Today 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
 

March 20th:
1819
London's Burlington Arcade the world's 1st shopping arcade opens
1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book' Uncle Tom's Cabin' is published in Boston, Mass
1930
fast food restaurant chain' Kentucky Fried Chicken{KFC} is founded by businessman Col Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky
1964
European Space research Organization{ESRO} is founded by 10 European nations to persue scientific research in space, headquartered in Paris, France
1985
Libby Riddles becomes the 1st woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. Its held in early March a grueling 1,049 mile journey,from Anchorage- Nome,Alaska It takes anywhere from 8-15 days to complete, the mushers usually have 12-16 dogs
2005
Barack OBama becomes the 1st President to visit Cuba since 1928. He& First lady Michelle were on a 3 day tour
 
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, 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
 
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 22 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
 
22nd March

871 The Battle of Marton, took place at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset. King Æthelred of Wessex (who reigned from 865 - 871) and Prince Alfred fought against the Danes.

1956 Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, was convicted of organising an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama. King was found guilty of violating a 1921 boycott statute in Montgomery, Alabama and fined $500 plus $500 in court costs. When he decided to appeal, the judge converted the fine to 386 days behind bars.

1979 British ambassador in Holland Sir Richard Sykes was shot dead outside his Dutch home.

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere.

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. The people of Leicestershire turned out in their thousandsto pay their respects to King Richard III as the cortege carrying his coffin was taken from the University of Leicester back to Bosworth via the surrounding villages, returning to Leicester and St Martin’s Cathedral late afternoon.

2017 Six people died, including the attacker, and at least 50 people were injured after a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament on 22 March. 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 deat
 
1933
Pres Franklin Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalizes the sale of wine& beer up to 3.2 % alcohol
1941
actor James Stewart become the 1st major movie star to be inducted into the Army in WWII
1954
Northland Center in Oak Park,MI at the time was the world's largest shopping mall,had 4 levels of stores with pedestrian walkways,closed in 2015
1990
a jury in Anchorage Alaska, finds Capt Joseph Hazelwood guilty of negligence but acquits him of other charges in Exxon-Valdez oil spill. He was sentenced to do 1,000 hrs of community service, pay $50,000 in restitution
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed Exxon for the oil spill with incompetent& overworked crew
Hazelwood died in 2022
2010
NASA's rover' Spirit' gets caught in a sandtrap on Mars ceases communication to Earth,was active from 2004-2010
2021
The world's largest painting on canvas'The Journey of Humanity' by British artist,Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62 million,to raise money for children's charities. It is 17,000 Sq ft{1,595.76 Sq metres} took 7 months to complete

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March 23rd:
1743
composer, George Fredric Handel's oratorio'Messiah' debuts at Royal Opera House in Covet Garden, London
1857
inventor/ elevator industrialist, Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in NYC
1945
U.S. Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa in preperation for the Allied invasion.
1999
singer, Ricky Martin's single' Livin La Vida Loca' is released, it hits # 1 stays there for 5 weeks. It sells over 8 million copies
2010
Pres Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act{ACA} which expanded the availability& affordability of health care insurance
 
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 entered into force
Within the Schengen Area, which encompasses most of Europe, regular border checks have been abolished.

1991, 4 South American countries established 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, and 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, and 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
 
1898
Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa,becomes world's 1st official designated game reserve.
1937
in Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect statue of Popeye.Its known as the 'Spinach Capital of the World'
. They produce 80% of spinach in the U.S.
1958
movie' Bridge on the River Kwai' directed by David Lean. The story of soldiers in a Japanese prison camp who build a bridge as a moral exercise. Two of the soldiers are determined to destroy it. The cast: Alec Guiness, Jack Hawkins, William Holden, Sessue Hayakwa. The movie won 7 Oscars inc pic/director,actor{Guiness}
1979
Israeli P.M Menachem Begin &Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat sign Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty in Washington,DC
2012
Canadian film maker, James Cameron becomes the 1st person to do a solo dive to visit Challenger Deep,deepest point on Earth in over 50 yrs. It's located in Marina Trench in Western Pacific Ocean,depth is 10,935 meters{35,876ft}
2024
a Singapore flagged cargo ship hits the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland causing the 1.6 mile bridge ,47 yr old structure to completely collapse
 
On This Day In History, March 28th

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

1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced 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) continues to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefits 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 was 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, and actress

1955 Reba McEntire
American singer-songwriter, producer, and 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, and screenwriter

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

1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor

1941 Virginia Woolf
English author, critic

1584 Ivan the Terrible
Russian Tsar
 
Rainy cloudy day, took an afternoon nap 1:30 - 3:30. I feel great now!
Heading out to the Lake home tomorrow for spring clean up week. Ug
I will be tired then. Lots of Leaves and stuff to put together. Benches, wagon, stuff.
 
28th March

1760 The birth of Thomas Clarkson, a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves. In his later years Clarkson campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide.

1941 English novelist Virginia Woolf, suffering from depression, filled her overcoat pocket with stones and walked into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex and drowned herself. Her body was not found until 18th April.

1942 British commandos destroyed the U-boat base at St Nazaire. The destroyer Campbeltown rammed the dock gates at 20 knots with five tons of explosives on board. A German ship trying to cut off the British commandos as they made their getaway in fast launches was sunk, in error, by German guns.

1964 Pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, began transmitting from a ship in the North Sea. Simon Dee, who later became the first ‘pirate DJ’ to join the BBC was the first voice to be heard on Radio Caroline.

2017 A 12-sided £1 coin went into circulation. The new coins feature a string of security features including a hologram that changes from a '£' symbol to the number '1' when the coin is seen from different angles.
 
1881
circus showmen PT Barnum &James Anthony Bailey form 'The Greatest Show on Earth Circus' It becomes a successful circus enterprise. When Barnum died in 1891, Bailey took it over and continued until his death in 1906. A yr later Ringling Brothers bought it
1930
Turkish cities Constantinople&Angora name changes to Istanbul and Ankara
1964
Madame Tussad's Wax Museum opens in London unveils figures of The Beatles. The waxworks appear on the Sgt Pepper's album cover
1979
a partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Harrisburg, PA. The release of radioactive gas&iodine into the air caused no deaths. Ironically, 12 days earlier on March 16th,movie' The China Syndrome' directed by James Bridges was released starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon ,Michael Douglas. The story of a coverup of an accident at a Calif nuclear plant
2017
the world's largest dinosaur footprint measuring 1.7 meters is found in Kimberly, Western Australia
2024
Sam Bankman- Freed founder of FTX exchange is sentenced to 25 yrs in prison. He was found guilty of fraud,conspiracy& money laundering
 
On This Day In History, March 29th

2010, Chechen women detonated two bombs in the Moscow underground
40 people died in the attack allegedly carried out by so-called “black widows”, or Islamist Chechen female suicide bombers.

2004, Ireland became the first country to ban smoking in all workplaces
Contrary to initial concerns, the ban had no adverse economic effects, and soon several other countries passed similar legislation. According to the World Health Organization, tobacco smoke is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally.

1974 The Terracotta Army is discovered in Sian, China
The famous collection of some 8000 soldier sculptures, depicting Emperor Qin Shi Huang's army, was located by local farmers when they were digging a water well.

1971, Charles Manson was sentenced to death in the gas chamber
The sentence was never carried out because the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in 1972. The infamous criminal who ordered several murders served a life sentence and died on November 19, 2017.

1912, Robert Scott made his final diary entry
Scott wrote: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.” The British explorer and his companions died on an expedition to the South Pole.
 
Births On This Day, March 29th 🎂

1976 Jennifer Capriati
American tennis player

1949 Michael Brecker
American saxophonist, composer

1943 John Major
English banker, politician, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1895 Ernst Jünger
German author

1790 John Tyler
American lawyer, politician, 10th President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, March 29th 🪦

1982 Walter Hallstein
German politician, diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission

1924 Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish composer

1912 Robert Falcon Scott
English navy officer, explorer

1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer

1772 Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish scientist
 
1848
an ice jam in the upper river causes both sides of Niagara Falls to stop flowing water for 30 hrs
1929
Pres Herber Hoover has 1st telephone installed on the desk in the Oval Office in the White House
1951
U.S. citizens Julius&Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for being Soviet Spies
1971
Lt William Calley, Jr is found guilty of killing 22 unarmed S. Vietnamese civilans in the My Lai massacre. He was released from prison 3 days later by Pres Nixon. His original sentence was 20 yrs,he served 3 yrs under house arrest. He died last yr age 80
1982
54th Academy Awards winners :
best Pic Chariots of Fire, Henry Fonda wins his only Oscar -best actor for' On Golden Pond, Katherine Hepburn won her 4th Best Actress Oscar 'On Golden Pond, supp actor, John Gieguld' Arthur' Maureen Stapleton' Reds.' Fonda couldn't attend ceremony {health reasons} his daughter, Jane accepted on his behalf
2021
mega ship 'Ever Green' is freed after getting stuck for over a week in&blocking the Suez Canal with 369 vessels waiting to pass through
 
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