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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
March 7 is:
Burn Your Guitar Day - Celebrates the birthday of rock musician Jimi Hendrix. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Corn flakes's Birthday - Dr. John Kellogg first served corn fakes to his patients at the Kellogg Sanitarium in 1897.
Distinguished Service Medal Birthday - In 1918, President Wilson authorized a medal recognizing those who performed exceptionally meritorious service during the war.
First jazz record released (1917) - The Original Dixieland Band recorded the first jazz record for RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey.
Born on this Day
1849: Plant Breeder, Luther Burbank
1875: Composer Maurice Ravel, "Bolero"
1887: Teacher, Helen Parkhurst
1908: Actress Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo, The Miracle, The Fugitive
Kind)
1917: Jazz musician, drummer Lee Young
1922: Basketball Hall of Famer Andy Phillip
1927: Actor James Broderick
1930: Photographer Lord Snowdon
1934: TV weatherman Willard Herman Scott
1938: Auto racer Janet Guthrie (First woman in Indianapolis 500)
1940: Actor Daniel J Travanti (Hill Street Blues)
1942: Walt Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner
1942: Actor Michael York (Logan's Run, Cabaret, The Heat of the Day)
1943: Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies)
1946: Actor John Heard
1946: Rock singer Peter (Blankfield) Wolf
1946: Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum)
1948: Singer Peggy March
1950: Football Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris
1952: Former football player Lynn Swann
1960: Tennis player Ivan Lendl
1965: Singer-actress Taylor Dayne
1967: Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
1980: Actress Laura Prepon ("That 70's Show")
0161: Death of Antonius Pius, Emperor of Rome
1080: Excommunication of Henry IV, King of
Germany
1138: Conrad III again chosen King of Germany
1190: Jews are massacred by rioters,
Stamford-fair, England
1274: Death of St. Thomas Aquinas
1307: Death of Edward I, King of England
1530: The Pope refuses the request for a
divorce by Henry VIII of England
1573: Venice recognizes the Turkish rule of
Cyprus
1617: A performance of the play
"Ignoramus" given at Cambridge for King James VI of Scotland (and
I of England)
1623: Prince Charles and Villiers reach Madrid
1644: Massachusetts Bay establishes 1st
2-chamber legislature in colonies
1786: Franz Benda died. He was the leader of
the private orchestra of Frederick the Great, who is remembered by classical
music fans today as a pretty good flute player who composed some music
himself that isn't bad.
1854: Charles Miller received a patent for a
sewing machine that stitches buttonholes.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent
for his telephone.
1850: In a three-hour speech to the US Senate,
Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the
Union.
1908: Mark Breith, the mayor of Cincinnati,
stood before the city council and announced that, "women are not
physically fit to operate automobiles."
1911: The United States sent 20-thousand
troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican
Revolution.
1911: Willis Farnworth of Petaluma,
California, patented the coin-operated locker.
1912: Ronald Amundsen annouces the discovery
of the South Pole.
1926: First transatlantic telephone call
(London-New York).
1933: The Monopoly game is invented.
1933: CBS Radio debuted the first daytime
radio serial, "Marie The Little French Princess." It had a
successful run of two years on-the-air.
1936: Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march
into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the
Locarno Pact.
1945: During World War Two, US forces crossed
the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable
Ludendorff Bridge.
1954: Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to capture
the world ice hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden. It marked the first time
that Russia participated in the ice hockey competition.
1955: "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin
and Cyril Richard was presented as a television special for the first time.
1955: Comedienne Phyllis Diller made her debut
at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, California, leading to a stage, club
and television career that spanned more than three decades.
1962: US Orbiting Solar Observatory is
launched.
1965: A march by civil rights demonstrators
was broken up in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
1975: The US Senate revised its filibuster
rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the
previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1981: Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor
appearance.
1981: Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia
executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom
they accused of being a CIA agent.
1985: The song "We Are the World",
from the album of the same name, was played on the radio for the first time.
Forty-five top pop stars combined their talents to record the music of
Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, with Quincy Jones producing. The proceeds
of the multimillion-selling recording went to aid African famine victims.
1987: Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second and
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher led their nation in grieving for the 189
people who died when a British ferry capsized off the Belgian coast the day
before.
1987: World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight
champ, "Iron Mike" Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titlist
ever as he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round bout in Las
Vegas.
1988: Three Israelis were killed when three
Arab gunmen hijacked a commuter bus in the Negev Desert; the hijackers were
themselves killed when Israeli forces stormed the vehicle.
1989: Secretary of State James A. Baker the
Third met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Vienna,
Austria. Baker agreed to visit Moscow the following May to discuss prospects
for a summit between President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
1990: Health and Human Services Secretary
Louis Sullivan announced the government would propose a more informative
food-labeling system that would require the disclosure of the fat, fiber and
cholesterol content of nearly all packaged foods.
1991: In the wake of the allied victory in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third left for a tour of the Middle East, seeking to promote a new Arab-Israeli dialogue.
1992: Democrat Bill Clinton picked up
additional victories in the South Carolina primary and the Wyoming caucuses,
while fellow Democrat Paul Tsongas won the Arizona caucuses. President Bush
won the Republican primary in South Carolina.
1993: Authorities said David Koresh, the
leader of the Branch Davidians, was becoming irritable and had rejected
proposals to end a week-long standoff at his compound near Waco, Texas.
1993: Beethoven's last piano concerto and
Schumann's last symphony were played by the Montreal Symphony. Carlo Rizzi
conducted the Schumann Fourth while Olli Mustonen soloed in the
"Emperor" Concerto. The concert opened with a piece called
"Orion" by the composer Vivier.
1994: The Supreme Court ruled that parodies
that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use"
that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
1994: The US Navy issued its first permanent
orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship – in this case,
the USS "Eisenhower."
1995: New York Gov. George Pataki signed a
death penalty bill into law. In a near-party-line vote, the House passed,
232-193, a business-backed measure designed to pressure combatants in
lawsuits to settle their differences short of costly trials.
1996: Three US servicemen were convicted in
the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to
six and a-half to seven years in prison.
1996: Bob Dole handily won the New York
Republican primary.
1996: Unemployed computer programmer Edward
Leary was convicted of attempted murder in the firebombing of two New York
City subway trains.
1997: After a week of embarrassing disclosures
about White House fund raising, President Clinton told a news conference,
"I'm not sure, frankly" whether he also made calls for campaign
cash. But he insisted that nothing had undercut his pledge to have the
highest ethical standards ever.
1998: A Minn. judge ordered tobacco companies
to turn over thousands of secret documents in the state's $1.77-billion
lawsuit. Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick ordered cigarette makers to release in 2
days 39,000 documents that may contain information on how the industry
studied ways to lure young people to smoke, some as young as five.
1998: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
speaking in Rome, said the US wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo,
which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
1999: Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose
films included "Dr. Strangelove," "A Clockwork Orange"
and "2001: A Space Odyssey," died in Hertfordshire, England, at
age 70
2000: Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the big winners in Super Tuesday primaries.
2000: The Nasdaq composite crossed the five-thousand mark for the first time before retreating.
2000: Country singer Frank "Pee Wee" King died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 86
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