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Events
- St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York Cityfor the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
- overlooking the city.
- 1845 - The rubber band is patented.
- African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
- 1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
- New York University Law School.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
- 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
- 1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
- 1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
- Los Angeles, Californiamurder spree.