Today in History

1872
Yellowstone National Park becomes the world's 1st national park,was established by Congress, signed into law by Pres. Ulysses S.Grant.Its located in NW Wyoming,also includes areas of Montana,Idaho. It covers 2.2. million acres of lakes,canyons,known for wildlife and geothermal features e.g 'Old Faithful',has active volcano 'Caldera'
1961
Pres John F Kennedy established'Peace Corps',an independent agency/volunteer program run by U.S. Govt. It provides international social&economic development for poor countries. After 3 month trainig period, volunteers are mostly college kids with degrees spend 2 yrs abroad
1978
Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from Swiss cemetary 2 months after his death in a exhortion plot 2 months later,police arrest 2 mechanics who take them to cornfield near Lake Geneva where they had buried him
2017
Gustav Klimt's painting"Bauergarten' was sold in London for $59.3 mil
 

March 1st Birthdays:
1810- Frederic Chopin- Polish/French composer
1904
Glenn Miller- U.S. bandleader/jazz composer' In The Mood,Mooonlight Srenade'
1910
David Niven-British actor' Casino Royale,The Pink Panther'
1944
Roger Daltry,rock singer,founder of British band'The Who'
1954
Ron Howard-actor/ movie director,His best known TV roles' "Opie' "Andy Griffith Show',"Richie Cunnigham' 'Happy Days. A few of movies he's directed 'Splash,Cocoon,Apollo 13,Parenthood,A Beautiful Mind '01-{won Best Director Oscar,} In the Heart of the Sea
1966
Paul Hollywood- British baker, TV judge"Great British Baking Show"
Deaths:
1984
Jackie Coogan- actor 'The Kid, Oliver Twist, TV show' Addams Family" 69
1991
Edward Land- inventor of instant photography,co founder of Polariod Corp 81
2006
Jack Wild- British actor 'Oliver' 53
2013
Bonnie Franklin-actress ,best known TV role 'Ann Romano' on "One Day At a Time' 69
 
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1711 The first edition of London's - 'The Spectator'founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

1940 English actress Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.

1950 Klaus Fuchs, one of Britain's top atomic scientists, was sentenced to 14 years for spying in the Soviet Union. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 38, a civil servant from Harwell in Berkshire, pleaded guilty to four offences under the Official Secrets Act. German-born Fuchs, who fled his home country to escape Nazi persecution in 1933, had come to be regarded as one of Britain's top atomic scientists. But beneath the facade was a committed Communist who had been passing secrets to the Russians for most of the past decade.

2006 The Senedd, in Cardiff Bay, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. It is the main public building of the National Assembly, the main centre for democracy and devolution in Wales.
 

This day in History March 2nd

1995 The top quark is discovered
The existence of this elementary particle, the bottom quark's counterpart, had been presumed since the 1970s.

1970 Rhodesia declares itself an independent republic
By severing the country's ties with the United Kingdom, white Prime Minister Ian Smith attempted to prevent the institution of black majority rule.

1969 Concorde takes off on its maiden flight
The supersonic airliner was retired in 2003, after Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on July 25, 2000.

1959 Miles Davis records Kind of Blue
It is considered the best-selling jazz album in history and one of the most influential works of jazz music ever produced.

1933 The film King Kong premieres
The black and white movie marked a milestone in the history of film, especially due to Willis O’Brien's stop-motion effects.
 
Births On This Day, March 2nd 🎂

1968 Daniel Craig
English actor

1962 Jon Bon Jovi
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

1931 Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet lawyer, politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate

1904 Dr. Seuss
American author, poet, illustrator

1900 Kurt Weill
German/American composer

Deaths On This Day, March 2nd 🪦

1999 Dusty Springfield
English singer, producer

1991 Serge Gainsbourg
French singer-songwriter, actor, director

1982 Philip K. Dick
American author

1930 D. H. Lawrence
English novelist

1619 Anne of Denmark
 
2nd March

1882 An unsuccessful attempt was made by Scotsman Roderick Maclean to assassinate Queen Victoria. As she was leaving Windsor railway station he stepped forward from the cheering crowd, lifted a revolver and fired into her carriage. Before a second shot could be fired, he was overpowered by the crowd and arrested by Superintendent Hayes. Remaining calm, the Queen and her companions rode on to Windsor Castle.

1958 A British team, led by explorer Vivian Fuchs, completed the first crossing of the Antarctic. His 12-man party endured severe hardships to travel the 2,500 from the Filchner Ice Shelf to McMurdo Sound in just 99 days.

1986 The Queen signed the Australia Act in Canberra. The Act resolved the anomalous power of the United Kingdom's parliament to legislate over the individual Australian states, a power that it had exercised since colonial times.

2000 Chilean General Augusto Pinochet left Britain after UK Home Secretary Jack Straw told him that he was free to leave and declared that he would not be extradited to Spain to face charges of human rights abuses.

2015 The last surviving Dambusters pilot (Squadron Leader Les Munro) decided to sell his gallantry medals awarded for the famous raid and donate the proceeds to the newly-built Bomber Command Memorial in London, dedicated to the 55,573 airmen killed during the Second World War.
 
1796
Napoleon Bonaparte appointed Commander in Chief of French Army in Italy
1939
Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify U.S. Bill of Rights 147 yrs late
1965
movie' Sound of Music' is released based on the true story of Von Trapp family who fled Austria in 1938 due to Nazi rule.The movie directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. The movie won 5 Oscars, picture, director,,score adaption, editing. The music by Richard Rogers&Oscar Hammerstein
1977
Bette Davis becomes 1st woman to receive American Film institute's Lifetime Achievement Award
1983
The 1st compact disc player is released by Sony cost $1,000
2016
British scientists reveal the oldest known land fossil,Tortotubus 440 million yrs old ,found in Gotland, Sweden
 
March 2nd Birthday:
1900
Kurt J.Weill, German composer who collaborated with Bertlot Brecht "The Three Penny Opera' with well known song' Mack The KNife'
1904
Theodore Geisel- children's author,'Dr Seuss' 'Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs&Ham,How The Grinch Stole Christmas
1917
Desi Arnaz- Cuban born singer/bandleader/actor' I Love Lucy' Lucille Ball's ex husband
1942
John Irving- author' World According to Garp,Cider House Rules', Prayer for Owen Meany'
1952
Lauraine Newman- comedienne/actress orginial cast member on SNL 'The Not Ready For Prime Time Players'
1981
Bryce Dallas Howard- actress 'The Help,Jurassic Park' eldest daughter of director,Ron Howard
Deaths
1930
DH Lawrence- British poet/writer' Lady Chatterly's Lover' 41
1939
Howard Carter- British archelogoist who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb 65
1987
Randolph Scott- actor 'Ride The High Country' Western Union' 89
2008
Jeff Healey- Canadian blues singer/lapsteel guitarist 'Angel Eyes' 41
2020
James Lipton- actor/writer/host of Inside The Actor's Studio' 93
 
This day in History March 3rd

1991 Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King caused a global outcry.
The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

1985 The U.K. miners' strike ends
The year-long dispute was the country's longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.

1974 All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France
The crash of the DC-10 aircraft has the 4th highest death toll of any aviation accident in history.

1938 The world's fastest steam locomotive is built
The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).

1924 The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished
The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
 
Births On This Day, March 3rd 🎂

1981 Julius Malema
South African politician

1977 Ronan Keating
Irish singer-songwriter, actor

1869 Henry Wood
English conductor

1847 Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish/American engineers invented the Telephone

1845 Georg Cantor
German mathematician

Deaths On This Day, March 3rd 🪦

1987 Danny Kaye
American actor

1983 Hergé
Belgian illustrator

1707 Aurangzeb
Mughal Emperor

1706 Johann Pachelbel
German composer

1703 Robert Hooke
English scientist
 
1847
U.S. Postal Dept is authorized to issue postage stamps
1875
composer, Georges Bizet's last&greatest opera'Carmen' debuts in Paris
1885
American Telegraph&Telephone{ATT&T} company is founded
1921
Univ of Toronto scientists,Frederick G. Banting, Charles H.Best discover insulin
1933
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in Black Hills, South Dakota.
The sculptor Gutzon Borglan with is son,Lincoln designed the 60 ft granite heads of 4 U.S. Presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln
2005
Steve Fossett becomes the 1st person to fly airplane solo around the world without stopping for fuel,took him 67 hrs, 2 min
 
March 3rd Birthdays:
1831
George Pullman-inventor of railroad sleeping car
1847
Alexander Graham Bell- inventor of telephone
1920
James Doohan- actor best known for TV role' Scotty' TV show' Star Trek"
1947
Jennifer Warnes- singer/arranger/producer 'Up Where We Belong','Famous Blue Raincoat'
1958
Miranda Richardson-British actress, 'Damage,Crying Game'
Deaths:
1959
Lou Costello- actor/ comedian ,partner with Bub Abbott with famous skit' Who's on First' 52
1983
Herge- Belgian cartoonist 'Adventures of Tintin' 75
1987
Danny Kaye- comedian/actor' The Danny Kaye Show', White Christmas' 76
1991
Arthur Murray- U. S. ballroom dancer/businessman 95
2018
Roger Bannister- British middle distance runner 88
David Ogden Stiers-actor ,best known TV role,'Major Charles Winchester' on 'M*A*S*H 75
 
This day in History March 4th

2007 The world's first national internet election is held.
Estonia was the first country to allow its citizens to vote in a parliamentary election through the world wide web.

1980 Robert Mugabe becomes Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
A hero of the black struggle against the white minority rule in his country, Mugabe won a landslide victory. More recently, his oppressive style of leadership has been condemned domestically and internationally.

1977 The Vrancea earthquake claims over 1500 lives
Most of the victims were residents of Romania's capital Bucharest.

1918 The first documented cases of the Spanish flu herald a deadly worldwide pandemic
The disease quickly spread around the world, causing over 25 million deaths.

1789 The U.S. Constitution is put into effect
The law is one of the world's oldest constitutions still in use. The oldest is the Constitution of San Marino, which was issued in 1600.
 
Births On This Day, March 4th 🎂

1968 Graham Westley
English footballer, manager

1951 Chris Rea
English singer-songwriter, guitarist

1950 Rick Perry
American politician, 47th Governor of Texas

1932 Ryszard Kapuściński
Polish journalist

1678 Antonio Vivaldi
Italian violinist, composer

Deaths On This Day, March 4th 🪦

2008 Gary Gygax
American game designer, writer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons

1977 Anatol E. Baconsky
Romanian poet, author, critic

1888 Amos Bronson Alcott
American educator, philosopher

1852 Nikolai Gogol
Ukrainian/Russian author, playwright

1811 Mariano Moreno
Argentinian lawyer, journalist, politician
 
1801
Thomas Jefferson is 1st President to be inaugrated in Washington,DC
1902
American Automobile Association{AAA} is founded in Chicago,Ill
1924
Happy Birthday to You' is published by Claydon Sunny, song written by 2 sisters, Patty&Mildred Hill
1933
Franklin Roosevelt becomes 32nd U.S. President. In his speech he vows to get country out of the Depression by famously saying'We have nothing to fear but fear itself'
1989
The Louvre Pyramid designed by famed architect, I.M. Pei is inaugrated by French President, Francois Mitterand in Paris
 
March 4th Birthdays:
1678
Antonio Vivlaldi- violin virtuso/composer 'The 4 Seasons'
1877
Garrett Morgan- U.S. inventor of the gas mask,traffic signal
1901
Charles H. Goren- master bridge player, won 26 U.S. titles
1954
Catherine O'Hara- Canadian actress- 'Hone Alone' Beetlejuice', TV show' Schitt's Creek"
1965
Khaled Hosseni- writer' The Kite Runner'
Deaths:
1992
Christian K. Nelson -inventor of Eskimo ice cream bars 98
1994
John Candy- Canadian actor/comedian' TV show' SCTV', movies' Uncle Buck, Trains,Planes&Automobiles 43
1996
Minnie Pearl- country western comedienne.' Grand Ole Opry' always wore a hat with the sales tag still on it 84
2016
Pat Conroy- author' Prince of Tides, The Great Santini 70
 
This day in History, March 5th

1981 The home computer ZX81 is launched
The British ZX81 was one of the world's first home computers and was sold over 1.5 million times.

1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force
Nuclear powers China, Russia, U.S., U.K., and France initiated the treaty in 1968. It has since been ratified by 190 nations around the world.

1960 Alberto Korda takes his famous picture of revolutionary Che Guevara
The iconic photograph, called Guerrillero Heroico, was taken at a memorial service for the victims of the La Coubre explosion.

1872 The air brake is patented
George Westinghouse is credited with the design of the railway braking system that uses compressed air.

1616 Nicolaus Copernicus' revolutionary book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church.
In the book, Copernicus claimed that the Earth revolves around the sun. The Church maintained Ptolemy's geocentric system. The book is considered a milestone in the history of astronomy.
 
Births On This Day, March 5th 🎂

1970 John Frusciante
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1951 Lat
Malaysian cartoonist

1948 Elaine Paige
English singer, actress

1898 Zhou Enlai
Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

1871 Rosa Luxemburg
Russian economist, philosopher


Deaths On This Day, March 5th 🪦

2022 Shane Warne

Australian Cricketer

2013 Hugo Chávez
Venezuelan military officer, politician, President of Venezuela

1963 Patsy Cline
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1953 Sergei Prokofiev
Russian pianist, composer, conductor

1953 Joseph Stalin
Soviet marshal, politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union

1895 Nikolai Leskov
Russian author, playwright, journalist
 
1558
smoking tobacco is introduced in Europe by a Spanish physican,Francisco Fernades
1853
piano company, Steinway&Sons is founded by Henry Steinway in NYC
1872
engineer, George Westinghouse patents triple air brakes for trains
2006
nature documentary' Planet Earth' narrated by nature history film maker, David Attenborough debuts on BBC
 
March 5th Birthdays:
1824
James Merritt Ives- US lithographer/businessman{Currier&Ives}
1908
Rex Harrison- British actor on stage/screen 'My Fair Lady,Dr Doolittle"
1936
Dean Stockwell- actor' Blue Velvet, TV show' Quantum Leap'
1948
Richard Hickox- British musical conductor
1955
Penn Jillette- magican{Penn&Teller}
1962
twins Charlie&Craig Reid Scottish musicians 'The Pretenders' hit single' I'm Gonna Be{500 miles}
Deaths:
1778
Thomas Arne- British composer' Rule Britianna, A Hunting We Will Go' 67
1953
Joseph Stalin- Russian dictator 73
1963
Patsy Cline -country music singer'Crazy,I Fall to Pieces' 30 {plane crash}
1980
Jay Silverheels- Canadian actor best known TV role' Tonto' on "The Lone Ranger' 67
1982
John Belushi-actor/comedian, original cast member on SNL,'Animal House, Blues Brothers' 33 {drug overdose}
1999
Richard Kiley-actor/singer "Man of La Mancha', Kismet' 76
 
This day in History March 6th

1987 193 people die when a ferry capsizes in the North Sea
The Herald of Free Enterprise sank just minutes after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

1967 Stalin's daughter defects to the West
The Soviet dictator's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, caused an international uproar when she approached the United States embassy in New Delhi and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

1957 Ghana becomes the first African country to gain independence from colonial rule
Ghana emerged as a sovereign state from the former British colonies Gold Coast and Togoland. Kwame Nkrumah was the country's first leader.

1899 The painkiller Asprin is registered as a trademark
Acetylsalicylic acid was first isolated in 1897 by German chemist Felix Hoffmann. Today, the medication is sold by Bayer and is on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines.

1869 The first periodic table of chemical elements is presented
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.
 
Births On This Day, March 6th 🎂

1972 Shaquille O'Neal
American basketball player, actor, rapper

1946 David Gilmour
English singer-songwriter, guitarist

1936 Marion Barry
American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia

1926 Alan Greenspan
American economist

1475 Michelangelo
Italian painter, sculptor

Deaths On This Day, March 6th 🪦

2007 Jean Baudrillard
French philosopher

1986 Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter

1982 Ayn Rand
Russian/American author, philosopher

1900 Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer, businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft

1842 Constanze Mozart
German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
1831
Toronto,Ont was incorporated with William Lyon MacKenzie as its 1st mayor
1899
aspirin{acetylsalicylic acid} was patented by Felix Hoffman at German company, Bayer
1965
musical,"How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' opened on Broadway ran for1,415 shows. The story of J.Pierrepont Finch who rises from window washer to president of the World Wide Wicker Company. The cast Robert Morse{Finch}, Bonnie Scott as his secretary,Charles Nelson Reilly'Bud' Rudy Vallee company president. The show won 7 Tony Awards, inc best musical,director, Morse won 'lead actor', Reilly 'featured actor'
1966
Barry Sandler's single' "Ballad of the Green Beret' debuts at #1 on charts stays there for 13 weeks
1981
after 19yrs, CBS Evening News anchorman, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time with his famous line' Thats The Way It Is'
 
March 6th Birtdays:
1619
Cyrano de Bergerac-French writer known for his large nose
1806
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-English poet
1921
Julius Rudel- Austrian born/U.S symphony conductor
1923
Ed Mc Mahon- TV host' Star Search' side kick on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
1940
Willie Stargell- Hall of Fame Baseball player, outfielder/1st baseman with Pittsburgh Pirates
1947
Rob Reiner-actor/director, best known TV role' Meathead' on "All In The Family' movie director 'Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally,The American President'
Deaths:
1836
Davy Crockett- U.S. frontiersman ,killed at Battle of the Alamo 49
1888- Louis May Alcott- author of' Little Women' 55 {stroke}
1932
John Phillip Sousa- U.S composer,'Stars&Stripes Forever' 77
1973
Pearl S. Buck -author 'Good Earth' 80
1986
Georgia O'Keeffe' painter/sculptor"Flowers' 98
2017
Robert Osborne- U.S. film historian was host of 'Turner Classic Movies' 84
 
This day in History March 7th

1971 A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence
Bangladesh's founding leader made his historical speech at a time of mounting tensions between East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh, and West Pakistan, which became present-day Pakistan.

1965 Police brutally attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama
Scores of demonstrators were injured, and the day entered history books as Bloody Sunday. The event helped to shift public opinion in favor of the Civil Rights movement.

1945 U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen
The legendary capture yielded little strategic advantage but it elevated the morale of the U.S. troops in pursuit of retreating German fighters,

1926 The first two-way transatlantic telephone takes place.
The conversation between the post office in London and Bell Laboratories in New York was established using a short-wave radio signal.

1900 The SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
The German transatlantic liner was fitted with wireless communication by its owner, Norddeutscher Lloyd, in order to outdo its rival Hamburg America Line.
 

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