November 3rd in History

Michael Dobson | November 3

Godzilla premiers! In other news, Chevrolet is founded, Sputnik 2 is launched, the Meiji Emperor and Bronko Nagurski are born, Annie Oakley and Batman creator Bob Kane die. Happy Bunka No Hi!

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March 15th in History

Michael Dobson | March 15

Caesar stabbed! Plus, Maine secedes from Massachusetts and Germany is reunified. It's the birthday of will.i.am, Jimmy Swaggart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harry James, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Andrew Jackson. RIP Benjamin Spock, Ari Onassis, Lester Young, and H. P. Lovecraft. Happy Дзень Канстытуцы!

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March 16th in History

Michael Dobson | March 16

Massacre in My Lai, Nebuchadnezzar captures Jerusalem to begin the Babylonian Captivity, Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, and Mississippi outlaws slavery...in 1995. It's the birthday of Jerry Lewis, Pat Nixon, Josef Mengele, Henny Youngman, and Georg Ohm; RIP Arthur Godfrey, T. Bone Walker, Judge Roy Bean, and Emperor Tiberius of Rome. In Latvia, it's the Day of the Book Smugglers; in parts of Minnesota it's St. Urdu's Day, celebrating the hero who drove the grasshoppers from Finland!

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