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03/03/1937
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Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
Type: Event
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03/03/1938
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American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
Type: Event
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03/03/1938
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Douglas Leedy, composer
Type: Birth
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03/03/1938
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Lew De Witt, singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1938
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Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1938
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Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
Type: Death
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03/03/1939
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Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1939
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M L Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1940
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Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
Type: Event
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03/03/1941
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Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits G”ring in Berlin
Type: Event
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03/03/1941
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Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
Type: Death
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03/03/1941
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Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
Type: Death
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03/03/1942
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1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
Type: Event
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03/03/1942
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Mike Pender, Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles and Pins)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1942
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Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1942
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Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
Type: Death
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03/03/1943
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Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
Type: Event
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03/03/1943
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F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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03/03/1943
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US defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea
Type: Event
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03/03/1943
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Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1943
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George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
Type: Death
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03/03/1944
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1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
Type: Event
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03/03/1944
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Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1945
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Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter
Type: Event
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03/03/1945
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RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
Type: Event
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03/03/1945
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Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
Type: Event
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03/03/1945
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US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
Type: Event
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03/03/1945
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US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
Type: Event
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03/03/1945
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Farooq Hamid, cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan v Australia 1964)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1945
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Hattie Winston, Greenville Miss, actress (Nurse, Electric Company)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1945
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Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
Type: Death
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03/03/1945
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Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
Type: Death
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03/03/1946
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US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
Type: Event
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03/03/1946
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US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
Type: Event
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03/03/1946
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James C Adamson, Warsaw NY, Lt Col USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1947
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Dave Mount, rocker
Type: Birth
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03/03/1948
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Byron MacGregor, newscaster
Type: Birth
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03/03/1948
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Reed Hundt, FCC chairman
Type: Birth
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03/03/1948
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Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51
Type: Death
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03/03/1949
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Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1949
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James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1950
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3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
Type: Event
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03/03/1950
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Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1950
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Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1950
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Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1951
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Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
Type: Event
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03/03/1951
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut
Type: Birth
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03/03/1952
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Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
Type: Event
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03/03/1952
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Robyn Hitchcock, rocker (Moss Elixir)
Type: Birth
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03/03/1953
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Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
Type: Event
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