This Day in History
01 Mar 1260
Hulagu Khan grandson of Genghis conquers Damascus
01 Mar 1420
Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the Hussite protestants
01 Mar 1457
The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
01 Mar 1562
Blood bath at Vassy Francois de Guises troops open fire on Huguenot congregation first event in Wars of Religion
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Puerto Rican nationalists wound five representatives
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Soviet probe crashes into Venus
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Salem Witch Hunt begins
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Lindbergh baby kidnapped
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U.S. informs South Vietnam of intent to send Marines
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Clifford replaces McNamara
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Bomb explodes in Capitol building
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Mickey Mantle retires
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Yellowstone Park established
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James Taylor makes the cover of Time magazine
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E.M. Forster takes a passage to India
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Richard Zanuck and David Brown join Warner Brothers
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Trains buried by avalanche
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The Lindbergh Baby, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., kidnapped
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