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Posted: Mar 2, 2016 - 7:24am
Mardch 2, 1999 Dusty Sprinfield died of breast cancer at the age of 59, after a five year battle. She would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame less than two weeks after she passed away, having placed 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970.

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Posted: Mar 2, 2016 - 6:56am
Theodor Seuss Geisel born - 1904, Springfield, MA.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:34am
1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:34am
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:33am
1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:33am
1941 – W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:32am
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:32am
1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:31am
1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 11:30am
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

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Posted: Mar 1, 2016 - 10:58am
March 1, 1951 Sam Phillips records "Rocket 88" with singer Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner's band. for Chess records. This recording is widely considered the first rock and roll record.

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Posted: Feb 29, 2016 - 6:10am
1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

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Posted: Feb 28, 2016 - 6:37am
1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).

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Posted: Feb 27, 2016 - 3:03pm
February 27, 1965, 'Beatles For Sale' number 1 album , 1st and last week, replacing 'Rolling Stones II' (UK Record Retailer chart).

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Posted: Feb 26, 2016 - 6:18am
1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

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Posted: Feb 26, 2016 - 6:16am
1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

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Posted: Feb 24, 2016 - 9:02am
1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.

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Posted: Feb 23, 2016 - 6:02am
71 years ago today ...

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Posted: Feb 22, 2016 - 6:02am
1997 – In Roslin, Scottish scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.

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