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March 11

Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister is born

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Why Famous: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976, Wilson was a moderate socialist who placed emphasis on increasing opportunity within society.

Died: 14 May 1995 (aged 79)
Cause of Death: Cancer

Why the British didn't participate in the Vietnam War

…………..Wilson chose to offer token support to the US, and, it's been argued, for good reason.

Hospitals stayed open, pensions were paid, and university students funded only because the wheels of the British economy still turned with American money.

Britain had been left in dire need of economic assistance after the Second World War and was only able to rebuild and create its welfare state by securing a huge loan from the US……………

https://www.forces.net/news/harold-wilson-man-who-kept-us-out-vietnam
 

Pappy said:
Orange County's turpentine industry exploited laborers and ravaged the landscape for several decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Extracting turpentine from pine trees and processing it in backwoods stills was Florida's second-largest industry - after citrus - before the turn of the century. But it exacted a price on people and the environment unlike any other business.

A hard, sticky amber rosin, sometimes called pitch, was made from the trees' turpentine gum, or oleoresin. It was used to preserve ropes and rigging on sailing ships and to caulk the seams between timbers in the ships' hulls. For this reason, turpentine products were called naval stores.

After ships were made of steel and had engines, rosin was used in the manufacture of soap and other products and to wax bowstrings for musical instruments. Spirits of turpentine, which was separated from the pitch in stills, was - and still is - used as a paint thinner and solvent.
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Really interesting, thanks Pappy.
 
10 March 1788 – French explorer Jean-Francois La Perouse is observed departing Botany Bay, never to be seen again.

The French showed considerable interest in what the Dutch had named “New Holland”, and organised several expeditions to the continent. The British remained wary of the French presence in Australian waters, with good reason when the French ships of La Perouse appeared in Botany Bay just days after the arrival of the First Fleet.

Louis XVI giving La Perouse his instructions on 29 June 1785, by Nicolas-André Monsiau 1817, Palace of Versailles.

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On 24 January 1788, two French ships were noticed at the entrance to Botany Bay. They were the L’Astrolabe and La Boussole, under the command of Jean-Francois La Perouse. Phillip had made plans for the entire fleet to move north to Port Jackson, but the presence of the French ships, and the same bad weather that prevented the French from entering Botany Bay, initially caused him to postpone the First Fleet’s departure. When Phillip finally continued ahead to Port Jackson, the ‘Supply’ and the ‘Sirius’ were sent to exchange greetings with the French. The French were received courteously and spent six weeks at the British colony, their last recorded landfall. During their stay, the French established an observatory and a garden, held masses, and made geological observations.

On 10 March 1788, the French expedition left New South Wales bound for New Caledonia. While La Perouse had reported in a letter from Port Jackson that he expected to be back in France by June 1789, neither he nor any members of his expedition were ever seen again.
 

10 March 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda is born.

Usama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin, often anglicised as Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011), was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organisation responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide. He was a Saudi Arabian until 1994 (stateless thereafter), a member of the wealthy bin Laden family and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.

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On 2 May 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan, during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama.
 
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March 11
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.

The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, , Japan’s main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country. The tsunami also instigated a major nuclear accident at a power station along the coast.
 
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March 11
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.

The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, , Japan’s main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country. The tsunami also instigated a major nuclear accident at a power station along the coast.
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Such an horrific event with so much damage.

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11 March 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and founder of News Corporation is born.

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne to Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Murdoch's parents were also born in Melbourne.

Lady Murdoch with children Helen, Rupert (right) and and baby daughter Anne. Rupert Murdoch takes over the Daily Mirror, a Sydney tabloid, in May 1960.

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His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.

Wedding of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, official family portrait.

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Murdoch has six children in all, and is grandfather to thirteen grandchildren. He’s been married four times, most recently a week short of his 85th birthday, to former model Jerry Hall then aged 59.
 
RnR said:
11 March 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and founder of News Corporation is born.

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne to Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Murdoch's parents were also born in Melbourne.

Lady Murdoch with children Helen, Rupert (right) and and baby daughter Anne. Rupert Murdoch takes over the Daily Mirror, a Sydney tabloid, in May 1960.

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His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.

Wedding of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, official family portrait.

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Murdoch has six children in all, and is grandfather to thirteen grandchildren. He’s been married four times, most recently a week short of his 85th birthday, to former model Jerry Hall then aged 59.
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File photograph of Kathryn and James Murdoch.

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Estranged media scion James Murdoch has said he left his family's publishing company News Corp over concerns its newspapers were disguising facts and endorsing disinformation.

He has condemned the US media for “propagating lies” which have unleashed “insidious and uncontrollable forces” that will endure for years.

Questioned about whether Fox News – founded by his father Rupert Murdoch and run by his brother Lachlan – had played a role in the riot at the Capitol last week, he said media groups had amplified election disinformation, which successfully sowed falsehoods.

Providing his sternest reproach yet of the US news industry since stepping away from the family business, Murdoch stopped short of naming Fox News but the comments will be seen as a thinly veiled rebuke…..

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...says-us-media-lies-unleashed-insidious-forces

Rupert turns 90 today.
 
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March 5​

Joseph Stalin dies​

Why Famous: Came to prominence after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, leading the Communist state till his death in 1953.

Instituted policies of collective agriculture and rapid industrialization lead to rapid growth in the Soviet economy but at a huge cost to Soviet citizens.

Halted the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, helping defeat the axis powers and establishing the Eastern Bloc of communist countries.

Born: 18 December 1878
Birthplace: Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Died: 5 March 1953 (aged 74)
Cause of Death: Stroke
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Lenin did not want Stalin to succeed him as he thought of him as a butcher. How right he was.
 
A mosaic from Caligula’s boat has been returned to Italy
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A Roman mosaic which once graced a party boat belonging to the crazed Emperor Caligula has been returned to Italy after police found it being used as a coffee table in a Manhattan apartment.

Smuggled out of Italy after the Second World War, the mosaic was unveiled today back at a museum on the edge of lake Nemi near Rome where Caligula once threw wild parties on the water. Source: The Times
 
March 12
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

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Why Famous: Gandhi was the leader of the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India. He initially began fighting for the rights of Indians in South Africa, from which he returned in 1915. In 1921 he assumed rule of the Indian National Congress and began leading nationwide resistance movements.

He led the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and later led the Quit India movement in 1942. He undertook numerous fasts in support of his political causes and for self-purification.

Gandhi's vision of India called for a state based on religious pluralism. This, however, was strongly challenged by a rapidly-growing Muslim nationalist independence movement which demanded a state for itself.

This led to the partition of India in 1947 into India and Pakistan. Gandhi visited the affected areas and undertook several fasts in an attempt to stop the religious violence.

Some Hindus believed Gandhi was too accommodating; among them was Nathuram Godse who assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948.

Born 2 October 1869

Died: 30 January, 1948 (aged 78)
Cause of Death: Assassination
 
mellowyellow said:
March 12
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

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Why Famous: Gandhi was the leader of the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India. He initially began fighting for the rights of Indians in South Africa, from which he returned in 1915. In 1921 he assumed rule of the Indian National Congress and began leading nationwide resistance movements.

He led the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and later led the Quit India movement in 1942. He undertook numerous fasts in support of his political causes and for self-purification.

Gandhi's vision of India called for a state based on religious pluralism. This, however, was strongly challenged by a rapidly-growing Muslim nationalist independence movement which demanded a state for itself.

This led to the partition of India in 1947 into India and Pakistan. Gandhi visited the affected areas and undertook several fasts in an attempt to stop the religious violence.

Some Hindus believed Gandhi was too accommodating; among them was Nathuram Godse who assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948.

Born 2 October 1869

Died: 30 January, 1948 (aged 78)
Cause of Death: Assassination
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Thanks Mellowyellow. Such a revered man.

Gandhi's death was mourned nationwide. Over a million people joined the five-mile-long funeral procession that took over five hours to reach Raj Ghat from Birla house, where he was assassinated, and another million watched the procession pass by. Gandhi's body was transported on a weapons carrier, whose chassis was dismantled overnight to allow a high-floor to be installed so that people could catch a glimpse of his body. The engine of the vehicle was not used; instead four drag-ropes manned by 50 people each pulled the vehicle.

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12 March 1868 – In Australia's first attempt of political assassination, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, was picnicking in the beach-front suburb of Clontarf, when Henry James O'Farrell fired a revolver into the Duke’s back.

Alfred (1844–1900) was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1893.

On 12 March 1868, on his second visit to Sydney, Prince Alfred was invited by Sir William Manning, President of the Sydney Sailors' Home, to picnic at the beachfront suburb of Clontarf to raise funds for the home.

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At the function he was wounded in the back by a revolver fired by Henry James O'Farrell.

In the violent struggle during which Alfred was shot, an event organiser William Vial managed to wrest the gun away from O'Farrell until bystanders assisted. Alfred was shot just to the right of his spine, and was tended for the next two weeks by six nurses, trained by Florence Nightingale and led by Matron Lucy Osburn, who had just arrived in Australia. O'Farrell was arrested at the scene, quickly tried, convicted and hanged on 21 April 1868.
 
RnR said:
Thanks Mellowyellow. Such a revered man.

Gandhi's death was mourned nationwide. Over a million people joined the five-mile-long funeral procession that took over five hours to reach Raj Ghat from Birla house, where he was assassinated, and another million watched the procession pass by. Gandhi's body was transported on a weapons carrier, whose chassis was dismantled overnight to allow a high-floor to be installed so that people could catch a glimpse of his body. The engine of the vehicle was not used; instead four drag-ropes manned by 50 people each pulled the vehicle.

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Great photo thanks RnR,
 
March 13
2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"

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Why Famous: Operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.

Pavarotti made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining worldwide fame for the brilliance and beauty of his tone—especially into the upper register—and eventually established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century.

Born: 12 October 1935
Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: 6 September, 2007 (aged 71)

I miss you Pav, 71 is too soon to die.
 
13 March 624 – The Battle of Badr took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.

The Battle of Badr, fought on Tuesday 13 March 624, was a key battle between Muhammad's army (the new followers of Islam) and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won the battle, known as the turning point of Islam. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention, or by secular sources to the strategic genius of Muhammad. It is one of the few battles specifically mentioned in the Quran. Advancing to a strong defensive position, Muhammad's well-disciplined force broke the Meccan lines, killing several important Quraishi leaders including the Muslims' chief antagonist Abu Jahl.

The death of Abu Jahl, and the casting of the Meccan dead into dry wells.

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The electric catwalk car was launched in 1955. The car was 2 feet wide with a swivel seat, so you could drive in either direction. Push buttons controlled the speed–either 6 or 12 miles per hour, with a 240-volt, 3 horsepower motor. As The New York Times writes “the catwalk car was the fastest, surest way through the tunnel, gliding blithely past the most epic traffic jams — equipped with no horn, because none was needed.”
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