Back In The Day ------------- March12 1496 The Jews are expelled from Syria. 1507 Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain. 1609 The Bermuda Islands become an English colony. 1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony. 1789 The United States Post Office is established. 1809 Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country. 1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address. 1879 The British Zulu War begins. 1884 Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women. 1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. 1903 The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land. 1909 British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain. 1911 Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis. 1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia. 1917 Russian troops mutiny as the February Revolution begins. 1930 Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India. 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side. 1933 President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats. 1938 Anschluss took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich. 1939 Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome. 1944 Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany. 1945 Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp. 1947 President Truman established the Truman Doctrine to aid in the containment of Communism. 1959 The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii. 1984 Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war. 1985 The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva. 1993 Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States. 1994 The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years. 2002 The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge. 2003 The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated. ------------- In Natoma, Kansas, its illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
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