- 1876] Can you hear me now?: Alexander Graham Bell receives U.S. Patent no. 174,465 for something called the telephone (3/7). 1926] Fifty years later the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation takes place between New York City and London (3/7)...
- 1930] TV to follow: Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick-freezing food. It will be known as the TV dinner (3/6)...
- 1964] Wedding Bells: Elizabeth Taylor steals Eddie Fisher away from wife Debbie Reynolds. They will eventually marry and their relationship will last 5 years... (3/6)...
- 1971] A Sports trilogy begins: Muhammad Ali loses a decision to undefeated heavyweight champ Joe Frazier (3/8). This is the first of 3 fights between two of the best heavyweights ever...
- 1978] Gunned down: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed permanently by a sniper in Georgia who objected to an interracial couple appearing in the magazine (3/6)...
- 1981] 'And that's the way it is': The words of Walter Cronkite who does his final "CBS Evening News" report which started on April 16, 1962 (3/6)...
- 1983] The Evil Empire: It's neither the Yankees or Red Sox, it's the Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" (3/8)...
- 1993] Neighborhood crime: A woman is gang-raped on a pool table in a New Bedford (MA) tavern. Four men are later convicted in a case that rocks the nation (3/6)...2000] Three white NYPD officers are convicted of a cover-up in a police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima (3/6)...
- 1999] "Happy Trails": Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, the 'Yankee Clipper' dies at 84 after never fully recovering from lung cancer surgery in the fall of 1998 (3/8)...
- 2006] Patent no longer pending: Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod (3/7)...For more on March 6 - 8:
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