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| | 3 March History |
 | | Rodney King was released without charges, and on 15 March Sergeant Koon and officers Powell, Wind, and Briseno were indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury in connection with the beating. |
 | | Throughout the nineteenth century, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was regarded as the national anthem by most branches of the US armed forces and other groups, but it was not until 1916, and the signing of an executive order by President Woodrow Wilson, that it was formally designated as such. |
 | | Finally, a compromise was reached and, on March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the thirty-sixth parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. |
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