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Wednesday, March 10

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In 1962, Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel begins a three-week run at No. 1 on the singles chart.
Gloria Gaynor reaches the top of the singles chart in 1979 with I Will Survive.
Madonna charts for the first time in her career in 1984 with Borderline.
Pop sensation Andy Gibb dies of an inflammatory heart virus on this day in 1988 at the age of 30.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

The first paper money is issued in the U.S. on this day in 1862. The denominations are $5 (Hamilton), $10 (Lincoln) and $20 (Liberty).
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
In Memphis, Tennessee in 1969, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later retracts his guilty plea.

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Tuesday, March 9

MUSICALLY SPEAKING

Venus by Frankie Avalon tops the charts in 1959 and stays there for five weeks.
On this day in 1968, The Beatles walk away with four Grammy Awards for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Album of the Year, Best Album Cover, Best Contemporary Album and Best Engineered Recording.
REO Speedwagon conquers the singles charts in 1985 with Can't Fight This Feeling.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on this day in 1959.
The Adopt-a-Highway program launches in 1985 when the first sign is posted along State Highway 69 in Tyler, Texas. The program, in which local businesses support trash cleanup along a designated section of highway, quickly spreads across the U.S. and on to Canada, Japan and New Zealand.
In 1996, legendary comedian George Burns dies at his Beverly Hills home just weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday.

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Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In by The Fifth Dimension enters the singles chart on this day in 1969 and reaches No. 1 about a month later.
In 1975, Have You Never Been Mellow by Olivia Newton-John is the No. 1 single.
Queen is in the midst of a three-week ride atop the singles chart in 1980 with Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Volkswagen microbus goes into production on this day in 1950, becoming an icon of America's counterculture movement as the vehicle of choice for hippies during the 1960s.
Addressing the National Association of Evangelicals convention in Florida in 1983, President Ronald Reagan publicly refers to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" for the second time in his career.
In 1993, MTV airs the first episode of the animated series Beavis and Butthead, which goes on to become the network’s highest-rated series up to that point.

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Tina Turner records her legendary vocals for the Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High in 1966.
Just as Simon and Garfunkel split in 1970, their final collaboration, Bridge Over Troubled Water, starts a 10-week run at No. 1 on the album chart.
In 1987, the Beastie Boys become the first rap act to have a No. 1 album with their debut work, Licensed To Ill.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent on this day in 1876 for his revolutionary invention: the telephone.
The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923. The work, beginning with the famous line "Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village though," introduces millions of American students to poetry.
Unemployed during the Depression in 1933, Charles Darrow creates the board game Monopoly, which he personally sells for two years until Parker Brothers begins mass-marketing it in 1935. Darrow dies a millionaire in 1967.

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