What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

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Ciaran Laval wrote:

Linden Lab announce changes to the openspace product five years ago today:

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Features/Announcing-changes-to-the-Openspace-product/ba-p/613606

It didn't end well!

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OH yes!  I remember!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 9th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
• 632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of Prophet Muhammad.
• 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
• 1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
• 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
• 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
• 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
• 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
• 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
• 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
• 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• 1956 – Soviet military suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
• 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• 1977 – The Hanafi Muslim Siege: In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
• 1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
• 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
• 1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
• 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
• 2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
• 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
• 2012 – Polish mountaineers Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb make the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

 

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is March 10th.  Here is today in history.

 

 

• 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
• 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
• 1607 – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
• 1735 – An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
• 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
• 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• 1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
• 1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
• 1830 – The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
• 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
• 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
• 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
• 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
• 1917 – Some provinces and cities in the Philippines was incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
• 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
• 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
• 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
• 1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
• 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
• 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
• 1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
• 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his plea.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
• 1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
• 1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing
• 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
• 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
• 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
• 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
• 2008 – The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is March 11th.  Here is today in history.

 

 

1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
928 - Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1387 - The Battle of Castagnaro begins.
1502 - Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1649 - The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1967/" target=_blank>1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st single (Arnold Layne)

1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1970 - 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1972 - "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 - Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Moslems hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1978 - Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 - USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
1980 - Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
1981 - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1981 - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1982 - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2012/" target=_blank>2012 - US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 12th.  Here is today in history.

 

538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 - University of Vienna founded
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 - Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1832 - The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
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Composer Giuseppe Verdi 1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
1881 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 - President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1908 - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1910 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 - Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1912 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/george-bernard-shaw.jpg" /> Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1919 - George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 - Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi.jpg" /> Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi 1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 - Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 - -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/harry-s-truman.jpg" /> 33rd US President Harry Truman 1951 - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 - Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 -Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia

1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 - SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 - 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
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African American Activist Malcolm X 1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 - 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 - Coal Miners' strike ended
1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
**Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://i.historyorb.com/larry-bird.jpg" /> NBA Legend Larry Bird 1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 - Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2012 - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
2012 - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2012 -China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

3-12-2013    Moments after the Catholic College of Cardinals filed into the Sistine Chapel, Italians in nearby homes began experiencing interference on their radios and television sets. Ham radio operators traced the interference to jamming devices placed around the chapel. Vatican sources explained "Jamming devices have been put in place to stop the cardinal-electors from communicating with the outside world using mobile phones or other devices."

3-12-2013    Rome Police notice a sudden and unexplained drop in reports of sexting.

3-12-2013    Clouds of black smoke descend on tailgaters in Saint Peter's Square. Shortly thereafter, reports surface of singing and dancing in the square by nearly naked people wielding bags of Doritos.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

3-12-2013

   Moments after the

Catholic College of Cardinals filed into the Sistine Chapel

, Italians in nearby homes began experiencing interference on their radios and television sets. Ham radio operators traced the interference to jamming devices placed around the Sistine Chapel. Vatican sources explained "

Jamming devices have been put in place to stop the cardinal-electors from communicating with the outside world using mobile phones or other devices."

3-12-2013

   Rome Police notice a sudden and unexplained drop in reports of sexting.

3-12-2013

   Clouds of black smoke descend on tailgaters in Saint Peter's Square. Shortly thereafter, reports surface of singing and dancing in the square by nearly naked people wielding bags of Doritos.

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OMG!  LOL Maddy!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is March 13th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
• 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
• 1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• 1591 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi Dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
• 1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
• 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
• 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
• 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
• 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
• 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
• 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
• 1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
• 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
• 1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
• 1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
• 1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
• 1954 – Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
• 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• 1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
• 1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
• 1985 – The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
• 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
• 1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
• 1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
• 1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
• 1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
• 1997 – The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
• 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
• 2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Phil Deakins]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

1940

– The Russo-Finnish

Winter War

ends.

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Just an aside - something I learned the other day...

The 'Molotov cocktail' was created by the Fins during that war, and they coined that term. The Russians were dropping cluster bombs on Finland but Molotov claimed they were dropping food parcels. The Fins used lit bottles of fuel and, because of Molotov's 'food parcels' claim, they called them Molotov cocktails.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Phil Deakins wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

1940

– The Russo-Finnish

Winter War

ends.

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Just an aside - something I learned the other day...

The 'Molotov cocktail' was created by the Fins during that war, and they coined that term. The Russians were dropping cluster bombs on Finland but Molotov claimed they were dropping food parcels. The Fins used lit bottles of fuel and, because of Molotov's 'food parcels' claim, they called them Molotov cocktails.

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Very Cool Phil!  Thanks for the info!

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

3-13-2013    Time lapse analysis of video from the Vatican's Chimney Cam reveals that the Catholic cardinals sequestered in the Sistine Chapel for the purpose of electing a new Pope have been sending messages via morse coded smoke signals. Local Ham radio operators have decoded the following messages...

12:06 - 12:12 AM    "We be jammin' !"
12:15 - 12:31 AM    "Dolan is rollin' "
01:06 - 01:56 AM    "TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!". 
02:04 - 02:08 AM    "#$%^& ". 
02:15 - 02:29 AM    "Ranjith snores like a girl".
03:18 - 03:26 AM    "Call me maybe?"
03:44 - 04:19 AM    "Beer and Merlot... no no!"
05:06 - 05:17 AM    "Brady pinched me! "

Meanwhile, revelers in St. Peter's Square played eucher while eating tiny tacos made from from communion hosts.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

3-13-2013

   Time lapse analysis of video from the

Vatican's Chimney Cam

reveals that the Catholic cardinals sequestered in the Sistine Chapel for the purpose of electing a new Pope have been sending messages via morse coded smoke signals. Local Ham radio operators have decoded the following messages...

12:06 - 12:12 AM    

"We be jammin' !"

12:15 - 12:31 AM    

"Dolan is rollin' "

01:06 - 01:56 AM    

"TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!". 

02:04 - 02:08 AM    

"#$%^& ". 

02:15 - 02:29 AM    

"Ranjith snores like a girl".

03:18 - 03:26 AM    

"Call me maybe?"

03:44 - 04:19 AM    

"Beer and Merlot... no no!"

05:06 - 05:17 AM    

"Brady pinched me! "

Meanwhile, revelers in St. Peter's Square played eucher while eating tiny tacos made from from communion hosts.

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LOL Maddy!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 14th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 44 BC – Casca, Cicero and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
• 313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
• 1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
• 1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
• 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
• 1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
• 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
• 1885 – The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
• 1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
• 1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
• 1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
• 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
• 1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás, 248 killed and 93 wounded.
• 1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.
• 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
• 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
• 1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
• 1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
• 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
• 1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
• 1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
• 1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• 1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
• 1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
• 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
• 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
• 2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
• 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
• 2012 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues its first verdict in the case of Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. At issue was the military use of children. Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

3-14-2014    The Higgs Boson is accidentally misplaced by inebriated CERN scientists during a celebration of the first anniversary of the confirmation of its discovery. CERN public relations director Ethyl Alcohol, in an attempt to ease concerns, explained that both discoveries and losses must be confirmed, and that CERN budget cuts would ensure that the Higgs Boson will remain discovered for the foreseeable future.

3-14-2016    Commercial shippers operating in the Indian Ocean disguise their container ships as Carnival Cruise Line passenger liners in hopes of warding off attacks by pirates, who widely believe their prospects are better in prison than aboard a Carnival ship. (Sorry Hippie, I couldn't resist!).

 

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

3-14-2014

   The Higgs Boson is accidentally misplaced by inebriated CERN scientists during a celebration of the first anniversary of the confirmation of its discovery. CERN public relations director Ethyl Alcohol, in an attempt to ease concerns, explained that both discoveries and losses must be confirmed, and that CERN budget cuts would ensure that the Higgs Boson will remain discovered for the foreseeable future.

3-14-2016

   Commercial shippers operating in the Indian Ocean disguise their container ships as Carnival Cruise Line passenger liners in hopes of warding off attacks by pirates, who widely believe their prospects are better in prison than aboard a Carnival ship. (Sorry Hippie, I couldn't resist!).

 

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Whew Maddy!  LOL!  Blue where are you?

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 15th.  Here is today in history.

 

2012 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns home after a three-week recovery from cancer surgery 2012 China's Premier Wen Jiabao blames the Dalai Lama for ongoing self-immolations by Tibetan monks 2011 Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council 2011 Florida's Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, and County commissioner Natacha Seijas are ousted in recall elections 2010 According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years 1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet 1998 "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater New York City 1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship 1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals 1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win 1994 Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs. Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200 1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 1992 U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation 1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20' 1991 Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil 1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil 1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto 1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform 1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop 1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK 1988 NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix 1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 761 performances 1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances 1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner 1987 New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket 1987 U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay 1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme 1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 1985 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields 1984 Tanzania adopts constitution 1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy 1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan 1982 KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) 1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days 1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater New York City 1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker 1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick 1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test 1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon 1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000 1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1977 "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV 1977 U.S. House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions 1976 Failed coup in Niger 1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) 1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns 1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle 1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show" 1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet 1970 "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 689 performances 1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan 1970 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in New York City 1969 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns 1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute 1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75") 1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" 1968 U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold 1968 Uprising in South Yemen 1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri 1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum 1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil 1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast 1966 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Striesand 1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote 1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City 1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty 1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton) 1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting 1962 "No Strings" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 580 performances 1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump 1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting 1962 Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in New York City 1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season 1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1959 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway 1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s 1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1958 "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances 1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, Montana (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts 1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled 1958 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test 1957 Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb 1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 2,715 performances 1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ 1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses 1955 U.S. Air Force unveils self-guided missile 1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar 1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 276 performances 1952 Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean 1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1950 "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 269 performances 1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in New York City 1950 New York City hires Dr. Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker" 1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting 1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs. Western Australia 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine 1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting 1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy 1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1945 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win 1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators 1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) 1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens 1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing 1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java 1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov 1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 1940 Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ 1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago, Illinois) 1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh North Carolina) 1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs. England at Kingston 1934 U.S. Information Service opens 1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination 1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York 1930 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched 1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 1926 Belgium's "black monday," franc falls 1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke 1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) 1919 American Legion forms (Paris) 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate 1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control 1915 Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea 1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) 1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court 1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" 1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote 1906 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd. 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa 1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden 1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) 1889 6 U.S. and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die 1887 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 1885 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns" 1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia vs. England at MCG 1875 1st U.S. cardinal (John McCloskey) invested 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7 1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana 1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee 1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes 1827 University of Toronto is chartered 1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state 1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River 1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina (British suffer heavy losses) 1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Captain Cook 1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England 1729 Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st U.S. nun, takes her vows, N Orleans 1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence 1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange 1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris 1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews 1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy 1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren 493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  Today in March 16th.  Here is today in history.

 

597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit sucide rather than submit to baptism
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarstrom at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29.
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty

1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 - KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 - Robert Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 - "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 - Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in NYC
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 - New English Bible published
1970 - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
2012 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2012 - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries

 

 

 

 

Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  Today in March 17th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
• 180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
• 455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
• 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
• 1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
• 1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
• 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
• 1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
• 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
• 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
• 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
• 1921 – The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
• 1939 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
• 1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• 1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
• 1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
• 1948 – The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
• 1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
• 1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
• 1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
• 1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
• 1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
• 1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
• 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
• 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
• 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
• 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
• 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
• 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
• 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
• 1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
• 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
• 2000 – More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide, orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
• 2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
• 2008 – Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
• 2011 – Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council adopts United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, authorizing a military intervention by member states to protect civilians in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

3-17-1996    High school junior Rebecca Simpson calls off her planned circumnavigation of the Earth by bicycle after discovering that the planet is more than 2/3 covered by water. Rebecca's geography teacher and mentor, Myron Finkelstein, said he would have caught the error in understanding if he'd had experience with bicycles, which he thought would float. "You learn something new every day" said the pair.

3-17-2017   Christianity is rattled to the core when academics researching the life of Saint Patrick discover that the shamrocks he used to teach the "Trinity" were, each and every one them, four leafed.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

3-17-1996

   High school junior Rebecca Simpson calls off her planned circumnavigation of the Earth by bicycle after discovering that the planet is more than 2/3 covered by water. Rebecca's geography teacher and mentor, Myron Finkelstein, said he would have caught the error in understanding if he'd had experience with bicycles, which he thought would float. "You learn something new every day" said the pair.

3-17-2017

  Christianity is rattled to the core when academics researching the life of Saint Patrick discover that the shamrocks he used to teach the "Trinity" were, each and every one them, four leafed.

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LOL Maddy!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 18th!  Here is today in history.

 

• 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
• 235 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
• 1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
• 1241 – Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
• 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
• 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, commencing the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
• 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
• 1848 – The March Revolution goes onin the German Confederation; in Berlin a struggle between citizens and military occurs, costing ca. 300 lives. This starts the revolution in Northern Germany.
• 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
• 1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
• 1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
• 1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
• 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• 1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
• 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
• 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
• 1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
• 1937 – The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
• 1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• 1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• 1945 – World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
• 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
• 1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
• 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
• 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
• 1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• 1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1971 – In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
• 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
• 1990 – The Germans in the German Democratic Republic are called to the first democratic elections in this former communist dictatorship.
• 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
• 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
• 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

 

 

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 19th.  Here is today in history.

 

1227 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1452 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1563 - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
1682 - Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1702 - James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 - Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1799 - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
1803 - Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina," premieres in Weimar
1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
1859 - Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
1864 - Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1865 - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 - Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1877 - Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1885 - Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask
1892 - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town)
1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1897 - Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1906 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
1907 - 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
1914 - Stanley Cup: Tor Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Vict Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1918 - S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
1925 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 - Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 - Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1940 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940 - French government of Daladier, falls
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 - Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1943 - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 - Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London
1945 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree to destroy all German factories
1945 - British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1946 - Fr Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas depts
1946 - Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR
1947 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1948 - Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
1950 - 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 - City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published
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Playwright Tennessee Williams 1953 - Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," premieres in NYC
1953 - 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)
1954 - 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, NYC
1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM
1954 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1954 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 - Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings v England
1955 - 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats La Salle 77-63
1956 - Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 - Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
1958 - Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan
1959 - "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 - "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 - 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
1962 - "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1962 - Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
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1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 - Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 gulden
1965 - Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
1966 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
1967 - Fr Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 - Howard University students seize administration building
1969 - British invade Anguilla
1969 -Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

1969 - The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.
1970 - W German chancellor & E German premier meet
1971 - Phila 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 - "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 perfs
1972 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1972 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972 - LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
1973 - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 - Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1975 - "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
1978 - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1978 - Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 - House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 - -21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
1981 - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1981 - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
1982 - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1982 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K..
1984 - "Kate & Allie," premieres
1984 - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of NY
1984 - KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 - Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1984 - STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1985 - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 - Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1987 - Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 - Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 - Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 - 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
1989 - Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 - Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1989 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1990 - 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 - KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 - St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1991 - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1992 - "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
1993 - Ice Pairs Championship at Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1994 - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Neth
1994 - Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
1994 - Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 - NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 - Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520
1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 - Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
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Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan 1995 - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 - NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 - Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 - Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
1997 - Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 - "Ah Wilderness!," opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
2001 - The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed on this day.
2012 -Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!

 

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 20th.  Here is today in history.

 

141 - 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1525 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1569 - Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé
1598 - French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty
1600 - The Linkoping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkoping, Sweden.
1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 - France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism
1697 - Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1800 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1814 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1833 - US & Siam sign commercial treaty
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1863 - Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals
1865 - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
1865 - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
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[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 21st.  Here is today in history.

 

• 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
• 717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
• 1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1188 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
• 1413 – Henry V becomes King of England.
• 1556 – In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
• 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
• 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
• 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
• 1821 – Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
• 1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
• 1857 – An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
• 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
• 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
• 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
• 1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• 1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
• 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
• 1937 – Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
• 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
• 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
• 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
• 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
• 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• 1963 – Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
• 1964 – In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").
• 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
• 1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
• 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
• 1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
• 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
• 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
• 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.

 

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It is March 22nd.  Here is today in history.

 

 

• 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
• 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
• 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
• 1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
• 1739 – Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
• 1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• 1829 – The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
• 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
• 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1906 – First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
• 1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
• 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
• 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
• 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
• 1963 – The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.
• 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• 1972 – Eisenstadt v. Baird decision by the United States Supreme Court allows unmarried persons the right to contraceptives
• 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• 1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
• 1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
• 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
• 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
• 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.
• 1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
• 2006 – ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
• 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

 

 

 

 

 

Peace!