Historical Events in March, Month of March Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 5, 1279 | The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. |
| March 26, 1917 | World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. |
| March 29, 1871 | Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. |
| March 22, 1960 | Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. |
| March 19, 1944 | World War II: The German army occupies Hungary. |
| March 2, 2004 | War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. |
| March 30, 1867 | Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. |
| March 7, 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". |
| March 28, 1970 | An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200. |
| March 13, 1940 | The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty. |
| March 11, 1864 | The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England. |
| March 10, 1952 | Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba. |
| March 23, 1980 | Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. |
| March 18, 1940 | World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. |
| March 3, 1873 | Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail. |
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