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Tuesday 8th March 2005
1917, the Russian Revolution began, leading to the fall of the Czarist government and the establishment of the Bolshevik Party. In 1965, the first United States ground troops arrived in Vietnam to wage a war against the spread of communism in Asia.
Monday 7th March 2005
1908, the Mayor of Cincinnati declared that Women were ophysically unfit to drive automobiles. In 1971, Switzerland granted women the right to vote and stand for stand for parliament.
Sunday 6th March 2005
1930, Clarence Birdseye's frozen foods first went on sale in America. In 1946, a recipe for squirrel pie was published by the British Food Ministry.
Saturday 5th March 2005
1917, the newspaper, Pravda (truth), was first published by the Bolshevik authorities. many years later archivists in the Soviet Union were unable to locate a copy of the publication in any of their libraries. They managed to acquire one from Stanford University in America. In 1946, Winston Churchill, in a speech in Missouri, declared: �from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent"
Friday 4th March 2005
Thursday 3rd March 2005
1939, it was reported that a new craze had began to sweep American college campuses. Starting at the prestigious Harvard University, it involved the 'sport' of Goldfish swallowing. In 1957, Rock & roll music was banned from Catholic High Schools in Chicago. It was deemed that the "tribal rhythms" encouraged young people to "behave in a hedonistic manner."
Wednesday 2nd March 2005
1987, Rosalind Helms in Illinois became the proud mother of quintuplets. On exactly the same day, Robin Jenkins in Las Vegas became the mother of five bouncing babies.
Tuesday 1st March 2005
1896, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by accident. He left a photographic plate in a desk drawer and found it had fogged with the image of uranium crystals that were alongside it. In 1954, The US detonated a hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima explosion. The test site on the Pacific archipelago of Bikini was subsequently used for 23 atomic and hydrogen bombs tests over 12 years, leaving it highly contaminated by radioactivity.
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