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March 23, 1994 | At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto MartÃnez. |
March 23, 1977 | The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. |
March 1, 1966 | The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. |
March 1, 2003 | Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. |
March 12, 1622 | Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. |
March 28, 1862 | American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26. |
March 27, 1945 | World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. |
March 4, 1960 | The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100. |
March 26, 1351 | Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights. |
March 7, 1138 | Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. |
March 12, 1968 | Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. |
March 14, 1980 | LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. |
March 31, 1899 | Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces. |
March 1, 1966 | Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. |
March 27, 1866 | President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9. |
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