Today in History

March 22nd Birthdays"
1912
Karl Malden-actor won best actor Oscar in movie' A Street Car Named Desire'for yrs he was the spokesman for American Express commericals. His best nown TV role' Capt Mike Stone's in ABC police drama' The Streets of San Francisco' co starring with Micheal Douglas
1920
Werner Klemperer- German/U.S. actor -best known TV role 'Col Klink' in CBS sitcom' Hogan's Heroes'
1930
Stephen Sondheim Broadway Tony awarding winning composer/lyricist'West Side Story,Sunday in the Park With George', A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum'
1936
Roger Whittaker-Kenyan British singer-'The Last Farewell,Durham Town"
Deaths;
1958
Mike Todd-movie producer' Around the World in 80 Days', Liz Taylor's 3rd husband 48,plane crash
1994
Dan Hartman- singer/ songwriter 'I Can Dream About You,Living in America' 43 brain tumor
2001
William Hanna- U.S animator/studio founder 90
 

This day in History March 23rd

2001 The Russian space station Mir plunges into the sea
The legendary station was disposed of in a controlled crash after 15 years in space.

1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero calls on members of the El Salvador armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorians
A death squad assassinated the archbishop only one day after his famous sermon.

1956 Pakistan becomes the world's first Islamic republic
The Dominion of Pakistan also included the area of modern-day Bangladesh or East Pakistan, which seceded in 1971.

1933 The Enabling Act of 1933 grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers in Germany
With the Ermächtigungsgesetz, Hitler was awarded the legal right to issue laws even if in breach of the German constitution.

1888 The Football League meets for the first time
The league featuring teams from England and Wales was the world's oldest Association Football league. In 1992, its top 22 teams formed the Premier League.
 
Births On This Day, March 23rd 🎂

1968 Damon Albarn
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1912 Wernher von Braun
German physicist, engineer

1910 Akira Kurosawa
Japanese director, screenwriter, producer

1882 Amalie Emmy Noether
German mathematician

1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician, astronomer

Deaths On This Day, March 23rd 🪦

2015 Lee Kuan Yew
Chinese/Singaporean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore

2011 Elizabeth Taylor
English/American actress

1992 Friedrich Hayek
Austrian/English economist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate

1931 Bhagat Singh
Indian activist

1801 Paul I of Russia
 

23rd March

1540 Waltham Abbey was surrendered to the Crown. It was the last abbey to be dissolved in Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell's dissolution of the monasteries.

1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, carrying the first Scottish settlers from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde.

1861 London's first tramcars began operating, along the Bayswater Road, from Notting Hill to Marble Arch. They had been designed by a Mr. Train who was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1966 The first official meeting between the Catholic and Anglican churches for 400 years took place when Pope Paul VI and Dr. Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury met in Rome.

2020 The prime minister, Boris Johnson, addressed the nation and told the public that they were only permitted to leave their homes for essential needs, in an attempt to reduce the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

2021 A minute's silence, held at midday, was part of a day of reflection to mark one year since the first coronavirus lockdown. One year on, the UK's official death toll had risen from 364 to 126,172.
 
1743
George Frederic Handel's oratorio'Messiah' debuts at Royal Opera House in Covet Gardens, England
1775
Patrick Henry gives speech where he famously said' give me liberty or give me death' in favor of Virginia troops joining Revolutionary War
1857
inventor, Elias Otis installs his 1st elevator in NYC
1945
U.S. Navy ships bomb Japanese island, Okinawa in preparation of Allied invasion
1990
Ex capt of Exxon Valdex ship,Capt Joseph Hazlewood is ordered to help clean up in Prince Edward Sound, pay $50,000 in restitution in 1989 oil spill
2001
Russian space station'Mir' breaks up in atmosphere before falling into South Pacific Ocean near Fiji
 
March 23rd Birthdays:
1857
Fannie Farmer- American culinary pioneer who revoluntized modern cooking through precise measurements
1905
Joan Crawford- actress, 'Grand Hotel, Mildred Pierce' Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte', won best actress Oscar for Pierce
1912
Werhner von Braun -German rocket scientist
1944
Ric Ocasek-singer/songwriter/ guitarist with band The Cars "Shake It Up,Best Friend's Girl'
1976
Kerri Russell- actress 'Felicity, The Amercians'
Deaths:
1964
Peter Lorre- actor, 'M', Maltese Falcon,Casablanca' 59 {stroke}
1983
Barney Clark- 1st artificial heart recipent died 112 days after getting the heart 62
2006
Desmond Doss- U.S. soldier and 1st conscientous objector who received Medal of Honor. His story was the basis of movie'Hacksaw Ridge' 87
2011
Elizabeth Taylor -actress/buisnesswoman/ humantarian 'National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra' Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf' won Best actress Oscar for Wolf 79
 
This day in History March 24th

1999 For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country
The military alliance bombed Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War - without a UN mandate.

1989 Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska
The mishap resulted in one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, killing up to 250,000 seabirds and other wildlife.

1965 Million watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon
The U.S. space probe broadcasts live pictures back to Earth, enabling TV viewers to follow its approach to the Moon and its controlled crash.

1896 Aleksander Popov achieves the world's first radio transmission
The Russian physicist transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building of St. Petersburg University to another.

1882 Robert Koch discovers the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis
The German scientist, who is regarded as the father of modern bacteriology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905.
 
Births On This Day, March 24th 🎂

1930 Steve McQueen
American actor

1897 Wilhelm Reich
Austrian/American psychotherapist

1884 Peter Debye
Dutch/American physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1874 Harry Houdini
Hungarian/American magician, actor

1820 Fanny Crosby
American composer, songwriter

Deaths On This Day, March 24th 🪦

1976 Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
English army officer

1946 Alexander Alekhine
Russian chess player

1905 Jules Verne
French author

1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet

1603 Elizabeth I of England
 
1882
German microbiologist, Robert Koch discovers&describes tubercle ballius which causes tuberculosis
1920
1st U.S. coast guard air station is established in Morehead City,North Carolina
1947
financier/philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller donates NYC East River site to the United Nations
1955
original production of Tennessee Williams Pulitzer prize winning play'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' debuts in NYC,runs for 634 performances. It had an all star cast:
Barabara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, Ben Gazzara, Mildred Dunock, Madeline Sherwood. It was nominated for 4 Tony awards
2016
Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic found guilty of genocide during 1995 massacre sentenced to 40 yrs in prison
 
March 24th Birthdays:
1733
Joseph Priestly- English chemist who discovered oxygen&carbonated water
1874
Harry Houdnini- magican,escape artist
1924
Norman Fell-actor 'The End, The Graduate', best known TV role 'Mr Roper' on ABC sitcom'Three;s Company'
1930
Steve McQueen- actor "The Great Escape,The Maginifcent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair'
1935
Mary Berry- English food writer, judge on TV show' Greatest British Bakeoff'
1973
Jim Parsons- actor, best known TV role'' Sheldon Cooper' on CBS sitcom'The Big Bang Theory'
Deaths:
1603
Elizabeth 1- Queen of England&Ireland 69
1882
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- poet ' Song of Hiawatha' 75
1905
Jules Verne- French writer' Around the World in 80 Days' 77
1990
Ray Goulding- comedian comedy team'Bob&Ray' 68
2008
Richard Widmark-actor' Murder on the Orient Express, Judgement at Nurenberg' 93
2016
Earl Hammer, Jr- creator/narrator of TV show' The Waltons' 92
 
This day in History March 25th

1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, is launched
Ward Cunningham introduced the wiki or user-editable website. Today, Wikipedia is the world's most well-known and widely used wiki.

1988 Thousands of people join the first peaceful demonstrations against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
The Candle Demonstration was brutally dispersed by the Police but was the first step towards the Velvet Revolution that resulted in the establishment of democracy in the country.

1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew
Despite the king's dying wish that the life of the assassin is spared, Faisal bin Musaid was publicly executed on June 18, 1975.

1957 6 countries found the European Economic Community
The EEC's establishment was an important step towards European integration and the creation of the European Union (EU).

1949 The Soviet Union begins deporting some 90,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians to some of Russia's most inhospitable areas
Operation Priboi, also known as March deportation, was designed to weaken the Baltic nationalist movement. Most of the deportees, labeled “enemies of the people” by the Soviet authorities, were women and children.
 
Births On This Day, March 25th 🎂

1976 Wladimir Klitschko
Ukrainian boxer

1947 Elton John
English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, actor

1942 Aretha Franklin
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1914 Norman Borlaug
American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate

1867 Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor

Deaths On This Day, March 25th 🪦

2006 Buck Owens
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1980 Milton H. Erickson
American psychiatrist

1931 Ida B. Wells
American civil rights activist

1918 Claude Debussy
French composer

1860 James Braid
Scottish surgeon
 
1199
King Richard{Lion Heart} of England is wounded by crossbow bolt while fighting in France
1857
Eduoard-Leon Scott de Martinville receives patent for his phonautograph a device which created visual images of sound
1911
in one of the worst factory fires in U.S history,the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Company in NYC which had 600 workers,146 died mostly teenage women immigrant workers. The company occupied top the 3 floors in the Asch building,fire was started in a rag bin. This tragedy would soon make better laws in protecting safety of factory workers
1954
RCA manufacturers the 1st color TV set with a 12 1/2 inch screen,cost $1,000
1982
Wayne Gretzky becomes the 1st NHL hockey player to score 200 points in 1 season
 
March 25th Birthdays:
1908
David Lean- British movie director who won 2 Oscars for Best Director'Lawrence Of Arabia', Bridge on the River Kwai',other movies he directed' Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter'
1918
Howard Cosell- U.S. sportsbroadcaster 'Mon Night Football'
1928
James Lovell- retired U.S. NASA astronaut "Gemini 7,12 Apollo 8,13
1937 Tom Monaghan-founder of Domino's Pizza chain
1942
Aretha Franklin-known as 'Queen Of Soul' singer/songwriter' Respect' She became the 1st female performer inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 1987
1947
Elton John-British singer/songwriter/ piano player. His long time writing partner, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to most of his melodies' Your Song,Rocketman,Bennie&The Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'
1965
Sarah Jessica Parker- actress TV shows' Square Pegs, Sex&The City' married to actor Matthew Broderick
Deaths;
1918
Claude Debussy- French composer 55
1992
Nancy Walker-comedic actress,TV shows' McMilian&Wife,Rhonda' In 80's did Bounty paper towels commericals as 'Rosie' 69
2009
"England Dan'{Seals} of duo England Dan&John Ford Coley' I'd Really Like to See You Tonight ' 61[cancer]
 
This day in history March 26th

2000 Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia
The ex-KGB officer has been lauded for leading Russia out of the 1990 economic crisis and criticized for building a regime that many have described as authoritarian and undemocratic.

1995 The Schengen Agreement enters into force
Within the Schengen Area, which encompasses most of Europe, regular border checks have been abolished.

1991 4 South American countries establish Mercosur
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay were the founding members of the Southern Common Market.

1979 The Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty is signed
Egypt's President Anwar al-Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the treaty, which ended 30 years of war between the 2 countries.

1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into effect
The treaty bans the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. It has now been ratified by most countries worldwide.
 
Births On This Day, March 26th 🎂

1944 Diana Ross
American singer, actress

1941 Richard Dawkins
Kenyan/English biologist

1940 Nancy Pelosi
American politician, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

1925 Pierre Boulez
French pianist, composer, conductor

1874 Robert Frost
American poet, playwright

Deaths On This Day, March 26th 🪦

1984 Ahmed Sékou Touré
Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea

1973 Noël Coward
English actor, playwright, composer

1902 Cecil Rhodes
English/South African businessman, a politician, founded De Beers

1892 Walt Whitman
American poet, author

1827 Ludwig van Beethoven
German pianist, composer
 
1812
massive earthquake,7.7 on Richter scale destroys 90% of Carcas, Venezula killing between 15-20,000 people
1885
Eastman Film Company manufacters 1st commerical motion picture film
1937
spinach growers in Crystal City, TX'spinach capital of the world' erect a full color statue of Popeye the Sailor Man' who always encouraged people to eat spinach
1953
Dr Jonas Salk announces he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio,clinical trials begin in 1954
1979
the 41st NCAA basketball championship game featured 2 future Hall of Fame players, Magic Johnson vs Larry Bird. Magic's team, Michigan St defeated Bird's team, Indiana St 75-64 This was the start of their long rivalry when they turned professional. Magic with LA Lakers ,Larry with Boston Celtics
 
March 26th Birthdays:
1874
Robert Frost- poet' Road Not Taken'
1911
Tennessee Williams- playwright'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. A Streetcar named Desire'
1919
Strother Martin- character actor' Cool Hand Luke' who had famous line' we've got here a failure to communicate', True Grit', Butch Cassidy&Sundance Kid
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor- 1st woman U.S Supreme Court Justice 1981-2006
1943
Bob Woodward- investigative reporter for Washington Post/author'All The Presidents Men' co- written with Carl Bernstein
1950
Martin Short- Canadian comedian'SCTV",SNL' movies "The 3 Amigos" with Steve Martin,Chevy Chase, Father of the Bride{updated version} with Steve Martin,Diane Keaton
1973
Larry Page- computer scientist co-founder of Google with Sergey Brin
Deaths:
1827
Ludwig van Beethoven-German composer 'Ode to Joy', '5th Symphony' 56
1892
Walt Whitman-poet' Leaves of Grass' was a volunteer nurse during Civil War 72
1926
Georges Venzina Canadian NHL Hall of Fame goalie 39
1959
Raymond Chandler- British mystery writer/screenwriter 'Farewell My Lovely, The Big Sleep 71
1990
Halston- U.S fashion designer 68{AIDS}
 
This day in History March 27th

1998 ****** is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Pfizer's pill was the first drug against male impotence to be approved in the United States. In 2012, the company made 2 billion U.S. Dollars from ****** alone.

1994 Silvio Berlusconi rises to power in Italy
In his 20 years in Italian politics, Berlusconi arguably made more headlines for his numerous affairs and scandals than for his policies. In 2013, he was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for tax fraud.

1980 The oil rig Alexander L. Kjelland collapses in high winds in the North Sea
Only 89 of 212 crew survived the Norwegian platform's capsizing, which was caused by a fatigue crack in one of the legs.

1977 The worst air crash in history occurs in Tenerife, Spain
583 people died when 2 Boeing 747 aircraft collided on the runway.

1871 England and Scotland compete in the first international rugby match
Like association football, rugby is a British invention. Today, it is a popular sport mainly in large parts of the British Commonwealth.
 
Births On This Day, March 27th 🎂

1971 David Coulthard
Scottish race car driver

1970 Mariah Carey
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1963 Quentin Tarantino
American director, screenwriter, producer

1924 Sarah Vaughan
American singer

1845 Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, March 27th 🪦

2006 Rudolf Vrba
Czech/Canadian holocaust survivor, educator

2002 Billy Wilder
Austrian/American director

1972 M. C. Escher
Dutch illustrator

1968 Yuri Gagarin
Russian pilot, astronaut

1898 Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian educator, politician
 
1855
Abraham Gesner, canadian geologist patents keroscene
1860
ML Bryn patents 'covered gimlet screw with 'T' handle{corkscrew}
1952
movie' Singing in The Rain' is released directed by actor Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. The movie stars Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen. Its a lighthearted look of Hollywood in the late 20's as movies went from silent to 'talkies'
1977
in the worst aviation disaster, 583 people die when 2 Boeing 747's collided at Spain's Tenerife Airport
1980
Mount St Helen's Volcano in Washington State erupted after 123 yrs. The damage was $1 billion,57 people were killed, 200 homes ,185 miles of highway,47 bridges were destroyed
 
March 27th Birthdays:
1845
Wilhhelm Rontgen- German physicist who discovered X-Rays
1863
Henry Rolls- English motor pioneer,founder of Rolls Royce automobile
1899
Gloria Swanson- actress 'Sunset Blvd,Queen Kelly
1914
Richard Denning- actor 'An Affair to Remember',The Black Scorpion
1924
Sarah Vaughn- U.S. jazz singer' Broken Hearted Melody'
1930
David Janssen- actor best known TV roles' Dr Richard Kimble' in "The Fugitive,' Harry O'
1969
Mariah Carey- singer/songwriter' "Hero' Dreamlover, We Belong Together'
Deaths:
1916
Susan Bow-U.S. educator who pioneered kindergarten education 72
1968
Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut 34{plane crash}
1992
James E. Webb -head of NASA '61-'68 84
2002
Milton Berle- comedian/TV show host' Uncle Miltie, 'Mr Televsion' 93
Dudley Moore- British comedian/actor-' 10,Arthur, Bedazzled' 66
 
This Day in History March 28th

1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal
The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which was held during the reign of Adolf Hitler's racist nazi regime.

1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak
The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States. A continuous string of nuclear disasters, such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011) continue to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefit of nuclear power.

1969 Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta
The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now-famous statement against Greece's repressive right-wing Regime of the Colonels on the BBC World Service.

1963 Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds is released
The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.

1910 The first seaplane in history takes off
French inventor Henri Fabre's Canard (Fabre Hydravion) was the first floatplane to take off from water under its own power. The first flight measured 457 meters.
 
Births On This Day, March 28th 🎂

1986 Lady Gaga
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1955 Reba McEntire
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1946 Alejandro Toledo
Peruvian politician, 48th President of Peru

1936 Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian/Spanish journalist, author, Nobel Prize laureate

1483 Raphael
Italian painter, architect

Deaths On This Day, March 28th 🪦

2004 Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, producer, screenwriter

1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general, politician, 34th President of the United States

1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian pianist, composer, conductor

1941 Virginia Woolf
English author, critic

1584 Ivan the Terrible
Russian Tsar
 
1797
Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents the washing machine
1881
circus buisnessmen, PT Barnham,James Anthony Bailey form 'Greatest Show on Earth' circus
1930
Turkish cities, Constantiople& Angora change their names to Istanbul,&Ankara
1979
a partial meltdown at Three Mile Island Nuclear plant in Dauphin County,Penn results in release of radioactive gas&iodine into the atmosphere,no deaths
2017
world's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 meters was found in Kimberly, Western Australia
 

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