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.
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Mar 1, 1912 – Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
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Feb 28, 1953 – In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
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Feb 27, 1827 – New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
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Feb 26, 1919 – In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
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