Today is Tuesday, March 11, the 70th day of 2014. There are 295 days left in the year. March 11, 1954the U.S. Army charged that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., and his subcommittees chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee. (The confrontation culminated in the famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.) 1861the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted by the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Ala. 1864during the Civil War, the Union Army Ambulance Corps was established by the U.S. Congress. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was appointed an assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry Regiment, the first woman assigned to such a post. 1888the Blizzard of 88, also known as the Great White Hurricane, began inundating the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths. 1930former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft was buried in Arlington National Cemetery
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