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2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

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Posted: Mar 12, 2014 - 6:01am
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

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1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.

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1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

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1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.

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Posted: Mar 10, 2014 - 6:49am
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

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Posted: Mar 10, 2014 - 6:48am
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

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Posted: Mar 10, 2014 - 6:47am
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

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Posted: Mar 8, 2014 - 6:37am
1979 – Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.

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Posted: Mar 8, 2014 - 6:36am
1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

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Posted: Mar 7, 2014 - 5:57am
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

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Posted: Mar 7, 2014 - 5:55am
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

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Posted: Mar 6, 2014 - 6:08am
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

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Posted: Mar 6, 2014 - 6:06am
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

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Posted: Mar 5, 2014 - 6:03am
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.

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1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

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1940 – Members of Soviet politburo, including general secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.

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1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

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Posted: Mar 5, 2014 - 6:00am
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

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