I'm perplexed by this one entry: Texas, a slave state until 1865, abolishes slavery.
In 1836 Texas had an estimated population of 38,470, only 5,000 of whom were slaves. The Texas Revolution assured slaveholders of the future of their institution. The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836) provided that slaves would remain the property of their owners, that the Texas Congress could not prohibit the immigration of slaveholders bringing their property, and that slaves could be imported from the United States (although not from Africa). Given those protections, slavery expanded rapidly during the period of the republic.
March 19: 1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen 1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. 1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US 1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city 1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000) 1863 -
The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate
cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions,
medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. The wreck was
discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then
teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence. 1865 - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC 1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service 1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees 1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time 1920 -
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify
League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy) 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling 1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty 1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure 1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000
and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was
discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E.
Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction. 1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention 1975 - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports 1985 - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile 1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments 2002 -
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March
2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop
fatalities.
March 20th: 1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions 1833 - US & Siam sign commercial treaty 1863 - Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals 1865 - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC 1865 - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives 1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000 1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden operetta 1886 - 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Mass 1896 - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens 1952 - US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan 1953 - Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole 1969 - US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1980 - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran 1989 - Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA 1991 - US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland 2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
March 21th: 1788 - Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana 1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State 1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today 1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ. 1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California 1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated 1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden 1863 - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon 1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana 1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman 1866 - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes 1907 - US invades Honduras 1913 - -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400 1923 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition 1924 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US 1944 - Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy 1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) 1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed 1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1972 - US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote 1984 - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon 1984 - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
March 22nd: 1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain 1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) 1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony 1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists 1775 - Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament 1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state 1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State 1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries 1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA 1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment 1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment 1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories 1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1947 - President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty 1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes 1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1988 - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 1989 - US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate 1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs
March 23rd: 1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1862 - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign 1865 - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC 1867 - Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over Pres Johnson's veto 1868 - University of California founded (Oakland California) 1889 - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization 1896 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels. 1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers 1945 - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa 1945 - Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 - US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf 2005 - A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers. 2006 - The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
March 24th: 1629 - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia 1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio 1855 - Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas 1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY 1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms 1880 - Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT 1887 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) 1894 - 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA 1900 -
New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new
underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and
Brooklyn. 1920 - 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1932 - 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) 1934 - US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 1934 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act. 1937 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1945 - US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency 1947 - John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
March 25th: 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America 1598 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies 1609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co 1634 - Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland 1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland. 1776 - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington 1813 - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex 1856 - A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine 1864 - Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid) 1865 - Battle of Bluff Spring, FL 1865 - Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg 1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) 1898 - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC 1900 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis 1905 - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1915 - 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 1937 - Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page 1941 - Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated 1945 - US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen 1945 - US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg 1945 - US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa 1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene. 1966 - US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1996 - US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
March 26th: 1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency 1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana 1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase 1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves 1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick 1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine 1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site And in WA state history:
March 27th: 1794 - US Navy forms 1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. 1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama 1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio) 1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. 1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba 1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia 1945 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed 1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. 1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker" 1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in
an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro
regime. 1997 - 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp) 1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
March 28th: 1774 - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. 1796 - Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church 1799 - NY State abolished slavery 1804 - Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 1834 - Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US 1845 - Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US 1862 - Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia 1885 - US Salvation Army officially organized 1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. 1967 - UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam 2003 -
In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft
from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron
attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
killing British soldier Matty Hull. In WA state history:
March 29th: 1638 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans) 1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. 1806 -
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as
the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1847 - 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico 1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam 1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day 1864 - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1865 - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed 1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, VA 1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial 1936 - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis 1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II 1943 - Meat rationed in US (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's 1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College 1973 - US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution 1988 - US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras And in WA State history:
March 30th: 1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory 1864 - Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas 1865 - -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia 1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly) 1870 - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race 1870 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union 1870 - Florida territorial government established. 1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi. 1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans. 1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race 1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. 1972 - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam 1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III 1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
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