501 Historic Events for March 3
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| 1849 |
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Territory of Minnesota organizes
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| 1849 |
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Minnesota Territory is organizes
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| 1849 |
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Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
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| 1851 |
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Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
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| 1853 |
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US Assay Office in NYC authorized
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| 1853 |
Birth |
Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
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| 1853 |
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Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
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| 1855 |
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Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
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| 1855 |
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Congress authorizes registered mail
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| 1857 |
Birth |
Alfred Bruneau, composer
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| 1858 |
Death |
J¢zsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
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| 1861 |
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Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [OS=Feb 19]
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| 1862 |
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General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid
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| 1862 |
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Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces
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| 1863 |
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Idaho Territory forms
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| 1863 |
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Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
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| 1863 |
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Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
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| 1863 |
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1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
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| 1863 |
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Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
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| 1863 |
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Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
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| 1863 |
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Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
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| 1863 |
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Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
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| 1864 |
Death |
Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
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| 1865 |
Birth |
Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
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| 1865 |
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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established
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