March 18

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


Psalm 145:2

March is:

Poison Prevention Awareness Month - Spread the word on how poisoning can be prevented. Sponsor: Poison Prevention Council.

Today is:

Grover Cleveland's Birthday - The 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. was born in Caldwell, New Jersey in 1837.

Ham Radio Day - In 1909, Einar Dessau of Denmark was the first to broadcast over a ham radio.

North Atlantic Treaty ratified (1949) - Contact: NATO

Poppin' Fresh Birthday - The Pillsbury Dough Boy was introduced in 1961 . Contact; Pillsbury Company, 200 South 6th Street,
Minneapolis.

Postal Workers Stress Syndrome Day - Commemorates the first strike by U.S. postal workers, which occurred in 1970 in New York City. Also known as l Have Postal Workers Stress Syndrome and Need the Day Off Day (as named by Bud Spider of Pennsylvania). Contact; U.S. Postal Service. 

Space Walk Day - In 1965, USSR cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was the first person to walk in space.

Born on this Day

• 1286: Alexander III, King of Scotland
  

• 1609: Frederick III, King of Norway and Denmark
  

• 1782: John C. Calhoun, the first U.S. vice president to resign that office
  

• 1837: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey. Cleveland was the only U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
  

• 1844: Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
  

• 1858: German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name
  

• 1869: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
  

• 1892: Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet
  

• 1926: Peter Graves, actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane)
  

• 1927: George Plimpton, author, jack-of-all-trades
  

• 1927: Composer John Kander
  

• 1932: John Updike, poet and novelist
  

• 1933: Kevin Dobson
  

• 1963: Former president of South Africa, (Frederik Willem) F.W. de Klerk
  

• 1939: Country singer Charley Pride
  

• 1941: Singer Wilson Pickett
  

• 1943: Actor Kevin Dobson
  

• 1950: Actor Brad Dourif
  

• 1959: Singer Irene Cara
  

• 1962: Actor Thomas Ian Griffith
  

• 1962: Singer James McMurtry
  

• 1963: Singer actress Vanessa Williams
  

• 1964: Olympic gold medal speedskater Bonnie Blair
  

• 1964: Country musician Scott Saunders (Sons of the Desert)
  

• 1966: Rock musician Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
  

• 1967: Rock singer-musician Miki Berenyi (Lush)
  

• 1970: Rapper-actress Queen Latifah ("Living Single")
  

• 1974: Rock musician Stuart Zender 
  

• 1977: Singer Devin Lima (LFO) is 23.      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0386: Death of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
  

• 0731: Gregory III consecrated Pope
  

• 0971: St. Edward the Martyr, king of the English, was murdered at Corfe Castle on the orders of his stepmother, eager to see her son Ethelred crowned king.
  

• 1123: 1st Lateran Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
  

• 1227: Death of Pope Honorius III
  

• 1229: Fredrick II Hohenstaufen crowns himself King of Jerusalem
  

• 1258: Scottish Earls pledge common cause with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
  

• 1314: Burning of 39 Knights Templar in France, including Jacques de Molay, 23rd and Last Master of the Templars
  

• 1498: Savonarola preaches his Farewell Sermon
  

• 1516: Death of Giuliano de Medici, in Fiesole
  

• 1543 De Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
  

• 1554: Princess Elizabeth sent to the Tower for suspected rebel complicity
  

• 1566: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, returns to Edinburgh 1
  

• 1567: Death of St. Salvator of Horta
  

• 1584 Death of Ivan IV, "the Terrible," Czar of Russia
  

• 1612 Bartholomew Legate became the last person burned in England for his religious opinions
  

• 1662: The first buses, eight-seat vehicles known as "carrosses a cinq solz," began running in Paris, France.
  

• 1766: Britain repealed the Stamp Act.
  

• 1813: David Melville of Newport, Rhode Island, received a patent for the gas streetlight.
  

• 1850: American Express founded.
  

• 1865: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourned for the last time.
  

• 1871: The insurrection of Paris against the French government began. The rebels, known as the Communards, were defeated in May.
  

• 1881: Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  

• 1892 At a banquet through a letter Lord Stanley presents the idea of a silver cup challenge for Hockey (Stanley Cup) The cup cost $50.
  

• 1902: Enrico Caruso became the first classical singer to produce a decent record. Only he could sing loudly and piercingly enough to be clearly heard over the surface noise of the primitive gramophone. Caruso made his recordings in a hotel room in Milan. He was then 29.
  

• 1909: Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short-wave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what's believed to have been the first broadcast by a "ham" operator.
  

• 1910: The opera, "Pipe of Desire," was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Frederick Sheperd Converse wrote the work that turned out to be the first opera by an American composer to be performer at the Met.
  

• 1919: The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City.
  

• 1922: Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after two years.)
  

• 1927: The "Radio Times" magazine published an article by George Bernard Shaw in which Shaw declared that "jazz... is the old dance band Beethovenized."
  

• 1931: Schick, Inc. marketed the first electric razor in Stamford, Connecticut.
  

• 1937: A natural gas explosion at a public school in New London, Texas, killed 410 people, most of them children.
  

• 1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain.
  

• 1944: Once again the nation began to awake to the sound of the alarm clock. During World War II, alarm clocks became precious commodities. They went on sale once again in Chicago, Illinois.
  

• 1945: The Japanese released suicide bombs, mechanized flying bombs piloted by young Japanese soldiers against the U.S. aircraft carries fleet attacking the Japanese fleet in the Kure-Kobe area.
  

• 1952: First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  

• 1953: In the first major-league baseball relocation since 1903, the Boston Braves announced their plans to move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After two more decades, the Braves moved south to Atlanta, Georgia.
  

• 1954: RKO Pictures was sold and became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. Howard Hughes purchased the studio for $23,489,478.
  

• 1959: President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
  

• 1962: France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
  

• 1965: The first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his "Voskhod Two" capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
  

• 1967: The oil tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked off the Cornish coast in England, spilling 910,000 barrels of oil into the sea.
  

• 1974: Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
  

• 1978: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was found guilty of ordering the assassination of an opponent and sentenced to death.
  

• 1979: Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett, one day before deporting her and a companion for what were termed "provocations.""
  

• 1983: Jordan's King Hussein, leading an Arab League delegation in London, expressed pessimism about the possibility of joining Middle East peace negotiations as urged by the Reagan administration.
  

• 1985: Capital Cities Incorporated announced it was acquiring American Broadcasting Companies Incorporated for more than $3.5 billion.
  

• 1986: The U.S. Treasury announced that a clear, polyester thread would be woven into currency in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
  

• 1987: Susan Butcher won her second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, covering the distance from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, in eleven days, two hours, five minutes and 13 seconds.
  

• 1988: The government of Panama, controlled by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, declared a "state of urgency" in a move apparently aimed at forcing the reopening of banks and other businesses that closed during Panama's economic and political crisis.
  

• 1989: The shuttle Discovery completed a five-day mission with landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
  

• 1990: An alliance of conservative parties won a surprising victory in East Germany's first free elections.
  

• 1990: Thieves made off with eleven valuable paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (the crime remains unsolved).
  

• 1991: John Volker, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, fisherman, and author (Anatomy of a Murder), died. 
  

• 1991: Results from a non-binding Soviet referendum showed overwhelming support for preserving the union, a victory for President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. However, in a boost for Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, voters in his republic also endorsed electing the federation president by direct ballot
  

• 1992: South African President F.W. de Klerk claimed victory for his reforms a day after a whites-only referendum on whether to end apartheid.
  

• 1992: National Football League owners voted to drop the use of instant videotape replays to settle disputed calls during games.
  

• 1993: On Capitol Hill, the House approved President Clinton's deficit-reduction blueprint on a virtual party-line 243-to-183 vote.
  

• 1994: Muslim and Croat leaders signed agreements to create a Bosnian federation.
  

• 1994: The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned the Hebron mosque massacre.
  

• 1994: The space shuttle Columbia returned from a two-week mission.
  

• 1994: Published reports said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had made nearly $100,000 from the commodities market in the late 1970's on an initial investment of only $1,000.
  

• 1994 (November 1996, Salvi committed suicide in his cell).
  

• 1995: Spain had its first royal wedding in 89 years as Princess Elena married a banker, Jaime de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada, in Seville.
  

• 1995: The United States Catholic Conference's administrative board criticized a Republican welfare reform plan, saying it would hurt poor children and could push women to have abortions.
  

• 1995: Michael Jordan rejoined the Chicago Bulls ending his 17-month retirement from basketball.
  

• 1996: Rejecting an insanity defense, a jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, convicted John C. Salvi the Third of murdering two women in a pair of attacks at two Boston-area abortion clinics in December (Salvi later committed suicide in his prison cell.) 
  

• 1997: Bulldozers began clearing away rocks and earth for a Jewish housing project in disputed east Jerusalem, triggering Palestinian protests.
  

• 1997: Labor Secretary-designate Alexis Herman got a generally favorable reception from Democrats and Republicans alike at her Senate confirmation hearing.
  

• 1998: Julie Hiatt Steele, a former friend of Kathleen Willey's, released a sworn affidavit undercutting Willey's claim that President Clinton had made an unwanted sexual advance toward her in 1993. (Steele said Willey had instructed her to tell Newsweek that Willey had confided the alleged episode to her immediately after it happened; Steele said she first heard about the accusation in 1997.)
  

• 1998: Former Arkansas Govenor Jim Guy Tucker testified before a Whitewater grand jury for the first time since negotiating a plea agreement in February with independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Tucker said he reviewed documents with the jury, but would not disclose if they involved President Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I have said before that what may be important to some people, may not be important to others," he said.
  

• 1998: A presidential yacht that served several administrations sold at an auction of Kennedy memorabilia for just under $6 million on the first day of a controversial sale where many items went unsold. The 92-foot yacht was bought by an unidentified telephone bidder for $5,942,500 on the first day of a two-day auction held by Guernsey's auction house.
  

• 1999: The Kosovar Albanian delegation signed a U.S.-sponsored peace accord following talks in Paris; the Clinton administration warned NATO would act against Serb targets if Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic didn't accept the agreement.
  

• 2000: Taiwan ended more than a-half century of Nationalist Party rule, electing an opposition leader (Chen Shui-bian) whose party favored Taiwan's formal independence from the rest of China. 
  
  
  

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