It Happened in March

IT ALL HAPPENENED IN MARCH

1933  The Civilian Conservation Corps was founded.  Unemployed men and youths were organized into quasi-military formations and worked outdoors in national parks and forests. 1961  President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. 1974  Near Harrisburg, PA, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurred in which uranium in the reactor core overheated due to the failure of a cooling valve. 1981 Newly-elected President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest while walking toward his limousine in Washington, DC. 1989 One of the largest oil spills in U.S. history occurred as the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound off Alaska. 2003 The U.S. launched an attack against Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein from power.