham radio broadcast (Einar Dessau, Denmark).
3/19/1831:1st recorded US bank robbery (City Bank, NYC - $245,000).
3/20/1899:First woman executed by electrocution (M.M. Place, NY).
3/21/1788:Fire in New Orleans (800 buildings destroyed).
3/22     :National Goof-off Day.
3/23/1957:Last US Army homing pigeons sold off.
3/24/1898:First US automobile sold.
3/25/1954:RCA began producing color TV sets.
3/26/1827:Ludwig Van Beethoven, German composer, died.
3/27/1955:1st coast to coast color TV broadcast.
3/28/1797:Patent for the 1st washing machine awarded (Nathaniel Briggs).
3/29/1886:Coca-Cola introduced.
3/30/1858:Pencil with eraser patented.
3/31/1840:10 hr workday established for federal public works employees.