March 2, 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
1316: Robert II king of Scots from 1371
1459: Pope Adrian VI, Original name ADRIAN FLORENSZOON BOEYENS the only
Dutch pope. He was elected in 1522 and was the last non-Italian pope until the election of
John Paul II in 1978.
1779: U.S. statesman Joel R(oberts) Poinsett. He was noted primarily for
his diplomacy in Latin America and for introducing the poinsettia to the US.
1793: Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas (near
Lexington, Virginia).
1810: Leo XIII, 256th Catholic Pope
1817: The greatest Hungarian epic poet János Arany
1829: Carl Schurz, political reformer and Civil War general
1875: German scholar and Lutheran church historian Hans Lietzmann. He
was noted for his investigations of Christian origins.
1876: Pope Pius XII
1897: Publisher Max Schuster
19??: Christian artist Dottie Rambo
19??: Terry Meeusen
1900: German-born American composer Kurt Weill
1902: American physicist Edward U(hler) Condon
1904: Author Theodore Geisel ("Dr. Suess") was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts. He got his pen name by adding "Dr." to his middle
name. His first book was turned down by 27 publishers.
1909: Baseball player Mel Ott
1917: Actor And Bandleader (Desiderio Alberto Arnez y de Acha III) Desi
Arnaz
1919: Actress (Phyllis Isley) Jennifer Jones
1923: Bluegrass singer-musician Doc Watson
1930: Actor John Cullum (Ambition, Glory, Marie, The Sweet Country)
1931: Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
1931: Author Tom Wolfe
1934: Actor Al Waxman
1941: Singer Lou Reed
1941: Actor Actor Jon Finch
1942: Author John Irving
1942: Former televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker
1943: Musician George Benson
1944: Singer Lou (Firbank) Reed (Walk on the Wild Side, Charley's Girl;
I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony)
1948: Irish blues-rock guitarist, singer, and composer Rory Gallagher
1949: Singer Eddie Money
1950: Singer Karen Carpenter (We've Only Just Begun, Top of the World,
Please Mr. Postman)
1951: Actress Cassie Yates
1952: Actress Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live)
1955: Singer Jay Osmond
1956: Singer (The Cowsills) John Cowsill
1956: Rock musician (AC/DC) Mark Evans
1958: Tennis player Kevin Curren
1962: Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi
1977: Actress Heather McComb
0274: Mani, prophet, founder of Manichaeism, dies in a
Persian prison
0672: Death of St. Chad
0986: Death of Lothair, King of France
1127: Murder of St. Charles the Good (the Dane)
1160: Excommunication of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
1296: Bull of Pope Boniface VIII "Clericis
Laicos"
1458: George Podebrad elected King of Bohemia
1484: Issuance of Letters Patent by King Richard III of
England, founding the English College of Arms
1492: Ferdinand V, King of Spain, banishes 800,000 Jews
1498: Vasco da Gama arrives in the Sultanate of Mozambique
1568: Pardo returns to Santa Elena, Florida, after
charting a route to the Mississippi River
1585: Dr. William Parry, English M.P., executed for
alleged high treason
1585: Sir Francis Drake sails for the West Indies as a
Privateer
1629: The Speaker of the House of Commons is forcibly kept
in his chair
1630: Charles I decides to rule without Parliament;
Eliot's 3 Resolutions
1713: Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to Concert Master at Weimar. Bach composed his "Toccatas" and some of his other best organ music here.
1776: Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston.
1819: The Territory of Arkansas is organized.
1836: Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1853: The Territory of Washington is organized.
1861: Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
1866: Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville,
Connecticut, began making sewing machine needles.
1867: The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress.
1877: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the
winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though
Tilden had won the popular vote and was just one electoral vote shy of victory.
1897: President Cleveland vetoed legislation that would
have required a literacy test for immigrants.
1899: Congress established Mount Ranier National Park.
1901: Congress passes the Platt amendment, which limits
Cuban automomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
1903: The Martha Washington Hotel opened for business in
New York City. The hotel featured 416 rooms and was the first hotel exclusively for women.
1908:An international conference on arms reduction opens
in London.
1908: Gabriel Lippman introduces the new three-dimensional
color photography at the Academy of Sciences.
1917: Congress passes the Jones Act which makes Puerto
Rico territory of the U.S. and makes the inhabitants U.S. citizens.
1923: Time magazine made its debut. The first issue was 32
pages and featured a charcoal sketch of Congressman Joseph Gurney Cannon on the cover. The
magazine was founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden.
1923: Italy, Mussolini admits that women have a right to
vote, but declares that the time is not right.
1924: Sibelius more or less wrapped up his composing
career when he wrote down the last double-bar on his Seventh Symphony. For the next 33
years he would compose almost nothing else.
1925: State and federal highway officials developed a
nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped, numbered
marker.
1929: US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by
US Congress.
1930: Author D. H. Lawrence died in Vence, France.
1933: The motion picture "King Kong," starring
Fay Wray, had its world premiere in New York at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy.
1939: Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected
Pope. He took the name Pius XII.
1939: The Massachusetts Legislature voted to ratify the
Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone
into effect.
1943:The World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began as
American and Australian warplanes intercepted a Japanese convoy that was enroute to Lae,
New Guinea. Most of the 16-vessel convoy was destroyed and 3,000 men killed.
1943: The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900
tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour.
1944: The Academy Awards presentation moved from a banquet
hall to Graumann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Twenty-four year old Jennifer Jones won
an Oscar for Best Actress in the film, "The Song of Bernadette". Jack Benny was
the host that year.
1945: MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the
Philippines.
1945: Toward the close of World War II, units of the U.S.
9th Army reached the Rhine River opposite Dusseldorf, Germany.
1946: Ho Chi Minh was elected president of North Vietnam.
1949: An American B-50 Superfortress, the "Lucky Lady
II," landed at Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first nonstop round-the-world
flight. Capt. James Gallagher completed the 23,452 mile flight in 94 hours 1 minute.
1951: The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern
submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines.
1951: The East beat the West, 111-94, in the first
National Basketball Association All-Star Game.
1955: The William Inge play "Bus Stop" opened at
the Music Box Theater in New York.
1956: France grants independence to Morocco.
1962: Burmese army takes over Burma in a coup.
1962: Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain scored 100
points and broke an NBA record as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks
169-147. Chamberlain broke NBA marks for the most field goal attempts (63), most field
goals made (36), most free throws made (28), most points in a half (59), most field goal
attempts in a half (37), most field goals made in a half (22), and most field goal
attempts in one quarter (21). The 316 total points scored tied an NBA record.
1968: Lyndon B. Johnson watches as the Lockheed Galaxy,
world's largest airplane, rolls off the assembly line in Georgia.
1972: U.S. spacecraft Pioneer 10 was launched. It passed
close by Jupiter and Neptune before leaving the solar system. It is now more than six
billion miles from Earth.
1973: Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, which is
occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10
hostages.
1974: A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that
President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
1974: The price of a first-class postage stamp was raised
from 8-to-10 cents.
1974: Stevie Wonder got five Grammy Awards for his album,
"Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The Sunshine of My Life"
and "Superstition".
1977: The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict
code of ethics that limited outside earnings and required detailed financial disclosures
by its members.
1978: Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first
non-Russian, non-American in space.
1981: The U.S. plans to send 20 more advisors and $25
million in military aid to El Salvador.
1983: Pope John Paul II began a visit to violence-torn
Central America as he arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica.
1984: The first McDonald's franchise was closed in Des
Plaines, Illinois. After 30 years of selling burgers, McDonald's opened a new
drive-through restaurant across the street.
1985: The government approved a screening test for AIDS
that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded
from the blood supply.
1986: Zafer Al Masri, the pro-Jordanian mayor of the city
of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was slain in an attack claimed by the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1987: President Reagan withdrew his nomination of acting
CIA Director Robert M. Gates to head the spy agency in the face of possible rejection by
the Senate. (The next day, the president nominated William H. Webster.)
1987: Government officials reported that the median price
for a new home had topped $100,000 for the first time. The new six-figure price: $110,700,
up from $94,600.
1988: The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to
order the U.S. to submit to binding arbitration its plan to close the observer mission of
the Palestinian Liberation Organization. (A federal court later stopped the US from
closing the mission.)
1989: Representatives from the 12 European Community
nations agreed to ban all production of CFC's (chloro-fluorocarbons) by the end of this
century.
1990: More than 6,000 drivers went on strike against
Greyhound Lines, Inc. (The company, declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the
strikers.)
1990: A grenade attack on a discotheque in Panama claimed
the life of a U.S. soldier and injured 28 other people.
1991: The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution
dictating allied demands that Iraq had to meet before a formal cease-fire was declared in
the Persian Gulf War.
1991: Iraq released CBS newsman Bob Simon and his crew,
held captive for nearly six weeks.
1992: A jury was seated in Simi Valley, California, in the
assault trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney
King.
1992: The U.N. General Assembly welcomed eight former
Soviet republics and San Marino as its newest members.
1992: Actress Sandy Dennis died in Westport, Connecticut
at age 54.
1993: The third day of a standoff between federal agents
and Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, local radio stations broadcast a taped statement in
which the group's leader, David Koresh, promised to surrender; however, the standoff
continued.
1994: The government of Mexico and Indian rebels reached a
tentative accord on most insurgent demands for the ending the rebellion, including
sweeping political reforms.
1995: The Senate rejected the balanced-budget amendment 65
in favor, 35 against, two votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
1995: The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on a mission
to study the far reaches of the universe.
1995: The last U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia were
evacuated.
1995: British trader Nick Leeson, blamed for the collapse
of Barings PLC, was detained in Germany.
1996: Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole re-ignited his
presidential campaign with an overwhelming victory in the South Carolina Republican
primary.
1997: It was revealed that Vice President Gore had raised
millions of dollars for the 1996 campaign through direct telephone solicitations, and that
some of the calls were made on special phones installed in government buildings for that
purpose.
1998: The UN Security Council unanimously endorsed
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's deal to open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms
inspectors.
1998: A New Jersey state appeals court ruled that the Boy
Scouts of America discriminated against an assistant scoutmaster when it ousted him for
being gay. The Superior Court appellate panel rejected arguments by the Boy Scouts the
organization was protected by a constitutional right of free association and was exempt as
a private, voluntary association from anti-discrimination laws.
1998: The Justice Department told an appeals court Monday
Microsoft Corp. broke a promise and used monopoly power to force its Web browsing software
on personal computer makers.
1998: A shoving and shouting match interrupted
parliamentary voting for South Korea's prime minister. Shortly after voting to confirm Kim
Jong-pil as prime minister began, President Kim Dae-jung's National Congress for New
Politics and its coalition partner United Liberal Democrats stopped the balloting. Amid
shouting and angry exchanges, some lawmakers of Kim Jong-pil's ULD sat on the ballot box
to prevent votes from being cast. Speaker Kim Soo-han adjourned the session 30 minutes
after voting started because of the turmoil.
1999: Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan launched a
third presidential bid.
1999: Texas Governor George W. Bush announced he was
forming a presidential exploratory committee.
1999: Singer Dusty Springfield died at her home west of
London at age 59.
2000: Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet left Britain for his homeland, hours after he was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of human rights abuses.
2000: A federal jury in Washington convicted Maria Hsia, a friend and political supporter of former Vice President Al Gore, for arranging more than $100,000 in illegal donations during the 1996 presidential campaign. Hsia was
only sentenced to three months of home confinement.
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