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March 1 - Saint David's Day
March 3, 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, born.
March 5, 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, born.
March 5, 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, died.
March 6, 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut and first woman in space, born.
March 7, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone.
March 12, 1930 -
Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi and his followers began the 24-day
Dandi march to protest the British tax on salt. (See more under "Hints & Tips".)
March 14, 1804 - Johann Strauss, Snr., Austrian composer, born.
March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein physicist, born. (See more under "Feature of the Month".)
March 15, 44 B.C. - Julius Caesar assassinated.
March 15, 1877 - First cricket test between England and Australia, at Melbourne.
March 16, 1774 - Matthew Flinders, navigator and explorer of Australia, born. (See more under "Hints & Tips")
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day.
March 19, 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in Australia.
March 20, 1796 - Edward Gibbon Wakefield, pioneer of colonisation in Australia and New Zealand, born.
March 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, born.
March 25, 1807 - British Parliament abolished the slave trade.
March 30, 1870 - John Forrest and party start first west-to-east crossing of Australia.
March 30, 1953 - Albert Einstein announced his revised Unified Field Theory. (See more under "Feature of the Month".)
April 1 - April Fool's Day in many countries.
April 2, 1805 - Hans Christian Anderson, Danish fairy-tale writer, born.
April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, shot dead.
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FEATURE OF THE MONTH
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Born MARCH 4, 1879
Revised "Unified Field Theory", MARCH 30, 1953
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