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Friday, March 12, 2010
This is the 71st day of the year, with 294 days remaining in 2010
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Holidays
Feast day of St. Alphege, St. Bernard of Winchester, St. Gregory, St. Maximilian of Theveste, St. Mura, St. Paul Aurelian, St. Theophanes, and St. Pionius.
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Holidays
Mauritius: Independence Day.
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Events: 1609
Bermuda became a British colony.
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Events: 1664
New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II granted the land to his brother James, the Duke of York.
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Events: 1884
Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women, the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
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Events: 1894
Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
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Events: 1901
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie offered the of New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries.
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Events: 1912
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.
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Events: 1930
India's Mohandas Gandhi began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt and symbolic of his defiance of British rule in India.
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