On this day in history...

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1945 - US flag raised over Iwo Jima.

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1999 - Lawrence report blasts "racist" police. London's police force is "institutionally racist" says a report on the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence.

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1964 - Cassius Clay, 22, is crowned heavyweight boxing world champion after a shock win over Sonny Liston.

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1993 - A suspected car bomb explodes underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people.

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1963 - Antoine Argoud, President De Gaulle's arch enemy and former Colonel in the French Army, is charged with an assassination attempt.

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2001 - Up to 13 are killed and more than 70 injured when a high speed train strikes a car which careered off the M62 motorway.

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1960 - A huge earthquake devastates the southern Moroccan city of Agadir killing thousands.

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1954 - The biggest explosion ever made by man is witnessed in the Pacific when US scientists explode their second H-bomb at Bikini Atoll.

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1969-The supersonic airliner Concorde makes a "faultless" maiden flight.

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March 3, 1845 Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.