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1055
Victor II was installed as pope.
1191
Pope Celestine III crowned German king Henry VI as emperor.
1642
Birth of Suleiman II, future sultan of the Ottoman Empire and brother of Mehmed IV.
1707
Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland.
1841
Karl Marx received his doctorate from the University of Jena.
1858
French sociologist Emile Durkheim was born in Epinal, France.
1948
In the first Jewish-Arab military battle, the Arab forces were defeated.
1970
Around one thousand Jordanian students, led by Palestinian commandos, set fire to the U.S. Information Center while another group attacked the U.S. embassy in Amman Jordan.
1980
French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at the age of 74.
1982
In Egypt, five Muslim extremists are executed for their roles in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Seventeen others had been sentenced to prison and two others were acquitted in the March 6 ruling.
1986
U.S. fighter planes bombed terrorist-related targets in Libya, include barracks where Muammar al-Qaddafi's headquarters were located.
1996
Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, excommunicated all Catholics in his diocese who continued to belong to organizations which he deemed "perilous to the Catholic faith" - organizations like Planned Parenthood and Call to Action.
2002
The Vatican announces that the American cardinals had been called to Rome by Pope John Paul II. This extraordinary move was prompted by the growing crisis in the American Catholic Church over the scandal of priests who had sexually abused children and bishops who covered up the crimes after the fact.
2004
An audio tape allegedly made by Osama bin Laden offers to end terrorist efforts in European nations which withdraw their troops from the Middle East.
2004
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat announces that Palestinians will never give up their fight for an independent nation, never give up claims of their refugees, and never make more territorial concessions.
2006
Lazarus Saturday: Orthodox Christians celebrate of the resurrection of Lazarus by Jesus on the eve of Palm Sunday.
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