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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. A blast from the past! 1992 ~ South Africa voted to end apartheid. 2003 ~ Death of Adam Osborne, British born computer pioneer. |
March 19th
1813 ~ Birthday of David Livingstone, Missionary & Explorer.
1906 ~ Birthday of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official. 1915 ~ The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles for the second time. 1932 ~ Sydney Harbor Bridge opened. 1950 ~ Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author. 1953 ~ The Academy Awards were first televised. 1982 ~ Argentines landed on South Georgia Island, precipitating the Falklands War. 1987 ~ Death of Louis-Victor de Broglie, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1929. 2003 ~ President Bush ordered the start of war against Iraq. 2008 ~ Death of Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction author. Feastdays & Holidays The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. |
March 20th
43 B.C. ~ Birthday of Ovid, Roman poet.
1727 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist. 1815 ~ Napoleon returned to Paris after escaping from Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. 1852 ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published. 1916 ~ Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity. 1928 ~ Birthday of Fred Rogers, children's television host. 1969 ~ John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. 1995 ~ A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 12 and wounded 1,300 people. 2000 ~ Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured following a shootout in Atlanta. 2003 ~ U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait. |
March 21st
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway Impresario. 1945 ~ UK Troops liberated Mandalay, Burma. 1960 ~ Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963 ~ The federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, was closed. 1965 ~ Rev. King led 3,200 people on the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1980 ~ President Carter announced a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. 1998 ~ Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland. 2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug. 2010 ~ Death Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt. |
March 22nd
1683 ~ Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1687 ~ Death of Jean Baptiste Lully, French Composer. 1832 ~ Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer & Poet. 1882 ~ U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy. 1923 ~ Birthday of Marcel Marceau, Mime. 1963 ~ The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denied improper involvement with the model Christine Keeler. 1963 ~ The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK. 1972 ~ The Equal Rights Amendment To The U.S. Constitution was sent to the states for ratification. 1993 ~ The Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips. 2004 ~ Death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas. |
March 23rd
1749 ~ Birthday of Pierre Simon de Laplace, Mathematician & Astronomer.
1775 ~ Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech - "give me liberty or give me death" in Williamsburg, Virginia. 1857 ~ Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City. 1882 ~ Birthday of Emmy Noether, Mathematician. Now there's a lady who had a tough row to hoe! 1912 ~ Birthday of Wernher von Braun, Engineer. 1923 ~ Birthday of Roger Bannister, athlete, first man to run the "Miracle Mile" 1983 ~ President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept missiles. 1989 ~ Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced cold fusion at the University of Utah. 1989 ~ A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid (4581 Asclepius) missed the Earth by 400,000 miles. 2001 ~ The Russian space station Mir was de-orbited, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. |
March 24th
1874 ~ Birthday of Harry Houdini, Magician.
1882 ~ Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. 1882 ~ Death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet. 1893 ~ Birthday of Walter Baade, Astronomer. 1905 ~ Death of Jules Verne, Author. 1944 ~ In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. 1965 ~ Ranger 9 broadcast live TV as it crashed-landed onto the Moon. 1980 ~ Archbishop Óscar Romero was killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. 1989 ~ The Exxon Valdez spilled 270,000 barrels of oil after running aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. 1999 ~ NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia. This marked the first time NATO attacked a sovereign nation. |
March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1892 ~ Death of Walt Whitman, Poet. 1904 ~ Birthday of Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythologist. 1964 ~ The musical “Funny Girl”, starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway. 1973 ~ Birthday of Larry Page, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder of Google. 1979 ~ Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in Washington, DC. 1981 ~ The "Gang of Four", Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party. 1984 ~ Birthday of Annette Schwarz, Porn Actress. 1997 ~ The 39 Heaven's Gate cult suicides. 1999 ~ The Melissa worm infected e-mail systems around the world. |
March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics. 1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer. 1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1886 ~ Birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect. 1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the USSR. 1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. 1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist. 1977 ~ A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people. 2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel. |
March 28th
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. 1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War. 1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist. 1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century played on radio. 1965 ~ Conclusion of the 'Selma to Montgomey' Civil Rights march. 1979 ~ One of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island was severely damaged in what remains as the largest nuclear incident in U.S. history. 1980 ~ Birthday of Birthday of Minori Aoi (葵みのり), Japanese Porn actress. 1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer. 2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor. |
March 29th
1867 ~ Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1899 ~ Birthday of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader. 1912 ~ Death of Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer. 1973 ~ The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. 1981 ~ First running of the London Marathon. 1982 ~ Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. 1984 ~ The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. 1985 ~ Death of Jeanine Deckers, better known as "The Singing Nun" due to her 1963 hit song "Dominique". 2004 ~ Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members. 2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cook, Journalist. |
March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation. 1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter. 1945 ~ A defecting German pilot delivered a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to the Allies. 1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage. 1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau. 1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer. 1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured. 1998 ~ German automaker BMW bought Rolls-Royce for $570 million. 2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist. |
March 31st
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet.
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer. 1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter. 1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum. 1968 ~ President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. 1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burnt up when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. 1976 ~ Birthday of Ashton Moore, Porn actress. 1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact. 1992 ~ The last active United States Navy battleship, the USS Missouri, was decommissioned . 1995 ~ Latina superstar Selena was killed by the president of her fan club. |
April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army. 1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor. 1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer. 1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force. 1945 ~ World War II: U.S. forces invaded Okinawa. 1970 ~ President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV. 1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. 2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison. 2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collided with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew made an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and was detained. Feastdays & Holidays April Fools Day |
April 2nd
1725 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and writer.
1805 ~ Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer. 1875 ~ Birthday of Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer. 1917 ~ President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. 1917 ~ The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, took her seat as a representative from Montana. 1978 ~ Dallas premiered on CBS, beginning a 13-year run. 1982 ~ Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, starting the war. 1986 ~ A grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter were sucked out of a TWA jet when it was bombed by a group calling itself the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells 1988 ~ Birthday of Kimber James, transsexual Porn Actor. 2005 ~ Death of Pope John Paul II. |
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