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1st April 1999: Eleven countries in the European Union adopted the Euro as a common currency as the dream of monetary union became reality.

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31st March, 1943: The musical "Oklahoma!" debuts on Broadway. This play, written by the famed duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, was originally titled "Away We Go".

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30th March, 1987: An anonymous foreign buyer purchased Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece 'Sunflowers' for nearly $36.3 million.

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25th March, 1957: France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg sign the treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market.

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24th March, 1989: The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot oil tanker, ran aground on a reef and ripped holes in its hull, spilling crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. It spilled over 200,000 Barrels of Oil(more than 11 million gallons of crude oil) leaving a five mile slick making it one of the largest and most devastating environmental disasters at sea.



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23rd March, 1919: Benito Mussolini establishes the Fascist Party, in 1922 they took over power in Italy and ruled until 1943. The party promised they could take Italy back to the times of The Great Roman Empire.

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20th March, 1935: The American radio show Your Hit Parade makes its debut on the airwaves.

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19th March, 1932: The Sydney Harbour Bridge the fourth-longest spanning-arch bridge in the world across Sydney Harbour officially opened.

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10th March, 1964: The first Ford Mustang is manufactured ready for release on April 16.

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9th March, 1959: Barbie doll makes debut at the American Toy Fair in New York, the doll was designed by Ruth Handler and introduced by Mattel Toy Company costing $3.

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8th March, 1936: First car race in Daytona. This first race was organized specifically for stock car racing participants, and was considered an early start of what people now know as the Daytona 500.

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6th March, 1899: The Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for (acetylsalicylic acid which was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees) on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co.

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5th March, 1963: The Hula-Hoop, first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company's co-founder, Arthur "Spud" Melin.

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4th March, 1936: The Hindenburg makes it's First Official Flight in Germany. The Hindenburg built by the Zeppelin Company was 804 ft long filled with highly inflamable hydrogen to provide the lift and four 1,200 hp Daimler-Benz diesel engines giving the airship a maximum speed of 135 km/h (84 mph).

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3rd March, 2002: After about 200 years Switzerland became no longer “Neutral”. They became officially a part of the United Nations upon voters’ approval.

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2nd March, 1965: The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the lead roles, has its world premiere in New York.

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1st March, 1981: Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. During his hunger strike he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Great Britain. He died 65 days later.

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28th February, 1983: The final episode of M*A*S*H, a series about the staff of an Army hospital during the Korean War entitled, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" became the most-watched television episode in U.S. history, with viewer estimates at 106 million Americans.

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26th February, 1919: Congress established Grand Canyon National Park which includes the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world in Arizona. This is considered by many to be one of the earliest successes the environmental conservation movement.

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25th February, 2004: The opening day of The Passion of the Christ, a film directed by Mel Gibson. It was highly acclaimed by those who wanted to view the exact nature of what happened to Jesus on the cross. The movie was Rated R, and was not recommended for children. There was some criticism made of the film, suggesting that it was intended to indicate that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. Also, some people thought it was a bit too graphic.

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