03-25-2006, 10:18 AM
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Location: Maryland
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March 25th
1634 ~ The first settlers arrived in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1807 ~ The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1867 ~ Birthday of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor.
1881 ~ Birthday of Béla Bartók, Composer.
1918 ~ Death of Claude Debussy, Composer.
1942 ~ Birthday of Aretha Franklin, Singer.
1957 ~ The European Economic Community was established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1975 ~ King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1992 ~ Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1998 ~ President Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that ''we did not act quickly enough'' to stop the slaughter of one million Rwandans four years earlier.
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