Mar 9, 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his honor.
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Mar 8, 1964 – The Dave Clark 5 made their first appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show”.
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Mar 7, 1933 – The board game Monopoly was invented.
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Mar 6, 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
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Mar 5, 1960 – Elvis Presley was honorably discharged from the Army.
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Mar 4, 1933 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
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Mar 3, 1931 – The “Star Spangled Banner,” written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as “Defense of Fort McHenry.”
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Feb 2, 1899 – Mount Rainier National Park in Washington was established by the U.S. Congress.
Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
Benjam Franklin, 1784
The idea of troops attacking from the sky can be said to be an early American idea, stretching all the way back to Benjamin Franklin while he was ambassador to France.
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