March 8
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March 8
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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
March 8 is:
International Women's Day - This day commemorates a demonstration by New York City women garment workers in 1857. Sponsor: United Nations.
Saint John of God Feast Day - Patron saint of heart patients, hospitals, nurses, and the sick. He isalso patron saint of booksellers and
printers.
Stretch Your Legs Day - On the birthday of Cyd Charisse (1923), the great. dancer and actress with the long, long legs, stretch your own legs in a dance of your own. Charisse was born as Tula Finklea in Amarillo, Texas. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Born on this Day
1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born. CPE Bach wasn't as great a
composer as his father. But he was a more popular composer by far during the last years of
the Baroque era and for decades after his death.
1783: U.S. First Lady Hannah Van Buren ( wife of Martin Van Buren, the
eighth president of the U.S.)
1787: Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
1841: US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, the
"Great Dissenter."
1858: Ruggiero Leoncavallo, the composer of "Pagliacci," was
born in Naples.
1859: Scottish children's writer Kenneth Grahame, author of "The
Wind in the Willows"
1865: American printer and type designer Frederic William Goudy
1879: German nuclear chemist Otto Hahn, discoverer of nuclear fission
1888: Writer Stuart Chase ( Men and Machines, Power of Words)
1909: Actress Claire Trevor
1921: Actress-dancer Cyd Charisse
1936:Actress Sue Ane Langdon
1939: Baseball player-turned-author Jim Bouton
1943: Actress Lynn Redgrave
1944: Actress Susan Clark
1945: Actor-director Micky Dolenz
1947: Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager
1949: Actress Jaime Lyn Bauer
1953: Baseball player Jim Rice
1958: Singer Gary Numan
1959: Actor Aidan Quinn
1961:Actress Camryn Manheim ("The Practice")
1963: Actress Kathy Ireland
1969: Actress Andrea Parker ("The Pretender")
1976: Actor Freddie Prinze Junior
1977: Actor James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek")
1978: Rhythm-and-blues singer Kameelah Williams (702)
1984: Pop musicians David, Bob and Clint Moffatt
0648: Death of St. Felix of Dunwich
0690: Death of St. Julian of Toledo
1144: Death of Pope Celestine II
1198: Election of Phillip, King of Germany
1550: Death of St. John of God
1556: Holy Trinity College at Oxford, England, chartered
1574: An English expedition sets out from Galway to hunt
down and kill pirate and clan chieftain Grace O'Malley (Granuaile)
1616: Edward Brounde sails from Dartmouth, England to Cape
Cod, looking for pearls
1618: Johann Kepler discovers Third Law of Planetary
Motion
1622: Crown forbids owners of Virginia colony from
continuing the lottery
1702: England's Queen Anne ascended the throne upon the
death of King William the Third.
1854: US Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second
landing in Japan. Within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
1855: A train passed over the first railway suspension
bridge at Niagara Falls, New York.
1874: The 13th president of the United States, Millard
Fillmore, died in Buffalo, New York.
1887: The telescopic fishing rod – made of steel
tubes inside one another – was patented by Everett Horton.
1894: A dog license law was enacted in the state of New
York. This was the first such animal control law in the U.S. It cost dog owners a $2
annual fee per dog in cities with a population over 1,200,000.
1917: Strikes and riots in St. Petersburg marked the start
of the Russian Bolshevik revolution. (New Style calendar)
1917: The U-S Senate voted to limit filibusters by
adopting the cloture rule.
1921: After Germany failed to make its first war
reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in
Germany's industrial heartland.
1930: The 27th president of the United States, William
Howard Taft, died in Washington.
1942: Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma, during
World War Two.
1944: U-S bombers resumed bombing Berlin.
1953: A census bureau report indicated that 239,000
farmers had quit tilling the soil and planting crops (giving up farming) over the past two
years.
1954: A world record for the quarter mile was set by Herb
McKenley in Melbourne, Australia. Herb ran the distance in 46.8 seconds.
1957: The International Boxing Club was ruled a monopoly,
in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
1961: The U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrived in
Holy Loch, Scotland, from Charleston, S.C., to become the first American sub to use the
Scottish naval base.
1961: Conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham died at the age of 81.
1965: Nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam.
1971: A new undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion
was crowned, as "Smokin'" Joe Frazier of Philadelphia won a decision over
Muhammad Ali, who was previously undefeated.
1975: Olivia Newton-John reached the top spot on the pop
charts with "Have You Never Been Mellow".
1986: Four French television crew members were abducted in
west Beirut; a caller claimed Islamic Jihad was responsible. (All four were eventually
released.)
1985: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that
407,700 Americans were millionaires – more than double the total of just five years
before.
1987: The emotional process of identifying victims from
the British ferry disaster continued in Zeebrugge, Belgium, two days after the
"Herald of Free Enterprise" capsized, claiming 189 lives; meanwhile, Sunday
services were held in honor of the victims.
1988: Vice President George Bush was the big winner in the
"Super Tuesday" Republican presidential primaries. Among Democrats, Michael S.
Dukakis, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore split the lion's share of delegates.
1988: Seventeen soldiers were killed when two Army
helicopters from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, collided in mid-flight.
1989: In Lebanon, daily artillery barrages between
Christian and Syrian forces and their militia allies began in Beirut; at least 930 people
were killed before a cease-fire took hold the following September.
1990: Opening arguments were heard in the Iran-Contra
trial of former national security adviser John M. Poindexter.
1991: Planeload after planeload of US troops arrived home from the Persian Gulf to an emotional welcome from relatives.
1991: Iraq handed over 40 foreign journalists and two American soldiers whom it had captured.
1992: President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton headed
toward "Super Tuesday" claiming big boosts from weekend victories. Ninety people
were killed when a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine collided with an oil
tanker in the Gulf of Thailand.
1993: The Metropolitan Opera sang the music of Francis
Poulenc, his "Dialogues of the Carmelites." Kent Nagano conducted and the cast
was headed by Dawn Upshaw
1993: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average
soared to a record high, climbing 64.84 to end the day at 3469.42.
1993: Singer-bandleader Billy Eckstine died in Pittsburgh
at age 78.
1994: President Clinton announced the appointment of
Washington attorney Lloyd Cutler as senior counsel, replacing Bernard Nussbaum.
1994: The Defense Department announced a smoking ban for
workplaces ranging from the Pentagon to battle tanks.
1995: Two United States diplomats were killed, one
injured, when their car was ambushed as they were driving to the U.S. Consulate in
Karachi, Pakistan.
1995: The plummeting dollar stabilized after Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called the decline unwarranted.
1996: Wall Street plummeted in a major selloff triggered
by seemingly good economic news -- a drop in the nation's unemployment rate and the
biggest jobs gain in more than a decade. (Investors apparently worried that a stronger
economy would mean no more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.)
1996: Dr. Jack Kevorkian was acquitted of assisted suicide
for helping two suffering patients kill themselves.
1997: President Clinton, in keeping with his push for
private businesses and churches to hire off welfare rolls, ordered federal agencies to do
the same.
1998: James McDougal, one of the most important
cooperating witnesses in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, died in a federal
medical prison in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 57.
1998: More than a foot of wind-driven snow paralyzed
travel across the central Plains and Midwest.
1998: Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke died in Florida
at age 61.
1999: The Clinton administration directed the firing of
nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory because of
alleged security violations.
1999: President Clinton began a tour of Central America.
1999: New York Yankees baseball star Joe DiMaggio died in
Hollywood, Fla., at age 84.
2000: A corrupt Clinton irresponsibly submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China.
2000: A letter carrier, two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee, allegedly by the letter carrier's husband, who was also a firefighter.
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