March 12

Sing to the LORD, bless His name; 
Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.



Psalm 96:2 

March is:

Mental Retardation Awareness Month - Promotes the needs and abilities of America's citizens with mental retardation. Sponsor: The Arc National Headquarters

Today is:

Anti-commercial Day - On an average day, Americans are exposed to more than 1,600 advertisements. Today you have permission to ignore all commercials and advertisements. Sponsor: A Pilgrim's Almanac. 

Automatic telephone exchange patented (1889) - Almon Stronger of Kansas City patented the first automatic telephone exchange.

Coca-cola first sold in bottles (1894)

Fireside Chat Day - President Franklin Roosevelt broadcast his first Sunday evening fireside radio chat in 1933.

First major U.S. department store opened (1877) - Founded by John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Girl Scouts Day - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts in 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. Sponsor: Girl Scouts of America.

Parents without Partners Founder's Day (1957) - Sponsor: Parents without Partners.

Talk Mean to Your Spouse Day - On the birthday of playwright Edward Albee, author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, you may speak meanly to your spouse for up to 32 seconds. Today only. Albee was born in 1928 in Washington, DC. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.

Born on this Day

• 1613: AndrĮ de Nėtre, French landscape architect
  

• 1824: Gustav Robert Kirchoff, physicist
  

• 1831: Pioneer auto maker Clement Studebaker. Studebaker was an American manufacturer who founded a family firm that became the world's largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles and a leader in automobile manufacturing, was born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania.
  

• 1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland. This Englishman name is now synonymous with protest. He was born in Burgh St. Peter, Norfolk, England.
  

• 1858: New York Times publisher Adolph Simon Ochs. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio. One year later he became the owner of the New York Times, under whose leadership, it would become one of the world's outstanding newspapers.
  

• 1862: Jane Delano, nurse and teacher who founded the Red Cross
  

• 1888: Hans Knappertsbusch, a conductor famous for his big climaxes, was born.
  

• 1911: Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
  

• 1920: American painter, teacher and art critic, Elaine de Kooning. She is best known for her portraits, was born in New York, New York. She was married to artist Willem de Kooning.
  

• 1921: Actor-singer Gordon MacRae
  

• 1922: Novelist Jack Kerouac. Kerouac gave the "Beat" movement its name and celebrated its code of poverty and freedom.
  

• 1922: Union leader Lane Kirkland Former AFL-CIO presiden
  

• 1923: Former astronaut Wally Schirra
  

• 1928: Playwright Edward Albee
  

• 1936: Broadcast journalist Lloyd Dobyns
  

• 1940: Singer Al Jarreau
  

• 1941: Actress Barbara Feldon (Get Smart)
  

• 1942: Singer-guitarist Paul Kantner
  

• 1946: Actress-singer Liza Minnelli
  

• 1948: Singer-songwriter James Taylor
  

• 1949: Rock singer-musician Bill Payne (Little Feat)
  

• 1950: Actor Jon Provost ("Lassie")
  

• 1957: Actor Jerry Levine
  

• 1957: Rock musician Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
  

• 1957: Singer Marlon Jackson (The Jackson Five)
  

• 1960: Actor Courtney B. Vance
  

• 1961: Actor Titus Welliver ("Brooklyn South")
  

• 1962: Baseball player Darryl Strawberry
  

• 1963: Actress Julia Campbell
  

• 1969: Rock musician Graham Coxon (Blur).
  

• 1982: Actor Samm Levine ("Freaks and Geeks")
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0295: Death of St. Maximilian
  

• 0604: Death of St. Gregory the Great,Pope Saint Gregory's significance in music: the Gregorian chant!
  

• 1022: Death of St. Simeon the New Theologian
  

• 1144: Election of Lucius II as Pope
  

• 1173: Canonization of St. Thomas a Becket
  

• 1208: Canonization of St. Peter of Castelnau
  

• 1229: Fredrick II of Germany arrives in Jerusalem
  

• 1350: The commune of Orvieto reminds its' citizens that sexual relations between Christian and Jew is forbidden
  

• 1496: Jews are expelled from Syria.
  

• 1507: Death of Cesare Borgia
  

• 1566: Mary Tudor, Queen of Scots, escapes to Dunbar Castle
  

• 1664: New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles the Second granted land in the New World to his brother James, the Duke of York.
  

• 1789: The U.S. Post Office is established.
  

• 1850: First $20 Gold piece issued.
  

• 1863: President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
  

• 1884: The State of Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women. It was called the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
  

• 1889: Almon B. Stowger received a patent for an automatic telephone system. The system was installed in Laporte, Indiana, in 1892
  

• 1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
  

• 1903: The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout his territory.
  

• 1912: The first Girl Scouts of America troop was organized in Savannah, Ga., by Juliette Gordon Low.
  

• 1925: Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died.
  

• 1930: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Ghandi began a 200-mile march to the sea, where he rendered salt from seawater to protest a British tax on salt.
  

• 1932: The so-called "Swedish Match King," Ivar Kreuger, committed suicide in Paris, leaving behind a financial empire that turned out to be worthless.
  

• 1933: President Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
  

• 1938: The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria, completing what Adolf Hitler described as his mission to restore his homeland to the Third Reich.
  

• 1939: Pope Pius the 12th was formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
  

• 1940: Finland and the Soviet Union concluded an armistice during World War Two. (Fighting between the two countries flared again the following year.)
  

• 1944: Britain bars all travel to Ireland.
  

• 1947: In a speech to Congress, President Truman outlined what became known as the Truman Doctrine, calling for U.S. aid to countries threatened by communist revolution.
  

• 1959 House joined the Senate in approving statehood for Hawaii.
  

• 1969: Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London.
  

• 1980: Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; after years on death row, he was finally executed in May 1994.)
  

• 1981: two Soviet cosmonauts boarded the Salyut 6 space station for a 75-day mission to the facility, which had been in orbit since 1977.
  

• 1983: Secretary of State George P. Shultz opened a new diplomatic drive to get foreign armies out of Lebanon as he met at the State Department with Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem.
  

• 1985: The United States and the Soviet Union opened new arms control talks in Geneva by holding a "get-acquainted" session.
  

• 1985: Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced he would drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards. The plan would save taxpayers about $3 million a year.
  

• 1985: Conductor Eugene Ormandy, director of the Philadelphia Philharmonic for more than four decades, died at age 85.
  

• 1986: Spaniards voted to keep their country in NATO in a surprise victory for Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez
  

• 1987: A federal judge in Washington dismissed lawsuits by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North seeking to stop an independent counsel's investigation of his role in the Iran-Contra affair.
  

• 1987: The musical play "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
  

• 1987: The Dow Jones Industrial Average elected to include the Coca-Cola Company and Boeing Company to its list and would drop Owens-Illinois Glass and Inco Ltd. from the list.
  

• 1988: Reverend Jesse Jackson won the Democratic precinct caucuses in his native South Carolina.
  

• 1989: Some 2500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of a student's exhibit.
  

• 1990: Vice President Dan Quayle met in Santiago, with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who promised to relinquish power to Violeta Chamorro, the U.S.-backed candidate who won the presidential election.
  

• 1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and a Palestinian delegation as he continued a fact-finding mission.
  

• 1991: Kuwait City reopened its port for the first time since the Persian Gulf War.
  

• 1992: The UN Security Council stood firm in its demand that Iraq comply totally with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions, rebuffing an appeal for leniency from Saddam Hussein's special envoy, deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz.
  

• 1993: The music of Busoni experienced something of a comeback. First there were two recordings of the Busoni Piano Concerto. Now the Chicago Symphony has programmed the Busoni Violin Concerto. Ruben Gonzalez performed it under Daniel Barenboim's baton in May.
  

• 1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the nation's first female attorney general.
  

• 1993: Thirteen bombs exploded in Bombay, India, killing more than 300 people.
  

• 1994: The Church of England ordained its first women priests.
  

• 1994: Secretary of State Warren Christopher held discussions with Chinese leaders in Beijing that were marked by blunt exchanges on human rights.
  

• 1995: World leaders wound up a week-long summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, committing themselves to fighting poverty, but differing on how to do so.
  

• 1995: President Clinton declared 39 California counties disaster areas after storms and flooding battered two-thirds of the state.
  

• 1996: Republican Bob Dole swept the seven Super Tuesday primaries, gaining a virtual lock on the GOP presidential nomination.
  

• 1997: Authorities in Los Angeles arrested Mikail Markhasev as a suspect in the shooting death of Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, almost two months earlier. (Markhasev, who pleaded innocent, has yet to stand trial.)
  

• 1998: The government recorted the rate of new cancer cases among Americans had inched down for the first time, meaning over 70,000 fewer people than expected were diagnosed between 1992 and 1995.
  

• 1998: A report in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that a  nurse who failed to wash her hands properly after handling her infected dog probably caused an outbreak of a yeast infection in the intensive-care nursery of a N.H. hospital. The outbreak infected at least 24 babies at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., over a 15-month period beginning in Oct. 1993.
  

• 1998: Kenneth Starr's prosecutors summoned President Clinton's close friend and adviser Bruce Lindsey for more questioning before the grand jury investigating the White House sex scandal.  
  

• 1999:  Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO.
  

• 1999: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin died in Berlin at age 82.
  

•  2000: In an unprecedented moment in the history of the church, Pope John Paul the Second asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities. 
  

• 2000: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar scored a major victory in general elections. 
  
  

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