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Anything for our very own Obertoastenfuhrer.
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March 6th
1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist.
1806 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet. 1836 ~ After a 13 day seige, the Mexican army commanded by General Antonio López de Santa Anna captured the Alamo. 1857 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court. 1869 ~ Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. 1888 ~ Death of Louisa May Alcott, Novelist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, American economist. 1957 ~ The former UK colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. 1982 ~ Death of Ayn Rand, Author, Fountainhead of the Tea Party. 1987 ~ 197 people died when a car ferry capsized just outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. |
March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer. 1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone (patent # 174,464). 1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. 1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies. 1969 ~ Golda Meir elected Prime Minister of Israel. 1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director. 2004 ~ An investiture ceremony was held for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop. 2006 ~ Apple was granted the patent to the iPod. |
March 8th
1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Composer. Not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach.
1862 ~ The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) was launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. 1869 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer. 1917 ~ Death of Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer. 1917 ~ The first stage of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution started in St. Petersburg. 1942 ~ Death of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player. 1950 ~ The Soviet Union claimed to have an atomic bomb. 1959 ~ George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia. 1983 ~ President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire. 2001 ~ The wreck of Bluebird, Donald Campbell's speedboat, was recovered. |
March 9th
1454 ~ Birthday of Amerigo Vespucci, Explorer & Cartographer.
1934 ~ Birthday of Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut, first human in space. 1943 ~ Birthday of Bobby Fischer, chess player. 1945 ~ A fire storm in Tokyo, caused by incendiary bombs from American bombers killed over 100,000 people. 1954 ~ CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now”. 1959 ~ The debut of the Barbie doll. 1967 ~ Stalin's daughter defected to the West. 1990 ~ Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirmed he would rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord. 1996 ~ Death of George Burns, Actor. 2005 ~ The final broadcast by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News. |
March 11th
1941 ~ President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill.
1955 ~ Death of Alexander Fleming, Biologist. 1959 ~ Birthday of Nina Hartley, Porn Actress. 1968 ~ Death of John Wyndham, Author. 1985 ~ Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader. 1993 ~ Janet Reno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Attorney General. 1996 ~ John Howard became the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia. 1997 ~ Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. 2004 ~ Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, killed 191 people and wounded at least 1,800 in an attack linked to al-Qaida. 2006 ~ Death of Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. |
March 12th
1912 ~ The Girl Scouts (née Girl Guides) were started in the U.S.
1922 ~ Birthday of Jack Kerouac, Writer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Harry Harrison, Science Fiction author. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops occupied Austria; annexation declared the following day. 1947 ~ The “Truman Doctrine” established. 1953 ~ Birthday of Ron Jeremy, Porn actor. 1987 ~ ”Les Misérables” opened on Broadway. 1994 ~ The Church of England ordained its first female priests. 1999 ~ Death of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. 2011 ~ A reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. |
March 13th
1845 ~ Leipzig: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto first performed.
1855 ~ Birthday of Percival Lowell, Astronomer. 1868 ~ The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate. 1906 ~ Death of Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist. 1925 ~ A law in Tennessee, the Butler Act, was passed, prohibiting the teaching of evolution. 1938 ~ Death of Clarence Darrow, Attorney. 1947 ~ The musical “Brigadoon” opened on Broadway. 1954 ~ Viet Minh forces begin the Battle of Điện Bięn Phủ against the French. 1964 ~ Kitty Genovese was murdered in an incident which shocked the world and prompted investigation into the Bystander effect. 1979 ~ The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousted Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.[/QUOTE] |
March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Johann Strauss Sr. 1879 ~ Birthday of Albert Einstein, physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1921. 1900 ~ The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard. 1942 ~ First successful use of penicillin to treat a patient. 1943 ~ The SS under the command Sturmbannführer Amon Goth began the 'liquidation' of the Kraków Ghetto. 1964 ~ A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. 1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. 1985 ~ Birthday of Eva Angelina, Porn actress. 1994 ~ Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was released. |
March 15th
44 B.C. ~ Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
1877 ~ The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia. 1898 ~ Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist. 1906 ~ Rolls-Royce Ltd. was registered. 1937 ~ Death of H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer. 1966 ~ Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote. 1975 ~ Birthday of Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player, FIDE World Chess Champion 2005 - 2006. 1990 ~ British journalist Farzad Bazoft was executed for spying. 1991 ~ Germany formally regained complete independence after World War II. 2004 ~ Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest "planet" in the Solar system so far observed. |
March 16th
1521 ~ Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1789 ~ Birthday of Georg Ohm, German physicist and developer of Ohm's Law. 1850 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published. 1898 ~ Death of Aubrey Beardsley, British Artist. 1926 ~ Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1968 ~ The My Lai Massacre was carried out by U.S. troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley. 1978 ~ Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and was later killed by his captors. 1984 ~ William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists; he died in captivity. 1988 ~ The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5,000. 2000 ~ Death of Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier. |
March 17th
180 ~ Death of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
461 ~ Death of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. 1673 ~ Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet began their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river. 1834 ~ Birthday of Gottlieb Daimler, Engineer & Inventor. 1845 ~ The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry. 1919 ~ Birthday of Nat King Cole, Singer. Oh! what a singer! 1942 ~ Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II. 1959 ~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet and traveled to India. 1973 ~ The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy was taken. 1979 ~ Birthday of Stormy Daniels, Porn actress. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland and Montserrat, widely celebrated in North America. |
March 18th
1844 ~ Birthday of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer.
1850 ~ American Express was founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo. 1869 ~ Birthday of Neville Chamberlain, UK PM. 1962 ~ France and Algeria signed an agreement ending the Algerian War. 1965 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became the first man to walk in space. 1978 ~ Death of Leigh Brackett, Science Fiction author. 1990 ~ In the largest art theft in U.S. history, 12 paintings, collectively worth more than $100 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. 1992 ~ Microsoft shipped Windows 3.1. 1992 ~ South Africa voted to end apartheid. 2003 ~ Death of Adam Osborne, British born computer pioneer. |
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