MARCH
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EVENTS AND BIRTHS 3:Humorists are
Artists Month 3:Mental Retardation
Month 3:Music in our
Schools Month 3:National Frozen
Food Month 3:National Nutrition
Month 3:National Peanut
Month 3:National Poison
Prevention Month 3:National
Professional Social Work Month 3:National "Talk With
Your Teen About Sex" Month 3:National Welding
Month 3:National Women's
History Month 3:Philatelic
Literature Month 3:Poetry Month 3:Red Cross Month 3:Youth Art Month #: Events depending
on weekdays M(3/7) :Pulaski Day
(Illinois) (first Monday). T(3/7) :Town Meeting
Day (Vermont) (first Tuesday). F(3/7) :World Day of
Prayer (first Friday). S(3/7) :Iditarod race
begins (first Saturday). U(3/7) :Horton Bay
(Michigan) Winter Olympics (first Sunday). U(3/7) :Vasaloppet
(Sweden) (first Sunday). M(3/14):Commonwealth
Day (Canada and UK) (second Monday). T(3/21):Diabetes
Awareness Day (third Tuesday). T(3/28):National
Organize Your Home-Office Day (fourth Tuesday). M(3/31):Seward's Day
(last Monday). U(3/31):Daylight
Savings Time Begins (Europe) (last Sunday). #: Normal events 3/1 :Chalandra
Marz (Switzerland). 3/1 :National
Pig Day. 3/1 :Samiljol or
Independence Day (Korea). 3/1 :Whuppity
Scoorie (Scotland). 3/1/589 :Saint David
died. 3/1/1692 :Sarah
Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrested for witchcraft 3/1/1780
:Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery. 3/1/1781 :Articles of
Confederation adopted by the American colonies. 3/1/1790 :First US
national census authorized. 3/1/1803:Ohio became
17th US state. 3/1/1864 :First black
woman to receive MD (Rebecca Lee, Boston, 3/1/1864 :Surprise
Union raid on Richmond, Virginia (failed). 3/1/1867 :Nebraska
became the 37th US state. 3/1/1872 :Yellowstone
National Park established. 3/1/1888 :Golden Dawn
officially established. 3/1/1896
:Radioactivity discovered (Henri Becquerel). 3/1/1910 :Avalanche,
Wellington, Washington. 3/1/1919 :Korean
independence movement against Japanese colonial rule. 3/1/1932 :Charles A.
Lindbergh Jr kidnapped. 3/1/1949 :Joe Louis
retired as world heavyweight champion. 3/1/1960 :First
'Family Circus' cartoon. 3/1/1961 :US Peace
Corps formed. 3/1/1964 :First NPL
(later PL/I) report published. 3/1/1966 :Venera 3
(USSR), became the first spacecraft to impact Venus. 3/1/1968 :Seat belts
became mandatory on US cars. 3/1/1979 :Stephen
Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" opened on Broadway. 3/2 :Peanut
Butter Lover's Day. 3/2 :Peasants
Day (Burma). 3/2 :Procession
of Senhor Dos Passos (Portugal). 3/2 :Texas
Independence Day (Texas). 3/2 :Victory of
Adowa (Ethiopia). 3/2/1642 :US Convict
Labor Law enacted. 3/2/1789 :Law
prohibiting theatrical performances repealed (Pennsylvania). 3/2/1797 :Horace
Walpole, author ("The Castle of Otranto"), died. 3/2/1829 :First
school for educating the blind founded (New England Asylum :for the
Blind - John Dix). 3/2/1833 :US Force
Act signed (allowed use of Army and Navy to enforce :tariffs). 3/2/1836 :Texas
proclaimed its independence from Mexico. 3/2/1840 :H.W. Olbers,
German amateur astronomer, died. 3/2/1865 :Battle of
Waynesborough (Virginia). 3/2/1867 :US Bureau
of Education established. 3/2/1887 :US Hatch
Act (set up agricultural research stations) passed. 3/2/1917 :Jones Act
passed (US citizenship granted to Puerto Ricans). 3/2/1930 :David
Herbert Lawrence, author ("Lady Chatterley's Lover"), died. 3/2/1939 :Howard
Carter, excavator of King Tut's tomb, died. 3/2/1939 :Pope Pius
XII (Eugenio Maria Giovanni Pacelli), 260th pope, :elected. 3/2/1943 :Battle of
the Bismarck Sea began. 3/2/1945 :US 9th Army
reached the Rhine River. 3/2/1949 :First
nonstop around-the-world flight (Captain James Gallagher, :94 hours). 3/2/1962 :Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game. 3/2/1969 :First test
flight for 001 (prototype for the Concorde, Toulouse, :France). 3/2/1972 :Pioneer 10
(US) probe launched. 3/2/1978 :Soyuz 28
(USSR) launched. 3/2/1987 :Randolph
Scott, actor, died. 3/3 :Anniversary
of the Throne (Morocco). 3/3 :Bonza
Bottler Day. 3/3 :Bursting
Day (Iceland) 3/3 :Doll
Festival (Hinamatsuri) (Japan). 3/3 :Liberation
Day (Bulgaria). 3/3 :Martyr's
Day (Malawi). 3/3 :Throne Day
(Morocco). 3/3/1820 :Missouri
Compromise became law. 3/3/1842 :Factory
workers under 12 years old restricted to a 10 hour work :day in
Massachusetts. 3/3/1845 :Florida
became the 27th US state. 3/3/1849 :The Home
Department, forerunner of US Interior Department
:established. 3/3/1855 :$30,000
appropriated for Egyptian camels for US Army. 3/3/1871 :Indian
Appropriation Act (Indians wards of US government) passed. 3/3/1873 :Comstock
Act (no pornography in US Mail) passed. 3/3/1875 :Carmen
premiered. 3/3/1875 :First
organized hockey match (Montreal). 3/3/1875 :First
recorded use of a flat puck in a hockey game. 3/3/1879 :First
female lawyer heard by the US Supreme Court (Belva Ann :Bennett
Lockwood). 3/3/1885 :US Post
Office began special delivery of first-class mail. 3/3/1918 :Germany,
Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. 3/3/1923 :First issue
of "Time" magazine published. 3/3/1927 :First US
Federal Prohibition Bureau authorized. 3/3/1931 :"The
Star-Spangled Banner" became the national anthem of the US. 3/3/1966 :Buffalo
Springfield formed. 3/3/1969 :Apollo 9
(US) launched. 3/3/1974 :A Turkish
jetliner crashed near Paris (345 killed). 3/3/1981 :US Supreme
Court ruled that programs can't be patented but manual :processes
relying on them can. 3/3/1983 :Apollo
Computer, Inc became a publicly held company. 3/3/1983 :Arthur
Koestler, novelist ("Darkness at Noon"), and wife died. 3/3/1985 :British
coal miners ended a year long strike. 3/3/1986 :US
Presidential Commission on Organized Crime called for
:drug-testing of all federal employees. 3/3/1987 :Danny Kaye,
comedian, died. 3/4 :Old
Inauguration Day (1789 - 1933) 3/4/1461 :Edward IV
became English Sovereign. 3/4/1519 :Cortez
landed in Mexico. 3/4/1634 :First
tavern in Boston opened (Samuel Cole). 3/4/1681 :King
Charles II granted William Penn charter for Pennsylvania. 3/4/1774 :First
recorded observation of the Orion Nebula (William Herschel). 3/4/1789 :First
meeting of US Congress (New York). 3/4/1789 :US
Constitution became effective. 3/4/1791 :Vermont
became the 14th US state. 3/4/1801 :First US
president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas :Jefferson). 3/4/1825 :Raphael
Peale, American painter, died. 3/4/1837 :Chicago
granted a city charter. 3/4/1840 :First
commercial photography studio opened (New York). 3/4/1842 :James
Forten, abolishionist, died. 3/4/1849 :David R.
Atchison was US president for this day. 3/4/1852 :Nikolai
Vasilevich Gogol, Russian author, died. 3/4/1858 :Commodore
Matthew Calbraith Perry, explorer, died. 3/4/1861 :The Stars
and Bars flag design adopted by the Confederacy. 3/4/1866 :Norman
Lockyer began spectroscopic observations of the sun. 3/4/1872 :First issue
of the Boston Globe published. 3/4/1881 :James
Garfield became the first US president to use a telephone. 3/4/1897 :Kaiser
Wilhelm Degross, German luxury liner launched. 3/4/1902 :American
Automobile Association formed. 3/4/1917 :First woman
member of US Congress sworn in (Jeanette Rankin from :Montana). 3/4/1933 :First
female US cabinet member (Frances Perkins). 3/4/1933 :FDR said
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.". 3/4/1943 :Battle of
the Bismarck Sea ended. 3/4/1952 :Ronald
Wilson Reagan married Nancy Davis. 3/4/1958 :First
submarine reached North Pole - passing under the ice cap :(Nautilus). 3/4/1968 :Ogo 5 (US)
launched. 3/4/1979 :Jupiter's
ring discovered by Voyager 1 (US). 3/4/1982 :"Police
Squad" premiered on ABC. 3/4/1984 :Television
Academy Hall of Fame formed. 3/4/1986 :Ding Ling,
Chinese writer and champion of women's rights, died. 3/4/1987 :Ronald
Reagan admitted swapping arms to Iran for hostages. 3/4/1994 :John Candy,
comedian, died. 3/5 :Crispus
Attucks Day (New Jersey). 3/5
:Independence Day (Equitorial Guinea). 3/5/-1953:Chinese
calendar starting point (according to Kevin Pang and John :Bangert). 3/5/1616 :Francis
Beaumont, English playwright, died. 3/5/1766 :Don Antonio
de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans and took possession :of the
Louisiana Territory from the French. 3/5/1770 :Boston
Massacre (5 killed, 6 injured). 3/5/1815 :Friedrich
Anton Mesmer, German physician and hypnotist, died. 3/5/1868 :Court of
Impeachment organized to decide charges against US :President
A. Johnson. 3/5/1923 :First US
old age pension laws passed (Montana and Nevada). 3/5/1933 :Banks
ordered closed for a ten-day "bank holiday." 3/5/1933 :The Nazi
party won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections. 3/5/1936 :Spitfire
first flown. 3/5/1946 :Winston
Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech. 3/5/1950 :Edgar Lee
Masters, poet and novelist ("Spoon River Anthology"), :died. 3/5/1953 :Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin's death announced. 3/5/1960 :Elvis
Presley received his US Army discharge. 3/5/1963 :Patsy Cline
killed. 3/5/1975 :First
meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. 3/5/1977 :First US
presidential radio phone-in broadcast (Carter). 3/5/1979 :"Another
World" became the first 90 minute soap opera. 3/5/1979 :Voyager 1
(US) made closest approach to Jupiter. 3/5/1980 :Jay "Tonto"
Silverheels died. 3/5/1982 :John
Belushi, comedian, found dead. 3/5/1984 :Standard
Oil Company of California (Chevron) bought Gulf Corp :($13
billion). 3/6 :Chikyu
Setsu, Empress' Birthday (Japan). 3/6 :Discovery
Day or Magellan Day (Guam). 3/6
:Independence Day (Ghana). 3/6 :Stoneware
Pottery Appreciation Day. 3/6/1521 :Guam
discovered. 3/6/1809 :Thomas
Heyward, American Revolutionary soldier, died. 3/6/1831 :Edgar Allen
Poe was expelled from West Point. 3/6/1836 :David
Crockett, frontiersman, died. 3/6/1836 :Mexican
forces captured the Alamo (200 killed). 3/6/1853 :"La
Traviata" first performed (Venice, Italy). 3/6/1857 :Dred Scott
decision handed down. 3/6/1888 :Louisa May
Alcott, author ("Little Women"), died. 3/6/1896 :First car
drove through Detroit (Charles Brady King). 3/6/1912 :Oreos first
marketed. 3/6/1932 :John Philip
Sousa, composer and band conductor, died. 3/6/1933 :A
nationwide US bank holiday declared by FDR went into effect. 3/6/1941 :Gutzon
Borglum, Mt. Rushmore sculptor, died. 3/6/1944 :US bombers
staged a daylight raid against Berlin. 3/6/1947 :First
person water skied barefoot (Dick Pope Jr). 3/6/1957 :Ghana
received independence from Great Britain. 3/6/1964 :Cassius
Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali. 3/6/1973 :Pearl
Sydenstricker Buck, writer, died. 3/6/1981 :State
Supreme Court upheld California schools teaching evolution. 3/6/1981 :Walter
Cronkite delivered his last newscast. 3/6/1982 :Ayn Rand,
novelist ("The Fountainhead"), died. 3/6/1986 :Georgia
O'Keeffe, artist, died. 3/6/1986 :Vega 1
(USSR) made first flyby of Comet Halley. 3/7/-322 :Aristotle
died. (10/2?) 3/7/1638 :Anne
Hutchinson left Massachusetts after being excommunicated. 3/7/1825 :First US
treaty with a South American country (Colombia). 3/7/1850 :D.
Webster's great speech. 3/7/1876 :Alexander
Graham Bell granted telephone patent. 3/7/1896 :Last
Gilbert and Sullivan opera produced. 3/7/1926 :First
successful trans-Atlantic radio-telelephone conversation :(New York
to London). 3/7/1932 :3000 men
rioted at the Ford Motor Company. 3/7/1936 :Adolf
Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact :by marching
his troops into the Rhineland. 3/7/1945 :US troops
crossed the Rhine River at Remagen. 3/7/1969 :Apollo 9
lunar module test-flown while in earth orbit. 3/7/1975 :Filibuster
rule in the US Senate altered from 2/3 to 60 Senators. 3/7/1984 :William
Wilson confirmed as first US ambassador to the Vatican in :117 years. 3/7/1985 :Victor W.
Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, died. 3/8
:International Women's Day (started 1909). 3/8 :Syrian Arab
Republic Revolution Day. 3/8 :Town
Meeting Day (New Hampshire) 3/8 :Youth Day
(Zambia). 3/8/1481 :Translation
of "The Mirror of the World" completed (William :Caxton). 3/8/1618 :Johann
Kepler discovered third Law of Planetary Motion. 3/8/1702 :Anne became
English Sovereign. 3/8/1702 :King
William III died following a riding accident. 3/8/1854 :Commodore
Matthew Perry made his second landing in Japan. 3/8/1855 :First train
crossed suspension bridge at Niagara Falls. 3/8/1858 :Street
letter box patented (Albert Potts). 3/8/1862 :Battle of
Pea Ridge (Arkansas). 3/8/1863 :Colonel
John Mosby captured Union General E.H. Stoughton. 3/8/1874 :Millard
Fillmore, 13th US president, died. 3/8/1887 :Henry Ward
Beecher, clergyman, died. 3/8/1887 :Telescoping
steel fishing rod patented. 3/8/1894 :First
dog-licensing law enacted in US. 3/8/1917 :US Senate
adopted cloture rule (to limit filibusters). 3/8/1921 :French
troops occupied Dusseldorf. 3/8/1930 :William
Howard Taft, 27th US president, died. 3/8/1935 :"Roberta,"
with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released. 3/8/1939 :Georgia
ratified the Bill of Rights. 3/8/1941 :Sherwood
Anderson, US author ("Winesburg Ohio"), died. 3/8/1942 :Japanese
captured Rangoon, Burma. 3/8/1961 :First US
submarine to use Holy Loch, Scotland naval base (Patrick :Henry). 3/8/1963 :Syrian
Revolutionary National Council assumed power. 3/8/1965 :4000
Marines landed in South Vietnam. 3/8/1971 :"The Fight
of the Century" (Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali). 3/8/1973 :Ron
"Pigpen" McKernan died. 3/8/1976 :"Meltdown"
first used ("Time"). 3/8/1986 :Suisei
(Japan) made flyby of Comet Halley. 3/9 :Baron Bliss
Day (Belize). 3/9 :Decoration
Day (Liberia). 3/9 :Falgun
Purnima Day (Nepal). 3/9 :Panic Day. 3/9/1796 :Napoleon
Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais. 3/9/1822 :First
patent for false teeth (C. Graham). 3/9/1858 :Mail box
patented. 3/9/1862 :First
battle between two ironclad battleships (USS Monitor and :Merrimac). 3/9/1863 :Ulysses
Simpson Grant appointed commander-in-chief of Union :forces. 3/9/1907 :John
Alexander Dowie, evangelist, died. 3/9/1916 :General
Francisco "Pancho" Villa invaded the US (17 killed). 3/9/1947 :Carrie Lane
Chapman Catt, US women's rights leader, died. 3/9/1961 :Sputnik 9
(Russia) launched. 3/9/1964 :First Ford
Mustang rolled off the assembly line. 3/9/1967 :Svetlana
Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defected to the US. 3/9/1968 :"GOTO
Considered Harmful" published in CACM. 3/9/1979 :Voyager 1
(US) returned evidence of volcanism on Io. 3/9/1983 :Anne
Burford resigned as head of the US EPA. 3/9/1986 :Vega 2
(USSR) made flyby of Comet Halley. 3/9/1988 :Richard C.
Adams, inventor of the paint roller, died. 3/9/1989 :Eastern
Airlines filed for banktuptcy. 3/9/1989 :Robert
Mapplethorpe, photographer, died. 3/9/1992 :Menachem
Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister, died. 3/10 :Labor Day
(South Korea). 3/10 :Riku gun
Kenenbi, Japanese Army Commemoration Day (Japan). 3/10/-515:Re-building
of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem completed. 3/10/1785:Thomas
Jefferson appointed minister to France. 3/10/1789:Franklin
College founded. (1787?) 3/10/1848:Treaty of
Guadalupe-Hidalgo (ended war with Mexico). 3/10/1862:First US
paper money issued. 3/10/1864:Ulysses S.
Grant assumed command of Union army. 3/10/1876:Alexander
Graham Bell spoke the first words over the telephone. 3/10/1880:Salvation
Army began work in US. 3/10/1892:Arthur
Honegger, composer. 3/10/1909:Home for
Aged Pioneers established (Prescott, Arizona). 3/10/1913:Harriet
Tubman, US abolitionist, died. 3/10/1929:"The Canary
Murder Case," the first Philo Vance film was released. 3/10/1944:Irvin S.
Cobb, US writer and humorist, died. 3/10/1948:Zelda
Fitzgerald, widow of F. Scott Fitzgerald, died. 3/10/1950:Sugar Pops
introduced. 3/10/1969:James Earl
Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther :King and
was sentenced to 99 years. 3/10/1977:Rings of
Uranus discovered. 3/10/1980:Dr. Herman
Tarnower, "Scarsdale Diet" author, killed. 3/10/1982:"Jupiter
Effect" (semi-alignment of all planets on same side of :sun). 3/10/1985:Konstantin
U. Chernenko, Soviet Premier, died. 3/10/1987:Vatican
condemned human artificial fertilization. 3/10/1988:Glenn
Clarence Cunningham, US track athlete ("Kansas Ironman"), :died. 3/11 :Human
Services Day. 3/11
:Independence Day (Lithuania).
3/11/1818:"Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, published. 3/11/1847:John
Chapman (a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed), frontier nurseryman, died. 3/11/1892:First
publicly played basketball game. 3/11/1913:John Shaw
Billings, American librarian and army Doctor, died. 3/11/1918:Save the
Redwoods League founded. 3/11/1927:First rear
projection motion picture theater built (New York). 3/11/1930:First
president buried in National Cemetary in Arlington, :Virginia
(Taft). 3/11/1941:Lend-Lease
Bill was approved. 3/11/1955:Sir
Alexander Fleming, Scottish discoverer of penicillin, died. 3/11/1959:Hawaii
became the 50th US state. 3/11/1966:Talmadge
Hayer, Thomas 15X Johnson, and Norman 3X Butler :convicted
of killing Malcolm X. 3/11/1970:Earle
Stanley Gardner, US mystery writer (Perry Mason series), :died. 3/11/1985:Mikhail
Gorbachev named Soviet leader. 3/11/1986:Sakigake
(Japan) made flyby of Comet Halley. 3/11/1988:Discovery
of 599 carat (raw) perfect blue-white diamond announced. 3/11/1990:Lithuania
declared its independence from the Soviet Union. 3/12
:Commonwealth Day (Swaziland). 3/12
:Independence Day (Mauritius). 3/12 :Moshoeshoe's
Day (Lesotho). 3/12 :National
Holiday (Gabon). 3/12/1877:First US
department store opened (Wanamaker's, Philadelphia). 3/12/1877:First
German-born became a US cabinet member (Carl Schurz). 3/12/1888:Blizzard of
'88 began (40" snow (New York) - 400 killed). 3/12/1894:Coca Cola
first sold in bottles. 3/12/1912:First Girl
Scout troop formed (Savannah, Georgia by Juliette :Gordon
Low). 3/12/1914:George
Westinghouse, US inventor, died. 3/12/1925:Sun Yat-Sen,
leader of China's 1911 revolution, died. 3/12/1930:Mahatma
Gandhi began his campaign of civil disobedience. 3/12/1932:Ivar
Kreuger, Swedish Match King, shot himself. 3/12/1933:President
Roosevelt gave his First "fireside chat." 3/12/1939:Pope Pius
XII crowned. 3/12/1947:"Truman
Doctrine" outlined. 3/12/1954:Each of
four bridge players dealt a perfect hand (Cranston, Rhode :Island). 3/12/1955:Charlie
Parker, jazz saxophonist, died. 3/12/1957:Parents
without Partners founded. 3/12/1963:Swan
Anderson, inventor of The Eskimo Pie, died. 3/12/1968:Mauritius
attained independent nationhood. 3/12/1969:Levi
started selling bell-bottom style jeans. 3/12/1969:Paul
McCartney married Linda Eastman. 3/12/1981:Soyuz T-4
(USSR) launched. 3/12/1985:Eugene
Ormandy, conductor, died. 3/13 :Good
Samaritan Involvement Day. 3/13 :National
Holiday (Grenada). 3/13/1639:Harvard
University was named for clergyman John Harvard. 3/13/1781:Uranus
discovered (William Herschel). (3/31?) 3/13/1852:Uncle Sam
debuted as a cartoon character ("New York Lantern.") 3/13/1868:Impeachment
proceedings began against President Andrew Johnson. 3/13/1877:Earmuffs
patented (Chester Greenwood). 3/13/1884:Standard
time was adopted throughout the US. 3/13/1885:Titian
Ramsey Peale, American artist and naturalist, died.
3/13/1894:"Striptease" introduced (Paris). 3/13/1901:Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd US president, died. 3/13/1906:Susan
Brownell Anthony, feminist pioneer, died. 3/13/1907:New York
stockmarket crash. 3/13/1919:"Axeman of
New Orleans" promised to pass over all homes playing :jazz. 3/13/1923:Phonofilm
device (made movies with sound) demonstrated (Lee De :Forest). 3/13/1925:Tennessee
outlawed teaching of the theory of evolution. 3/13/1930:Discovery
of Pluto announced. 3/13/1933:R.T.A.
Innes, astronomer, died. 3/13/1938:Clarence
Seward Darrow, lawyer, died. 3/13/1943:Stephen
Vincent Benet, poet ("John Brown's Body"), died. 3/13/1947:Lerner and
Loewe's "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway. 3/13/1963:Filling of
Lake Powell commenced. 3/13/1964:Catherine
(Kitty) Genovese killed while 38 neighbors watched. 3/13/1968:Oil
discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. 3/13/1969:Apollo 9
splashed down in the Atlantic. 3/13/1986:Giotto (ESA)
made flyby of Comet Halley. 3/13/1989:Space
shuttle Discovery launched. 3/14/1314:Jacques
DeMolay was burned at the stake. 3/14/1471:Sir Thomas
Malory, English author ("Le Morte d'Arthur"), died. 3/14/1493:First
letter descriptive of America dispatched. 3/14/1681:Land (now
named Pennsylvania) granted to William Penn. 3/14/1743:First
recorded American town meeting (Faneuil Hall, Boston). 3/14/1794:Cotton gin
(removes seeds) patented (Eli Whitney). 3/14/1812:First US
War Bonds authorized. 3/14/1862:New Berne
(North Carolina) captured by Union troops. 3/14/1874:Leonard
Andrew Grimes, abolitionist, died. 3/14/1883:Karl Marx,
German socialist, died. 3/14/1888:Great New
England blizzard ended.
3/14/1891:International Copyright Act approved. 3/14/1900:Gold
standard adopted. 3/14/1907:Teddy
Roosevelt excluded Japanese laborers from continental US. 3/14/1918:Lucretia
Rudolph Garfield, wife of James Abram, died. 3/14/1923:First US
president to file a tax return (Harding). 3/14/1939:Nazi troops
occupied Czechoslovakia. 3/14/1947:Bases in
the Philippines leased to the US for 99 years. 3/14/1960:LISP
introduced. 3/14/1964:Jack Ruby
convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald. 3/14/1971:The Rolling
Stones left England for France to escape taxes. 3/14/1976:Busby
Berkeley, film choreographer, died. 3/15 :Andrew
Jackson Day (Tennessee). 3/15 :Turkey
buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. 3/15 :Ides of
March. 3/15 :J.J.
Robert's Birthday (Liberia). 3/15 :Salmon Arm
Sonnet Contest (Canada). 3/15/-44 :Julius
Caesar assassinated. 3/15/1493:Columbus
returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New :World. 3/15/1649:John Milton
appointed Secretary of Foreign Tongues by Oliver :Cromwell's
Commonwealth government. 3/15/1781:Battle of
Guilford Court House, North Carolina. 3/15/1820:Maine
became 20th US state. 3/15/1848:Hungarian
revolution. 3/15/1869:Cincinnati
Red Stockings became the first openly professional :baseball
club. 3/15/1875:First US
cardinal (John McCloskey) invested. 3/15/1913:First open
US presidential news conference held (Wilson). 3/15/1919:American
Legion founded. 3/15/1931:Thomas E.
Dewey was sworn in as assistant US attorney in New York. 3/15/1937:H(oward)
P(hillips) Lovecraft, horror writer, died. 3/15/1956:"My Fair
Lady" opened (New York). 3/15/1960:First
federal underseas park established (Key Largo, Florida). 3/15/1964:Periodic
comet Schwassmann-Wachmann brightened by six magnitudes. 3/15/1966:Watts, Los
Angeles, riots (two dead, 25 injured). 3/15/1968:WBCN radio
(Boston) first went on the air. 3/15/1975:Aristotle
Socrates Onassis died. 3/15/1983:Rebecca
West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield), English author, died. 3/15/1985:Civilian
government installed in Brazil. 3/16 :Curlew Day
(Umatilla, Oregon). 3/16/1521:Magellan
sighted the Philippines. 3/16/1802:Military
Academy at West Point authorized by Congress. 3/16/1807:Sir Hyde
Parker, British fleet commander, died. 3/16/1827:First black
newspaper in US ("Freedom's Journal") founded. 3/16/1830:Slowest
trading day on the New York Stock Exchange (31 shares). 3/16/1838:Nathaniel
Bowditch, US mathematician and astronomer, died. 3/16/1850:Nathaniel
Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published. 3/16/1868:Impeachment
trial of Andrew Johnson ended in acquittal. 3/16/1883:First woman
pharmacist graduated (Susan Hayhurst). 3/16/1898:Aubrey
Beardsley, English illustrator, died. 3/16/1926:First
liquid fuel powered rocket flight (Robert H. Goddard).
3/16/1939:Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany. 3/16/1940:Selma
Lagerlof, Swedish author, died. 3/16/1943:"Cabin
B-13" first broadcast. 3/16/1950:Gypsy Rose
Lee was the mystery guest on "What's My Line?". 3/16/1966:Gemini 8
(US), first docking of orbiting spacecraft, launched. 3/16/1968:My Lai
massacre (300 civilians killed). 3/16/1978:First of
two Panama Canal pacts approved by the US Senate. 3/16/1984:William
Buckley kidnapped in Beirut. 3/17 :Camp Fire
Founders Day. 3/17 :Evacuation
Day (Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts). 3/17 :National
Day (Ireland). 3/17/1725:Mercury,
Venus, and Mars visible in the same telescopic field of :view. 3/17/1764:George
Parker, English astronomer, died. 3/17/1776:Continental
Army forced British troops to evacuate Boston. 3/17/1811:First
workable sidewheel steamboat (The New Orleans) launched. 3/17/1845:Rubber band
patented. 3/17/1846:F.W.
Bessel, German astronomer, died. 3/17/1871:National
Association of Professional Baseball Players formed. 3/17/1905:Eleanor and
Franklin Roosevelt married. 3/17/1945:The battle
for the island of Iwo Jima ended. 3/17/1958:Vanguard I
(US), first solar powered satellite, launched. 3/17/1963:First
US-born saint beatified (Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton). 3/17/1975:Doctors'
first strike (demanding 40 hour work-week) (New York). 3/17/1989:Discovery
(US) landed (Edwards Air Force Base). 3/18 :Flag Day
(Aruba). 3/18 :Peanut
Festival (Wilmington, North Carolina). 3/18/1692:William
Penn deprived of his governing powers. 3/18/1768:Laurence
Sterne, author, died. 3/18/1813:Rebecca
Boone, wife of Daniel Boone, died. 3/18/1865:Congress of
Confederate States adjourned for the the last time. 3/18/1909:First ham
radio broadcast (Einar Dessau, Denmark). 3/18/1922:Mahatma
Gandhi sentenced to six years in prison for civil
:disobedience. 3/18/1931:First
electric shaver for sale (Shick). 3/18/1937:Natural Gas
explosion at a public school (New London, Texas - 410 :killed). 3/18/1947:William
Crapo Durant, General Motors founder, died. 3/18/1965:Voskhod 2
(USSR), first space walk, launched. 3/18/1966:A paper
dress from Scott Paper became available for $1. 3/18/1970:First
strike of US postal employees (New York). 3/18/1970:Prince
Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian statesman, overthrown. 3/18/1986:Bernard
Malamud, author ("The Fixer"), died. 3/19 :Canberra
Day (Australia). 3/19 :Father's
Day (Spain). 3/19 :Jerusalem
Faire (Berkeley, California). 3/19 :Kite
Festival (Lorton, Virginia). 3/19 :Swallows
return to San Juan Capistrano. 3/19 :Tree
Planting Day (Lesotho). 3/19/-721:First
recorded eclipse (lunar, according to Ptolemy). 3/19/1831:First
recorded US bank robbery (City Bank, New York - $245,000). 3/19/1907:Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, American author and editor, died. 3/19/1917:Adamson Act
ruled constitutional (eight hour work day on :railroads). 3/19/1918:Standard
Time modified to create Daylight Savings Time. 3/19/1920:Versailles
Treaty rejected by US Senate. 3/19/1927:Ruth Brown
Snyder and Henry Judd Gray carry out the "Dumbbell :Murder." 3/19/1942:Men between
45 and 64 ordered to register for non-military duty. 3/19/1964:First day
of shooting on "Goldfinger." 3/19/1975:First state
to ban sex discrimination in athletic events
:(Pennsylvania). 3/19/1977:Final
episode of "Mary Tyler Moore" aired. 3/19/1987:Jim Bakker,
TV evangelist, resigned. 3/20 :Great
American Meatout. 3/20 :Hola
Mohalla (India). 3/20
:Independence Day (Tunisia). 3/20 :Petroleum
Day (Iran). 3/20 :Youth Day
(Oklahoma). 3/20/1727:Sir Isaac
Newton, mathematician and scientist, died. 3/20/1852:"Uncle
Tom's Cabin" published. 3/20/1896:US Marines
landed in Nicaragua. 3/20/1899:First woman
executed by electrocution (M.M. Place, New York). 3/20/1933:Giuseppe
(Joe) Zangara electrocuted for assassination attempt on :FDR. 3/20/1941:Bulldog
Drummond debuted on the Mutual radio network. 3/20/1956:France
recognized Tunisian autonomy. 3/20/1964:Brendan
Behan, Irish playwrite and poet, died. 3/20/1969:John Lennon
married Yoko Ono. 3/20/1974:Kidnaping
attempt of Princess Anne 150 yards from Buckingham :Palace. 3/20/1976:Patty
Hearst convicted of bank robbery. 3/20/1980:Radio
Caroline, original British pirate radio station, sank. 3/20/1986:DJIA closed
above 1800 for first time. 3/20/1986:US House of
Representatives rejected aid for Nicaraguan Contras. 3/21 :Afghan New
Year (Afghanistan). 3/21 :Bird Day
(Iowa). 3/21 :Fragrance
Day. 3/21
:International Day For The Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 3/21 :Juarez'
Birthday (Mexico). 3/21 :Memory Day. 3/21 :National
Teenagers Day. 3/21 :Naw-Ruz
(New Year) (Persia, now Iran). 3/21 :Shunki
Korei Sai, Spring Equinox (Japan). 3/21/1413:Henry V
became English Sovereign. 3/21/1543:Copernicus'
"De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" published. 3/21/1556:Thomas
Cranmer, English clergyman, burnt at the stake. 3/21/1621:Final group
of passengers departed the Mayflower. 3/21/1788:Fire in New
Orleans (800 buildings destroyed). 3/21/1790:Thomas
Jefferson became first US Secretary of State. 3/21/1791:First US
naval officer commissioned (Hopley Yeaton). 3/21/1868:First US
professional club for women (Sorosis, New York) founded. 3/21/1871:Henry
Morton Stanley started search for David Livingston.
3/21/1891:Hatfield-McCoy feud ended (with a marriage in Kentucky). 3/21/1916:First chess
champion to play more than 100 games simultaneously :(F.J.
Marshall). 3/21/1918:Battle of
the Somme. 3/21/1924:First US
mutual fund set up (Massachusetts Investors Trust, :Boston). 3/21/1945:Allied
planes dropped more than 12,000 tons of explosives on :Germany
during a daytime raid. 3/21/1946:UN set up
teporary headquarters at Hunter College (New York). 3/21/1947:Amendment
limiting US presidents to two terms or ten years :approved. 3/21/1949:Samuel
Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor, died. 3/21/1961:US first
sent military advisors into Laos. 3/21/1965:3,000
demonstrators began a march from Selma to Montgomery :Alabama. 3/21/1966:"Fanny
Hill" ruled not obscene by the US Supreme Court. 3/21/1969:Richard
Nixon played "The Missouri Waltz" for Harry Truman. 3/21/1972:US Supreme
Court ruled one year residency requirement for voting :illegal. 3/21/1979:Egyptian
Parliament unanimously approved a peace treaty with :Israel. 3/21/1984:US aircraft
carrier Kitty Hawk hit a Soviet sub in the Sea of :Japan. 3/22 :Abolition
Day (Puerto Rico). 3/22 :Arab League
Day (Jordan). 3/22 :National
Goof-off Day. 3/22/1621:Massasoit
and Pilgrims agreed on league of friendship. 3/22/1622:First
Indian massacre (led by Powhatan's brother). 3/22/1687:Jean
Baptiste Lully, musician and composer, died. 3/22/1765:Stamp Act
passed by British Parliament. 3/22/1791:Slave
trading with other nations forbidden by US Congress. 3/22/1820:Stephen
Decatur, Naval officer, killed in a duel by James Barron. 3/22/1832:Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist and dramatist, :died. 3/22/1841:Cornstarch
patented (Orlando Jones). 3/22/1872:First
women's equal opportunity legislation enacted (Illinois). 3/22/1893:First
women's basketball game. 3/22/1921:E.W.
Hornung, creator of A.J. Raffles, died. 3/22/1941:Grand
Coulee Dam began producing electric power. 3/22/1947:Loyalty
investigations of all US federal employees first required. 3/22/1960:Laser
patented (Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes). 3/22/1968:General
Creighton Abrams took over as commander of US troops in :Vietnam. 3/22/1972:Senate
approved Equal Rights Amendment. 3/22/1974:Ten Years
After played their last concert. 3/22/1981:Soyuz 39
(USSR) launched. 3/22/1982:STS-3 (US),
third shuttle test flight, launched. 3/22/1994:Walter
Lantz, creator of "Woody Woodpecker," died. 3/23 :Otago and
Southland Provincial Anniversary (New Zealand). 3/23 :Republic
Day (Pakistan). 3/23 :World
Meteorological Day. 3/23/1713:Tuscarora
Indian War ended. 3/23/1743:"Messiah"
first performed (London). 3/23/1775:Patrick
Henry said "... give me liberty or give me death!". 3/23/1842:Stendhal
(pseudonym for Marie Henri Beyle), French author ("The :Red and the
Black"), died. 3/23/1862:Battle of
Kernstown (Virginia). 3/23/1880:Rolling
flour mill patented (John Stevens). 3/23/1888:Morrison R.
Waite, US Supreme Court Justice, died. 3/23/1918:Dada
manifesto. 3/23/1936:UAW dropped
notices of a union meeting on a Ford plant.
3/23/1940:All-India-Muslim league adopted a Muslim homeland resolution.
3/23/1942:Japanese-Americans moved to relocation camps. 3/23/1952:"Dial M for
Murder" began as a BBC-TV drama. 3/23/1956:Pakistan
declared itself a republic. 3/23/1957:Last US
Army homing pigeons sold off. 3/23/1964:Peter Lorre
(Laszlo Lowenstein), actor, died. 3/23/1965:Gemini 3
(US), first man in space twice, launched. 3/23/1969:Rally for
Decency (Miami). 3/23/1970:South
African team was barred from the Davis Cup. 3/23/1983:Barney C.
Clark, first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, :died. 3/23/1989:Huge
asteroid missed Earth by 500,000 miles. 3/23/1989:B. Stanley
Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced they had :achieved
nuclear fusion at room temperature. 3/24/1603:James I
became English Sovereign. 3/24/1603:Queen
Elizabeth I died. 3/24/1661:Last Quaker
executed in Boston (William Leddra). 3/24/1765:Quartering
Act (colonists to board British soldiers) enacted. 3/24/1773:Philip
Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield and :statesman,
died. 3/24/1788:Rhode
Island voters rejected the US Constitution. 3/24/1882:Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, died. 3/24/1882:Robert Koch
announced the discovery of the cause of tuberculosis. 3/24/1898:First US
automobile sold.
3/24/1900:Construction of the New York subway system began. 3/24/1905:Jules
Verne, French Science Fiction writer ("Around the World in :80 Days"),
died. 3/24/1909:John
Millington Synge, Irish dramatist and poet, died. 3/24/1934:US granted
the Philippine Islands independance effective 7/4/1946. 3/24/1944:"The Great
Escape." 3/24/1949:"Hamlet"
won an Academy Award for "Best Picture." 3/24/1955:"Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof" opened on Broadway. 3/24/1958:Elvis
Presley inducted in the US Army. 3/24/1962:Auguste
Piccard, Swiss deep sea explorer and balloonist, died. 3/24/1965:Viola
Liuzzo, civil rights worker, killed. 3/24/1976:Isabel
Peron, Argentine president, arrested. 3/24/1980:Oscar
Romero, Salvadoran Archbishop, assassinated. 3/24/1989:Exxon
tanker "Valdez" struck a reef in Alaska. 3/24/1990:Dr. An
Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, died. 3/25 :Global
Understanding Day. 3/25
:Independence Day (Greece). 3/25 :Maryland
Day (Maryland). 3/25 :Pecan Day. 3/25/1634:Mass
celebrated for first time in US. 3/25/1634:Territory
now called "Maryland" established (Leonard and George :Calvert). 3/25/1655:Titan
(Saturn's moon) discovered (Christian Huygens). 3/25/1668:First
recorded horse race in America. 3/25/1775:Pecan trees
planted at Mt. Vernon by George Washington. 3/25/1821:Greece
became independent from Turkey. 3/25/1857:First solar
eclipse photograph (F. Langenheim, Philadelphia). 3/25/1894:Jacob S.
Coxey and 100 others began marching to Washington (from :Ohio). 3/25/1911:Triangle
Shirtwaist Company fire (New York, 147 killed). 3/25/1916:Ishi died. 3/25/1918:(Achille)
Claude Debussy, French composer, died. 3/25/1944:British
flier fell 18,000 feet without parachute (broke ankle). 3/25/1954:RCA began
producing color TV sets. 3/25/1973:Edward
Steichen, US photographer, died. 3/25/1975:King Faisal
assassinated. 3/25/1982:Goodman
Ace, TV writer, actor, columnist, and humorist, died. 3/25/1984:Mauna Loa
erupted. 3/25/1988:James
Howard, Representative from New Jersey, died. 3/25/1988:Robert
Joffrey, founder of The Joffrey ballet, died. 3/26 :Birthday of
Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy (Taiwan). 3/26
:Independence Day (Bangladesh). 3/26 :Make Up
Your Own Holiday Day. 3/26 :Prince
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day. (Hawaii) 3/26 :Varfrudagen
("Lady Day") (Sweden). 3/26/1649:John
Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, died. 3/26/1790:US
Naturalization Act passed. 3/26/1814:Joseph
Ignace Guillotin, French physician and promoter of the :guillotine,
died. 3/26/1827:Ludwig Van
Beethoven, German composer, died. 3/26/1859:"Vulcan" (a
"rogue asteroid") sighted near Mercury. 3/26/1892:Walt
Whitman, US poet, died. 3/26/1902:Cecil John
Rhodes, South African millionaire, died. 3/26/1916:Robert
Stroud, Birdman of Alcatraz, stabbed a guard. 3/26/1923:Sarah
Bernhardt, French actress, died. 3/26/1937:Popeye
statue unveiled, Crystal City (Texas) Spinach Festival. 3/26/1953:Salk Polio
vaccine announced. 3/26/1959:Raymond
Chandler, American author, died. 3/26/1960:"Welcome
Back Elvis" aired. 3/26/1964:Jule
Styne's "Funny Girl" opened on Broadway. 3/26/1973:Sir Noel
Coward, British actor and writer, died. 3/26/1975:Hue, South
Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese army. 3/26/1981:"Truth in
Testing" made a nationwide policy (SAT answers given :after
test). 3/27 :Armed
Forces Day (Burma). 3/27 :National
"Joe" Day (those not liking their name may be "Joe" or :"Joanne"
today). 3/27 :Osweiler
(Luxembourg). 3/27/1513:Florida
sighted, named, and claimed for the king of Spain (Ponce :de Leon). 3/27/1625:Charles I
became English Sovereign. 3/27/1794:US Congress
authorized building the first six ships of the :Federal
Navy. 3/27/1841:First steam
fire engine tested (New York). 3/27/1911:First
Exchange Club founded (Detroit). 3/27/1929:First
telephone installed in the White House. 3/27/1931:(Enoch)
Arnold Bennett, English novelist and playwright, died. 3/27/1942:US military
members were granted free mailing privileges. 3/27/1955:First US
coast to coast color TV broadcast. 3/27/1958:Nikita
Khrushchev became Soviet premier. 3/27/1964:Alaskan
earthquake (8.4 on Richter scale - 117 killed). 3/27/1968:Yuri
Alexseyevich Gagarin, cosmonaut and first man in space, died. 3/27/1972:"Funky
Winkerbean" (comic strip) began. 3/27/1972:Venera 8
(USSR), landed on Venus, launched. 3/27/1977:Two Boeing
747's collided (Canary Islands - 577 killed). 3/27/1979:US Supreme
Court ruled it unlawful to stop motorists unless there :was reason
to believe a law had been broken. 3/27/1980:Alexander
L. Keilland Oil Rig capsized (North Sea). 3/27/1980:Mt. St.
Helens erupted. 3/27/1981:First
Apollo Domain system shipped (Harvard University). 3/27/1986:Senate
approved aid for Nicaragua's Contra rebels. 3/27/1990:US began
test broadcasts of TV Marti to Cuba. 3/28 :Teacher's
Day (Czechoslovakia). 3/28/193 :Pertinax,
Roman emperor, assassinated. 3/28/1797:Patent for
the first washing machine awarded (Nathaniel Briggs). 3/28/1802:Pallas
(asteroid) discovered (Olbers). 3/28/1807:Vesta
(asteroid) discovered. (3/29?) 3/28/1852:Louis
Braille, teacher of the blind, died. 3/28/1854:Britain and
France declared war on Russia. 3/28/1862:Battle of
Glorietta Pass (New Mexico). 3/28/1881:P.T. Barnum
became partners with James A. Bailey. 3/28/1895:Boston
subway construction began. 3/28/1921:Earliest
"ice-out" at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
3/28/1930:Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara. 3/28/1937:Karol
Szymanowski, Polish composer, died. 3/28/1939:Madrid
surrendered to Francisco Franco (ending Spanish Civil War). 3/28/1941:Virginia
Woolf, British writer, died. 3/28/1943:Sergei
Rachmaninoff, composer, died. 3/28/1944:Stephen
Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist, died. 3/28/1953:James
Francis Thorpe, Olympic athlete, died. 3/28/1958:William
Christopher Handy, composer and "Father of the Blues," :died. 3/28/1966:"The
Avengers" first came to US prime time. 3/28/1968:Yuri
Gagarin, first man in space, died. (3/27?) 3/28/1969:Dwight
David Eisenhower, 34th US president, died. 3/28/1970:Digital
Equipment Corporation announced PDP-11. 3/28/1978:First
bilingual congressional committee report issued. 3/28/1979:Three Mile
Island nuclear power plant accident. 3/28/1983:Mt. Kilauea
(Hawaii) erupted. 3/28/1983:NOAA 8
(US), search and rescue satellite, launched. 3/28/1984:36
tornadoes in Carolinas. 3/28/1985:Marc
Chagall, French painter, died. 3/28/1987:Maria von
Trapp died. 3/29
:Commemoration Day (Madagascar). 3/29 :Youth Day
(Taiwan). 3/29/1638:Swedish
settled Christiana (Wilmington) Delaware. 3/29/1708:John
Partridge death hoax. 3/29/1772:Emanuel
Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher, died. 3/29/1807:Vesta (asteriod
at Bremen) discovered (Olbers). (3/28?) 3/29/1812:First
wedding at the White House (Mrs. Lucy Payne Washington
:(sister-in-law to James Madison) and Thomas Dodd, Supreme Court :Justice). 3/29/1882:First
Knights of Columbus charter granted (Connecticut). 3/29/1886:Coca-Cola
introduced. 3/29/1921:John
Burroughs, American naturalist and author, died. 3/29/1932:Jack
Benny's radio debut. 3/29/1947:Madagascar
rebelled against French colonization. 3/29/1951:Rodgers and
Hammerstein's "The King and I" opened on Broadway. 3/29/1961:23rd
Amendment to the US Constitution (DC residents vote) :ratified. 3/29/1970:Vera
Brittain, writer ("Testament of Youth"), died. 3/29/1971:Lt. William
Calley found guilty of the murder of 22 civilians in :Vietnam. 3/29/1973:Last US
troops left South Vietnam. 3/29/1974:Mariner 10
(US) made first flyby of Mercury. 3/29/1979:Committee
on Assassinations released its report that JFK shooting :was a
conspiracy. 3/29/1980:Annunzio
Paolo Mantovani, conductor, died. 3/29/1982:Mexico's El
Chinchon volcano erupted. 3/29/1989:Michael
Milken, junk bond king, indicted on securities fraud. 3/30 :Doctor's
Day.
3/30/1791:Construction began on the Knoxville Road. 3/30/1840:George
Bryan "Beau" Brummell, British fashion plate, died. 3/30/1842:Ether first
used as anaesthetic (Dr. Crawford W. Long). 3/30/1853:Abigail
Powers Fillmore, first wife of Millard Fillmore, died. 3/30/1858:Pencil with
eraser patented (H.L. Lipman). 3/30/1867:US
purchased Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million). 3/30/1870:15th
Amendment to the US Constitution (giving blacks the right to :vote)
became law. 3/30/1909:First
double-deck bridge opened to traffic (Queensboro Bridge, :NY). 3/30/1923:First
passenger ship circumnavigated the world (Laconia). 3/30/1956:Edmund
Clerihew Bentley, creator of Philip Trent, died. 3/30/1956:"Forbidden
Planet" opened. 3/30/1961:P.J.
Melotte, astronomer, died. 3/30/1962:Principal
photography concluded on "Dr. No." 3/30/1975:Da Nang
fell to North Vietnamese forces. 3/30/1981:President
Ronald Reagan shot by John Hinckley Jr. |