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March 2, 1877
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential
election even though Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote.
March 10, 1876
The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's
telephone took place in Boston, Massachusetts when his assistant heard
Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
March 13, 1852
"Uncle Sam" made his debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern.
March 24, 1989
The nation's worst oil spill took place when the supertanker Exxon Valdez
ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and leaked eleven
million gallons of crude oil.
March 30, 1867
US Secretary of State William Seward reached an agreement with Russia
to purchase the territory of Alaska for seven-point-two-million dollars.
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