March 8
\n1782
\nA peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio.<\/p>\n
1917
\nRussia’s February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the czarist government, began.<\/p>\n
1945
\nPhyllis Mae Daley, the first African-American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission.<\/p>\n
1948
\nThe Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.<\/p>\n
1950
\nThe Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n
1965
\nFirst U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.<\/p>\n
1983
\nPresident Reagan called the USSR an “Evil Empire.”<\/p>\n
1999
\nBaseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Oliver Wendell Holmes
\nAmerican Jurist (1841)<\/p>\n
Kenneth Grahame
\nwriter (1859)<\/p>\n
Otto Hahn
\nchemist and physicist (1879)<\/p>\n
Alan Hale, Jr.
\nactor (1918)<\/p>\n
Lynn Redgrave
\nactress (1943)<\/p>\n
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