March 9

My mouth is filled with your praise,
declaring your splendor all day long. NIV


Psalm 71:8 

March is:

American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month

Today is:

Bang Clang Day - Celebrates the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862), the first battle between armored ships, the Monitor and the Merrimac
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Barbie's Birthday - Barbie still looks good, even though she is now well over 50 years old. But you still have to buy her friends! Contact: Mattel Toys.

False Teeth Day - Charles Graham, a New York dentist, received a patent for false teeth on this date in 1822.

First Ford Mustang produced (1964) - contact; Ford Motor Company.

Panic Day - A day to fun around in circles shouting "I can't take it any more'' Sponsor: Wellness Permission League

Saint Frances of Rome Feast Day - Considered a model for housewives and widows; the light of her guardian angel allowed her to see at night, so she is also a patron saint of motorists.

Born on this Day

• 1454: Amerigo Vespucci explore
  

• 1629: Alexis Mikihailovich Romanov, Czar of Russia
  

• 1824: Leland Stanford, railroad builder and founder of California's Stanford University
  

• 1839: Phoebe Palmer Knapp, American Methodist hymnwriter. She published more than 500 hymn tunes during her lifetime; her most famous melody comprises the tune to Fanny Crosby's hymn, "Blessed Assurance."
  

• 1892: English novelist and poet Victoria Sackville-West
  

• 1902: Will Greer actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
  

• 1910: Composer Samuel Barber
  

• 1918: Detective novelist Mickey Spillane (I, the Jury)
  

• 1933: Singer Lloyd Price
  

• 1934: Joyce Van Patten actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
  

• 1934: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space (aboard Vostok 1)
  

• 1935: Keely Smith
  

• 1936: Actress Glenda Jackson (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
  

• 1936: Actor comedian Marty Ingels (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
  

• 1936: Mickey Gilley country singer (Urban Cowboy)
  

• 1940: Actor Raul Julia (Eyes of Laura Mars, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
  

• 1942: Singer Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
  

• 1943: Bobby Fischer US, world chess champion (1972-75)
  

• 1943: TV personality Charles Gibson
  

• 1945: Actress Trish Van Devere
  

• 1945: Rock musician Robin Trower
  

• 1948: Singer Jeffrey Osborne
  

• 1948: Country musician Jimmy Fadden (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
  

• 1959: Barbie ( Barbara Millicent Roberts ), daughter of George & Margaret. (Mattell Doll)
  

• 1961: Magazine editor Michael Kinsley
  

• 1960: Actress Linda Fiorentino
  

• 1964: Actress Juliette Binoche
  

• 1965: Football player Brian Bosworth
  

• 1971: Actor Emmanual Lewis  
  

• 1972: Actor Kerr Smith ("Dawson's Creek")
  

• 1972: Actress Jean Louisa Kelly ("Mr. Holland's Opus")
  

• 1987: Rapper Lil' Bow Wow
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1062: Death of Herbert, Count of Maine
  

• 1152: Frederick I "Barbarossa" crowned King of Germany
  

• 1309: Pope Clement V arrives in Avignon
  

• 1329: Earl of Kent beheaded
  

• 1440: Death of St. Frances of Rome
  

• 1463: Death of St. Katherine of Bologna
  

• 1496: Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
  

• 1497: Nicolaus Copernicus's 1st recorded astronomical observation
  

• 1551: Charles V's son, Philip, is made the Emperor's sole heir
  

• 1566: David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' secretary, musician, murdered by Darnley
  

• 1586: Felicitas Schneider, Anna Erb and Ursula Schultheiss burned as witches
  

• 1622: King James I grants land in New Hampshire to John Mason
  

• 1649: Execution of the Duke of Hamilton
  

• 1661: Jules Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies
  

• 1796: French general and future emperor Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais.
  

• 1820: James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House.
  

• 1822: Charles Graham of N. Y. was granted a patent for artificial teeth.
  

• 1842: Verdi's opera "Nabucco" was a hit at its premiere at La Scala. The slaves chorus "Va pensiero" was interpreted as really being a proclamation of liberty by the Milanese. Verdi was then 28.
  

• 1849: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," the Otto Nicolai opus that failed in Vienna, was premiered in Berlin and was a huge success.
  

• 1862: The ironclads "USS Monitor" (Union) and "CSS Merrimack" (Rebel) have their famous battle at Hampton Roads. It was a standoff.
  

• 1864: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was appointed commander in chief of Union forces in the Civil War.
  

• 1873: Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded
  

• 1931: The World Radio Missionary Fellowship (WRMF) was incorporated in Lima, Ohio, by co-founders Clarence W. Jones and Reuben Larson. This interdenominational mission agency broadcasts the Gospel in 15 languages to South America and throughout Europe.
  

• 1961: Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
  

• 1965 Three white Unitarian ministers, including the Rev. James J. Reeb, were attacked with clubs on the streets of Selma, Alabama, while participating in a civil rights demonstration. Reeb later died in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital.
  

• 1967: The daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana, defected to the United States.
  

• 1968: Grammy Awards-Sgt Pepper's wins 4 awards
  

• 1986: The module containing the bodies of the seven astronauts killed in the January 28th explosion of the shuttle Challenger was located off Florida.
  

• 1988: President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
  

• 1988: The day after the "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses, Republican George Bush spent the day in Houston, savoring his 16-state sweep, while Democrats Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore enjoyed their more modest successes.
  

• 1989: Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
  

• 1989: The Senate rejected President Bush's nomination of John Tower to be defense secretary by a vote of 53-to-47. 
  

• 1990: Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as surgeon general, the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job.
  

• 1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third, on a fact-finding mission to seven countries, visited Kuwait following its liberation from Iraq. 
  
  

• 1993: "The Postman Always Rings Twice," not the movie, the opera by Stephen Paulus, played in Boston. The opera premiered 10 years before; the original novel was published in 1934 and was actually banned in Boston because it was so sexy and violent.
  

• 1993: Janet Reno sailed through her confirmation hearing on her way to becoming the nation's first female attorney general.
  

• 1993: Rodney King testified at the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating his civil rights, saying he'd been "attacked" by the defendants.
  

• 1994: The UN Human Rights Commission condemned anti-Semitism, putting the world body on record for the first time as opposing discrimination against Jews.
  

• 1995: Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman took the stand at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, denying ever meeting a woman who had accused him of making racist remarks.
  

• 1995: House Republicans unveiled their long-promised tax cut for families, businesses and investors.
  

• 1995: President Clinton eased travel restrictions on Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and invited him to the White House for St. Patrick's Day.
  

• 1996: The space shuttle "Columbia" landed safely a day late at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a 16-day mission. 
  

• 1996: Comedian George Burns died in Beverly Hills, California, just weeks after turning 100. 
  

• 1997: Gangsta rapper The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24.
  

• 1998: In a case pitting former high school sweethearts against each other, Brian Peterson pleaded guilty in Wilimington, Delaware, to manslaughter in the death of his newborn son in a Newark motel and agreed to testify against the mother, Amy Grossberg. (A month later, Grossberg also pleaded guilty to manslaughter; she received two and a-half years in prison; Peterson, two years.)
  

• 1998: Three days of storms brought floods, blizzards and tornadoes across the US. The death toll in southern states stood at seven after thunderstorms turned the streets of towns from Louisiana. to Georgia into rivers. Rescuers tried to reach people stranded when an earth dam gave way in Elba, Alabama and flooded the town. Five people died in the ensuing flood. In the Midwest, a cold front dumped heavy snow and froze road surfaces, four people died in weather-related traffic accidents. Tornadoes ripped through central Florida, but no deaths were reported.
  

• 1998: Whitewater figure Susan McDougal finished an 18-month contempt of court jail term for refusing to cooperate with independent counsel Kenneth Starr, but stayed in prison on another charge. She started a two-year sentence for a fraud and conspiracy conviction from an illegal $300,000 loan from the Small Business Association.
  

• 1998: Amnesty International condemned an Israeli Supreme Court ruling authorizing Israel to hold 10 Lebanese detainees as bargaining cards, saying it "explicitly legitimizes hostage taking." The Israeli Supreme Court ruling represented a rare public admission that Israel was holding without trial members of the pro-Iranian Hizbollah (Party of God) which is fighting to oust Israeli troops from an occupation zone in south Lebanon.
  

• 1999: RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., the food-and-tobacco conglomerate, announced it was getting out of the cigarette business.
  

• 2000: John McCain suspended his presidential campaign, conceding the Republican nomination to George W. Bush. Bill Bradley ended his presidential bid, conceding the Democratic nomination to Vice President Al Gore.

  
  
  
  

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