March 1,2001
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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
For a list of more Celebrations for the month of
March see: March Is
The 'March is' page also includes the National Calendar of Events for March
from Zondervan.
The daily and weekly celebrations for the entire month
of March 2001 (March 1 - 31) are available on Celebrate
Today in March 2001.
Born on this Day
1389: St. Antonius
1810: Frederic Chopin born, in Warsaw. Chopin's love life was romantic
but not especially successful. He composed some of his best music in honor of a young lady
in Warsaw whom he was too shy to approach. Tuberculosis killed him at the age of 39.
1837: Author William Dean Howells (Life of Lincoln, A Modern Instance,
The Rise of Silas Lapham)
1848: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
1860: Suzanna Salter, first female mayor
1904: Bandleader Glenn Miller born Clarinda, Iowa. Miller disappeared
Dec. 15, 1944 over the English Channel on a flight to Paris where he was scheduled to give
a show. (Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String
of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction)
1910: Actor David Niven born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Niven won
an Oscar 1958 for "Separate Table." His other films include "Around the
World Eighty Days," "Casino Royale" and "The Pink Panther."
1917: Poet Robert Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle, The Dolphin, National
Book Award for Poetry [1960])
1917: Singer (Frances) Dinah Shore (Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Yes
My Darling Daughter, Anniversary Song, Buttons and Bows, Blues in the Night)
1917: Country singer Cliffie Stone
1922: Mad Magazine founder William Maxwell Gaines born in New York City.
"Mad," launched 1952, as an irreverent monthly with humorous illustrations and
writing that satirized mass media and politicians.
1922: Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitzhak Rabin
1922: Comedian Michael Flanders
1924: Former astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton
1926: Former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle
1926: Actor Robert Clary
1927: Singer Harry Belafonte (The Banana Boat Song, Jamaica Farewell,
Mary's Boy Child)
1927: Former US Solicitor General Robert H. Bork
1935: Actor Robert (Falk) Conrad (The Wild Wild West, High Mountain
Rangers with sons: Christian & Shane, Crossfire, Lady in Red, Samurai Cowboy)
1935: Author Judith Rossner
1944: Rock star Roger Daltry (Group: The Who)
1944: Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann)
1945: Actor Dirk Benedict
1947: Actor Alan Thicke
1954: Actor/Director Ron Howard
1954: Actress Catherine Bach
1954: Country singer Janis Gill (Sweethearts of the Rodeo)
1956: Actor ("Wings") Tim Daly
1957: Singer-musician Jon Carroll
1961: Football player Mike Rozier
1962: Rock musician Bill Leen (formerly of The Gin Blossoms)
1966: Actor John David Cullum
1974: Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar
1244: Fall of Montsegur (Albigensian Crusade)
1360: Chaucer ransomed from his French captors
1382: Maillotin Rising, Paris (Peasant Revolt)
1383: Charles IV, King of France, subdues Paris
1383: Death of Amadeo, the "Green Count" of
Savoy
1410: Burning of John Badby, tailor, for heresy
1410: Total Solar Eclipse
1469: William Caxton begins to translate "Receuil of
the Histories of Troy" from the French, to become the first book printed in English
1524: Giovanni de Verrazzano sights land at Cape Fear,
North Carolina
1527: Patrick Hamilton burnt for heresy, in Scotland
1546: George Wishart burnt for heresy
1555: Nostradamus publishes his prophecies, entitled
"Centuries"
1562: Massacre of Vassy
1565: Rio de Janiero, Brazil, founded
1638: First Swedish settlers arrive in North America
1638: Scots National Covenant signed
1642: York, Maine becomes the first American city to
incorporate.
1643: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian organist, composer,
dies
1661: Richard Zouche, a founder of international law, dies
1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested
for the supposed practice of withcraft in Salem, Mass.
1780: Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish
slavery.
1781: The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the
Continental Congress. They remained the supreme law of the nation until March 4, 1789.
1790: Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1803: Ohio becomes the 17th state.
1826: J.H. Hackett of New York debuted "Love a
Village" at the Park Theater New York City. One month later, he played London,
England, becoming the first American actor to appear abroad.
1845: President Tyler signed a congressional resolution to
annex the Republic of Texas.
1864: Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive
a medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College Boston.
1864: Patent issued for taking & projecting motion
pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though)
1867: Nebraska became the 37th state of the Union.
1872: Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National
Park.
1873: E. Remington and Sons of Lion, New York, began the
manufacturing of the first practical typewriter.
1875: Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is
invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
1886: The Battle of Adowa began Ethiopia between the
forces of Emperor Menelik II and Italian troops sent to enforce Italy's claim to colonial
rule. The result was a crushing defeat for Italy, which later agreed to recognize
Ethiopian independence.
1890: Sherlock Holmes made his U.S. book debut as J.P.
Lippincott published the "A Study Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
1907: There are only 15,000 Jews left in Odessa, Russia.
The attacks on the Jews continue as more and more evacuate.
1911: Jose Ordonez is elected the president of Uruguay.
1912: Captain Albert Berry of the Jefferson Barracks St.
Louis, Missouri, made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. This first
in-flight parachute jump was from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis. He
jumped from an altitude of 1,500 feet at a speed of 50 mph.
1915: The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German
supplies, and assure the safety of the neutrals.
1919: The Korean coalition proclaims their independence
from Japan.
1921: The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer
in London. German delagations decides to quit all talks.
1928: Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded "Ol'
Man River" for Victor Records.
1932: The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was
kidnapped from the family's home near Hopewell, New Jersey. (Remains identified as those
of the baby were found the following May.)
1937: U.S. Steel raised workers' wages. Steelworkers
received a raise to $5 per day, about 40¢ per hour.
1940: "Native Son" by Richard Wright was first
published.
1940: U.S. envoy, Sumner Welles meets with Hitler in
Berlin.
1941: FM Radio began when station W47NV Nashville,
Tennessee, started operations. W47NV was the first commercial FM radio station to receive
a license, some 20 years after its AM radio counterpart, KDKA Pittsburgh.
1941: Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
1942: Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
1943: The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on
all European railway lines.
1945: President Franklyn D. Roosevelt, having just
returned from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success an address to a joint
session of Congress.
1949: The "Brown Bomber," Joe Louis announced
that he would retire from boxing as world heavyweight boxing champion. Louis held the
title longer than any other, 11 years, eight months and seven days.
1954: Armed Puerto Rican nationalists, firing wildly from
the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounded five congressmen.
1958: Doctors declare that President Eisenhower has fully
recovered from his stroke.
1960: 1,000 Black students pray and sing the national
anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1961: President Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
1966: Moscow reports that a space probe has crashed on
Venus.
1967: U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York, accused
of misconduct, was denied his seat the 90th Congress. (The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 1969
that Powell had to be seated.)
1968: Country music stars, Johnny Cash and June Carter,
got married.
1968: Elton John's first record, "I've Been Loving
You" was released by Philips Records in England.
1969: Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from
baseball.
1974: A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon's
aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
1981: Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a
hunger strike at the Maze Prison Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
1983: President and Mrs. Reagan treated Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II and Prine Philip to a Mexican lunch at the president's California ranch.
1983: A freak tornado tore through downtown Los Angeles,
injuring 33 people; another twister touched down Pasadena.
1985: CBS stock rose four points on the New York Stock
Exchange amid reports Ted Turner was considering a bid to buy control of the network.
(Turner later dropped his bid.)
1985: The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war
would block the sun, causing a "nuclear winter"
1986: A directive signed by President Reagan went into
effect, making possible the execution of military people convicted of espionage during
peacetime.
1987: Five people were killed at the Pyrenees ski resort
of Luz-Ardiden when a damaged chairlift pitched dozens of skiers onto rocks and snow as
far as 150 feet below.
1987: S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals, 90
years after the lick-and-stick stamps were introduced as a way for businesses to bonus
their customers -- who then used the stamps to buy merchandise from catalog stores.
1988: President Reagan arrived Brussels, Belgium for the
first NATO summit six years.
1988: Iraq said it had 16 missiles into Tehran the first
long-range rocket attack on the Iranian capital since the Iran-Iraq war began.
1989: The Senate overwhelmingly approved Dr. Louis W.
Sullivan to be secretary of health and human services and Admiral James D. Watkins to be
secretary of energy.
1990: The controversial Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear
power plant won federal permission to go on-line after two decades of protests and legal
struggles.
1991: President Bush said "we've kicked the Vietnam
syndrome once and for all" following the allied victory the Gulf War. The U.S.
Embassy Kuwait officially reopened.
1991: Edward H. Land, inventor of polarizing filters and
Polaroid photography, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 81.
1992: 23 people were killed in the collapse of a building
housing a cafe in East Jerusalem.
1993: Authorities near Waco, Texas, continued negotiating
with Branch Davidians holed up in their bullet-scarred compound, a day after a furious gun
battle between the Davidians and federal agents that left ten people dead.
1993: The Cleveland Quartet played Schubert's "Death
and the Maiden" Quartet at Carnegie Hall. That was the first half of the program; the
second half was one of the late Beethoven quartets, the Opus 131 in C-sharp minor.
1994: Falling four votes shy of a two-thirds majority, the
Senate rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
1994: A Lebanese immigrant opened fire on a van of Hasidic
students on New York's Brooklyn Bridge, killing one of them.
1994: At the 36th annual Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston
won best female pop vocalist and record of the year for "I Will Always Love
You;" "The Bodyguard" won album of the year.
1995: Somalia militiamen loyal to warlord Mohammed Farrah
Aidid seized control of Mogadishu airport after peacekeepers withdrew.
1995: At the 37th annual Grammy Awards Los Angeles, Sheryl
Crow won record of the year for "All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "MTV
Unplugged" was named best album.
1996: President Clinton slapped economic sanctions on
Colombia, concluding that Colombian authorities had not fully cooperated with the U.S. war
on drugs
1996: The Food and Drug Administration approved a powerful
new AIDS drug, saying ritonavir could prolong slightly the lives of severely ill patients.
1997: Severe storms hit Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Mississippi, and spawned tornadoes in Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
1997: Rescue teams fought snow, high winds and wild dogs
as they tried to bring help to an earthquake-devastated region in northwest Iran, where
the death toll was estimated at three-thousand.
1998: Key U.S. senators called on President Clinton to
reverse course and make ousting President Saddam Hussein a stated U.S. goal in Iraq.
"I would say it's our goal to remove him from power because ... as long as he's
there, we're faced with this enormous challenge," Sen. John McCain said on NBC's
"Meet the Press."
1998: Between 10 and 30 people died in fighting between
Serbian police and ethnic Albanians in Serbia's mainly Albanian southern province of
Kosovo. It appeared to be the worst outbreak of bloodshed in two years of deteriorating
nationalist tensions in Kosovo where pro-independence ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs by
nine to one in the 2 million population.
1999: The General Accounting Office released an audit of
the Internal Revenue Service which found chronic problems in the agency's record-keeping.
1999: An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels in a Ugandan
national park left eight foreign tourists, including two Americans, and a park guard dead.
2000: Classes were canceled at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township,
Michigan, a day after 6-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot by a fellow first-grader.
2000: Candidates in both major parties turned their focus to Super Tuesday, a day after Texas
Governor George W. Bush won primaries in Virginia, North Dakota and Washington state.
2000: A gunman in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, fatally shot three men and wounded two others.
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