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Show March 17 Is a great day for the Irish St. Patrick's Day. Historians His-torians do not always agree on where St. Patrick waa born. Some say he was born at what la now Dunbarton; others give his birthplace as Carnarvonshire. lie studied In Gaul, under St. Martin and arrived In I Ireland as a missionary In 432 A.D., at Slieve Patrick, near Saul, County Down. King George of Greece was assassinated March 18, 1913. On the same day of March, four years later, the first edition of Pravda, Moscow Mos-cow Red newspaper appeared. William Jennings Bryan was born March 19, 18G0 and on this day In March, 1920, the U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty. Nathan Hale shouted "Give Me Liberty . . ." March 20, 1775. On March 20, 1841, Daniel Webster, secretary of state, Issued at Presl-dent Presl-dent Harrison's direction, an order prohibiting political activity by U.S. employees. March 21 marks the Vernal Equinox, the beginning of spring. On March 22, 1622, Indians wiped out about one third of the Vlr-gtnla Vlr-gtnla colony. March 22 is Emancipation day in Puerto Rico. Germany's Big Bertha began its bombardment of Paris March 23, 1918. On March 23, 1945, the 2nd British Army crossed the Rhine. |