Today in History

March 16th Birthdays:
1836
Andrew Smith Hallide- inventor of cable car
1906
Henny Youngman- comedian/violinst with tag line' Take My Wife please!
1926
Jerry Lewis- comedian/actor comedy partner with singer Dean Martin, TV host of annual MDA{Musclar Dystrophy Association} telethon 1966-2010
1949
Victor Garber- Canadian actor screen/ stage/TV best known TV role' Jack Bristow' on ABC spy show' Alias' He played Jennifer Garner's dad movies: Godspell, 1st Wives Club,Sleepless in Seattle,Titantic, Argo
1960
Duane Sutter- Canadian NHL hockey player, right wing with NY Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks
Deaths:
1970
Tammi Terrell- soul singer' You're All I Need" duet with Marvin Gaye, 'Aint No Mountain High Enough 24{brain tumor}
1983
Arthur Godfrey- U.S radio/TV host 'Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout' 79
2014
Mitch Leigh- musical composer of 'Man of La Mancha' 86
 

On This Day In History, March 17th

1992 Apartheid in South Africa comes to an end
In a referendum, 68.7% of white South Africans voted for the abolishment of racial segregation in the country.

1973 The photograph known as Burst of joy is taken
Photographer Slava Veder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the image depicting a former U.S. prisoner of war being reunited with his family.

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's first female Prime Minister
In her country, Meir was known as the “Iron Lady” long before British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rose to power.

1959 The Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
Followers and advisers of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, feared for his life after a revolt had erupted in Lhasa against the Chinese.

1941 The National Gallery of Art opens in Washington. D.C.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the gallery, which today houses one of the world's finest art collections.
 
Births On This Day, March 17th 🎂

1967 Billy Corgan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1948 William Gibson
American/Canadian author

1919 Nat King Cole
American singer, pianist, television host

1883 Urmuz
Romanian judge, author

1834 Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer, and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft


Deaths On This Day, March 17th 🪦

2006 Oleg Cassini
French/American fashion designer

2005 George F. Kennan
American historian, diplomat, and United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union

1956 Fred Allen
American comedian, actor, radio host

460 Saint Patrick
Irish missionary, bishop

180 Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
 

17th March

1649 Oliver Cromwell abolished the position of King of England, two days later he abolished the House of Lords and declared England a Commonwealth.

1891 SS Utopia collided with HMS Anson (a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy) in the Bay of Gibraltar and sank in less than 20 minutes, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.

1899 The first radio distress signal was transmitted from the East Goodwin Lightship when the German merchant vessel Elbe ran aground in dense fog on the Goodwin Sands. The message was received by the radio operator on duty at the South Foreland Lighthouse, who was able to summon the aid of the Ramsgate lifeboat.

1968 More than 200 people were arrested after demonstrators clashed in an anti Vietnam war protest outside the US embassy in London.

2015 The UK's first Bio-Bus, nicknamed 'the poo bus' was officially launched in Bristol as Service Number 2. Powered entirely on gas generated by human and food waste it went into regular service on 25th March.
 
1756
St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at the Crown&Thistle Tavern
1845
Stephen Perry in London patents rubber band
1930
construction begins of the world's 1st skyscraper with more than 100 stories, the Empire State Building on 5th Ave in NYC.It was completed in 1 yr 45 days
1944
Mount Vesuivus in Italy near Pompeii with hot rock,ashes,gases killing over 20,000 people
2016
archeologists announce discovery of 2,500 yr old iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves in Pocklington, Northern England
 
March 17th BIrthdays:
1834
Gottleib Damler- German engineer/ inventor who designed the 1st motorcycle
1900
Alfred Newman- Oscar winning film composer, The Robe, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, How the West Was Won He won 9 Academy Awards,his nephew is singer/ composer, Randy Newman
1949
Patrick Duffy- actor best known TV role' Bobby Ewing' in CBS drama' Dallas'
1955
Gary Sinese- actor Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Truman, best known TV role' "Mack Taylor in CBS crime drama "CSI:NY' 04-'13
Deaths:
1956
Fred Allen - comedian "Fred Allen Radio Show' 61{heart attack}
1993
Helen Hayes- multi talented stage/ screen TV actress who became the 1st woman to win EGOT awards 93
2006
Oleg Cassini- fashion designer 92
2020
Lyle Waggoner- actor was regular on Carol Burnett Show 84
 
On This Day In History, March 18th

1990 East Germany holds its first and only free parliamentary elections
The election was held between the peaceful revolution leading to the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 and the German reunification in 1990.

1971 A 100 feet (30 meters) high wave destroys a Peruvian mining camp and kills hundreds of people
The tsunami was caused by a massive rock avalanche that crashed into Lake Yanahuani from a height of 1300 feet (400 meters).

1965 Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space
During the tethered spacewalk, which lasted 12 minutes, Leonov ventured up to 10 meters from his spacecraft, Voskhod 2.

1962 The Évian Accords are signed, ending the Algerian War
Algeria gained its independence from France as a consequence.

1892 Lord Stanley of Preston pledges to donate a challenge cup for the best ice hockey team in Canada
Today, the Stanley Cup is the world's most prestigious ice hockey trophy.
 
Births On This Day, March 18th 🎂

1981 Fabian Cancellara
Swiss cyclist

1932 John Updike
American author, poet, critic

1869 Neville Chamberlain
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer

1837 Grover Cleveland
American lawyer, politician, 22nd President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, March 18th 🪦

1936 Eleftherios Venizelos
Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece

1913 George I of Greece
1745 Robert Walpole
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1314 Jacques de Molay
Frankish knight

978 Edward the Martyr
English king
 
18th March

1766 The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. It was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America and required many printed materials in the colonies to be produced on stamped paper produced in London. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War.

1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset were sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years for forming the first trade union and introducing collective bargaining for better wages. There was such an outcry that they were pardoned two years after sentencing and allowed to return to England. The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' festival is held in the village of Tolpuddle in the third weekend of July. Each year a wreath is laid at the grave of James Hammett, one of the martyrs.

1967 The Torrey Canyon oil tanker, with a cargo of 100,000 gallons of crude oil, ran aground on rocks between Land's End and the Scilly Isles and its cargo discharged into the sea. The RAF and the Royal Navy were called in to napalm bomb the slick in an attempt to reduce the risk of pollution. In the weeks that followed the accident, oil escaped and spread along the shores of the south coast of England and the Normandy coast of France. Worst hit were the Cornish beaches of Marazion and Prah Sands, where sludge was up to a foot deep.

1992 White South Africans backed a motion to end apartheid and create a multi-racial government.
 
1931
For the 1st time Schick electric shavers go on sale in U.S.
1965
"Poppin Fresh' Pillsbury Dough Boy is introduce as company's mascot
1989
In Egypt,a 4,400 yr old mummy is discovered in Pyramid of Cheops
1990
The largest art history robbery in the U.S. took place in Boston, Mass at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Over 13 works of art valued over $500mil were taken,it remains unsolved to this day
 
March 18th Birthdays:
1858
Rudolf Diesel- German engineer who invented diesel engine
1879
Chuny MacPherson- Canadian doctor/ inventor of gas mask
1927
John Kander- musical theatre/film composer Caberet, Funny Girl Chicago,New York;New York
1964
Bonnie Blair- U.S speed skater,won 5 medals at '88,'92,'94 Winter Olympics
1975
Sutton Foster- Tony award winning actress/singer' Throughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, The Music Man
Deaths:
1845
Johnny Appleseed- American pioneer nursery man who introduced apple trees in Ohio,Pennsylvannia, Illinois, Indiana 70
2001
John Phillips -guitarist/singer in 60's band' Mamas&Papas' 65
2009
Natasha Richardson- British actress, Gothic, Handsmaid Tale 45{ died in skiing accident,hit her head, not wearing a helmet}
2017
Chuck Berry- rock n roll guitarist/ singer/ songwriter 'Roll Over Beethoven', Sweet Little Sixteen' 90
 
On This Day In History, March 19th

1962 Bob Dylan releases his first album
Dylan is one of the world's most influential music artists. His songs “Blowin' in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” became anthems for the anti-war movement.

1954 Willie Mosconi sets the world record for running most consecutive Pool balls without a miss
Mr. Pocket Billiards, as the hugely successful American sportsman, was often called, ran 526 consecutive balls.

1945 Adolf Hitler orders the destruction of all industries in Germany
The Nero Decree was issued in light of Germany's imminent defeat in World War II. It was never fully executed.

1911 The first International Women's Day is observed by over 1 million people in several European countries
German socialists Clara Zetkin and Luise Zietz initiated the observance, which has become an annual global event.

1895 The Lumière brothers record their first footage
Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon showed workers leaving their factory in Lyon. The film is about 50 seconds long. Auguste and Louis Lumière were the earliest filmmakers in history.
 

Births On This Day, March 19th 🎂

1955 Bruce Willis
German/American actor, singer, producer

1952 Harvey Weinstein
American film producer, co-founded Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company

1848 Wyatt Earp
American police officer

1821 Richard Francis Burton
English soldier, geographer, diplomat

1813 David Livingstone
Scottish missionary, explorer

Deaths On This Day, March 19th 🪦

2014 Fred Phelps
American pastor

2008 Arthur C. Clarke
English author

2005 John DeLorean
American engineer, and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company

1939 Lloyd L. Gaines
American activist

1406 Ibn Khaldun
Tunisian historian
 
1822
Boston,Mass was incorporated as a city
1918
U. S. adopts Standard Time Act,a federal law for standard& daylight savings time
1931
Nevada legalizes gambling
1958
Britian's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Trussad's in London
1977
final episode of Mary Tyler Moore Show airs,on CBS.It shows the group hug as they reach for Kleenex,then sing 'Its a Long Way to Tipperary' 19.2 mill viewers tune in
1991
National Football League owners strip Phoenix,AZ of hosting the '93 Super Bowl because the state didn't recognize federal holiday of Martin Luther King, Jr
2018
the world's last male white rhino,Sudan dies age 43 in Kenya
 
March 19th Birthdays:
1904
John Sircia- U.S federal judge who presided at Watergate hearings
1933
Phillip Roth- author' Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint
1955
Bruce Willis- actor 'Die Hard movie franchise, voice of 'Mikey' in Look Who's Talking, The 6th Sense, Armegeddon, Unbreakable best known TV role' David Addison' in ABC detective show' Moonlighting
Deaths:
1950
Edgar Rice Burroughs- author' Tarzan of the Apes' 74
1997
Willem de Kooning- Dutch painter 92
2008
Arthur C.Clarke- sci-fi novelist 2001:A Space Odessy 90
 
On This Day In History, March 20th

2003 The United States invade Iraq, assisted by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland
The Iraq War, which was termed illegal by then-UN Secretary, Kofi Annan, caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

1995 Japanese terrorists release poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway
12 people died and thousands are wounded after members of the religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo had placed containers leaking sarin on 5 different trains.

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry
After the wedding in Gibraltar, the artists spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam with a Bed-In for Peace, which lasted a whole week.

1916 Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity
The revolutionary theory describes the interdependency of matter on the one hand and space and time on the other. It is one of the most influential theories in Physics.

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
The anti-slavery story played an important role in setting the scene for the American Civil War.
 

Births On This Day, March 20th 🎂

1984 Fernando Torres
Spanish footballer

1959 Sting
American wrestler

1957 Spike Lee
American actor, director, screenwriter, producer

1939 Brian Mulroney
Canadian politician 18th Prime Minister of Canada

1828 Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian poet, playwright, director


Deaths On This Day, March 20th 🪦

2004 Juliana of the Netherlands

1925 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
English politician, Governor-General of India

1897 Apollon Maykov
Russian poet

1793 William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Scottish judge, politician

1726 Isaac Newton
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian
 
On This Day In History, March 21st

2006 Jack Dorsey sends the world's first Twitter message or tweet
The microblogging service revolutionized the communication and social networking landscape. In 2012, about 340 million tweets were posted per day.

1985 South African Police kill at least 21 black people commemorating a similar mass shooting 25 years before
The Sharpeville massacre in 1985 left 69 unarmed people dead. It was a turning point in the history of South Africa.

1970 Earth Day is celebrated for the first time
The first edition was limited to some cities in the United States. Today, Earth Day is observed by about 1 billion people around the world.

1952 The world's first rock and roll concert is held in Cleveland, Ohio
DJ Alan Freed presented the concert, which was closed down after only one song because of overcrowding.

1943 A plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bomb fails
German Wehrmacht officer, Rudolf von Gersdorff, failed to blow up the dictator but managed to defuse his bombs just before they went off and avoid suspicion.
 
Births On This Day, March 21st 🎂

1980 Ronaldinho
Brazilian footballer

1978 Rani Mukerji
Indian actress

1960 Ayrton Senna
Brazilian race car driver

1940 Solomon Burke
American singer-songwriter

1806 Benito Juárez
Mexican lawyer, politician, and 25th President of Mexico

Deaths On This Day, March 21st 🪦

2013 Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author, poet, academic

2008 Klaus Dinger
German guitarist, songwriter

1843 Guadalupe Victoria
Mexican politician, 1st President of Mexico

1656 James Ussher
Irish archbishop

1556 Thomas Cranmer
English Archbishop of Canterbury
 
21st March

1556 England's first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake as a heretic, under the Catholic Queen Mary I, also know as "Bloody Mary". Imprisoned for over two years and under pressure from Church authorities, he apparently reconciled himself with the Roman Catholic Church. However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically recanted these beliefs, to die a heretic to Roman Catholics and a martyr to others. His legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

1829 The Duke of Wellington, aged 60, fought a bloodless duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. The reason for the duel was the Duke’s support of Catholic emancipation. Wellington was both Prime Minister and leader of the Tory Party at the time.

1945 British warplanes destroyed Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, killing over 70 Nazis. The raid also killed civilians, including 86 schoolchildren, in Denmark's worst civilian disaster of the war.

2020 Day one of the closure of all the UK's cafes, pubs and restaurants (except for take-away food) in an effort to combat coronavirus. All nightclubs, betting shops, casinos, theatres, cinemas, gyms and leisure centres were also told to close as soon as they reasonably could. The government said the situation would be reviewed each month and that it would pay 80% of wages (up to £2,500 a month) for employees who were not able to work.
 
1413
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Henry V became King of England. He died, aged 35, at the Château de Vincennes near Paris, apparently from dysentery.

1556
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England's first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake as a heretic, under the Catholic Queen Mary I, also know as "Bloody Mary".

1646 The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, English Civil War, the last major battle of the First Civil War. There is this monument to Sir Hastings Keyte in St. Edward's Church at Stow, Keyte was a Royalist captain, killed in the battle, aged just 23.

1829
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The Duke of Wellington, aged 60, fought a bloodless duel with the Earl of Winchelsea. The reason for the duel was the Duke’s support of Catholic emancipation. Wellington was Prime Minister at the time.

1918
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Germany's last major offensive of World War One began on The Somme.

1946
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Politician Aneurin Bevan announced the Government's proposals for a free National Health Service, paid for by the taxpayer. Doctors immediately announced the setting-up of a fighting fund to oppose the legislation, fearing a loss of earnings.

1984
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came under attack for the breakdown of negotiations at the common market summit in Brussels. It is understood that Mrs. Thatcher asked for an annual rebate for Britain of £730m but was offered £580m, which she refused.
 
March 21st:
1791
Capt Hopley Yeaton becomes the 1st commissioned officer in Revenue Marine which became the forerunner of U.S. Coast Guard
1940
movie' Rebecca' based on the book by Dauphne du Maurer directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story is about a woman who marries a British nobleman but lives in the shadow of his former wife.The movie stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders,Judith Andersen. The movie won 2 Oscars, picture,cimematography
1965
more than 3,200 civil rights activists march from Selma, Alabama to state capitol Montgomery to get voting rights for African Americans,Martin Luther King, Jr lead the group
1983
the only known Time Magazine cover is recalled because of error. It said 'contol' instead of control'
2006
co founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey send out his 1st ever tweet'just setting up my twttr'
 

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