Today in History

1756
St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown&Thistle tavern
1845
rubber band patented by Stephen Perry in London
1930
construction begins of the 100 storied Empire State Building,world's 1st skyscraper on 5th Ave in NYC
1969
Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, 1st & only female to hold job 1969-1974
2016
archaeologists announce discovery of a 2,500 yr old iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves in Pocklington, N. England
 

March 17th Birthdays:
1834
Gottleib Damiler- German engineer/inventor-designed the 1st motorcycle
1902
Bobby Jones Jr- U.S golfer winner of 13 major titles,Grand Slam in 1930,/golf course designer
1919
Nat King Cole - vocalist' Unforgettable, Mona Lisa'
1944
John Sebastian- singer with band' Lovin Spoonful' Summer in The City', What a Day for a Daydream'
1955
Gary Sinese- actor TV show 'CSI:NY" movies 'Apollo 13, 'Lt Dan' in 'Forrest Gump'
Gary is very involved with veteran's organizations, raising money for disabled veterans. His band' Lt Dan Band' appear at USO shows entertaining troops
Deaths :
1965
Almos Alonzo Stagg- U.S football coach 102
1993
Helen Hayes-actress of stage/screen nicknamed' 1st lady of American Theatre. She won 2 Tony awards, lead actress in play in 1947 'Happy Birthday', 1958 revivial of 'Time Remembered',won 2 Academy Awards Best actress "The Sin of Madelon Claudet' 31, best supp actress in 'Airport' '71
in select group of performers who have won EGOT Emmy, Grammy,Oscar, Tony awards 80
2006
Oleg Cassini- fashion designer 92
 
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 American Revolution: 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.

1922 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was jailed for six years by the British authorities for encouraging public disorder. He was released in February 1924 for an appendicitis operation, having served only 2 years of his sentence.

1947 The Queen’s husband, Prince Philip, (born in Corfu - Greece on 10th June 1921), became a naturalized Briton On This Day.

1949 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was proposed. The aim was to 'safeguard the freedom and security of its 26 member countries by political and military means.'
 
1818
U.S. Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1931
Schick electric shavers go on sale in U.S. cost $25
1965
Soviet cosmonaut, Alexey Leenov becomes the 1st person to walk in space. He left his spacecraft, Vaskhod 2 for 12 min
1992
U.S businesswoman, Leona Hemsley was sentenced to 4 yrs in prison for tax evasion. She famously said' we don't pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes'. She served 18 months in a federal prison in CT
 
March 18th Birthdays:
1858
Rudolf Diesel- French born German engineer who invented diesel engine
1905
Robert Donat- British actor' Goodbye Mr. Chips',won Best Actor Oscar for his performance
1927
John Kander- U.S. music theatre/film composer with writing partner, Fred Ebb "Cabaret,Chicago,New York,New York'
1932
F.W. deKlerk- South African President 1989-1994
1951
Ben Cohen- co founder of Ben&Jerry's ice cream company
1963
Vanessa Williams, singer/actress was 1st African-American Miss America in 1983
1979
Adam Levine- lead singer with band Maroon 5 'This Love', Moves like Jagger'
Deaths:
1745
Robert Walpole- 1st British Prime Minister 1721-1742 68
1845
John Chapman aka 'Johnny Appleseed' U.S. pioneer nurseryman,introduced apple trees in PA,Ohio, Illinois, Indiana 70
2001
John Phillips- singer/songwriter/guitarist in band' Mama&Papas 'California Dreaming' 65
2009
Natasha Richardson-British actress ,Gothic, Handmaids Tale' 45- brain injury, wife of actor Liam Neesom
2017
Chuck Berry- rock n roll guiatrist/singer/songwriter' Roll Over Beethoven' 90
 
This day in History, March 19th

2022 Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 90.

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, like 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, businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company

1939 Lloyd L. Gaines
American activist

1406 Ibn Khaldun
Tunisian historian
 
1822
Boston,Mass is incorporated as a city
1918
U.S. Congress authorizes time zones&approves of daylight savings time
1932
Sydney Harbor Bridge opens to the public in Sydney Australia. The construction started on July 28,1923. It spans 1,650 feet,its one of the longest steel-arch bridges in the world
1977
the finale episode of 'The Mary Tyler Moore' show airs on CBS .It shows the characters in a group hug as they shuffle together to find a box of tissues,then sing'Its A Long Way from Tipperary', This was the only episode where all of the 8 regular characters appeared together at the same time. 21.1 mill viewers tuned in. The show won 29 Emmy awards over its 7 yr run
1991
Phoenix,AZ loses its bid to host the Super Bowl. NFL owners were upset the state didn't recognize Martin Luther King,Jr federal holiday. The game instead was held at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena,Calif
2003
U.S&British led coalition invade Iraq without United Nations support &defiance of world opinion
 
March 19th Birthdays:
1848
Wyatt Earp- U.S frontiersman/marshal who participated at the gun fight at OK Corral
1904
John Siricia- U.S federal judge who presided over the Watergate trial
1920
Tige Andrews- actor, his best known TV role' Capt Greer' on ABC police drama 'Mod Squad' '68-''73
1947
Glenn Close- actress 'The Big Chill,Fatal Attraction'
1955
Bruce Willis- actor, best known TV role' David Addington' on ABC's 'Moonlighting' 'The 6th Sense',Die Hard' movies
Deaths:
1950
Edgar Rice Burroughs-author' Tarzan of the Apes' 74
1997
Willem deKooning- Dutch painter 92
2008
Arthur C.Clarke- British sci-fi author'2001 A Space Odyssey' 90
 
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
 
20th March

1616 Sir Walter Raleigh was freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment to conduct a second expedition to Venezuela in search of El Dorado. On Raleigh's return to England, the outraged Spanish ambassador successfully demanded that King James reinstate Raleigh's death sentence.

1966 The football World Cup (Jules Rimet trophy) was stolen whilst being exhibited at Central Hall in London.

1974 An attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne in the Mall by a gunman who fired six shots, then tried to drag her out of the car. He fled as passers-by joined her bodyguard and police to foil the attempt, and was later caught. Ian Ball, who was charged with attempted murder, claimed he did it to highlight the lack of mental care facilities.

1999 British balloonist Brian Jones and Swiss physicist Bertrand Piccard became the first to fly a hot-air balloon non-stop around the world.

2020 UK schools were shut from the end of afternoon school until further notice, as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Assurance was given that the children of 'key workers' such as NHS staff, police and delivery drivers and also 'vulnerable children' would still be looked after in schools.
 
1930
U.S. fast food chain,'KFC"{Kentucky Fried Chicken} by businessman ,Col Harland Sanders opens in North Corbin,Kty
1954
original musical production,'The King&I' starring Yul Brynner, Gertrude Lawrence closes after 1,246 performances.The musical won 4 Tony awards including best musical,actress-Lawrence, Brynner 'featured actor in musical'. He would reprise his role in 1956 movie version won Oscar for Best Actor
1995
members of a Japanese cult' Aum Shinrikyo' release several packages of deadly gas Sarin in Tokoyo subway system killing 13 injuring over 1,000 people
2016
Pres O'Bama begins a 3 day visit to Cuba, the 1st U.S President to visit since 1928
 
March 20th Birthdays:
1828
Henrik Ibsen- Norwegian playwright' Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler'
1873
Sergei Rachminoff- Russian/American piano virtuoso/conductor
1906
Oswald'Ozzie'Nelson-actor ,TV show' The Adventures of Ozzie&Harriet' featuring his real life family, wife Harriet,2 sons David, Ricky{later known as Rick}
1922
Carl Reiner- comedian/actor/ writer/ producer/movie director he created 'The Dick Van Dyke Show '61-'66.He played' Alan Brady' on the show He directed movies' The Jerk',The Comic'
1931
Hal Linden- actor/singer/ best known TV role 'Capt Barney Miller' in police comedy'Barney Miller' '75-'82
1939
Brian Mulroney- Canada's 18th Prime Minister 1984-1993
1958
Holly Hunter- actress 'Broadcast News',The Piano' she won best actress Oscar for her performance in "Piano'
Deaths:
1974
Chet Huntley- U.S. network broadcaster NBC's"Huntley-Brinkley Report' 62
1997
Carlo Fassi- skating coach of Peggy Flemming, Dorothy Hamill 67
2017
David Rockefeller- philanthropist/ CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank 101
2020 Kenny Rogers- singer/songwriter' The Gambler,Lucille, Islands in The Stream' duet with Dolly Parton 81
 
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 had 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 over-crowding.

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, 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.

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.

1990 A demonstration in London against the poll tax became a riot. More than 400 people were arrested.

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.
 
1871
journalist, Henry Morgan Stanley begins his search for missing explorer, David Linvingston in Africa.He finds him in a village,Ujiji living with slave traders,poverty stricken. He refuses to come back to England with Stanley, dies 18 months later
1956
movie' Marty' directed by Delbart Mann is released starring Ernest Borgine as a Bronx,NY butcher who unexpectedly falls in love. The movie won Oscars for picture, director, actor{Borgine} screenplay
1964
Beatles single' She Loves You' debuts at #1 on music charts, stays there for 11 weeks
1984
a part of Central Park in NYC is named' Strawberry Field' in honor of John Lennon
 
March 21 Birthdays:
1930
James Coco-actor stage/ screen 'Man Of La Mancha',Only When I Laugh'
1940
Chip Taylor- singer/songwriter 'Angel in the Morning, 'Wild Thing' brother of actor, Jon Voight
1949
Eddie Money- singer/songwriter' Two Tickets to Paradise,Take Me Home Tonight'
1958
Gary Oldman- British actor,'Sid&Nancy, Air Force One,'Darkest Hour',won best actor Oscar for his role as "Winston Churchill" in this movie
1962
Matthew Broderick-actor stage/movies' Biloxi Blues,Wargames,The Producers, Ferris Buehler's Day Off', married to actress Sarah Jessica Parker
Deaths:
1617
Pocahantas-American Indian princess 22
1985
Michael Redgrave- British actor,"Good Bye Mr Chips' father of actors Vanessa,Lynn,Colin 77
1987
Robert Preston-actor stage/screen 'The Music Man'{was in original Broadway production} "Victor/ Victoria' 68
2017
Chuck Barris- U.S game show producer' The Gong Show' 87
 
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's 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, actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera

1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, scientist

1820 Stephen Decatur
American navy officer
 
22nd March

1774 Mary Cooper published the first book of English nursery rhymes. Called Tommy Thumb's Song Book, it included Baa Baa Black Sheep, whose 'three bags full' is thought to refer to a tax imposed on the wool trade in 1275.

1926 The first directional road markings were introduced onto British roads (Hyde Park Corner, London). They caused confusion and led to seven accidents on the first day.

2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages were freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

2015 The coffin of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, visited locations in Leicestershire associated with his final days, ahead of the reinterment at Leicester Cathedral on 26th March. More than 5,000 white, hand-made roses were placed along the route of Richard III's cortege to raise awareness of missing people.

2017 Four members of the public were killed and fifty injured at Westminster in a terrorist incident on Westminster Bridge. The terrorist, who was attempting an assault on the Houses of Parliament.was shot and killed after he drove his car at pedestrians on the bridge and then knifed PC Keith Palmer to death.
 
1894
The 1st Stanley Cup Championships was played in Victoria Rink in Montreal.This was created by Lord Frederick Stanley who watched a ice hockey game which peaked his interest in the sport. The 1st two teams were Montreal Hockey Club which defeated Ottawa Captials 3-1
1933
Pres Franklin Roosevelt makes wine&beer legal when it has 3.2% alcohol
1941
actor, James Stewart is inducted into the U.S. Army. He becomes the 1st major movie star to wear a miltiary uniform in WW II
2010
NASA"s rover' Spirit' is caught in a sand trap on Mars,ceases communication with Earth
 

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