March 6

Today is the 65th day of 2017, and there are 300 days remaining in the year.

There are 293 days until Christmas.


Events

12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.

632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Daaaaaavy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.

1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.

1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. And this is the way it was.

1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1475 – Michelangelo, 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1849 – Georg Luger (the Luger pistol), 1885 – Ring Lardner, 1905 – Bob Wills♪ ♫, 1906 – Lou Costello, 1923 – Ed McMahon, 1923 – Wes Montgomery:shred:, 1926 – Alan Greenspan, 1929 – Tom Foley, 1936 – Marion Barry, 1937 – Ivan Boesky, 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 – Mary Wilson♪ ♫(The Supremes), 1946 – David Gilmour:shred::devil:, 1946 – Richard Noble:driving:, 1947 – Kiki Dee♪ ♫, 1947 – Dick Fosbury (the Fosbury Flop), 1947 – Rob Reiner, 1947 – John Stossel, 1963 – D. L. Hughley, 1968 – Moira Kelly, 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1836 – James Bowie, Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, 1932 – John Philip Sousa♪ ♫, 1933 – Anton Cermak, 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1941 – Gutzon Borglum:artist:(Mt. Rushmore), 1951 – Ivor Novello♪ ♫, 1967 – Nelson Eddy♪ ♫, 1970 – William Hopper ('Paul Drake' on Perry Mason), 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, 1982 – Ayn Rand, 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, 2006 – Kirby Puckett, 2007 – Ernest Gallo (Earnest & Julio Gallo Winery), 2013 – Alvin Lee:shred:, 2016 – Nancy Reagan (42nd FLOTUS)

I remember vaguely hearing about that - I wasn't online yet, so it kind of passed me by. Cool story.

March 7

321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.

1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1970 - Lee Marvin was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Wand'rin Star', taken from the film 'Paint Your Wagon.'

1973 - A song from the movie Deliverance called 'Dueling Banjos' by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel became one of the few 1970s instrumentals to be awarded a Gold record. The record had topped the Cash Box Magazine Best Sellers list and reached No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.

1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.

1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, 1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, 1792 – John Herschel, 1875 – Maurice Ravel♪ ♫, 1934 – Willard Scott, 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, 1942 – Michael Eisner, 1942 – Tammy Faye Messner (Tammy Faye Baker), 1943 – Chris White:bass:(The Zombies), 1944 – Townes Van Zandt♪ ♫, 1945 – John Heard, 1946 – Peter Wolf♪ ♫(The J. Geils Band), 1950 – Franco Harris, 1951 – Rocco Prestia♪ ♫(The Tower of Power), 1952 – Ernie Isley♪ ♫(The Isley Bros), 1956 – Bryan Cranston, 1959 – Tom Lehman, 1962 – Taylor Dayne♪ ♫, 1964 – Wanda Sykes, 1970 – Rachel Weisz, 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1967 – Alice B. Toklas, 1988 – Divine, 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, 2004 – Paul Winfield, 2006 – Gordon Parks, 2013 – Claude King (sang "Wolverton Mountain")

I really liked that, but thought it was ironic because he couldn't sing for shit. Somehow it worked. :rolleyes:

Ahhh - my dad used to sing that.

March 8

Today is International Women's Day.


Events

1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.

1702 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

1782 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.

1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.

1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).

1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.

1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.

1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.

1965 – Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.

1966 – Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.

1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.

1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

2017 – The Azure Window in Gozo, Malta, collapses after a severe storm.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1495 – John of God, 1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1848 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson (developed the roller coaster), 1865 – Frederic Goudy (created fonts Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style), 1899 – Elmer Keith, 1910 – Claire Trevor, 1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., 1922 – Ralph H. Baer (Magnavox Odyssey), 1922 – Cyd Charisse, 1927 – Dick Hyman:keys:, 1940 – Susan Clark (Webster), 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, 1945 – Micky Dolenz:drummer:(The Monkees), 1946 – Randy Meisner:bass:(Poco, The Eagles), 1947 – Carole Bayer Sager♪ ♫, 1958 – Gary Numan♪ ♫, 1959 – Aidan Quinn, 1961 – Camryn Manheim, 1976 – Freddie Prinze, Jr., 1977 – James Van Der Beek

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1550 – John of God, 1723 – Christopher Wren, 1874 – Millard Fillmore (13th POTUS), 1887 – Henry Ward Beecher (Beecher's Bibles), 1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 1930 – William Howard Taft (27th POTUS), 1971 – Harold Lloyd, 1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (The Grateful Dead), 1999 – Peggy Cass (game show panelist To Tell The Truth, Match Game), 1999 – Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, 2001 – Edward Winter (M*A*S*H series), 2009 – Hank Locklin♪ ♫, 2011 – Mike Starr:bass:(Alice In Chains), 2016 – George Martin

March 9

1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.

1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.

1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.

1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.

1945 – World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.

1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.

1957 – The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami that affected Hawaii, where two people were killed in a plane crash while documenting its arrival.

1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

1975 - Actor Telly Savalas was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the David Gates (from Bread) song 'If'.

1976 – Forty-two people died in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.

1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.

1982 – "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of time travel.

1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1454 – Amerigo Vespucci (namesake of the Americas), 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga (namesake of Gonzaga University), 1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford (founded Stanford University), 1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov (namesake of the Molotov Cocktail), 1902 – Will Geer ('Grandpa Walton' on The Waltons, 'Bear Claw Chris Lapp' in Jeremiah Johnson), 1918 – Mickey Spillane, 1926 – Joe Franklin (I can't remember what Joe Franklin looks like, all I can see is Billy Crystal's impersonation), 1930 – Ornette Coleman♪ ♫, 1934 – Yuri Gagarin (1st man in space), 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, 1936 – Mickey Gilley♪ ♫, 1936 – Marty Ingels, 1940 – Raúl Juliá, 1942 – Mark Lindsay♪ ♫(Paul Revere & The Raiders), 1943 – Bobby Fischer, 1943 – Charles Gibson, 1945 – Robin Trower♪ ♫:devil:, 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne♪ ♫, 1950 – Danny Sullivan:driving:, 1955 – Teo Fabi:driving:, 1958 – Linda Fiorentino, 1958 – Martin Fry♪ ♫, 1963 – David Pogue, 1964 – Juliette Binoche, 1965 – Brian Bosworth, 1971 – Emmanuel Lewis

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, 1994 – Charles Bukowski, 1994 – Fernando Rey, 1996 – George Burns, 1997 – Terry Nation (tv writer DR. Who, created the Daleks and 'Davros'), 1997 – Notorious B.I.G.♪ ♫, 2005 – Chris LeDoux♪ ♫, 2005 - Danny Joe Brown♪ ♫(Molly Hatchet), 2006 – John Profumo (notable for the Profumo Affair), 2007 – Brad Delp♪ ♫(Boston)

Jude and I had a bedsit flat near Burnden Park in 1990 - it was still the home of the wanderers then - except for one stand which had been sold off to a shitty discount supermarket (for the life of me I can't recall which one - something really tacky though) as part of a chunk of land - where the stand had previously stood there was now the end-on wall of a discount store building.

Best pie bakers evah were based on the same road. It was a large bakery that made for stores and catering, but also had a little pie shop attached that sold the most amazing cheese and onion pies I've ever tasted. The steak and ale was pretty spectacular as well.


J's dad has had season tickets for the wanderers for years. He used to go with his dad , J's granddad,when he was a kid. J broke his heart and became a Man Utd supporter :p

At the grounds at half time, there were a few food vans to buy pies - the menu was:

Hot
Cold

Funny - in my memory of it it took up that entire end - but it actually took up half of it




* also - just managed to find the name of the store on wiki:

Normid - fucking Normid.

March 10

241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.

1915 – The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army in WWI.

1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.

1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

Births

1845 – Alexander III of Russia, 1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, 1891 – Sam Jaffe, 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, 1903 – Clare Boothe Luce, 1920 – Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 1928 – James Earl Ray, 1933 – Ralph Emery, 1936 – Sepp Blatter, 1938 – Norman Blake, 1940 – Chuck Norris, 1940 – David Rabe, 1946 – Jim Valvano, 1949 – Barbara Corcoran, 1952 – Johanna Lindsey, 1953 – Paul Haggis, 1957 – Osama bin Laden, 1958 – Sharon Stone, 1962 – Jasmine Guy, 1963 – Jeff Ament, 1963 – Rick Rubin, 1964 – Neneh Cherry, 1966 – Edie Brickell, 1969 – Paget Brewster, 1971 – Jon Hamm, 1974 – Biz Stone, 1977 – Robin Thicke, 1983 – Carrie Underwood, 1984 – Olivia Wilde

Deaths

1913 – Harriet Tubman, 1942 – Wilbur Scoville, 1973 – Bull Connor, 1986 – Ray Milland, 1988 – Andy Gibb, 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, 2005 – Dave Allen, 2010 – Corey Haim, 2016 – Keith Emerson

Likewise.

March 11

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day in the United States.


Events

1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, Frankenstein; or The modern Prometheus, is published.

1845 – Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.

1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.

1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.

1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.

1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic, infecting 500,000,000 people, and killing and estimated 50 - 100,000,000 people (3 - 5% of the world population).

1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.

1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.

1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.

2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1885 – Malcolm Campbell:driving:, 1887 – Raoul Walsh, 1895 – Shemp Howard, 1898 – Dorothy Gish, 1903 – Lawrence Welk♪ ♫, 1928 – Albert Salmi, 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, 1932 – Leroy Jenkins, 1934 – Sam Donaldson, 1936 – Antonin Scalia, 1945 – Dock Ellis (MLB pitcher who pitched a no-hitter whilst tripping balls on LSD), 1945 – Harvey Mandel♪ ♫, 1946 – Mark Metcalf ('Neidermeyer' in Animal House), 1947 – Mark Stein♪ ♫(Vanilla Fudge), 1950 – Bobby McFerrin♪ ♫, 1950 – Jerry Zucker, 1952 – Douglas Adams, 1953 – Derek Daly:driving:, 1953 – Jimmy Iovine (co-founded Interscope Records and Beats Electronics), 1961 – Elias Koteas, 1964 – Peter Berg, 1964 – Vinnie Paul:drummer:(Pantera), 1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., 1967 – Renzo Gracie(MMA fighter), 1968 – Lisa Loeb♪ ♫, 1969 – Terrence Howard, 1971 – Johnny Knoxville, 1982 – Thora Birch

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1955 – Alexander Fleming, 1955 – Oscar F. Mayer, 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, 1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, 1967 – Geraldine Farrar, 1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner, 1971 – Philo Farnsworth, 1996 – Vince Edwards, 2007 – Betty Hutton, 2010 – Merlin Olsen

He gave a piece of himself for the cause.

Lucky we don't have to worry anymore.

March 12

Today, our Aztec Dwellers celebrate the New Year.

Today is the Girl Scouts' Birthday, marking the founding of the first Girl Scout troop in the USA.


Events

1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.

1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.

1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn.

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)

1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.

1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.

1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.

1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".

1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.

1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.

1961 – First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.

1993 – The 1993 Storm of the Century: Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.

2003 – WHO officially released global warning on pandemic SARS disease.

2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.

2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1806 – Jane Pierce (15th FLOTUS), 1831 – Clement Studebaker (yeah, that one), 1913 – Agathe von Trapp (of The Sound of Music von Trapps), 1921 – Gordon MacRae, 1922 – Jack Kerouac, 1928 – Edward Albee, 1933 – Barbara Feldon, 1938 – Johnny Rutherford:driving:, 1940 – Al Jarreau♪ ♫, 1942 – Ratko Mladić, 1945 – Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano (mobster), 1946 – Liza Minnelli♪ ♫, 1947 – Mitt Romney, 1948 – James Taylor:shred::devil:, 1949 – Mike Gibbins:drummer:(Badfinger), 1956 – Steve Harris:keys::bass:(Iron Maiden), 1960 – Courtney B. Vance, 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, 1969 – Jake Tapper, 1978 – Casey Mears:driving:, 1979 – Pete Doherty♪ ♫

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1628 – John Bull, 1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, 1914 – George Westinghouse, 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, 1942 – Robert Bosch, 1955 – Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker♪ ♫, 1978 – John Cazale, 1987 – Woody Hayes, 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin:violin:, 2001 – Morton Downey, Jr.:scream:, 2001 – Robert Ludlum, 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, 2005 – Bill Cameron, 2012 – Samuel Glazer (co-founded Mr. Coffee), 2012 – Michael Hossack:drummer:(The Doobie Bros), 2013 – Clive Burr:drummer:(Iron Maiden), 2015 – Terry Pratchett

March 13

1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.

1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus. [I didn't even know he was back there.]

1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.

1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

1897 – San Diego State University is founded.

1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

1985 – The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an FA Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..

1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

1996 – Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

1997 – The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.

2003 – The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints have been found in Italy.

2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

2013 – Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

1798 – Abigail Fillmore (14th FLOTUS), 1855 – Percival Lowell, 1898 – Henry Hathaway, 1910 – Sammy Kaye, 1911 – L. Ron Hubbard, 1913 – William J. Casey, 1914 – Edward 'Butch' O'Hare, 1920 – Ralph J. Roberts, 1932 – Jan Howard, 1933 – Mike Stoller, 1939 – Neil Sedaka, 1947 – Lyn St. James, 1950 – Danny Kirwan, 1950 – Charles Krauthammer, 1950 – William H. Macy, 1951 – Charo, 1954 – Robin Duke, 1971 – Annabeth Gish, 1976 – Danny Masterson

Deaths

1842 – Henry Shrapnel, 1881 – Alexander II of Russia, 1901 – Benjamin Harrison 923rd POTUS), 1906 – Susan B. Anthony, 1938 – Clarence Darrow, 1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét

You make it sound like a bad thing. When NYC pushes urban renewal they just throw everyone out in the street. Whereas the SS escorted all the residents to new accommodations... by train. Not only that, the SS gathered and itemized all the valuables, so the people wouldn't have to worry about them. :rolleyes:

March 14

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.

1663 – Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.

1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1903 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.

1910 – The Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1804 – Johann Strauss I♪ ♫, 1863 – Casey Jones, 1874 – Anton Philips (co-founded Philips Electronics), 1879 – Albert Einstein, 1912 – Les Brown♪ ♫, 1914 – Lee Petty:driving:, 1916 – Horton Foote, 1920 – Hank Ketcham (created Dennis the Menace), 1921 – S. Truett Cathy (founded Chick-fil-A), 1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, 1923 – Diane Arbus, 1925 – William Clay Ford, Sr., 1928 – Frank Borman, 1933 – Michael Caine, 1933 – Quincy Jones♪ ♫, 1934 – Eugene Cernan, 1939 – Raymond J. Barry, 1941 – Wolfgang Petersen, 1945 – Michael Martin Murphey♪ ♫, 1948 – Billy Crystal, 1950 – Rick Dees♪ ♫, 1951 – Jerry Greenfield (co-founded Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream), 1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco, 1959 – Steve Byrnes (racing reporter), 1961 – Gary Dell'Abate ('Baba Booey'), 1961 – Penny Johnson Jerald (' Kasidy Yates' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), 1961 – Mike Lazaridis (founded BlackBerry Limited), 1965 – Billy Sherwood♪ ♫(Yes), 1968 – Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables), 1979 – Chris Klein, 1983 – Taylor Hanson♪ ♫(Hanson), 1984 – Aric Almirola:driving:, 1986 – Jamie Bell, 1988 – Stephen Curry, 1988 – Sasha Grey:doit::bj2::3some::devil:, 1997 – Simone Biles

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1757 – John Byng, 1883 – Karl Marx, 1932 – George Eastman (founded Eastman Kodak), 1973 – Chic Young (created comic strip Blondie), 1975 – Susan Hayward, 1976 – Busby Berkeley, 2010 – Peter Graves, 2013 – Jack Greene♪ ♫

My last regular This Day In History post will be April 14. That will make one year since I've been posting regularly in this thread.

Thank you for doing it too! I don't always comment on these posts, and sometimes don't even have time to read them. But when I do, I am always rewarded.

Is this the new Secret Service under Trump?

It's a lot of fucking work, ain't it? Plus the pressure(from yourself) to not miss a day. Thanks for the diligence, but I kind of wished you'd posted This Day in the Future, instead. :haha:

Thanks for all your efforts, Grav.
There's always something interesting to read and ponder over.
However, some of the occurrences that I remember well, and thought happened only a handful of years ago, actually took place a couple of decades back.
Perhaps that is what happens when you are no longer in the first flush of youth. :eek:

You mean closer to the last flush? :lol:

I'd read them all but never used the links, if something blew my skirt up I'd Google it.

The crux of the charge being that he 'failed to do his utmost' iirc.

Well I'll be sad to not have your daily digest of historical happenings - but I also think a year is more than enough for one person to commit to for something like this. I did a brief stint of posting daily stuff on twitter, some years ago, and I think I managed, like a month. And that was just one thing a day.

Yes, I'm painfully aware that there are more flushes behind me than there are in front of me! :eek:

I made a will a couple of years ago which hammered home that stark fact.
It's life's only certainly, but it's difficult for me to articulate just how much making that will affected me.
It didn't help matters that I'd taken my canine chum for a walk through the church yard just before signing.
For some reason I took an inordinate interest in the inscriptions on the grave stones.

:lol:

I suspect I could be as old or older that you.
I'm looking for a couple of big dogs to clean up and gnaw my bones when I kick.
That way I won't have to look down up and listen to him bitch about the cost of planting me.

Who ever will lead us in our education? Without you we are nothing. Whatever will we do. (As he leaves sobbing into the Night)

March 15

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

493 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.

1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.

1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.

1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.

1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.

1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.

1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).

1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.

2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

Births

270 – Saint Nicholas (no, not that one), 1767 – Andrew Jackson, 1887 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1911 – Lightnin' Hopkins, 1913 – Macdonald Carey, 1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1935 – Judd Hirsch, 1935 – Jimmy Swaggart, 1940 – Phil Lesh, 1941 – Mike Love, 1943 – David Cronenberg, 1943 – Sly Stone, 1947 – Ry Cooder, 1955 – Dee Snider, 1956 – Clay Matthews, Jr., 1959 – Fabio, 1962 – Terence Trent D'Arby, 1963 – Bret Michaels, 1964 – Rockwell, 1968 – Mark McGrath, 1969 – Kim Raver, 1972 – Mike Tomlin, 1975 – will.i.am, 1975 – Eva Longoria, 1985 – Kellan Lutz

Deaths

44 BC – Julius Caesar, 220 – Cao Cao, 493 – Odoacer, 1898 – Henry Bessemer, 1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, 1975 – Aristotle Onassis, 1997 – Gail Davis, 1998 – Benjamin Spock, 2001 – Ann Sothern, 2007 – Bowie Kuhn, 2009 – Ron Silver, 2014 – David Brenner, 2015 – Mike Porcaro

Jesus - six fucking years, man.

March 16

1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, in English, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1870 – The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.

1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.

1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.

1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. (He later dies in captivity.)

1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.

1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.

1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

Births

1751 – James Madison, 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, 1906 – Henny Youngman, 1911 – Josef Mengele, 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, 1926 – Jerry Lewis, 1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1940 – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1941 – Chuck Woolery, 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, 1949 – Erik Estrada, 1949 – Victor Garber, 1950 – Kate Nelligan, 1951 – Ray Benson, 1954 – Nancy Wilson, 1956 – Clifton Powell, 1959 – Flavor Flaaaaav, 1961 – Todd McFarlane, 1964 – Gore Verbinski, 1967 – Ronnie McCoury

Deaths

37 – Tiberius, 455 – Valentinian III, 1903 – Judge Roy Bean, 1971 – Bebe Daniels, 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, 1975 – T-Bone Walker, 1983 – Arthur Godfrey, 1988 – Mickey Thompson, 2013 – Frank Thornton, 2014 – Gary Bettenhausen, 2016 – Frank Sinatra, Jr.

March 17

45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.

180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.

1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.

1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.

1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".

1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.

1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.

1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.

1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.

2000 – Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.

Births

1804 – Jim Bridger, 1834 – Gottlieb Daimler, 1902 – Bobby Jones, 1919 – Nat King Cole, 1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, 1941 – Paul Kantner, 1944 – Pattie Boyd, 1944 – John Sebastian, 1949 – Patrick Duffy, 1951 – Kurt Russell, 1954 – Lesley-Anne Down, 1955 – Paul Overstreet, 1955 – Gary Sinise, 1959 – Danny Ainge, 1960 – Arye Gross, 1960 – Vicki Lewis, 1961 – Sam Bowie, 1961 – Casey Siemaszko, 1964 – Rob Lowe, 1967 – Billy Corgan, 1969 – Alexander McQueen, 1972 – Mia Hamm

Deaths

180 – Marcus Aurelius, 1853 – Christian Doppler, 1956 – Fred Allen, 1974 – Louis Kahn, 1990 – Capucine, 1993 – Helen Hayes, 1994 – Mai Zetterling, 1996 – Terry Stafford, 2006 – Oleg Cassini

March 18

37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.

1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.

1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.

1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.

1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.

1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.

1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.

1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.

1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.

1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.

1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France, 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 1837 – Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th POTUS), 1858 – Rudolf Diesel, 1869 – Neville Chamberlain, 1877 – Edgar Cayce, 1909 – Ernest Gallo, 1911 – Smiley Burnette♪ ♫, 1915 – Richard Condon, 1923 – Andy Granatelli, 1926 – Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible, Airplane! movie series, The Ballad of Josie), 1927 – George Plimpton, 1932 – John Updike, 1936 – F. W. de Klerk, 1937 – Mark Donohue:driving:, 1938 – Charley Pride♪ ♫, 1941 – Wilson Pickett♪ ♫, 1943 – Kevin Dobson, 1947 – B. J. Wilson:drummer:(Procol Harum), 1950 – Brad Dourif, 1951 – Ben Cohen (co-founded Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream), 1959 – Luc Besson, 1962 – Irene Cara♪ ♫, 1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, 1963 – Jeff LaBar:shred:(Cinderella), 1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, 1964 – Bonnie Blair, 1966 – Jerry Cantrell:shred:(Alice In Chains), 1970 – Queen Latifah, 1972 – Dane Cook (attempted American comedian), 1979 – Adam Levine♪ ♫(Maroon 5, judge on The Voice), 1992 – Ryan Truex:driving:

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1845 – Johnny Appleseed, 1947 – William C. Durant (co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet), 2001 – John Phillips♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas), 2003 – Adam Osborne (founded the Osborne Computer Corporation), 2009 – Natasha Richardson, 2011 – Warren Christopher

Good for them, it was about time for a fun emperor.

I'm sure y'all can relate :p

Anybody who can get Helen Mirren in a Penthouse movie is alright with me.

March 19

1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".

1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada. And there was much rejoicing. I mean, like, a lot of rejoicing. They're still rejoicing.

1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.

1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.

1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record which remains unbroken.

1962 – Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.

1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.

1966 – Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins, becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four (defeating University of Kentucky:mad:) with an all-black starting lineup. The story is told in Haskins' autobiography (and movie of the same name) Glory Road.

1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.

1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.

1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.

2008 – GRB 080319B: A gamma ray burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. It originated 7.5 billion light-years from Earth, and was visible to the naked eye for approximately 30 seconds.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1813 – David Livingstone (subject of Henry Stanley's famous quote "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". Livingstone was, literally, the only other white person for hundreds of miles in any direction.), 1883 – Norman Haworth, 1848 – Wyatt Earp, 1849 – Alfred von Tirpitz, 1860 – William Jennings Bryan, 1891 – Earl Warren, 1894 – Moms Mabley♪ ♫, 1905 – Albert Speer, 1906 – Adolf Eichmann, 1923 – Pamela Britton (Lorelei on My Favorite Martian), 1925 – Brent Scowcroft, 1928 – Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner), 1936 – Ursula Andress, 1946 – Paul Atkinson:shred:(The Zombies), 1946 – Ruth Pointer♪ ♫(eldest of The Pointer Sisters), 1947 – Glenn Close, 1952 – Harvey Weinstein (co-founded Miramax movie studio), 1953 – Ricky Wilson♪ ♫(The B-52s), 1955 – Bruce Willis, 1958 – Andy Reid, 1964 – Jake Weber, 1973 – Brant Bjork:drummer:(Kyuss)

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1687 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, 1943 – Frank Nitti (mobster), 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs (created Tarzan, and John Carter), 1950 – Norman Haworth, 1982 – Randy Rhoads:shred::devil:(Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne), 1990 – Andrew Wood♪ ♫(Mother Love Bone), 2005 – John DeLorean\_____(founded the DeLorean Motor Company), 2008 – Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey), 2008 – Paul Scofield, 2014 – Fred Phelps (scum)

March 20

Today is the first day of Spring.

Today is also World Storytelling Day, as well as Extraterrestrial Abduction Day, The Great American Meatout, International Day of Happiness, UN French Language Day, National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and World Sparrow Day.

Events

1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.

1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.

1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".


1969 - John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1972 – The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.

1980 - 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York and demanded to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation. He gave him-self up when told that neither act was in the office at the time.

1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.

1991 - Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.

1991, Michael Jackson signed a $1 billion (£0.6 billion) contract with Sony, the richest deal in recording history.

1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.

2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.

2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

43 BC – Ovid, 1821 – Ned Buntline, 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, 1882 – René Coty, 1903 – Edgar Buchanan, 1906 – Ozzie Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), 1908 – Michael Redgrave, 1914 – Wendell Corey, 1917 – Vera Lynn ("Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?"), 1918 – Jack Barry, 1922 – Carl Reiner, 1928 – Fred 'Mr.' Rogers, 1931 – Hal Linden, 1935 – Ted Bessell, 1937 – Jerry Reed:shred:, 1943 – Douglas Tompkins (co-founded The North Face outdoor products), 1943 – Paul Junger Witt, 1944 – Camille Cosby, 1945 – Pat Riley, 1946 – Douglas B. Green♪ ♫('Ranger Doug' in the band Riders In The Sky), 1948 – John de Lancie ('Q' in Star Trek:TNG), 1948 – Bobby Orr, 1950 – William Hurt, 1950 – Carl Palmer:drummer:(Emerson, Lake & Palmer), 1951 – Jimmie Vaughan:shred::devil:(The Fabulous Thunderbirds), 1957 – Spike Lee, 1957 – Theresa Russell, 1958 – Holly Hunter:love:, 1961 – Slim Jim Phantom:drummer:(The Stray Cats), 1963 – Kathy Ireland:love:, 1967 – Mookie Blaylock, 1970 – Michael Rapaport, 1976 – Chester Bennington♪ ♫(Linkin Park)

:skull:Deaths:skull:

1726 – Isaac Newton, 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, 1974 – Chet Huntley, 1994 – Lewis Grizzard, 2013 – George Lowe, 2015 - A. J. Pero:drummer:(Twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob)

Pretty sad day. :(

March 21

Today is observed as Education Freedom Day, and, no, that does not mean free education, nor freedom from education, ya wingnut.

Our Aussie friends are celebrating Harmony Day today.

This date also marks International Color Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, International Day of Forests, World Down Syndrome Day, World Poetry Day, as well as World Puppetry Day.


Events

630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.

1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.

1556 – In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.

1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. Ohio's worst natural disaster to date.

1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.

1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.

1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.

1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in American football since 1933.

1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes.

1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.

1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championship.

1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones (no, not that one) become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.

2004 - Ozzy Osbourne was named the nation's favorite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth. The 55-year-old singer came out on top of a poll as the face people want to represent them to alien life. The poll of internet users was carried out following the discovery of signs of water on Mars. Ozzy won 26 per cent of the vote. A spokesman for Yahoo! News said: "As the world waits desperately for signs of alien life, we decided to ask our users who they thought was best suited for this most auspicious of roles. Ozzy is a great choice but I'm not sure what the Martians would make of his individual approach to the English language."

2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded. Perhaps you've heard of it?

2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (of the Ziegfeld Follies), 1880 – Broncho Billy Anderson, 1902 – Son House:shred:, 1904 – Forrest Mars, Sr. (created M&M's and Mars bar, PBUH), 1910 – Julio Gallo, 1922 – Russ Meyer:ggw:, 1930 – James Coco, 1940 – Solomon Burke♪ ♫, 1945 – Rose Stone:keys:(Sly & The Family Stone), 1946 – Timothy Dalton, 1949 – Eddie Money♪ ♫, 1951 – Conrad Lozano:bass:(Los Lobos), 1958 – Brad Hall, 1958 – Gary Oldman, 1962 – Matthew Broderick, 1962 – Rosie O'Donnell:scream:(American mouth), 1976 – Rachael MacFarlane (voice of 'Hayley' on American Dad!, Seth MacFarlane's sister), 1990 – Mandy Capristo♪ ♫:love:

:reaper:Deaths:reaper:

1556 – Thomas Cranmer, 1891 – Joseph E. Johnston, 1985 – Michael Redgrave, 1987 – Robert Preston, 1991 – Leo Fender♪ ♫, 1992 – John Ireland, 1994 – Macdonald Carey, 1997 – Wilbert Awdry (created Thomas the Tank Engine), 2011 – Pinetop Perkins♪ ♫, 2014 – James Rebhorn (that guy who was in that thing)

Certainly, after he bit the head off a bat, and got down on the sidewalk to snort a line of live ants, those aliens would leave so fast they'd leave skid marks. :yesnod:

Rest in peace sir, your contributions changed everything.

March 22

1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.

1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.

1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

1943 – World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. [...the fuck?:eyebrow:]

1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.

1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.

2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.

2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.

Births

1814 – Thomas Crawford, 1817 – Braxton Bragg, 1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, 1887 – Chico Marx, 1908 – Louis L'Amour, 1912 – Karl Malden, 1920 – James Brown, 1920 – Werner Klemperer, 1923 – Marcel Marceau, 1924 – Al Neuharth, 1930 – Pat Robertson, 1931 – William Shatner, 1934 – Orrin Hatch, 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, 1936 – Roger Whittaker, 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, 1941 – Bruno Ganz, 1942 – Dick Poundsnicker, 1943 – George Benson, 1947 – James Patterson, 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1952 – Bob Costas, 1955 – Lena Olin, 1955 – Pete Sessions, 1959 – Matthew Modine, 1971 – Keegan-Michael Key, 1972 – Elvis Stojko, 1975 – Cole Hauser, 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, 1989 – J. J. Watt

Deaths

1820 – Stephen Decatur, 1978 – Karl Wallenda, 1994 – Dan Hartman, 1994 – Walter Lantz, 1999 – David Strickland, 2001 – William Hanna, 2005 – Rod Price, 2016 – Rob Ford

March 23

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.

1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.

1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.

1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.

1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.

1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)

1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.

1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.

1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.

2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.

2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.

Births

1887 – Josef Čapek, 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, 1912 – Wernher von Braun, 1921 – Donald Campbell, 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, 1929 – Roger Bannister, 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, 1937 – Craig Breedlove, 1949 – Ric Ocasek, 1953 – Chaka Khan, 1957 – Amanda Plummer, 1959 – Catherine Keener, 1964 – Hope Davis, 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, 1976 – Keri Russell, 1989 – Ayesha Curry

Deaths

1801 – Paul I of Russia, 1964 – Peter Lorre, 2006 – Desmond Doss:devil:, 2006 – Cindy Walker, 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, 2013 – Joe Weider, 2016 – Joe Garagiola, Sr., 2016 – Ken Howard

March 24

1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.

1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.

1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.

1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

1965 – Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.

1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.

1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.

1999 – Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval , marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.

2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

births

1725 – Samuel Ashe, 1820 – Edmond Becquerel, 1834 – John Wesley Powell, 1874 – Harry Houdini, 1887 – Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, 1901 – Ub Iwerks, 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, 1909 – Clyde Barrow, 1910 – Richard Conte, 1911 – Joseph Barbera, 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1924 – Norman Fell, 1930 – Steve McQueen:devil:, 1940 – Bob Mackie, 1944 – R. Lee Ermey, 1949 – Nick Lowe, 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, 1956 – Steve Ballmer, 1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, 1960 – Kelly Le Brock, 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, 1960 – Nena, 1962 – Star Jones, 1965 – The Undertaker, 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, 1973 – Jim Parsons, 1974 – Alyson Hannigan, 1976 – Peyton Manning, 1977 – Jessica Chastain, 1979 – Lake Bell

Deaths

1603 – Elizabeth I of England, 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1905 – Jules Verne, 1984 – Sam Jaffe, 1990 – Ray Goulding, 1993 – John Hersey, 2008 – Richard Widmark, 2010 – Robert Culp, 2016 – Garry Shandling

as I read this, I started off thinking it was the set-up for a joke.

And then the punchline:
Wait. That's not funny. That's horrible.

Crony Capitalism, the roots of America. :smack:

Re: Fresnel

I have a large Fresnel lens I scavenged from a big projection TV. On a sunny day it can concentrate enough sunlight to make a dark rag burst into flame in about six seconds.

March 25

Today is the International Day Of The Unborn Child.

Also, today is marked as an International Day Of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Today is observed as International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members by the United Nations General Assembly.

This date also marks Maryland Day, in the U.S. state of Maryland, while Tolkien fans can celebrate Tolkien Reading Day, and Sweden celebrates Waffle Day.

There are 281 days remaining in the year, and 274 days until Christmas. Don't want it to sneak up on ya, dontcha know.;)


Events

1199 – Richard I (Richard The Lion Heart) is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.

1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.

1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

1999 - 73-year-old country music singer Ray Price was arrested in his Texas home for possession of marijuana. He was fined $200 after pleading no contest to the charges. According to Price in a 2008 interview, old friend Willie Nelson - no stranger to marijuana arrests - phoned and told him he'd just earned $5 million in free publicity with the drug bust.

2000 - Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir was given 300 hours community service after being caught with a hoard of child pornography including 150 videos and 73 floppy disks.

2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1840 – Myles Keogh, 1867 – Gutzon Borglum (designed Mount Rushmore), 1867 – Arturo Toscanini♪ ♫, 1881 – Béla Bartók:keys:, 1901 – Ed Begley, 1903 – Binnie Barnes, 1908 – David Lean, 1918 – Howard Cosell, 1921 – Simone Signoret, 1922 – Eileen Ford (co-founded Ford Models), 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, 1928 – Jim Lovell, 1934 – Gloria Steinem, 1937 – Tom Monaghan (founded Domino's Pizza), 1938 – Hoyt Axton♪ ♫, 1942 – Aretha Franklin♪ ♫, 1947 – Elton John♪ ♫, 1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, 1950 – Ronnie McDowell♪ ♫, 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker:dedhors2:, 1966 – Jeff Healey:shred:, 1967 – Doug Stanhope:joint:, 1967 – Debi Thomas, 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko:boxers:, 1981 – Danica Patrick:driving:, 1984 – Katharine McPhee

:reaper:Deaths:reaper:

1918 – Claude Debussy♪ ♫, 1969 – Max Eastman, 1982 – Goodman Ace, 1988 – Robert Joffrey (co-founded the Joffrey Ballet), 1992 – Nancy Walker, 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., 2005 – Paul Henning (developed several "rural" comedies for CBS including The Beverly Hillbillies), 2006 - Buck Owens♪ ♫, 2008 – Herb Peterson (created the McMuffin), 2009 – Dan Seals♪ ♫(England Dan & John Ford Coley), 2012 – John Crosfield (founded Crosfield Electronics), 2014 – Ralph Wilson (founded the Buffalo Bills)

Wow, that was ahead of the curve.

Yes ahead of the curve, Dana, but when did they start enforcing it?

Ah, one of my forebearers. One of the many dead ones. ;)

Almost all of mine are dead, dead I tell ya.

March 26

Today the U.S. state of Hawaii celebrates Prince Kuhio Day, one of only two holidays in the U.S. to commemorate royalty (the other is also a Hawaiian holiday, King Kamehameha Day).

Today is also Purple Day in Canadia and the U.S..


Events

590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Some people call him Maurice, because he speaks of the pompitous of love.

1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.

1351 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights. Shouldn't that be the Combat of the Sixty, then?

1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.

1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.

1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

1934 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.

1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.

1965 - Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman all received electric shocks from a faulty microphone on stage during a Rolling Stones show in Denmark. Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious for several minutes.

1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.

1970 - Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary pleaded guilty to 'taking immoral liberties' with a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months in jail.

1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.

1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..

1981 – Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.

1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..

1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.

2005 – The BBC broadcasts "Rose" (starring Christopher Eccleston), the first returning episode Doctor Who, after its cancellation in 1989. It is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1860 – André Prévost, 1874 – Robert Frost ("...and miles to go before I sleep"), 1875 – Syngman Rhee (1st President of South Korea), 1879 – Othmar Ammann (designed the George Washington Bridge and Verrazano–Narrows Bridge), 1881 – Guccio Gucci, 1898 – Rudolf Dassler (founded Puma athletic wear), 1911 – Tennessee Williams, 1914 – William Westmoreland, 1916 – Sterling Hayden (Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing (1956)), 1917 – Rufus Thomas♪ ♫, 1919 – Strother Martin ("What we've got here, is a failure to communicate..."), 1923 – Bob Elliott (Bob & Ray), 1929 – Edwin Turney (co-founded Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)), 1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, 1931 – Leonard Nimoy, 1934 – Alan Arkin, 1935 – Mahmoud Abbas, 1938 – Norman Ackroyd:artist:, 1940 – James Caan, 1940 – Nancy Pelosi, 1941 – Richard Dawkins, 1942 – Erica Jong, 1943 – Bob Woodward, 1944 – Diana Ross♪ ♫, 1946 – Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman's son), 1948 – Richard Tandy:keys:(ELO), 1948 – Steven Tyler:scream:♪ ♫(Aerosmith), 1949 – Vicki Lawrence (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family), 1949 – Fran Sheehan:bass:(Boston), 1950 – Teddy Pendergrass♪ ♫, 1950 – Martin Short, 1953 – Elaine Chao, 1954 – Curtis Sliwa (founded Guardian Angels), 1956 – Charly McClain♪ ♫, 1957 – Leeza Gibbons, 1959 – Chris Hansen, 1960 – Marcus Allen (1st NFL player to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards, only NFL player to have won a Heisman Trophy, an NCAA National Championship, a Super Bowl, and be named NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP), 1960 – Jennifer Grey, 1966 – Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, Good Fellas, High Roller: The Stu Unger Story), 1968 – Kenny Chesney♪ ♫, 1968 – James Iha♪ ♫(The Smashing Pumpkins), 1973 – Larry Page (co-founded Google), 1973 – T. R. Knight (Grey's Anatomy), 1984 – Sara Jean Underwood:ggw::love:(Playmate), 1985 – Keira Knightley (English twig)

:reaper:Deaths:reaper:

1776 – Samuel Ward, 1827 – Ludwig van Beethoven:keys:, 1892 – Walt Whitman, 1932 – Henry M. Leland (founded Cadillac and Lincoln), 1959 – Raymond Chandler (created detective Philip Marlowe), 1973 – Noël Coward, 1990 – Halston, 1996 – Edmund Muskie, 1996 – David Packard (co-founded Hewlett-Packard), 2002 – Randy Castillo:drummer:(Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, Mötley Crüe), 2003 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 2006 – Paul Dana:driving:, 2011 – Geraldine Ferraro

So Carruthers got his license without testing! :stickpoke :lol:

I shall be instructing Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel first thing tomorrow morning.

Bwahahahahahahaha. :thumb2:

March 27

Today is International Whisk(e)y Day.:devil::drunk:

Also today, World Theatre Day is observed internationally.


Events

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

1836 – Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.

1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.

1886 – Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1915 – Typhoid Mary, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1971 - New York radio station WNBC banned the song 'One Toke Over the Line' by Brewer & Shipley because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country followed suit.

1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.

1979 - Eric Clapton married Patti Harrison (the ex wife of George) at Temple Bethel, Tucson, Arizona.

1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.

1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. And there was much rejoicing.:celebrat:

1999 – Kosovo War: A Yugoslav surface-to-air missile downed a U.S. F-117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.

2015 - Country singer Willie Nelson announced that he and his family were hard at work on a new brand of marijuana called Willie's Reserve. Stores of that same name were being planned and were to include his signature brand and other strains that would be grown to meet quality standards.

:knockdup:Births:knockdup:

1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, 1863 – Henry Royce (of Rolls-Royce), 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building), 1899 – Gloria Swanson ('Norma Desmond' in Sunset Boulevard), 1914 – Richard Denning (Creature From The Black Lagoon), 1921 – Phil Chess (co-founded Chess Records), 1924 – Sarah Vaughan♪ ♫, 1929 – Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train), 1931 – David Janssen ('Dr. Richard Kimble' in The Fugitive (1963)), 1932 – Junior Parker♪ ♫, 1939 – Cale Yarborough:driving:, 1942 – Michael Jackson (no, the writer), 1942 – Michael York, 1952 – Maria Schneider (Last Tango In Paris), 1959 – Andrew Farriss♪ ♫(INXS), 1963 – Quentin Tarantino:devil:, 1970 – Mariah Carey♪ ♫:love:, 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), 1971 – Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle), 1975 – Fergie♪ ♫(Black-Eyed Peas)

:reaper:Deaths:reaper:

1900 – Joseph A. Campbell (founded the Campbell Soup Company:yum:), 1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix (founded Bendix Corporation), 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, 1991 – Aldo Ray, 1994 – Lawrence Wetherby (48th Governor of Kentucky), 2002 – Milton Berle, 2002 – Dudley Moore, 2002 – Billy Wilder, 2009 – Irving R. Levine, 2011 – Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers On A Train), 2016 – Mother Angelica

For less than four hours. ;)