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1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
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#GarrettMorgan (Mar 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an inventor known for a three-position traffic signal and the smoke hood (a predecessor to the gas mask) notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue.
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MARCH 1, 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
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FEB 27, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at Cooper Union, in which he insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong".
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#WilliamSleator (Feb 13, 1945 – Aug 3, 2011) was a science fiction author whose books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science.
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ON THIS DAY: Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 6.2 million articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 300 Wikipedias.
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