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Arab Oil Embargo Ends….. March 18, 1974…… The Arab Oil Embargo on the U.S. is ended. It had started the previous October when OAPEC (Arab members of OPEC plus Egypt and Syria) declared an oil embargo on the U.S., Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and the U.K. for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The embargo targeted…

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Pi Day….. Commemorating the mathematical constant π (PI). Pi Day is celebrated on March 14, because it represents 3.14, the first three digits of PI, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.The lower case π is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet and is pronounced “pie” and represents the first…

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U.S. Army Kills 6,000 Sheep with Nerve Gas….. March 13, 1968….. The U.S. Army accidentally kills 6,000 sheep with nerve gas, but denied it for 30 years – until finally admitting they had known all along that they had caused it. An army aircraft was flying a nerve gas test mission over the Dugway Proving…

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Loch Ness Monster Hoax….. March 12, 1994….. The famous 1934 “Surgeon’s photo” reportedly taken by Col. Robert Wilson is called a hoax in a deathbed confession by Chris Spurling who claimed he helped create the photo.