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in March 1946

5: Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech
6: Jackie Robinson became the first African-American in the 20th Century to play in the Major League Baseball system
12: Liza Minnelli was born
16: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66, written by Bobby Troup, was recorded for the first time, by the Nat King Cole Trio
18: Sixty-three women were hired as the first female law enforcement officers in the history of Japan
26: You were born!
29: The inventor of instant coffee died

1: The NATO phonetic alphabet (the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet) was drafted
7: Bryan Cranston was born
15: The musical My Fair Lady received its Broadway première, with Rex Harrison in the role of Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza. It would run for a record 2,717 performances.
26: You turned 10!
29: President Eisenhower declared the giant sequoia, General Grant, located in Kings Canyon National Park, a “National Shrine”

1: The Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashed on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface
3: Died: Alice Pearce, Emmy-winning actress for her portrayal of the character “Gladys Kravitz” on Bewitched, and William Frawley, actor best known for portraying “Fred Mertz” on I Love Lucy
4: The London Evening Standard published an interview with John Lennon, in which he said, “We’re more popular than Jesus now”
17: The last Studebaker was driven off the assembly line and production was halted entirely
19: The nearly all-black Texas Western University Miners upset the number-one ranked (and all-white) University of Kentucky Wildcats in an NCAA championship game.
22: The president of General Motors appeared before a Senate subcommittee and apologized to Ralph Nader
26: You turned 20! Also, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet telecast its last original episode
28: Salt of Salt-N-Pepa was born

4: Vietnam War POWs, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Stockdale, U.S. Air Force Captain George “Bud” Day, and, posthumously, to U.S. Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Lance Sijan were presented with the Medal of Honor.
8: Freddie Prinze Jr. was born
9: An explosion in the Scotia mine in Kentucky killed 15 coal miners and trapped almost 150 underground
17: A UVF car bomb killed and injured almost 50 others injured in Dungannon, Northern Ireland
18: For the first time in the history of the U. S. Naval Academy, women were appointed as students
20: Kidnap victim Patty Hearst was convicted of armed robbery and received a 35-year prison sentence
21: The pilot for Charlie’s Angels aired on ABC
26: You turned 30! Also, Queen Elizabeth II became the first world leader to send an email from a head of state
29: The Hoosiers of Indiana University completed an unbeaten season (31 wins and no losses) and won the NCAA championship

9: Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside
13: Microsoft holds its initial public offering of stock shares
24: Out of Africa wins Best Picture at the 58th Academy Awards
26: You turned 40!

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3-4: Two suicide bombs explode in Israel, killing 32 people. The military wing of Hamas admits responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address. Israel warns of retaliation.
6: Chechen rebels attack the Russian government headquarters in Grozny; 70 Russian soldiers and policemen and 130 Chechen fighters are killed.
16: Robert Mugabe is re-elected as President of Zimbabwe, although only 32% of the electorate actually voted.
25: Braveheart wins Best Picture
26: You turned 50!

2: Two days before President George W. Bush is scheduled to visit Pakistan, a car bomb explodes next to the US consulate in Karachi, killing at least four people including a US diplomat and his driver and injuring at least fifty others.
6: Kirby Puckett dies
12: Six car bombs explode in Sadr City, a neighborhood in Baghdad, killing at least forty-six people
13: A major tornado outbreak finally ends in the central United States. In all, more than 100 tornadoes were reported and 11 people were killed.
24: Hannah Montana starts with its first episode.
25: 500,000 people march in LA and hundreds of thousands more in other citys, protesting proposed legislation that includes construction of a security wall along the US-Mexico border.
26: You turned 60!

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6: Nancy Reagan dies
7: Peyton Manning retires
9: Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo AI defeats South Korean grand master Lee Se-dol in the ancient game of Go.
11: Donald Trump postpones a rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago due to security issues amid fights between protestors and supporters.
15: Pope Francis announces that Mother Teresa will be canonized
26: You turned 70!

1: Iran confirms the death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei in an attack yesterday in Tehran by Israel and the US
4: Lou Holtz dies
14: Midfielder Max Dowman scores for Arsenal in a 2–0 win over Everton to become the youngest ever goal scorer in Premier League history at 16 years and 73 days old
16: The identify of English street artist Banksy is revealed as 51-year-old Robin Gunningham from Bristol, England.
26: You turned 70!

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