1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 Skydog wrote: 
Yes, it is a cool chair.  That was his first space flight.

 1966?,  cool chair

March 16, 1966 – Astronaut Neil Armstrong suits up for his Gemini 8 flight.
 

1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

1926 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

A peaceful uprising. Six years ago today

 

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1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.

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

2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, Frankenstein; or The modern Prometheus, is published.

2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

March 10, 1979-Believe it or not, James Brown played the Grand Ole Opry.
Some Country artists such as Jean Shepard complained, but others like Barbara Mandrell said that Brown should have been invited five years earlier. 

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1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.