March 16

The proud look of man will be abased, And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.


Isa 2:11

March is:

National Peanut Month - Spotlights America's favorite nut. Sponsor: Peanut Advisory Board.

National Pothole Month - Do your best to avoid this month's deepest holes.

Today is:

Black Press Day - In 1827, Freedoms Journal, the first black newspaper in the U.S., was published in New York City.

Curlew Day - Traditionally, this is the day that 500 long-billed curlew return to the Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Sponsor: Umatilla National forest, Ukiah, OR 97880.

First National Book Awards (1950) - Nelson Algren won the award in fiction for his novel 'The Man With the Golden Arm." Ralph L. Rusk won in nonfiction for his biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson. William Carlos Williams won in poetry for Patterson Book 3 and Selected Poems. National Book Foundation,

Freedom of Information Day - On the birthday of James Madison (1751), we honor his efforts and the continued efforts of many others who fight for freedom of information and a free press. Sponsor: American Library Association. 

Goddard Day - In 1926, Robert Goddard developed the first liquid fuel powered rocket. Contact; NASA. 

James Madison's Birthday - James Madison, the 4th President of the U.S., was born in 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia.

Born on this Day

• 1585: Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet, playwright
  

• 1751: James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Virginia.
  

• 1787: Georg Simon Ohm, scientist
  

• 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car
  

• 1846: (Catherine) Kate Greenaway was born in London, England. She is best remembered for such books as "Mother Goose," employing her artistry as painter and illustrator.
  

• 1867: Inventor and Aviator Wilbur Wright
  

• 1898: Movie Actor, Movie Director, Comedian Sir Charlie Chaplin
  

• 1903: Statesman Mike Mansfield
  

• 1903: Philip Pillsbury
  

• 1906: Comedian Henny Youngman
  

• 1912: Former first lady Pat Nixon
  

• 1912: Children's Author Garth Williams
  

• 1920: Actor Leo McKern
  

• 1922: Novelist Sir Kingsley Amis
  

• 1926: Comedian-director Jerry Lewis
  

• 1927: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, New York)
  

• 1932: R. Walter Cunningham, astronaut
  

• 1930: 1937: Composer David Del Tredici
  

• 1940: Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci
  

• 1941: Game show host Chuck Woolery
  

• 1942: Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker
  

• 1947: Country singer Robin Williams
  

• 1949: Actor Erik Estrada
  

• 1949: Actor Victor Garber
  

• 1951: Actress Kate Nelligan
  

• 1951: Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel)
  

• 1954: Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart)
  

• 1954: Golfer Hollis Stacy
  

• 1955: Actress Isabella Huppert
  

• 1959: Rapper Flavor Flav (Public Enemy)
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1021: Death of St. Heribert of Cologne
  

• 1037: Death of Archbishop Robert I of Rouen
  

• 1185: Death of Baldwin IV ("the Leper"), King of Jerusalem
  

• 1285: Death of King Alexander III of Scotland
  

• 1316: End of the revolt by Llywelyn Bren against the Normans
  

• 1494: Marriage of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, to Bianca Sforza
  

• 1517: Council of Pisa declared null and void by the Lateran Council
  

• 1521: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
  

• 1527: Mogul Emperor Babar defeats Hindu Confederacy at Kanwanha
  

• 1561: Murder of Jesuit missionaries in East Africa
  

• 1618: Death of Richard Burbage
  

• 1621: Samoset, Indian from the Island of Monhegan, visits the new Colony of Plymouth
  

• 1641: Aquedneck changes it's name to Rhode Island, declares itself a democracy and establishes freedom of religion
  

• 1660: A General Election for Parliament ("The Convention") is held
  

• 1736: Pergolesi died at the age of 26. It was Pergolesi's music which Stravinsky used as the basis of his ballet "Pulcinella."
  

• 1792: Sweden's King Gustav III was shot and mortally wounded during a masquerade party; he died 13 days later. (The assassination inspired the Giuseppe Verdi opera Un Ballo in Mascher, or The Masked Ball.)
  

• 1802: Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York
  

• 1827: The first newspaper edited for and by blacks, "Freedom's Journal," was published in New York.
  

• 1836: The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.
  

• 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was first published.
  

• 1851: Spain signed a concordat with the Papacy under which Roman Catholicism became the only authorized faith. It also gave control of education and press to the church.
  

• 1865: Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina.
  

• 1871: The State of Delaware, the first state to enter the union, enacted the first fertilizer law.
  

• 1882: The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.
  

• 1883: Susan Hayhurst graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy as the first female pharmacy graduate.
  

• 1894: The opera "Thais," composed by Jules Massenet, premiered in Paris.
  

• 1907: WJ Henderson wrote in the New York Sun of 1907, after a performance of the "Divine Poem," quote: "When it was over, the audience called out Mister Scriabin and took a good look at him."
  

• 1915: The Federal Trade Commission was organized. The U.S. government appointed five commissioners to receive $10,000 each year to regulate commerce and prohibit unlawful trade.
  

• 1916: US and Canada sign the Migratory bird treaty.
  

• 1918: Tallulah Bankhead made her New York acting debut with a role in "The Squab Farm."
  

• 1926: The first liquid-fuel rocket was successfully launched by Professor Robert Goddard at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled 184 feet in 2.5 seconds.
  

• 1935: Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles and introduced conscription.
  

• 1937: Former world champion hurdler Percy Beard was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to teach the faltering baseball team how to run.
  

• 1945: During World War Two, Iwo Jima was declared secured by the Allies.
  

• 1950: Congress voted to remove federal taxes -- on oleomargarine.
  

• 1955: "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Bill Hayes reached the number one spot on the pop music charts and stayed for five weeks. The smash hit song sold more than 7,000,000 records on more than 20 different labels.
  

• 1963: Peter, Paul and Mary released the singles "Puff The Magic Dragon." Through the years, controversy continually surrounded the song. It was banned by several radio stations because they thought the song was about the elicit joys of smoking marijuana. The group adamantly denied this startling assumption.
  

• 1966: American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott docked their Gemini-8 space vehicle with an Agena craft, a first in orbital history.
  

• 1968: During the Vietnam War, some 300 Vietnam villagers died at the hands of American troops in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre. It was carried out by US troops under the command of Lieutenant William L. Calley Junior.
  

• 1969: "1776," a musical about the Declaration of Independence, opened on Broadway.
  

• 1974: The new Opry House at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, opened. Roy Acuff was the first artist to perform.
  

• 1976: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his intention to retire. He was succeeded by James Callaghan on April 5.
  

• 1978: Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped and later murdered by left-wing urban guerrillas known as the Red Brigades. The Red Brigades were demanding the release of all Communist prisoners.
  

• 1978: About 220,000 tons of oil were spilled after the Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the Brittany coast.
  

• 1982: Claus Von Bulow was found guilty in Newport, Rhode Island, of trying to kill his comatose wife, Martha, with insulin (Von Bulow was acquitted in a retrial).
  

• 1982: Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the Soviet Union was freezing deployment of SS-20 missiles west of the Urals.
  

• 1983: radio and television star Arthur Godfrey died in New York at age 79.
  

• 1984: William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.
  

• 1985: Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted by gunmen after a tennis game in Beirut; he was released on December 4,1991 after 2,454 days in captivity.
  

• 1988: Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver L. North, retired Air Force Major General Richard V. Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, were indicted on charges relating to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North had their convictions thrown out; Secord and Hakim both received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count.)
  

• 1987: Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  

• 1988: Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver L. North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim.
  

• 1989: The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee approved sweeping agricultural reforms, and elected the party's 100 members to the Congress of People's Deputies, a new legislative body.
  

• 1990: South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that exiled African National Congress leaders would be allowed to return home for talks with the white-led government.
  

• 1991: Seven members of country singer Reba MacEntire's band and her tour manager were killed when their chartered plane crashed into a mountain about 25 miles southeast of San Diego, California. 
  

• 1991: In a broadcast address, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein promised to allow multiparty democracy. 
  

• 1991: New York Mayor David Dinkins was booed as he marched with an Irish-American gay group during the city's St. Patrick's Day parade. 
  

• 1991:  US skaters Kristi Yamaguchi, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan swept the World Figure Skating Championships in Munich, Germany. 
  

• 1992: Robert J. Eaton, head of General Motors' profitable European operations, joined Chrysler Corporation as Chairman Lee Iacocca's future successor.
  

• 1993: President Clinton met with ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; afterward, Clinton announced he was sending a special envoy to Haiti to seek a return to democracy.
  

• 1994: Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine.
  

• 1994: Russia agreed to phase out production of weapons-grade plutonium.
  

• 1995: NASA astronaut Norman Thagard was welcomed aboard the Russian space station "Mir" as the first American to visit the orbiting outpost.
  

• 1995: House Republicans pushed through $17 billion in spending cuts, prompting a veto threat by the White House.
  

• 1996: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton accused the Republican-controlled House of bowing to "the back-alley whispers of the gun lobby" by gutting anti-terrorism legislation he'd submitted in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.
  

• 1996: For the first time, ordinary citizens were allowed inside the central archives of the former East German secret police, the hated Stasi security agency. 
  

• 1997: At the request of a hobbled President Clinton, Russia's Boris Yeltsin agreed to delay their upcoming summit by one day to give Clinton an extra day to recuperate from knee surgery. 1997: Jordan's King Hussein knelt in mourning with the families of seven Israeli schoolgirls gunned down by a Jordanian soldier.
  

• 1998: In a long-awaited document that Jewish leaders immediately criticized, the Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius the 12th. Jews expressed dissatisfaction with the landmark document entitled "We Remember, a Reflection on the Shoah."
  

• 1998: Sergeant Major Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was reprimanded and demoted one rank by a jury that had convicted him of obstruction of justice in a sexual misconduct case.
  

• 1998: Sweepstakes company American Family Publishers reached an agreement with 32 states to change the way it promotes its contests, such as reserving use of the term "winner" for contestants who have actually won. The company, which uses celebrity spokesmen Dick Clark and Ed McMahon, also would pay a total of $1.25 million to 26 states under the voluntary consent agreement. 
  

• 1999: The Dow Jones industrial average briefly topped the 10,000 level, reaching a high of 10,001.78 before retreating.
  

• 1999: The Nebraska Cornhuskers beat Chicago State 50-3 in an NCAA baseball game.
  

• 1999: The entire 20-member European Commission resigned following publication of a critical report on sloppy management and cronyism.
  

• 2000: Independent Counsel Robert Ray said he found no credible evidence that Hillary Rodham Clinton or senior White House officials had sought FBI background files of Republicans. (leaving me to wonder - who received what for this misinformation)
  

• 2000: Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the "Enola Gay" bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died in Windermere, Florida, at age 81. 
  
  
  

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