March 15

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.


Proverbs 4:18

March is:

National Middle School Month - This month celebrates the students and teachers of middle schools.

National Noodle Month - By law, a noodle must contain egg to be called a noodle. Noodles are low fat, low calorie, low sodium, but rich in vitamins. Sponsor: National Pasta Association.

Today is:

Andrew Jackson Day : (Tennessee) A public holiday celebrating the birthday of our 7th president, Andrew Jackson. He was born in New Lancaster County, South Carolina in 1767. 

Buzzard's Day - This is the day that the turkey buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. Sponsor: Park Rangers, Hinckley, OHIO.

Escalator patented (1892) - Jesse Reno of New York City patented the escalator. 

First American cardinal (1875) - John Mccloskey of New York was appointed.

First Billboard record album chart (1945) - The Nat King Cole Trio had the first #1 selling album. 

Ides of March - Julius Caesar was assassinated on this day in 44 BC. Beware the Ides of March!

International Boss's Day Off - On the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar, we recommend that all leaders stay home. Beware of assassins! And, of course, if the boss takes the day off, so can you! Sponsor: Open Horizons. 

Maine Admission Day - Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the. U.S. in 1820.

True Confessions Day - Confession is good for the soul. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.

Born on this Day

• 1767: Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States born in Waxhaw, South Carolina.
  

• 1854: German immunologist Emil von Behring
  

• 1913: Hollywood movie mogul Lew Wasserman
  

• 1913: Actor MacDonald Carey
  

• 1916: Trumpet playing band leader Harry James
  

• 1923: CBS CEO Laurence Tisch
  

• 1927: Country singer Carl Smith
  

• 1932: Former astronaut Alan L. Bean
  

• 1933: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  

• 1933: Jazz musician Cecil Taylor
  

• 1935: Actor Judd Hirsch
  

• 1935: Rev. Jimmy Swaggart
  

• 1940: Rock musician Phil Lesh (The Grateful Dead)
  

• 1941: Singer Mike Love (The Beach Boys)
  

• 1941: Bass guitarist (The Grateful Dead) Phil Lesh
  

• 1944: Rock singer-musician Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart
  

• 1946: Rock singer-musician Howard Scott (War)
  

• 1947: Sec. of Transportation Federico Pena
  

• 1947: Rock guitarist Ry Cooder
  

• 1954: Actor Craig Wasson
  

• 1955: Rock singer Dee Snider (Twisted Sister)
  

• 1955: Baseball player Mickey Hatcher (Micgael Vaughn Hatcher, Jr.)
  

• 1957: Actress Park Overall
  

• 1959: Movie director Renny Harlin
  

• 1961: Model Fabio
  

• 1962: Singer Terence Trent D'Arby
  

• 1962: Actor Jimmy Baio
  

• 1963: Rock singer Bret Michaels (Poison)
  

• 1964: Singer Rockwell
  

• 1972: Rock musician Mark Hoppus (Blink 182) 
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0044 B.C.: Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
  

• 1493: Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
  

• 0459: Death of Atilla, the Hun
  

• 0493: Odoacer the Barbarian, King of Italy, killed by Theodoric the Ostrogoth
  

• 1147: Alphonso I, King of Portugal, takes the fortress of Santarem from the Moors
  

• 1330: Azzone Visconti takes control of Milan, Italy
  

• 1359: The French raid Winchelsea and Rye, England
  

• 1391: Anti-Jewish riots begin in Seville, Spain: 50,000 die in next 12 mo.
  

• 1493: Columbus returns to Spain from Hispaniola
  

• 1561: Father da Silveira, Portuguese envoy to the Munhumutapa of South-East Africa, is murdered
  

• 1607: Coronation of Charles IX, King of Sweden
  

• 1619: John Bridgeman appointed Bishop of Chester
  

• 1649: John Milton appointed Secretary Of Foreign Tongues by the Commonwealth
  

• 1673: Salvator Rosa, Italian artist, dies at about 58
  

• 1781: In the American Revolution, Cornwallis, with 1,900 British soldiers, defeated an American force of 4,400 in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in Connecticut.
  

• 1820: Maine became the 23rd state.
  

• 1842: Cherubini died, he was 82. Cherubini was the leading arbiter of Parisian musical taste for decades. He was the establishment figure against whom Berlioz was the great rebel.
  

• 1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team in America, defeated Antioch 41-7. Later they changed their name to the Cincinnati Red Legs and then to the Cincinnati Reds.
  

• 1875: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal, by Pope Pius the Ninth.
  

• 1883: In London, Irish-American terrorists attempted to blow up the offices of the Times newspaper.
  

• 1913: President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference after being in office for only 11 days. The questions had to be submitted in advance. There were only newspapers at that time.
  

• 1916: President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 U.S. troops under General Pershing into Mexico to capture revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, who had staged several cross-border raids. The two-year expedition was unsuccessful.
  

• 1918: Lili Boulanger died. She was 24 years old and suffering from tuberculosis. We often speak of the teacher Nadia Boulanger, but it was her sister who was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome. What might she have composed had she lived?
  

• 1919: The American Legion was founded, in Paris.
  

• 1937: The first blood bank was established in Chicago, Illinois, at the Cook County Hospital.
  

• 1944: During World War II, the German-held Italian town of Monte Cassino was devastated by Allied bombs.
  

• 1945: "Going My Way" won the Academy Award for best picture of 1944, and its star, Bing Crosby, was named best actor; Ingrid Bergman was named best actress for "Gaslight."
  

• 1956: One of Broadway's best-known musicals, "My Fair Lady," opened at the Mark Hellinger Theater. Starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, the musical was adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play "Pygmalion."
  

• 1964: Actress Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton (for the first time) on the 8th floor of the Ritz Carlton in Montreal. It was her fifth marriage, his second.
  

• 1965: While addressing a joint session of Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
  

• 1968: US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
  

• 1971: CBS Television announced it would drop "The Ed Sullivan Show" after 23 years on the network.
  

• 1975: Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died near Paris at age 69.
  

• 1977: The US House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.
  

• 1977: The shows "Three's Company" and "Eight Is Enough" premiered on ABC-TV.
  

• 1979: Pope John Paul II published his first encyclical, "Redemptor Hominis," in which he warned of the growing gap between rich and poor.
  

• 1981: In Syria, over 140 hostages aboard a Pakistan Airways plane, hijacked by the militant Al Zulfiqar organization, were released after 13 days. exchange Pakistan freed 55 political prisoners.
  

• 1983: Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir said he was leaving Washington more optimistic about prospects for an agreement on withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon.
  

• 1985: The United States Catholic Conference, representing 285 Roman Catholic bishops, sent letters to all members of Congress, urging them to oppose funding for the MX missile.
  

• 1985: Two decades of military rule in Brazil ended with the installation of a civilian government.
  

• 1986: Funeral services were held in Stockholm, Sweden, for slain Prime Minister Olof Palme, who had been shot to death by an unidentified gunman.
  

• 1987: Peggy Say, the sister of Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent held hostage in Lebanon, said President Reagan was being "unjustly castigated" for his arms-for-hostages deal.
  

• 1988: Paul Simon defeated Jesse Jackson in the Illinois Democratic primary, while George Bush won a ringing victory over Bob Dole in the Republican contest.
  

• 1989: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev convened a two-day meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee to decide on agricultural reforms.
  

• 1990: The Israeli government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir lost a vote of confidence in the Knesser after Shamir refused to accept a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
  

• 1990: Iraq executed London-based journalist Farzad Bazoft, whom it accused of spying in spite of worldwide pleas for clemency. He had worked for London's Observer newspaper.
  

• 1991: An indictment was unsealed in Los Angeles, charging four police officers with beating black motorist Rodney King.
  

• 1991: Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka cleared a record 20 feet during an international meet in San Sebastian, Spain.
  

• 1992: Democratic presidential candidates debated in Chicago, criticizing President Bush's handling of the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath, and clashing over economic issues.
  

• 1992:The United Nations officially embarked on its largest peacekeeping operation with the arrival of a diplomat in Cambodia.
  

• 1993: Searchers found the body of the sixth and last missing victim of the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
  

• 1993: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met at the White House with President Clinton, after which Rabin offered to negotiate the return of part of The Golan Heights to Syria.
  

• 1994: Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, defeated four Democratic primary challengers in his bid for re-election.
  

• 1995: President Clinton issued an executive order formally blocking a $1 billion contract between Conoco and Iran to develop a huge offshore oil tract in the Persian Gulf.
  

• 1996: The Liggett Group agreed to repay more than ten million dollars in Medicaid bills for treatment of smokers, settling lawsuits with five states. (The settlement came two days after Liggett, the nation's fifth-largest tobacco company, made history by settling a private class-action lawsuit alleging cigarette makers manipulated nicotine to hook smokers. )
  

• 1996: Pioneering aviation firm Fokker NV, once a byword for industrial expertise, collapsed, ending 77 years of Dutch aircraft making and triggering the biggest mass redundancy in Dutch history.
  

• 1997: President Clinton spent a second day at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, recuperating from surgery for a partially torn knee tendon.
  

• 1997: Greek frogmen and US Marines evacuated hundreds of foreigners trapped in Albania by that country's descent into anarchy.
  

• 1998: CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who truthfully said President Clinton kissed her, touched her breast and put her hand on his genitals near the Oval Office in Nov. 1993. These unwelcome and inappropriate sexual advances were later denied byan unembarrassed president.
  

• 1998: Brazilian firefighters dug ditches in a bid to halt raging fires in the northern Amazon as officials appealed for more men and sorely needed water-dumping helicopters. "We lost control of this thing a long time ago," said fire brigade captain Kleber Gomes Cerquinho as army soldiers driving a bulldozer carved a path through the jungle to create a firebreak and check the blaze. The fires had burned out of control for two months and destroyed 2.2 million acres of farmland.
  

• 1998: Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose child care guidance spanned half a century, died in San Diego at 94.
  

• 1999: Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  

• 1999: An Amtrak train slammed into a steel-filled truck at a crossing in Bourbonnais, Ill., killing 11.
  

• 1999: The Kosovar Albanian delegation to peace talks in Paris said it was ready to sign an international accord for Kosovo.
  

• 2000:  TV funnyman Durward Kirby died in Fort Myers, Florida, at age 88.
  

• 2000: Their presidential nominations secured, George W. Bush  and  Al Gore dug in for the battle to the November Election Day.  Bush said he was braced for Gore's "politics of personal destruction and distortions," and Gore wrongly argued that Bush's "risky tax scheme" would hurt the economy.
  
  

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