Today in History

March 21st Birthdays:
1839
Modest Mussorgsky- Russian composer "Pictures at an Exhibition'
1930
James Coco- character actor Only When I Laugh, Murder by Death
1940
Chip Taylor-songwriter 'Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning, he is brother of actor Jon Voight
1946
Tomothy Dalton- Welsh actor, played James Bond in 2 movies Living Daylights, Lincense to Kill, The Lion in Winter, The Tourist
1958
Gary Oldman- British actor, Sid&Nancy, Immortal, Beloved, Darkest Hour{Best actor Oscar} Batman Begins, AirForce One, played' Sirus Black' in Harry Potter movies
Deaths:
1985 Michael Redgrave- British actor Browning Version, Goodbye Mr Chips,Lady Vanishes 77
1987
Dean Paul Martin,Jr- singer with 60's band Dino,Desi&Billy, military air crash 35, son of singer, Dean Martin
1997
John Ireland- Canadian actor All The KIngs Men, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral 78
2017
Chuck Barris- TV game show host/ producer' The Gong Show' 87
 

On This Day In History, March 22nd

1997 Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest female figure skating world champion
The American athlete won the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 14 years and 10 months.

1993 The Intel Corporation produces the first Pentium microprocessor
Intel holds about 80% of the world market share in the PC microprocessor business.

1963 The Beatles release their first album
Please Please Me, which included the hit single “Love Me Do” is regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.

1960 The laser is patented
Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow received the first patent for their device, although Gordon Gould had previously filed a patent application for a similar contraption, which was turned down.

1945 The Arab League is founded
The organization was founded to promote political, economic, and cultural collaboration amongst its member states, which include 21 African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries, from Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east.
 


Births On This Day, March 22nd 🎂

1976 Reese Witherspoon
American actress, producer

1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber
English director, composer

1936 Ron Carey
American union leader

1930 Stephen Sondheim
American composer, songwriter

1923 Marcel Marceau
French mime, actor

Deaths On This Day, March 22nd 🪦

2009 Abismo *****
Mexican wrestler

2009 Jade Goody
English nurse, author

2001 William Hanna
American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera

1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, scientist

1820 Stephen Decatur
American navy officer
 
1765
British Prime Minister,George Grenville organized the British Stamp Act which became the 1st direct British tax on American colonists
1903
Niagara Falls runs out of water due to drought
1941
actor Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, he becomes the 1st major movie star to wear a military uniform in WWII
1981
the cost of 1st class U.S postage stamp was raised to 18 cents,now its 63 cents
2010
NASA"s rover' Spirit' ceases communication with earth due to being trapped in a sand trap on Mars
2021
The world's largest painting at 1700 sq ft,"The Journey of Humanity' by British artist, Sacha Jafir sells for $62 million in Dubai.It raised funds for children's charities
 
March 22nd Birthdays:
1912
Karl Malden- actor A Streetcar Named Desire{best supp actor Oscar}, Patton,On The Waterfront,How the West was Won,best known TV role' Lt Mike Stone' in ABC police drama 'The Streets of San Francisco'{filmed on location}'72-'77 co starred with Michael Douglas, was spokesman for American Express commericals
1923
Marcel Marceau-French mime artist
1930
Stephen Sondheim- Tony/ Pulitzer Prize winning composer/ lyricist 'West Side Story, Sunday in the Park With George,Gypsy,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum
1936
Roger Whittaker- Kenyan/British singer' The Last Farwell, Durham Town
1948
Wolf Blitizer-U.S TV journalist/interviewer on CNN
Deaths:
1994
Dan Hartman- singer/ songwriter 'I Can Dream About You' 43{brain tumor}
2001
William Hanna- animator/founder of Hannah-Barbera studio 90
2019
Scott Walker- singer/ songwriter with 'The Walker Brothers 'The Sun Aint Gonna to Shine Anymore 76
 
On 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, and Nobel Prize laureate

1931 Bhagat Singh
Indian activist

1801 Paul I of Russia
 
23rd March

1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrived at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, carrying the first Scottish settlers.

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

1956 Queen Elizabeth II laid the foundation stone of the new Coventry cathedral. The new building was built next to the remains of the 14th-century cathedral that had been destroyed in the 2nd World War.

1966 The Archbishop of Canterbury His Grace Michael Ramsey meets with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the first such meeting between Anglican and Catholic leaders in an official audience since King Henry VIII broke with Rome more than 400 years earlier to form the Church of England.

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 Frediric Handel's oratorio' Messiah' debuts at London's Royal Opera House
1858
streetcar is patented by EA Gardner in Philadelphia
1919
WWI veteran, Benito Mussolini forms Facist political party in Italy which dominates Italian life into the 1940's. The members wore black shirts used terror& intimidation against opponents
1945
U.S. Navy ships bomb Japanese Island, Okinawa in preparation of Allied invasion
1990
former Exxon Valdez Capt, Joseph Harwood is ordered to help clean up Prince Edward Sound& pay $50,000 fine in restitution for 1989 oil spill
2010
Pres Obama signs the Affordable Care Act{ACT} which expands availabilty& affordability of health care insurance
2021
The cargo ship 'Ever Given' a 220,00 ton ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal,Egypt. It completely block the canal was freed 6 days later
 
March 23rd Birthdays:
1905
Joan Crawford- actress Mildred Pierce{best actress Oscar},Grand Hotel, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
1929
Roger Bannister- British runner who broke sub 4min mile 3:59.4 in 1954
1944
Ric Ocasek- singer/ songwriter,guitarist with band' The Cars' 'Best Friend's Girl, Shake It Up
1957
Amanda Plummer- actress of stage/screen Fisher King, Hotel New Hampshire, Pulp Fiction,won Tony award in 1982 in play' Agnes of God'.Her parents were actors Christopher Plummer,& Tammy Grimes
1976
Keri Russell- actress best known TV roles' Felicity Porter' in TV show' Felicity' '98-'02, 'Elizabeth Jennings in F/X spy show' The Americans '13-'18
Deaths:
1964
Peter Lorre- actor M, Casablanca, Beast With 5 Fingers 59{stroke}
1983
Barney Clark- 1st artifical heart patient who lived 112 days 62
1990
Rene Enriquez- actor best known TV role' Lt Ray Calletano' in NBC police drama 'Hill St Blues 56
2011
Elizabeth Taylor- actress National Velvet, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, Father of the Bride, Butterfield 8,Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf/ AIDS activist 79{ heart failure}
2022
Madeline Albright- United Nations delegate '93-'97/1st female Secretary of State '97-'01 84
 
On 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 Millions 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
 
On 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
 
25th March

1807 The Slave Trade Act received the royal assent, eventually bringing an end to the slave trade. British merchants transported nearly three million black Africans across the Atlantic between 1700 and the early 19th century. The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act outlawed slavery itself throughout the British Empire but slaves did not gain their final freedom until 1838.

1876 The first football international between Wales and Scotland took place at Hamilton Crescent, Partick, the home ground of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. The match was also the first time that Scotland had played against a side other than England. Scotland won 4 0.

1957 Six European nations signed the Treaty of Rome thus establishing the Common Market. They were Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Holland and Luxembourg.

1969 John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono staged their ‘Beds in Peace’ at the Amsterdam Hilton. It lasted until 31st March and each day they invited the world's press into their hotel room, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

1975 The National Front marched through London protesting against integration with Europe.
 
1655
astronomer, Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan
1919
Pres Woodrow Wilson's idea of a League of Nations becomes a reality when its adopted at Paris Peace Conference
1954
RCA manufactures 1st color TV set,12 1/2 screen cost $1,000
1967
Turtles single' Happy Together' goes to #1 on music charts stays there for 3 weeks
1991
Academy Awards Winners:
Picture- Dances with Wolves, Director- actor Kevin Costner's debut
Actor-Jeremy Irons' Reversal of Fortune, Actress- Kathy Bates 'Misery, supp actress- Whoppi Golberg' Ghost',supp actor-Joe Pesci- Goodfellas
 
March 25th Birthdays:
1908
David Lean- British film director 'Dr Zhivago,Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan's Daughter
1922
Eileen Ford- U.S.model exceutive,co founder of Ford Model Agency
1938
Hoyt Axton- singer/ songwriter' Joy to the World, No, No Song. I've Never Been to Spain'
1965
Sarah Jessica Parker- actress best known TV role' Carrie Bradshaw in HBO series' Sex&The City '98-'04 married to actor ,Matthew Broderick
Deaths:
1988
Robert Joffrey- dancer/ teacher/ choregrapher,co founder of Joffrey Ballet 59
2009
'England' Dan Seals- pop/country singer with John Ford Coley' I'd Really like To See You Tonight' 61{cancer}
2021
Larry McMurtry- novelist 'Lonesome Dove{Pulitzer Prize winner}, Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Oscar winning adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain' 84
 
On 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, and politician, founded De Beers

1892 Walt Whitman
American poet, author

1827 Ludwig van Beethoven
German pianist, composer
 
26th March

1484 William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables. As far as is known, Caxton was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of printed books.

1885 ‘A lady well-known in literary and scientific circles’ was the only clue The Times gave to the identity of the woman who was cremated by the Cremation Society in Woking, Surrey. She was the first person to be officially cremated in Britain and was a Mrs. Pickersgill, the first of three cremations that year.

1973 Women stockbrokers were allowed on the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time in its 200 year history.

1976 The Queen visited the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. During the visit Her Majesty sent her first ever email. The message was sent by the press of a button which transmitted a communication to all ARPANET users, being the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

2015 Richard III, the only English monarch without a marked grave, was reinterred at Leicester Cathedral after much wrangling, including High Court action over his final resting place. Richard III's body was buried in the now demolished Franciscan Friary in Leicester and was discovered in September 2012 under what had become a car park.
 
On This Day In History March 27th

1998 Vi@gra 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 Vi@gra 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
 
27 March 1960
Two anti-payola bills are introduced in US Congress by 71-year-old Representative Emanuel Celler of New York.
He blames payola for "the cacophonous music called Rock and Roll," and says that style of music would never have gained popularity, "especially among teenagers," if not for the result of payola.
 
1855
Canadian geologist, Abraham Gesner patents keroscene
1945
Ella Fitzgerald& the Delta Rhythm Boys record 'Its Only a Paper Moon' written by Harold Arlen/ Yip Harburg&Billy Rose
1964
Great Alaska Earthquake,9.2 magnitude created tsumani that killed 139 people damage was $311million
1995
67th Academy Awards Winners:
Forrest Gump won 6 Oscars including pic/director Robert Zemeckis, actor Tom Hanks. Hanks became the 2nd actor to win back to back Oscars,he won in '94 for Philadelphia' Spencer Tracy was the 1st
Jessica Lange- actress 'Blue Sky, Martin Land- supp actor'Ed Wood, Dianne Weist- supp actress' Bullets Over Broadway
 


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