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March is:
American Red Cross Month – Have a heart, and give blood. A Presidential Proclamation was issued in 1943. Sponsor: American Red Cross.Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
Cataract Awareness Month This month increases awareness of cataracts, including how to prevent them and how to treat them. Sponsor: Prevent Blindness America
Today is:
Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing - On the third Monday in March, join with Dangerous Dan in washing
out your morning coffee cup at least once a year. Sponsor: Dan Jensen at
WSYW-FM
Big Bird's Birthday - Contact: Sesame Street, Children's Television Network
Earth Day - In 1979, children rang a bell at the United Nations at the moment of the Vernal Equinox. Contact: United Nations. (This was the first Earth Day - In the U.S. it is no longer celebrated on this day.
Earth Month - The month between the first day of Spring and Earth Day. Sponsor: United Nations.
Great American Meatout - Kick the meat habit on the first day of Spring and explore a more wholesome, plant-based diet. Sponsor: Farm Animal Reform Movement
National Agriculture Day The first day of Spring promotes American agriculture. Sponsor; Agriculture Council of America
Photograph a Soup Can Day Celebrates the first large pop art exhibition, which was held in 1962. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Proposal Day Celebrated twice-yearly, this day encourages Men and Women to propose marriage to their true loves. Today, night and day are of equal length, symbolizing that although men and women are different as night and day-they are equal! Sponsor: Lady, load, and Delia Company.
Pigeons Day - On the first day of Spring, the pigeons return to the City/county Building in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sponsor; WAJI Radio
Born on this Day
0043 BC: Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]
1820: Adventurer and writer Edward Judson, originator of the dime novel
1828: Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen
1856: Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
1904: Psychologist B.F. Skinner
1907: Bandleader-turned-actor Ozzie Nelson was born. He appeared in five
movies and the popular "Ozzie & Harriet" TV series with wife, Harriet and
sons, David and Rickie.
1911: Actress-dancer Ginger Rogers
1918: Game show host Jack Barry
1922: Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner
1922: Actor Jack Kruschen
1922: Comedian Ray Goulding
1925: Former Nixon White House aide John Ehrlichman
1928: Children's TV host Fred Rogers
1931: Actor Hal Linden
1936: Actor Ted Bessell (That Girl)
1937: Singer Jerry Reed
1939: Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
1939: Country singer Don Edwards
1942: Former Yale University president Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
1944: TV producer Paul Junger Witt
1946: Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky)
1948: Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr
1950: Actor William Hurt
1950: Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
1951: Rock musician Jimmy Vaughan (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1952: Indy 500 driver Geoff Brabham
1954: Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah)
1957: Movie director Spike Lee
1957: Actress Theresa Russell
1957: Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway
1958: Actress Holly Hunter
1961: Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats)
1961: Actor-auto racer John Clark Gable
1971: Actor Alexander Chaplin
0526: An earthquake hits Antioch, Syria
0580: Death of St. Martin of Braga
0687: Death of St. Cuthbert of Lindesfarne
0687: Death of St. Herbert
1066: 18th recorded perihelion passage of
Halley's Comet (Yeomans & Kiang)
1212: The Thomasschule of Leipzig was founded.
Bach was to work there, 500 years later.
1239: Yet another excommunication of Frederick
II, Holy Roman Emperor
1312: Philip IV "the Fair," King of
France, arrives in Vienne at the head of an army, which convinces to Pope to
condemn the Templars
1345: A triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter
and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius ocurring on this day is (later)
given as the reason for the Black Death
1393: Death of St. John of Nepomuk
1413: England's King Henry the Fourth died; he
was succeeded by Henry the Fifth.
1503: The Saragossa Instruction
1565: Contract made by King Philip of Spain
for the settlement of Florida
1602: United East India Company was chartered
by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of
the world's most powerful companies.
1616: Walter Raleigh freed from Tower of
London to look for gold in Guiana
1619: Death of Mathias II, Holy Roman Emperor
1619: Etienne Audibert condemned for
witchcraft in France
1631: Magdeburg destroyed by Imperial forces,
estimated 25,000 dead
1654: The "Committee of Triers"
appointed by Cromwell
1727: Physicist, mathematician and astronomer
Sir Isaac Newton died in London.
1768: Boccherini played a cello sonata in
Paris. The 25-year-old composer's debut concert was not a success.
1784: Holland ceded Nagapatam, Madras, India,
to Britain.
1800: The French army under J.B. Kleber
defeated the Turks at Helipolis, Turkey, and began advancing toward Cairo,
Egypt.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris,
beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1816: The US Supreme Court, in its
"Martin v. Hunter's Lessee" ruling, affirmed its right to review
state court decisions.
1833: The United States and Siam (now
Thailand) concluded a commercial treaty in Bangkok.
1849: The Second Sikh War between Sikhs and
Britain began in India.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery
novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published. The book sold 300,000
copies in its first year. It was the first book to sell 1,000,000 copies.
1865: A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct
President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed
to appear at the Soldier's Home near Washington, D.C.
1896: US Marines landed in Nicaragua to
protect US citizens in the wake of a revolution.
1896: The first computing scale company,
Dayton Scales, was incorporated in Dayton, Ohio.
1896: U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to
protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution.
1897: The first intercollegiate basketball
game that used five players per team was contested in New Haven,
Connecticut. Yale defeated Pennsylvania by a score of 32-10.
1899: Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, New York,
became the first woman to be put to death by electrocution as she was
executed at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.
1914: Butterworth's "The Banks of Green
Willow" premiered.
1916: The Allies agreed on the partitioning of
Turkey.
1920: The first flight between England and
South Africa was completed by H.A. van Rejneveld and C.J. Brand.
1933: The first German concentration camp was
opened at Dachau.
1934: The first practical tests of radar were
carried out at Kiel Harbor, Germany, by Dr. Rudolph Kuenhold.
1948: First live televised musical Eugene
Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by second live televised musical
Arturo Toscvanni on NBC.
1952: South Africa's Supreme Court invalidated
race legislation of D.F. Malan.
1956: France recognized the independence of
Tunisia, with Bourguiba as president.
1956: Union workers ended a 156-day strike at
Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
1963: A volcano on the island of Bali in the
East Indies began erupting. The eventual death toll exceeded 1,500.
1969: John Lennon married Yoko Ono in
Gibraltar.
1957: Britain accepted a NATO offer to mediate
in Cyprus but Greece rejected the idea.
1972: Nineteen mountain climbers were killed
on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche.
1976: San Francisco newspaper heiress Patty
Hearst was found guilty of bank robbery.
1977: Voters in Paris chose former French
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital's first mayor in more
than a century.
1985: Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, became
the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race, covering the
distance from Anchorage to Nome in nearly 18 days.
1985: For the first time in its 99-year
history, Avon representatives began receiving a salary. Up to this time, the
Avon lady was paid on a commission basis only.
1986: The Dow Jones industrial average closed
above 1800 for the first time.
1987: The federal government approved the sale
of AZT, a treatment but NOT a cure for AIDS.
1988: Eight-year-old DeAndra Anrig found
herself airborne when the string of her kite was snagged by an airplane
flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California. (DeAndra was lifted
ten feet off the ground and carried 100 feet until she let go; she was not
seriously hurt.)
1987: The Food and Drug Administration
approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS
patients.
1989: Palestine Liberation Organization
Chairman Yasser Arafat blamed the Israeli government for escalating violence
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1989: Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
confirmed that his office was investigating "serious allegations"
involving Cincinnati Reds Manager Pete Rose. (Ueberroth's successor, A.
Bartlett Giamatti, later banned Rose from baseball for betting on games.)
1990: Namibia became an independent nation as
the former colony marked the end of 75 years of South African rule.
1991: Eric Clapton's 4-year-old son Conor died
after falling out of a 53rd story window of his mother's apartment in New
York City. The tragedy inspires Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven."
1991: A US jet fighter shot down an Iraqi warplane in the first air attack since the Gulf War cease-fire.
1991: April Glaspie, the US ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Saddam Hussein had lied to her by denying he would invade Kuwait.
1991: The Supreme Court ruled employers could not adopt "fetal protection" policies barring women of child-bearing age from certain hazardous jobs.
1992: Iraq backed down under the threat of
possible air raids and admitted to a far larger ballistic and chemical
arsenal than it had previously disclosed.
1992: Congress passed, and President Bush
immediately vetoed, a Democratic tax cut for the middle class that would
have been funded by a tax hike on the rich.
1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared
emergency rule, setting a referendum on whether the people trusted him or
the hard-line Congress to govern.
1993: An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded
in Warrington, England, killing three-year-old Johnathan Ball and
12-year-old Tim Parry.
1994: El Salvador held its first presidential
election following the country's 12-year-old civil war. Armando Caleron Sol
of the ARENA party led the vote, but needed to win a run-odd to achieve the
presidency.
1995: In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more
than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin
leaked on five separate subway trains. 1995:
1995: Commentator Pat Buchanan formally
launched his presidential campaign in New Hampshire
1996: The British government said that a rare
brain disease that had killed 10 people was probably linked to so-called
"mad cow disease."
1996: A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and
Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their
millionaire parents.
1997: President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin
opened talks in Helsinki, Finland, on the issue of NATO expansion.
1997: Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield
cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by agreeing to warn on every pack that
smoking is addictive and admitting the industry markets cigarettes to
teen-agers.
1998: Independent counsel Kenneth Starr and
White House lawyers squared off over the invoking of executive privilege to
block the testimony of key presidential aides in the White House sex
scandal.
1998: President Clinton's lawyer, appearing
before a federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, declared that Paula Jones'
evidence of sexual harassment was "garbage" unworthy of a trial.
1998: A tornado in rural northeast Georgia
killed at least 13 people and injured 100.
1998: President Clinton slightly relaxed the
U.S. attempt to isolate Cuba. He said would support humanitarian needs of
the Cuban people and prepare them for democracy. Clinton would permit a
resumption of direct humanitarian charter flights to the communist-ruled
island, allow persons in the U.S. to send $1,200 per year to relatives in
Cuba and expedite procedures for sales of medicine and medical supplies.
1999: The Yugoslav army, taking advantage of
the departure of international monitors from Kosovo, launched a furious
offensive against outgunned ethnic Albanian rebels.
1999: Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and
Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon
around the world nonstop.
2000: Pope John Paul the Second embarked on a strenuous and spiritual tour of the Holy Land, beginning with a stop in Jordan.
2000: President Clinton arrived in Bangladesh on the first such visit by an American president.
2000: Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured in Alabama; he was wanted in the fatal shooting of a Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff's deputy. (Al-Amin maintains his innocence.)
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