March 3
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March 3
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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
March 3 is:
I Want You to Be Happy Day - Treat others well even if you are not feeling happy. Sponsor: Harriet Grimes
Mount Rushmore Day - Mount Rushmore was dedicated on this day in 1933, an was completed October 31 , 1941.
National Anthem Day - In 1931, President Hoover signed a bill declaring 'The Star-spangled Banner'' the U.S. national anthem.
Born on this Day
1549: Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet
1583: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher, author
1606: William Davenant, English poet, dramatist
1606: English poet Edmund Waller
1831: Industrialist George Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car
1847: Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
1872: Baseball's "Wee" Willie Keeler
1895: U.S. Army Gen. Matthew Ridgway
1903: Hollywood fashion designer Adrian
1904: Actress Mayo Methot
1911: Actress (Harlean Carpenter) Jean Harlow (Platinum Blonde, Red
Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady)
1920: Actor James Doohan
1920: Golfer Julius Boros
1921: Actress Diana Barrymore (Blythe)
1925: Singer Enzo Stuarti
1933: Lee Radziwill Ross
1947: Singer Jennifer Warnes
1950: Actor Ed Marinaro
1950: Actor-director Tim Kazurinsky
1958: Actress Miranda Richardson
1962: Olympic track and field gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1953: Singer-musician Robyn Hitchcock
1961: Actress Mary Page Keller
1962: Football player Herschel Walker
1962: Olympic track and field gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Knrsee
1966: Rapper-actor Tone-Loc
1969: Rock musician John Bigham (Fishbone)
1970: Actress Julie Bowen ("Three")
1974: Actor David Faustino
1976: Actor Danny Masterson ("That 70's Show")
1982: Actress Jessica Biel ("7th Heaven")
1033: Death of St. Cunegunda, Queen of Bavaria
1191: Philip II of fRance and his army leave Sicily
1193: Death of al-Malik en Nasr Salah-ud-Din Yusuf ibn
Yusuf
1431: Election of Pope Eugenius IV
1461: Edward IV takes possession of the English Crown
1497: All candidates for academic degrees at the Sorbonne
required to believe in the Immaculate Conception
1503: Caesar Borgia given the Papal Golden Rose
1513: Ponce de Leon sails from Puerto Rico to find the
Fountain Of Youth
1525: Cardinal Wolsey names Richard Whiting as Abbot of
Glastonbury
1605: Death of Pope Clement VIII
1612: Burning of Bartholomew Legate, at Smithfield,
England, for heresy
1639: Harvard College named
1791: Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be
established.
1812: Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill.
1845: Florida became the 27th state.
1845: For the first time, the U.S. Congress passed
legislation on this day overriding a President's veto. President John Tyler was in office
at the time.
1849: Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be
minted.
1849: The Home Department, forerunner of the Interior
Department, was established.
1851: Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the
3-cent piece.
1854: Harriet Smithson, the actress who inspired
"Symphonie fantastique" and then became Hector Berlioz's wife, died more than a
decade after their separation but was still officially Mrs. Berlioz.
1875: The Georges Bizet opera "Carmen" premiered
in Paris.
1879: Attorney Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman
to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1885: The U.S. Post Office began offering special delivery
for first-class mail.
1887: Anne Mansfield Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home
of Captain and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of their blind and deaf
6-year-old daughter, Helen.
1915: The now famous film, "Birth of a Nation",
debuted in New York City. The motion picture brought Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Wallace
Reid to the silver screen in what has frequently been called the greatest silent film ever
produced.
1918: Germany, Austria and Russia signed the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War I. (The treaty was annulled
by the November 1918 armistice.)
1931: An act of Congress designated "The Star
Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States.
1931: Cab Calloway and his Orchestra recorded "Minnie
the Moocher" on Brunswick Records. It was the first recording of the famous
bandleader's theme song.
1939: It was on this day that a new craze began to sweep
college campuses. Getting a start at the Ivy League's Harvard University, the much
publicized fad began to take shape. The fad? Goldfish swallowing.
1940: Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded
"Frenesi" for RCA Victor.
1952: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York's Feinberg
Law banning Communist teachers in the U.S.
1965: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor
Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of
Music".
1969: Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission
to test the lunar module.
1974: Nearly 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10
crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.
1985: British coal miners ended their year-long strike,
the longest and costliest labor dispute in British history.
1987: Comedian Danny Kaye died in Los Angeles at age 74.
1988: The US House of Representatives rejected a package
of 30 (M) million dollars in non-lethal aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
1989: Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole suggested that
Defense Secretary-designate John Tower be given the opportunity to appear before the
Senate to answer allegations against him.
1990: President Bush sparked controversy by expressing
opposition to the settlement of Soviet Jewish refugees in East Jerusalem.
1991: 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing
737-200 inexplicably crashed while approaching the Colorado Springs airport.
1991: Allied military commanders met with Iraqi military commanders to arrange terms of a formal cease-fire in the Gulf War.
1991: In a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist
Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on
amateur video.
1992: In so-called Junior Tuesday political contests,
Democrat Paul Tsongas won primaries in Maryland and Utah; Bill Clinton won in Georgia,
Jerry Brown in Colorado. Among Republicans, President Bush swept Georgia, Maryland and
Colorado.
1992: An underground coal mine explosion in Kozlu, Turkey,
claimed 270 lives.
1993: "A Short Symphony" by George Perle, which
is the title of the work as well as a description of it was performed by the Boston
Symphony. Seiji Ozawa conducted a concert that also included the Faure Requiem and
Mozart's Ninth Piano Concerto with soloist Maria Joao Pires.
1993: Health pioneer Albert Sabin, developer of the oral
polio vaccine, died in Washington DC at age 86.
1994: Amid continuing trade tensions with Japan, President
Clinton issued an executive order reviving an expired provision of US trade law known as
Super 301, which provided a strict timetable for results.
1995: President Clinton held a news conference in which he
asserted his administration had built a safer world and stronger economy while Republicans
were trying to cut money for the needy to give tax breaks to the rich.
1995:The dollar plunged to a new low against the Japanese
yen.
1996: Israel declared all-out war on the militant group
Hamas after a bus bomb in Jerusalem killed 19 people, including the bomber, the third such
suicide attack in eight days.
1997: Vice President Al Gore, under fire for his
aggressive role in campaign fund raising, acknowledged he'd solicited donations from his
White House office but insisted he did not do "anything wrong, much less
illegal." Yet, he said he would never do it again.
1998: Presidential confidant Vernon Jordan testified
before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter.
1998: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee that his company wasn't a monopoly out to crush rivals in the
Internet software market.
1998: The Supreme Court ruled that local lawmakers' votes
are immune to lawsuits even if they had been based on illegal or discriminatory motives.
1998: Larry Doby, the first black player in the American
League, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1998: Former CBS News president Fred W. Friendly died in
New York at age 82.
1999: The Supreme Court ruled that public schools had to
finance one-on-one nursing care for some disabled students throughout the school day.
1999: Monica Lewinsky, in an ABC interview timed to
coincide with the publication of her book, recounted for Barbara Walters some of the
fondest, as well as most painful, aspects of her relationship with President Clinton.
2000: Former dictator General Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile a free man, 16 months after he was detained in Britain on torture charges.
2000: Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian college, said it was lifting its ban on interracial dating.
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