March 8, 2010 Today: is the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year. On this date In 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va. In 1917, Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used in Russia at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd. In 1965, the United States landed its first...
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