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March 8, 1887: Buffalo Bill Cody was given the rank of colonel (aide-de-camp) by the Governor of Nebraska.
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March 5, 1846: Rob Morris was initiated an Entered Apprentice in Oxford Lodge No. 33 in Mississippi.
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March 3, 1863: George Elbridge Boyden was raised a Master Mason in Montacute Lodge in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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March 3, 1899: A.E. Waite (S.R.) took 5=6 in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
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March 3, 1753: George Washington was passed to the degree of Fellowcraft in Fredericksburg Lodge in Virginia.
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Happy Birthday to M.W. Jim Mendoza, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Washington.
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Happy Birthday to William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, born on this day in 1846.
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Happy Birthday to Dr. Barbara Frale, Paleographer at the Vatican Secret Archives.
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February 21, 1925: Tom Mix was raised a Master Mason in Utopia Lodge No. 537 in Los Angeles, California
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February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first U.S. Astronaut to orbit the Earth, completing three orbits as pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight.
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Happy Birthday to artist Grant Wood, born on this day in 1891
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Happy Birthday to Dr. Elaine Pagels, Historian and Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
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Happy Birthday to Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809.
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Happy Birthday to Eliphas Levi, born on this day in 1810.
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Thomas Smith Webb
(1771 - 1819)
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Happy Birthday to Norman Rockwell, born on this day in 1894.
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Happy Birthday to Clark Gable, born on this day in 1901.
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Happy Birthday to M.W. Stanton T. Brown, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri.
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January 29, 1942: "Son of Fury", co-starring Gene Tierney, was released in theaters.
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Happy Birthday to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on this day in 1756.
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