March 20, 1905: Explosion in U.S. shoe factory kills 58 employeesMarch 5, 1905: General Kuropatkin orders Russian Imperial Army to retreat from the Japanese after disastrous battle in MukdenMarch 23, 1905: General Venizelos attempts a revolution on the island of CreteMarch 3, 1905: Tsar Nicholas II creates the Duma, Russia's first representative assembly