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On this day March 4-10, 2018
March 4, 2018 - March 10, 2018 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features professional tennis at Wimbledon, Hugo Chavez, La Traviata, the Russian Communist Party, Johannes Keple, kissing in public, and the impeachment of Park Geun-hye, president of South Korea
March 4, 1968: Wimbledon agreed to admit professional players that summer. Rod Laver and Billie Jean King would become the first open era champions at the Championships
March 5, 2013: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died from cancer at age 58. Re-elected three times, the left-wing leader thrived on confrontation with Washington
March 6, 1853: The premiere of Verdi’s opera La Traviata, about a doomed love affair between a consumptive courtesan and a young gentleman, was staged in Venice
March 7, 1918: The Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian Communist Party at the first congress held after they gained power in the October Revolution
March 8, 1618: Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion, the last of his three scientific laws describing the motion of planets around the sun
March 9, 1562: Kissing in public was banned in Naples on penalty of death. The ban was less about morality than an attempt to curtail the spread of disease during a plague epidemic
March 10, 2017: Park Geun-hye became the first elected president of South Korea to be forced from office, after judges upheld her impeachment over a corruption scandal