March 29
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March 29
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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.
National Professional Social Work Month - Honors all social workers for their contributions to society. Sponsor: National Association of Social Workers
National Sauce Month - Celebrate the sauces that are used in cooking. Sponsor: The Alden Group.
March 29 is:
Coca-cola's Birthday - Atlanta pharmacists John
Pembelton, concocted Coca-cola on March 29th and introduced it to the public on May 8th, 1886.Contact: Coca-cola, Inc, P.O. Box 1734, Atlanta, GA 30301
John Tyler's Birthday - The10th President of the U.S. was born in 1790 in Greenway, Virginia.
Knights of Columbus Founder's Day - Founded in 1882, The Knights of Columbus is a fraternal Catholic family service organization providing social services. Sponsor: Knights of Columbus,
Know Your Stockbroker Day - On the day financier Michael Milken was indicted, take some extra time to know those who advise you on your investments. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
23rd Amendment to the Constitution ratified (1961) - Gave D.C. citizens the right to vote in presidential elections.
Vietnam War - The last U.S. troops left Vietnam (1973)
Born on this Day
1561: Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste, Italy, physician burned as a heretic
1790: The 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, was born in
Charles City County, Virginia. He was the first president to marry while in office (his
second marriage). His two marriages produced 15 children.
1819: Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US
1867: Baseball star Cy Young was born, paid $60 per month at age 23,
Young would warm up in the outfield by throwing the ball against a wooden fence -- he
threw with such velocity that he splintered some of the boards.
1916: Former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy
1918: Entertainer Pearl Bailey was born. Bailey received a Tony Award in
1968 for "Hello Dolly."
1919: Actress Eileen Heckart
1945: Former pro basketball player Walt Frazier
1956: Gymnast Kurt Thomas
1916: Former US Senator Eugene McCarthy
1919: Actress Eileen Heckart
1943: Keyboardist-composer Vangelis
1943: British Prime Minister John Major
1943: Comedian Eric Idle
1947: Singer Bobby Kimball (Toto)
1951: Actor Bud Cort
1954: Karen Ann Quinlan born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her parents went
to the U.S. Supreme Court before getting permission to turn off her life-support system.
The case touched off much debate over the right to die.
1955: Football Hall-of-Famer Earl Campbell
1956: Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas
1957: Actor Christopher Lambert
1959: Rock singer Perry Farrell(Porno for Pyros; Jane's Addiction)
1964: Model Elle MacPherson
1967: Rock singer-musician John Popper (Blues Traveler)
1968: Actress Lucy Lawless ("Xena: Warrior Princess")
1968: Country singer Regina Leigh (Regina Regina)
1969: Country singer Brady Seals
1976: Tennis player Jennifer Capriati
0087BC: Han Wu Ti, Chinese Han Emperor dies (BCE)
0327: Deaths of Sts. Jonah and Berikjesu
0502: Gundobad, King of the Burgundians, issues a new
legal code that brings Romans and Burgundians under the same law
1058: Death of Pope Stephen X
1134: Death of St. Stephen Harding
1139: Pope Innocent II grants the Templars 'every best
gift' and makes them an independent unit within the Church
1315: Death of Raymond Lully
1430: Sultan Murat II takes Thessalonica
1464: Coronation of Mathias I as King of Hungary
1565: Turks sail to attack Malta
1621: Christine Couper, of Culros, Scotland, burned as a
witch
1626: 1st American forestry legislation enacted, Plymouth
Colony
1638: First Swedish immigrants to the New World land in
Delaware
1792: Sweden's King Gustav III died, nearly two weeks
after he was mortally wounded during a masquerade party.
1812: The first wedding was performed in the White House.
Mrs. Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of President James Madison, married Supreme
Court Justice Thomas Dodd.
1827: "He withdrew after he had given everything to
his fellow man and received nothing in return." A friend of Beethoven said that, in
the eulogy at the composer's grave.
1828: Robert Schumann graduated from college with a degree
in law.
1847: Victorious forces led by General Winfield Scott
occupied the city of Vera Cruz after Mexican defenders capitulated.
1848: Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because
of an ice jam
1867: The British Parliament passed the North America Act
to create the Dominion of Canada.
1886: The first batch of Coca Cola was brewed over a fire
in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton created the concoction as a
"hangover" cure and a stomach ache/headache remedy. Cocaine was an ingredient
until 1904.
1882: The Knights of Columbus was chartered in
Connecticut. The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic, fraternal service, family organization
of almost 6 million members.
1914: Seven newspapers joined together to distribute the
first newspaper rotogravure section. (The first picture section was developed.)
1917: Man o' War, the famous American race horse was
foaled.
1932: A vaudeville comedian made his radio debut, saying,
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking. There will be a slight pause while
you say, `Who cares?"'
1937: The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski died in
Switzerland. Szymanowski never achieved the kind of fame Rachmaninoff or even Moussorgsky
knew in their lifetimes, but his music is still recorded today. It sounds something like
Richard Strauss.
1943: World War Two meat, butter and cheese rationing
began.
1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of
conspiracy to commit espionage. (They were executed in June 1953.)
1951: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "The King
and I," based on Margaret Langdon's novel "Anna and the King of Siam,"
opened at New York's St. James Theatre for 1,246 performances.
1961: 23rd Amendment ratified, Presidential vote for
District of Columbia.
1962: Jack Paar hosted NBC's "Tonight" show for
the final time.
1963: Alfred Hitchcock's "The Bird's," opened.
The film starred Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Jessica Tandy.
1967: The first nationwide strike in the 30-year history
of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) began, lasting for 13
days.
1971: Army Lieutenant William L. Calley Junior was
convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai (mee ly) massacre.
(Calley ended up spending three years under house arrest.)
1971: A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty
for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The
sentences were later commuted.)
1973: The last United States troops left South Vietnam,
ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1974: Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on
charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The
guardsmen were later acquitted.)
1976: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" won the
Academy Award for the best picture of 1975. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Milos
Forman won awards for best actor, best actress and best director for the film.
1982: The oldest television soap opera, Search for
Tomorrow, switched from CBS, where it appeared for 30 years, to NBC.
1987: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was re-elected
chairman of the right-wing Herut Party, the largest party in the Likud bloc governing
Israel as part of a coalition.
1988: Two top Justice Department officials resigned over
Attorney General Edwin Meese's legal problems.
1988: Senator Bob Dole ended his presidential candidacy.
1988: Michael Dukakis won the Connecticut Democratic
primary.
1988: Leaders of the Assemblies of God ordered Rev. Jimmy
Swaggart to stop preaching for at least a year because of "moral failure."
1989: The movie "Rain Man" won Academy Awards
for best picture, best director Barry Levinson and best actor Dustin Hoffman; Jodie Foster
was named best actress for "The Accused."
1990: President Bush, addressing the National Leadership
Coalition on AIDS, declared his administration "on a wartime footing" against
the disease, and called for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the
virus.
1991: Political strategist Lee Atwater, who'd helped
propel President Bush to his 1988 election victory, died at age 40 of complications
resulting from a brain tumor.
1991: Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf publicly apologized to
President Bush for questioning his judgment about calling a cease-fire in the Gulf War.
1992: Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton
acknowledged experimenting with marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford
University, adding, "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."
1993: "Unforgiven" won the Academy Award for
best picture as well as best director for Clint Eastwood; Emma Thompson won best actress
for "Howards End" and Al Pacino won best actor for "Scent of a Woman."
1994: Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, picked Ernesto
Zedillo to be its new presidential candidate, replacing the assassinated Luis Donaldo
Colosio.
1994: Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson resigned, capping
a long-standing feud with team owner Jerry Jones.
1995: The House of Representatives rejected, 227-204, a
constitutional amendment placing term limits on lawmakers. (The rejected proposal would
have limited terms to 12 in the House and Senate.)
1996: Congress passed, and President Clinton quickly
signed, a 12th stopgap spending bill to avert a partial federal shutdown.
1997: Vice President Gore concluded his tour of Asia,
saying that talks in Beijing had created "new momentum" in relations between the
US and China.
1998: The White House denied there was any obstruction of
justice by President Clinton and his legal team as Paula Jones' lawyers allege in her
sexual harassment suit against the president. The administration officials also dismissed
as outrageous a hearsay account Clinton might have sexually assaulted a woman 20 years
ago. That allegation was included in the court filing made by Jones' lawyers.
1998: President Clinton entered Botswana's remote big-game
country, where elephants outnumber people, for a two-day break from a grueling Africa
trip.
1998: Twenty-two people were killed when a Russian-made
Antonov military plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city of
Piura.
1998: The Lady Vols of Tennessee won a third straight NCAA
basketball championship, defeating Louisiana Tech 93-to-75
1999: Legendary jazz singer Joe Williams died in Las Vegas
at age 80.
1999: NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia continued for a
sixth night.
1999: The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000
for the first time, at 10,006.78.
1999: Connecticut beat top-ranked Duke, 77-to-74, for its
first NCAA basketball championship.
2000: President Clinton told a news conference he was appalled when he first learned his campaign had taken illegal foreign donations in 1996 -- contributions he called both wrong and unneeded.
2000: A federal judge ruled that President Clinton "committed a criminal violation of the Privacy Act" by releasing personal letters to undermine the credibility of Kathleen Willey, one of his accusers.
2001: James Kopp, the fugitive wanted in
the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider,
was captured in France. (Kopp is fighting extradition to the United
States.)
2001: A chartered jet crashed near Aspen,
Colo., killing all 18 people aboard.
2001: Pianist John Lewis, who masterminded the
Modern Jazz Quartet, died in New York at age 80.
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