March 19

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


Psalm 145:2

March is:

Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month

Today is:

Avon Representative Day - Contact: Avon Products.

Saint Joseph's Feast Day - The foster father of Jesus is the patron saint Of carpenters, engineers, house hunters, manual workers, bursars, fathers, social justice, the church, the poor, and the dying. He is also the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily.

Swallows Day - The swallows return to the San JuanCapistrano Mission in California on Saint Joseph's Feast Day. Tradition-
ally, they leave on October 23.Contact: San Juan Capistrano Mission,San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Born on this Day

• 1519: Henry II, King of France (1547-59)
  

• 1589: William Bradford, governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years
  

• 1603: John IV, "the Fortunate," King of Portugal
  

• 1813: Scottish physician, missionary and explorer David Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Scotsman exercised a formative influence upon Western attitudes toward Africa.
  

• 1821: Explorer and translator of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Sir Richard F. Burton was born to an English family living in Ireland. When he died in 1890, his wife, Isabel, burnt his unpublished manuscripts.
  

• 1848: Marshal Wyatt Earp
  

• 1860: American political leader William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois. (d.1925) The "Silver-tongued Orator," as he was called, was a free silver advocate and a three-time presidential candidate.
  

• 1881: Edith Nourse Rogers was born. She was a YMCA and Red Cross volunteer in France during World War I. She was the first woman to have her name attached to major legislation. She was reelected to the House 17 times.
  

• 1891: Chief Justice Earl Warren
  

• 1914: Actress Patricia Morison (Peyton Place)
  

• 1916: Irving Wallace, author (The People's Almanac)
  

• 1925: Former White House national security adviser Brent Scowcroft
  

• 1928: Actor-director Patrick McGoohan
  

• 1928: Theologian Hans Kung
  

• 1933: Author Philip Roth
  

• 1935: Actress-singer Phyllis Newman
  

• 1935: Actress Renee Taylor
  

• 1935: Actress Nancy Malone
  

• 1936: Actress Ursula Andress
  

• 1937: Singer Clarence "Frogman" Henry
  

• 1944: Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
  

• 1946: Singer Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
  

• 1946: Rock musician (The Zombies) Paul Atkinson
  

• 1947: Actress Glenn Close
  

• 1952: Composer Chris Brubeck
  

• 1955: Actor Bruce Willis
  

• 1955: Rock musician (The Bay City Rollers) Derek Longmuir
  

• 1958: Singer Terry Hall
  

• 1970: Rock musician Gert Bettens (K's Choice)      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0721 B.C.: According to the Roman historian Ptolemy, Babylonian astronomers noted history's first recorded eclipse: an eclipse of the moon.
  

• 0235: Maximinus proclaimed Emperor of Rome
  

• 0624 Muhammed proclaims the "Day of Deliverance"
  

• 1128: The Templars receive the Castle of Soure, from Queen Theresa of Portugal
  

• 1148: The 2nd Crusade reaches Antioch
  

• 1227: Election of Pope Gregory IX
  

• 1229: Because of Frederick II Hohenstaufen's entry into Jerusalem, the Archbishop of Caesarea places Jerusalem under Interdict
  

• 1255: The Church permits Aristotle to be taught in the Universities
  

• 1286: Death of Alexander III, King of Scotland
  

• 1307: The Douglas Larder: Douglas Castle, Scotland, was captured and destroyed by it's owner, the Black Douglas
  

• 1452: Frederick III becomes the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned in Rome
  

• 1532: King Henry VIII of England confiscates Church Annates
  

• 1563: The Peace of Amboise ended the First War of Religion in France. The Huguenots were granted a limited amount of toleration.
  

• 1628: 90 Puritan merchants (New England Co.) receive New World land patent; Massachusetts Colony founded
  

• 1649: English Parliament abolishes the Monarchy
  

• 1687: French explorer Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle -- the first European to navigate the length of the Mississippi River -- was murdered by mutineers in present-day Texas.
  

• 1823: Beethoven gave Archduke Rudolph his "Missa Solemnis".
  

• 1831: The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the heist.
  

• 1853: During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital).
  

• 1859: The opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris.
  

• 1910: The first all-Bartok concert was given in Budapest.
  

• 1917: The US Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads.
  

• 1918: Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time. The act authorized Congress to establish time zones for the U.S. It was also established to save fuel and to promote the economies in a country at war.
  

• 1920: Tthe US Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles ) by a vote of 49 in favor, 35 against, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval.
  

• 1928: "Amos and Andy" debuts on radio. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left WGN Radio in Chicago to head across town to WMAQ Radio. Due to contract limitations they weren't permitted to take their popular radio show names.
  

• 1931: Nevada legalized gambling.
  

• 1932: Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge was officially opened.
  

• 1942: With World War II under way, all men in the United States between the ages of 45 and 64, about 13 million, were ordered to register with the draft boards for non-military duty.
  

• 1945: About eight hundred people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the US carrier "Franklin" off Japan; the ship, however, was saved.
  

• 1945: Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands.
  

• 1948: The quickest main event in the history of Madison Square Garden in New York City, a crowd of spectators watch Lee Savold knock out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds of the first round of their prize fight.
  

• 1949: The American Museum of Atomic Energy opened in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  

• 1951: Herman Wouk's war novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel.
  

• 1953: The Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time. "The Greatest Show on Earth" was named best picture of 1952. NBC paid $100,000 for the rights to broadcast the event. Bob Hope was the host.
  

• 1954: Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in living color as Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven of a scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
  

• 1957: Elvis Presley purchased a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and named it "Graceland."
  

• 1964: The Great St. Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic.
  

• 1976: Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage.
  

• 1979: The US House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business.
  

• 1982: An Argentine scrap metal dealer landed on South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean and planted an Argentinean flag. The situation escalated and eventually led to the Falklands war.
  

• 1983: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights charged that the White House and federal agencies had impeded its work by withholding documents, and notified President Reagan that it would issue subpoenas to obtain them.
  

• 1984: TV Show "Kate and Allie" premieres.
  

• 1985: In a legislative victory for President Reagan, the Senate voted, 55-to-45, to authorize production of the M-X missile.
  

• 1985: IBM announced that it was planning to stop making the ill fated PCjr consumer-oriented computer. In the 16 months the PCjr was on the market, only 240,000 units were sold.
  

• 1987: Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary.
  

• 1987: President Reagan, in a news conference, repudiated his policy of selling arms to Iran, saying, "I would not go down that road again."
  

• 1988: Two British soldiers were shot to death after they were dragged from a car and beaten by mourners attending an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  

• 1989: Alfredo Cristiani of the right-wing ARENA party was elected president of El Salvador, defeating Fidel Chavez Mena of the Christian Democratic Party.
  

• 1990: Latvia's political opposition claimed victory in the republic's first free elections in 50 years, and reformers also claimed victories in crucial runoffs held in Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine.
  

• 1991: The Labor Department reported that consumer prices, benefiting from a big monthly decline in gasoline prices, had edged upward only two-tenths of a percentage point the previous month. 
  

• 1992: Democrat Paul Tsongas pulled out of the presidential race, leaving Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton the clear favorite to capture their party's nomination.
  

• 1993: Two composers famous mainly for movie music re-entered the recorded repertory with their "longhair" stuff. Koch released a recording of James Sedares and the New Zealand Symphony doing works of Miklos Rozsa, including a Hungarian Nocturne and Three Hungarian Sketches.
  

• 1993: Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire. (White's departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court's second female justice.)
  

• 1994: Talks between North Korea and South Korea collapsed, imperiling a U.S.-brokered deal to resolve the North Korean nuclear dispute.
  

• 1994: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton promised to tell people "all across America about our health reform plan and what it really means.""
  

• 1995: Britain's Queen Elizabeth started an historic state visit to post-apartheid South Africa.
  

• 1995: Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Jewish settlers, killing two people.
  

• 1996: Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination with solid primary victories in four Midwestern states.
  

• 1996: President Clinton rolled out a $1.64 trillion election-year budget, promising it would invigorate the economy, erase federal deficits and cut taxes.
  

• 1996: Sarajevo again became a united city after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
  

• 1997: Following the withdrawal of Anthony Lake, President Clinton nominated acting CIA Director George Tenet to head the nation's spy agency.
  

• 1997: President Clinton departed Washington for his summit in Helsinki, Finland, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
  

• 1997: Artist Willem de Kooning, considered one of the 20th century's greatest painters, died in East Hampton, New York, at age 92.
  

• 1998: Completing baseball's transformation from family ownership to corporate control, Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group won approval to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for a record $350 million.
  

• 1998: Ice and snow storms across parts of the High Plains closed schools and highways and downed powerlines. Ice and winds left thousands without power when lines in western Kansas snapped during the late winter storm. Several inches of snow fell in northern Oklahoma and western Kansas, closing schools and businesses in both states.
  

• 1998: A throng of 30,000 ethnic Albanian mourners filed through the dusty streets of Pec to bury the latest victim of violence in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Qerim Muriqi, 52, was shot dead the previous day as he walked toward the center of Pec to take part in a demonstration. Five other Albanians were reported wounded.   
  

• 1999: At a White House news conference, President Clinton prepared the nation for airstrikes against Serbian targets following the collapse of Kosovo peace talks in Paris.
  

• 1999: A powerful bomb shattered an outdoor food market in Vladikavkaz, Russia, killing at least 53 people.
  

• 2000: President Clinton arrived near New Delhi on the first presidential visit to India in 22 years as he opened a six-day trip through troubled South Asia.
  
  
  

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