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We experience different, crazy things happening in our world today that are bound to end up in future history textbooks. Here are some interesting things you may not have known before that have happened in our history in the month of March.

March 1 1872: Yellowstone is named the first national park.

March 2 1904: Dr. Seuss is born

March 3 1931: The “Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes the United States national anthem

March 6 1930: Quick, packaged frozen foods are first introduced in America

March 7 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents his invention: the telephone

March 9 1959: Barbie is debuted at the American Toy Fair in New York City

March 13 1942: United States Army launches their K-9 Corps unit for WWII

March 17 1762: The first St. Patrick’s Day parade in the world is celebrated in New York

March 19 2003: War in Iraq begins

March 22 1894: First Stanley Cup championship game is played in Montreal

March 23 1998: James Cameron’s “Titanic” wins 11 Academy Awards

March 26 1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announces his vaccine for polio

March 29 1973: United States withdraws from Vietnam

March 31 1889: The Eiffel Tower opens

-photo provided by flickr