March 13

Every day I will bless Thee, And I will praise Thy name forever and ever.


Psalm 145:2 

March is:

National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month - Promote awareness of CFS and related diseases. Sponsor: National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association

National Craft Month - Enjoy some crafts this month. Sponsor:: Hobby Industry Association

Today is:

Earmuffs Birthday - Chester Greenwood, a Farmington, Maine, teenager, patented earmuffs on this date in 1877.

Good Samaritan Involvement Day - This is the anniversary of the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, she was stabbed to death in front of her apartment as 38 neighbors just watched and listened. Get involved!

Uncle Sam Day - In 1852, the New York Lantern first featured the Uncle Sam character. Uncle Sam came to be a symbol of American patriotism.

Born on this Day

• 1615: Innocent XII, Roman Catholic Pope
  

• 1764: Charles Earl Grey, British Prime Minister
  

• 1733: English chemist Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen
  

• 1798: Abigail Powers Fillmore, First Lady
  

• 1855: Astronomer Percival Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was founder of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. He initiated the search that resulted in the discovery of the planet Pluto and predicted the existence of this planet 14 years before it was discovered.
  

• 1908: Publisher, philanthropist and art collector Walter H. Annenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as U.S. ambassador to Britain from 1969 to 1974.
  

• 1910: Sammy Kaye (bandleader: Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: Too Young, "A" - You're Adorable, Harbor Lights)
  

• 1913: CIA Director William Casey
  

• 1913: Band leader Sammy Kaye
  

• 1929: Helen "Callaghan" Candaele St. Aubin, known as the "Ted Williams of women's baseball," was born. She was recruited for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League which flourished in the 1940's when many major league players were in WWII.
  

• 1930: Country singer Liz Anderson
  

• 1930: Country singer Jan Howard
  

• 1930: Actor Peter Breck
  

• 1931: Opera singer Rosalind Elias
  

• 1933: Songwriter Mike Stoller
  

• 1939: Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka
  

• 1949: Singer (Sha Na Na) Donald York
  

• 1950: Actor William H. Macy
  

• 1951: Actor Fred Berry ("What's Happening!!")
  

• 1953: Actress Deborah Raffin
  

• 1954: Comedian Robin Duke
  

• 1956: Actress Dana Delany
  

• 1957: Actress Glenne Headly
  

• 1960: Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2)
  

• 1962: Jazz musician Terence Blanchard
  

• 1968: Actor Christopher Collett
  

• 1971: Actress Annabeth Gish
  

• 1971: Actress Tracy Wells
  

• 1972: Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob) 
  

• 1976: Actor Danny Masterson ("That 70's Show")
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0483: St. Felix begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
  

• 1607: The 12th recorded passage of Halley's Comet occurs.
  

• 0732: Death of St. Gerald
  

• 1138: Coronation of Conrad III, King of Germany
  

• 1184: Death of Taira Atsumori
  

• 1462: Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
  

• 1493: Columbus leaves Lisbon, Portugal
  

• 1516: Coronation of Charles of Hapsburg as King of Spain
  

• 1519: Cortez lands in Mexico.
  

• 1613: Michael I becomes Czar of Russia
  

• 1628: John Bull, English musician, dies at about 66
  

• 1639: Harvard University was named for clergyman John Harvard
  

• 1644: Rhode Island becomes a separate colony
  

• 1702: Handel won his first non-assistant musical post when he became chief organist of the Domkirche in Halle, the town of his birth.
  

• 1781: The 7th planet from the sun, Georgium Sidus, later known as Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He first thought it to be a comet.
  

• 1793: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
  

• 1833: Mendelssohn completed his "Italian" Symphony, commissioned by the London Philharmonic.
  

• 1852: The New York Lantern publishes the first cartoon showing the character "Uncle Sam," based on a real U.S. officer who served in the war of 1812, Samuel Wilson.
  

• 1865: The Confederate Congress under President Jefferson Davis signed a bill allowing slaves to join the army in exchange for freedom.
  

• 1868: The U.S. Senate began impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson on charges of "high crime and misdemeanors." He was acquitted by one vote.
  

• 1877: Chester Greenwood of Farmington, ME patented the earmuff on this day.
  

• 1878: The first collegiate golf match was played as Oxford defeated Cambridge.
  

• 1884: Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States.
  

• 1901: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis. He was the only president to succeed and be succeeded by the same man - Grover Cleveland.
  

• 1906: American suffragist Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York.
  

• 1911: The Supreme Court approves the corporate tax law.
  

• 1923: A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised on this day. The new models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones, which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and messed up women's hairdos.
  

• 1925: A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution.
  

• 1928: 400 people die in California after the St. Francis Dam burst.
  

• 1930: The announcement of the discovery of the 9th planet in our solar system, Pluto, was made. It was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh.
  

• 1933: Banks began to re-open after a "holiday" declared by President Roosevelt.
  

• 1935: Three-thousand-year-old archives are found in Jerusalem confirming biblical history.
  

• 1938: Famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow died.
  

• 1941: Hitler issues an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R.
  

• 1942: Bing Crosby and Mary martin were heard having a bit of fun as they joined together to record "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" for Decca Records.
  

• 1942: Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps becomes the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army. Women's History.
  

• 1945: Peru declares war on Germany.
  

• 1947: Foreign-made films showed up in the Oscar nominations this day, bringing an end to Hollywood's then exclusive rights to the coveted awards.
  

• 1947: The Lerner and Ooewe musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway. The show ran for 581 performances and was later staged in London (1949).
  

• 1947: "The Best Years of Our Lives" won the Academy Award for best picture; Oscars also went to its director, William Wyler, lead actor Fredric March and supporting actor Harold Russell; Olivia De Havilland won best actress for "To Each His Own"; Anne Baxter won best supporting actress for "The Razor's Edge."
  

• 1951: The comic strip, "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first time in 18 newspapers across the country.
  

• 1951: Israel demands $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.
  

• 1957: The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
  

• 1964: In a notorious case, 38 residents of a Queens, New York neighborhood failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death.
  

• 1969: The "Apollo Nine" astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.
  

• 1970: Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
  

• 1974: Oil-producing Arab countries agreed to lift their five-month embargo on petroleum sales to the U.S. During the embargo, gasoline prices rose 300 percent and a ban was imposed on Sunday gasoline sales.
  

• 1974: The U.S. Senate votes 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
  

• 1980: Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down.
  

• 1980: A jury in Winamac, Indiana, found Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto.
  

• 1983: the "Larry King Live" show premiered on CNN.
  

• 1985: Chernenko is buried near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.
  

• 1987: John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering.
  

• 1987: The president of Ecuador announced his country had suspended payments on its foreign debt after earthquakes killed hundreds of people and ruptured the country's main oil pipeline.
  

• 1988: Yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president, replacing Elisabeth Ann Zinser, a hearing woman.
  

• 1989: The US Food and Drug Administration began a quarantine of all fruit imported from Chile after traces of cyanide were found in two Chilean grapes.
  

• 1989: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a five-day mission.
  

• 1990: The Soviet Congress of People's Deputies approved Mikhail S. Gorbachev's proposals for a multiparty political system headed by a powerful president.
  

• 1990: President Bush lifted trade sanctions against Nicaragua in a show of support for President-elect Violeta Chamorro.
  

• 1991: A week after Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar resigned, India's president dismissed parliament and called for national elections in May.
  

• 1991: Exxon Corporation agreed to pay a $100 million criminal fine and more than $900 million in civil damages in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. However, the deal fell apart when the Alaska House rejected it.
  

• 1991: President Bush, during a visit to Ottawa, Canada, warned Iran against seizing Iraqi territory in the aftermath of 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.
  

• 1992: The U.S. House of Representatives, trying to weather a politically embarrassing firestorm, voted unanimously to publicly identify 355 current and former members who had overdrawn their accounts at the House bank.
  

• 1992: Pravda, the official newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party founded in 1912 by Lenin, ceased publication due to lack of funds.
  

• 1993: A deadly blizzard paralyzed much of the Eastern Seaboard, leaving more than a hundred dead in its wake.
  

• 1993: The Russian Congress adjourned after a session that seriously weakened President Boris Yeltsin's power.
  

• 1994: A South African diplomat took over as leader of Bophuthatswana as the black homeland's president, Lucas Mangope, was deposed.
  

• 1994: The Israeli Cabinet outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding them terrorist organizations.
  

• 1995: Two Americans working for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Daliberti and William Barloon, were seized by Iraq after crossing the border; sentenced to 8 years in prison, both were freed the following July.
  

• 1996: A gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire on a class of kindergartners, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
  

• 1996: World leaders, including President Clinton, held a summit in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, where they vowed unequivocal support for the Mideast peace process.
  

• 1997: A Jordanian soldier fired on Israeli junior high school girls on a field trip, killing seven of them. (The soldier, Corporal Ahmed Daqamseh, was later sentenced by a military court to life in prison.)
  

• 1997: In a southern Egyptian village, four masked militants shot and killed 14 people before escaping.
  

• 1998: Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.
  

• 1998: US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (Democrat, Massachusetts) announced he would not seek a seventh term.
  

• 1998: A survey by the Natural Resources Defense Council announced that four out of five nuclear storage sites worldwide have been closed since the end of the Cold War and the number of bombs had shrunk by nearly half. A survey by the Washington-based group estimated the five declared nuclear powers deployed about 36,000 nuclear weapons at the end of 1997, down from nearly 70,000 in the mid-1980s.
  

• 1999: Playwright Garson Kanin died in New York at age 86.
  

• 1999: Serb government forces destroyed more than 25 homes of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, apparently in retaliation for the killing of Serb civilians.
  

• 1999: Evander Holyfield, the WBA and IBF champion, and Lennox Lewis, the WBC champion, kept their respective titles after fighting to a controversial draw in New York. 
  

• 2000: A quarter century after the end of the Vietnam War, US Defense Secretary William Cohen arrived in Hanoi to push the pace of reconciliation.  
  
  

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