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First Posted: 2/26/2014 The History Channel
* On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler, who in 1890 founded an engine and car company bearing his name, is born in Germany. In 1885, he and Wilhelm Maybach developed a new version of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, which they attached to a wooden bicycle, creating what has been referred to as the world&#8217;s first motorcycle.
* On March 19, 1842, French writer de Balzac&#8217;s play &#8220;Les Ressources de Quinola&#8221; opens to an empty house, thanks to a failed publicity stunt. Hoping to create a buzz, the writer circulated a rumor that tickets were sold out. Unfortunately, most of his fans stayed home.
* On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe&#8217;s anti-slavery novel, &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin,&#8221; is published. The book was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe, he reportedly said, &#8220;So this is the little lady who made this big war.&#8221;
* On March 22, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. The law levied a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gave individual states the option to impose further regulations.
* On March 18, 1942, the War Relocation Authority is created to &#8220;take all people of Japanese descent into custody.&#8221; Earl Warren (who would go on to become chief justice of the Supreme Court) claimed that a lack of evidence of sabotage among the Japanese population proved nothing, as they were merely biding their time.
* On March 21, 1963, Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners. At its peak use in 1950s, &#8220;The Rock,&#8221; or &#8220;America&#8217;s Devil Island,&#8221; housed more than 200 inmates at the maximum-security facility.
* On March 23, 1983, Barney Clark dies, 112 days after becoming the world&#8217;s first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. The 61-year-old dentist spent the last four months of his life at the University of Utah Medical Center attached to a 350-pound console that pumped air in and out of the aluminum-and-plastic implant through a system of hoses.

MOMENTS IN TIME