Today is:
March 30
|
Today is:
|
|
|
March is:
National Hemophilia MonthNational Kidney Month
National Middle School Month - This month celebrates the students and teachers of middle schools.
National Noodle Month - By law, a noodle must contain egg to be called a noodle. Noodles are low fat, low calorie, low sodium, but rich in vitamins. Sponsor: National Pasta Association.
National Nutrition Month - Promotes educating people about the important of healthy eating. Sponsor: The American Dietetic Association.
March 30 is:
Egg incubator patented (1843)
First double-deck bridge opened (1909) - The Queensboro Bridge in New York City opened to traffic.
First passenger ship to circumnavigate the world - In 1923, the Laconia became the first passenger ship to sail around the world.
Genesis Awards Ceremony - Honors media portrayals of animal issues. The 1996 awards will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Sponsor: The Ark Trust.
National Doctors Day - On this date in 1842, Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether to save a patient from discomfort during surgery. Today, give a red carnation to your doctor as a thanks for modern medicine.
Starry Night - On the birthday of Vincent van Gogh, enjoy his most famous painting, Starry Night. Van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands.
Born on this Day
1135: Maimonides [Moses ben Maimon], Cerdoba, Spain, philospher,
physician
1222: Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest
1432: Mehmed II, Ottoman sultan who took Constantinople
1568: Sir Henry Wotton
1719: Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English
1746: Spanish artist (Francisco) Jose de Goya (y Lucientes) was born in
Fuendetodos, Spain. His multifarious paintings, drawings and engravings reflected
contemporary historical upheavals.
1820: English author Anna Sewell ("Black Beauty")
1853: Post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland. The Dutch
painter was best known for his use of bold colors and thick, impasto technique.
1913: Singer Frankie Laine
1913: Former CIA Director Richard Helms
1919: McGeorge Bundy, National security adviser
1929: Actor Richard Dysart
1930: Actor John Astin
1930: Peter Marshall, game show host (Hollywood Squares)
1937: Actor director Warren Beatty
1940: Basketball hall-of-famer Jerry Lucas
1941: Rock musician Graeme Edge (The Moody Blues)
1945: British guitar virtuoso Eric Clapton
1954: Singer Lene Lovich
1950: Actor Robbie Coltrane ("Cracker")
1957: Actor Paul Reiser ("Mad About You")
1957: Actress Theresa Russell
1963: Rap artist M.C. Hammer
1964: Singer Tracy Chapman
1964: Actor Ian Ziering ("Beverly Hills 90210")
1968: Singer Celine Dion
1983: Singer-musician Scott Moffatt (The Moffatts)
1191: Election of Celestine III as Pope
1282: Sicilian Vespers begin, Palermo - Sicilians massacre
8,000 French
1292: Massacre of Berwick by Edward I, King of England
1327: Chartering of the Most Worshipful Company of
Goldsmiths of England
1406: James I of Scotland was captured and imprisoned by
King Henry IV of England.
1492: Jews exiled from Spain
1533: Henry VIII, King of England, divorces Catherine of
Aragon
1533: Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1536: Strangulation of Ibrahim, Grand Vizier of Turkey
1555: Burning of Bishop Ferrar, of St. David's, for heresy
1595: Fishermen landed on Monhegan Island, Maine to stay
for the summer
1604: Orlando Gibbons became organist of Kings College,
Cambridge... a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
1806: Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was
proclaimed king of Naples.
1814: Britain and its allies against Napoleon marched
triumphantly into Paris.
1822: Florida became a United States territory.
1842: Dr Crawford Long first used ether as an anesthetic
during a minor operation. The doctor from Jefferson, Georgia, placed an ether-soaked towel
over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck.
1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean
War and guaranteeing the integrity of Ottoman Turkey.
1858: Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented a pencil
with an attached eraser. (Did ya know that the average pencil can write a continuous line
35 miles long).
1839: Franz Schubert's "Great" Symphony in C
major was premiered in Leipzig. Schumann discovered it and Mendelssohn conducted it.
Schubert had been dead 11 years.
1842: Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first
used ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation.
1867: Secretary of State William Seward reached an
agreement with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7,200,000 in gold. A deal roundly
ridiculed as "Seward's Folly."
1870: Texas becomes the last confederate state readmitted
to the Union.
1870: The 15th Amendment passes, guaranteeing the right to
vote regardless of race.
1909: Queensboro Bridge opened linking Manhattan and
Queens. It is more commonly known as the 59th Street Bridge.
1923: The Audubon Ballroom in New York City held the first
dance marathon.
1932: Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing
of the Atlantic.
1936: Alexander Glazunov died in exile in Paris. Glazunov
was born almost 71 years earlier, so he grew up in the world of Brahms, Wagner and
Tchaikovsky, and lived long enough to hear Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
1945: The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War
II.
1945: The Baltic Sea port of Danzig (Gdansk) was captured
by the Soviet Union.
1950: Invention of phototransistor announced, Murray Hill,
New Jersey.
1955: "On the Waterfront" won the Academy Award
for best picture of 1954, while its star, Marlon Brando, won best actor; Grace Kelly won
best actress for "The Country Girl," beating out Judy Garland for "A Star
Is Born."
1964: John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S.
Senate due to injuries suffered in a fall.
1964: One of television's best-known games shows,
Jeopardy, developed by Merv Griffin, aired on NBC-TV for the first time with Art Fleming
as the host.
1970: The musical "Applause" opened on Broadway.
1973: Ellsworth Bunker resigned as US ambassador to South
Vietnam. He was succeeded by Graham A. Martin.
1979: Airey Neave, a leading member of the British
parliament, was killed by a bomb planted by the Irish National Liberation Army.
1981: President Reagan was shot and wounded by John
Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House news secretary James Brady, a Secret Service
agent and a District of Columbia police officer.
1982: Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to
Earth.
1983: A jury in Santa Monica, California, decided that
Groucho Marx's companion, Erin Fleming, had defrauded the late comedian, and awarded
nearly half a million dollars to the executor of Marx's estate.
1984: U.S. ends participation in multinational peace force
in Lebanon.
1985: Police in South Africa used tear gas and rubber
bullets against black protesters in the 10th straight day of unrest around southeastern
industrial cities.
1986 James Cagney died at his farm in Stanfordville, New
York, at age 86.
1987: The movie "Platoon" won four Academy
Awards, including best picture; Paul Newman was named best actor for "The Color of
Money," Marlee Matlin best actress for "Children of a Lesser God."
1988: An attorney for the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart said the
televangelist would return to the pulpit, defying national Assemblies of God church
officials who had suspended him for at least a year for "moral failure."
1989: "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy
Wasserstein won the Pulitzer Prize for drama while in the journalism category, the
Anchorage Daily News won the public service award for its reports on alcoholism and
suicide among native Alaskans.
1990: Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus vetoed a restrictive
abortion bill, ending the anti-abortion forces' goal of giving Supreme Court a chance to
overturn Roe vs. Wade.
1992: "The Silence of the Lambs" won five top
Oscars at the 64th annual Academy Awards, including best picture, best actress for Jodie
Foster and best actor for Anthony Hopkins.
1993: Israeli authorities barred West Bank Palestinians
from entering Israel after two traffic police officers were shot to death.
1993: Washington attorney Robert Altman went on trial in
New York, charged with wrongdoing in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International; he was later acquitted.
1994: Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their
war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to battle each other.
1994: The Clinton administration announced it was lifting
virtually all export controls on non-military products to China and the former Soviet
bloc.
1995: Tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, fleeing
violence in Burundi, began a two-day trek to sanctuary in Tanzania.
1995: Pope John Paul II issued the eleventh encyclical of
his papacy in which he condemned abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws
could legitimize.
1996: The space shuttle "Atlantis" narrowly
avoided having to make an emergency landing when its cargo-bay doors wouldn't open at
first to release built-up heat.
1996: Funeral services were held in Bethesda, Maryland,
for former senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie.
1997: The reigning champion Lady Vols of Tennessee won
their fifth NCAA women's basketball title by defeating Old Dominion, 68-to-59.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday on
whether the law barring discrimination based on disability applies to people who have the
virus that causes AIDS, but have no symptoms of the disease.
1998: Rolls-Royce was purchased by German automaker BMW in
a $570 million deal.
1999: A jury in Portland, Ore., ordered Philip Morris to
pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for
four decades.
1999: Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic insisted that
NATO attacks stop before he moved toward peace, declaring his forces ready to fight
"to the very end." NATO answered with new resolve to wreck his military with a
relentless air assault.
Today's Soul Food |
Today's All The Rest |
Send Mail to pbower@neo.rr.com
Looking for more quotations?
Past quotes from the Daily
Miscellany can be found here!
I hope you are viewing this page with IE
My favorite Browser