March is nicknamed for an annual college basketball frenzy, but guess what: buzzer-beaters aren't the only crazy ish that goes down in the third month of the year.
March 1, 1260: Hulagu Khan (grandson of Genghis) and his Mongol army conquer Aleppo and Damascus using typical Mongol punishments, like rolling people up in rugs and having horses stampede over them.
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March 1, 1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are the first three women arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
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March 3, 1913: Onlookers attack a women's suffrage parade in Washington D.C. as police remain indifferent.
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March 5, 1770: British Army soldiers kill five civilian men and injure six others in the Boston Massacre.
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