March 17

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


Psalm 145:2

March is:

National Sauce Month - Celebrate the sauces that are used in cooking. Sponsor: The Alden Group.

National Talk to Your Teens About Sex Month - Promote frank and honest talk between parents and teens about sex. Sponsor: Parenting Without Pressure.

Today is:

St. Patrick's Day

Camp Fire Boys and Girls Founders Day - Mrs. Luther Gulick of Lake Sebago? Maine, founded the Camp Fire Girls in 1912. Sponsor, Camp Fire Boys and Girls.

Designated Driver St. Patrick's Day Campaign - When you go out partying today, make sure to have a friend who will be the designated driver and not drink. Drive safely. Sponsor: Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Evacuation Day - This Boston holiday celebrates the evacuation of British troops in 1776. Actually, this holiday came about as a sneaky way for Boston's Irish politicians to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day as a legal day off from work. Let's have more Evacuation Days! 

Born on this Day

• 1473: James I, King of Scotland
  

• 1804: James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
  

• 1834: German engineer Gottleib Daimler, inventor of the high-speed, gasoline burning, internal combustion engine
  

• 1846: Children's author and illustrator Kate Greenaway
  

• 1866: Erik Satie was born. To this day, people argue about whether he was a genius or just a quirky guy with faulty technique.
  

• 1902: Golfer Bobby Jones
  

• 1918: Actress Mercedes McCambridge
  

• 1919: Jazz legend Nat "King" Cole
  

• 1933: The former chairwoman of the board of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams
  

• 1937: Singer Adam Wade
  

• 1938: Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev
  

• 1941: Rock musician Paul Kantner
  

• 1942: Paul Kantner, musician (Jefferson Starship)
  

• 1943: Singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly
  

• 1944: Singer-songwriter John Sebastian (The Loving' Spoonful)
  

• 1946: Rock musician (War) Harold Brown
  

• 1949: Actor Patrick Duffy
  

• 1951: Rock musician (Thin Lizzy) Scott Gorham
  

• 1951: Actor Kurt Russell
  

• 1952: Country singer Susie Allanson
  

• 1954: Actress Lesley-Anne Down
  

• 1955: Actor Gary Sinise
  

• 1955: Country singer Paul Overstreet
  

• 1959: Rock musician (Level 42) Mike Lindup
  

• 1960: Actress Vicki Lewis ("NewsRadio")
  

• 1961: Actor Casey Siemaszko
  

• 1964: Actor Rob Lowe
  

• 1967: Rock singer Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
  

• 1967: Rock musician Van Connor (Screaming Trees)
  

• 1972: Rock musician (Hole) Melissa Auf der Maur
  

• 1974: Actress Marisa Coughlan
  

• 1976: Singer Stephen Gately (Boyzone)
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0461: According to tradition, St. Patrick -- the patron saint of Ireland -- died in Saul.
  

• 0659: Death of St. Gertrude of Nivelles
  

• 1040: Harold I Harefoot, King of England, dies, is succeeded by Hardthacanute, King of Denmark
  

• 1058: Malcolm III (Canmore) becomes King of Scotland
  

• 1190: 500 Jews massacred at York, England
  

• 1229: Frederick II Hohenstaufen enters Jerusalem
  

• 1230: A Synod in Bremen accuses the Stedinger Revolt of Satanism
  

• 1328: Treaty of Edinburgh: Scots independence recognized
  

• 1337: Edward, son of Edward III of England, becomes the first to bear the title of (Royal) Duke (of Cornwall)
  

• 1406: Death of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun, historian
  

• 1521: Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
  

• 1526: French King Francis I released from Spanish captivity
  

• 1566: Moray and his adherents flee Edinburgh
  

• 1591: Jost Amman. painter and engraver, buried
  

• 1617: Sir Walter Raleigh sails for Guiana
  

• 1628: Convening of Charles I's third Parliament
  

• 1649: The English Parliament abolishes the office of King
  

• 1776: Having seized Dorchester Heights, George Washington forced the British troops under William Howe to evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War.
  

• 1830: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor premiered in Warsaw with the composer in the solo role. He reported later, quote, "the potpourri on Polish themes missed fire completely," drawing only enough applause to reassure him that the audience wasn't bored.
  

• 1861: A new united kingdom of Italy was proclaimed by parliament with Victor Emmanuel II as king.
  

• 1870: The Massachusetts legislature authorized the incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary. (It later became Wellesley College.)
  

• 1894: The United States and China signed a treaty aimed at preventing Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
  

• 1897: Motion pictures of a championship prize fight were taken for the first time as "Sunny" Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out "Gentleman" Jim Corbett for the world heavyweight title.
  

• 1905: Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.
  

• 1906: President Theodore Roosevelt used the term "muckrake" in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.
  

• 1910: The Camp Fire Girls was founded at Lake Sebago, Maine, by Luther and Charlotte Gulick.(It was formally presented to the public exactly two years later.)
  

• 1912: Lawrence Oates, an English explorer with Scott's expedition to Antarctica, left the tent on his 32nd birthday, saying "I am just going outside, and may be some time." He never returned.
  

• 1917: America's first bowling tournament for ladies rolled-out in St. Louis, Missouri. About 100 women participated in the event.
  

• 1941: The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington DC.
  

• 1942: General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War Two.
  

• 1945: The bloody battle against Japanese forces for the Pacific island of Iwo Jima ended in victory for the United States.
  

• 1948: The Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance between Britain, France and the Benelux countries, was signed to provide for military cooperation in the event of an attack.
  

• 1950: Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, which they named "californium."
  

• 1958: The U.S. Navy successfully launched Vanguard-1, a three-and-a-half-pound satellite, into orbit around the earth.
  

• 1960: The second United Nations conference on the Law of the Sea opened in Geneva, attended by 88 states. It ended on April 26 without agreement.
  

• 1963: Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York was beatified. She was sainted in 1975.
  

• 1963: On Bali, the volcano Mount Agung erupted, killing at least 11,000 people.
  

• 1963: Bob Cousey of the Boston Celtics played his last, regular season basketball game after 13 years in the National Basketball Association.
  

• 1966: A US midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.
  

• 1968: Violent demonstrations against the Vietnam was erupted outside the American embassy in London. Over 300 arrests were made and 90 policeman were injured.
  

• 1969: Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.
  

• 1970: U.S. casts first veto in UN Security Council (The United States killed a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia).
  

• 1976: Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis, who were convicted in 1966 of a murder in a bar, had their conviction overturned following attention to the case, in part due to a Bob Dylan song "Hurricane."
  

• 1983: Cardinal Terence Cooke declined to receive Michael Flannery, the grand marshal of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade, because of Flannery's support of the Irish Republican Army.
  

• 1985: President Reagan traveled to Quebec City, Canada, for a meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that was nicknamed the "Shamrock Summit" because of the leaders' Irish ancestries and the date -- St. Patrick's Day.
  

• 1987: A federal appeals court cleared the way for the perjury indictment of former White House aide Michael Deaver. (The following December, a federal jury in Washington convicted Deaver of three of five perjury counts.)
  

• 1988: Three people were killed when a man armed with guns and grenades attacked an IRA graveside service in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  

• 1988: Planeloads of US soldiers arrived at Palmerola Air Base in Honduras in a show of strength ordered by President Reagan.
  

• 1989: The Senate unanimously confirmed Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney to be secretary of defense, following the failed nomination of former Sen. John Tower.
  

• 1989: The space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a mission to put a $100 million tracking and data relay satellite into orbit.
  

• 1990: The president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, rejected a deadline set by Moscow for renouncing the republic's independence.
  

• 1991: Allied commanders from the Gulf War held a second round of cease-fire talks with Iraqi officers; the Iraqis were told they could not move their warplanes inside Iraq for any reason. 
  

• 1991: Millions of people voted in a landmark referendum on whether to preserve the splintering Soviet Union. 
  

• 1992: Democrat Bill Clinton scored big primary victories in Illinois and Michigan.
  

• 1992: Senator Alan Dixon, D-IL, was defeated in his primary re-election bid by Carol Mosely-Braun, who went on to become the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
  

• 1992: At least twenty-eight people were killed and more than 250 were injured in the truck bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
  

• 1993: Helen Hayes, the "First Lady of the American Theater," died in Nyack, New York, at age 92.
  

• 1994: Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a House subcommittee that reports the trip was a failure were "misleading," and said Beijing had made "solid improvements" in the areas of prison labor and immigration.
  

• 1995: Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino maid, was hanged in Singapore for murder, despite international pleas to spare her.
  

• 1995: The White House hosted a St. Patrick's Day reception for Irish Prime Minister John Bruton which was attended by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
  

• 1995: The federal government approved the nation's first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax.
  

• 1996: In Dunblane, Scotland, Queen Elizabeth II came with flowers and sympathy as residents paused in silence to mourn 16 murdered children and their teacher.
  

• 1997: Anthony Lake asked President Clinton to withdraw his nomination to be CIA director, saying the partisan confirmation process had "gone haywire."
  

• 1997: Leftists in El Salvador won control of the capital in a mayoral election.
  

• 1998: Washington Mutual announced it had agreed to buy H.F. Ahmanson and Company for $9.9 billion dollars, creating the nation's seventh-largest banking company.
  

• 1998: A cargo craft carrying a vital set of wrenches reached Russia's Mir space station, and docking went ahead successfully. The reached Mir carrying among other items a spare set of wrenches to help open a jammed airlock and resume delayed space walks.
  

• 1998: A college classmate and close friend of Monica Lewinsky answered questions for nearly the entire day before the grand jury investigating the White House sex scandal. Catherine Allday Davis, who like Lewinsky was a psychology major at Lewis & Clark College in Ore., testified under oath during the closed proceeding.
  

• 1998: The first coeducational class at the once all-male Virginia Military Institute celebrated the end of seven months of hazing that transformed the "rats" into full-fledged cadets. 23 of the 30 women admitted to the Lexington, Virginia, military college the previous year crawled up a mud-soaked hill in near freezing temperatures in a tradition known as "breakout," ending months of torment by upperclassmen. 
  

• 1999: Instant replay was voted back in the NFL for the 1999 season.
  

• 1999: A panel of medical experts concluded that marijuana has medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.
  

• 1999: The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but backed president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
  

• 2000: Smith and Wesson signed an unprecedented agreement with the Clinton administration to, among other things, include safety locks with all of its handguns to make them more childproof; in return, the agreement called for federal, state and city lawsuits against the gun maker to be dropped. 
  

• 2000: The United States lifted a ban on imports of Iranian luxury goods. 
  

• 2000:  More than 300 members of a religious sect burned to death in a makeshift church in southwestern Uganda. 

  
  
  
  

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