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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015

Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2015. There are 282 days left in the year. 1882 ― German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB  1898 ― First automobile sold  1906 ― “Census of the British Empire” shows England rules one-fifth of the world  1924 ― Greece becomes a republic  1934 ― U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945  1947 ― John D. Rockefeller Jr. donates NYC East River site to the U.N.  1955 ― Tennessee Williams, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances  1960 ― U.S. appeals court rules novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” not obscene  1976 ― Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military  1989 ― Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska  1997 ― Australian parliament overturns world’s first and only euthanasia law  

Mar 23, 2015

MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015

Today is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2015. There are 283 days left in the year. 1743 ― George Frederic Handel's oratorio ``Messiah" premieres in London  1775 ― Patrick Henry proclaims ``Give me liberty or give me death"  1891 ― First jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall  1903 ― Wright brothers obtain airplane patent  1919 ― Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy  1929 ― First telephone installed in White House  1944 ― Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute and lives  1972 ― Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars  1981 ― Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men  1983 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan introduces ``Star Wars" plan (SDI)  1994 ― Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored

Mar 22, 2015

SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015

Today is Saturday, March 21, the 80th day of 2015. There are 285 days left in the year. 1349 ― 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany  1804 ― French civil Code of Napoleon adopted  1843 ― Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today  1851 ― Yosemite Valley discovered in California  1857 ― Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die1943 ― Assassination attempt on Hitler fails   1961 ― Beatles’ first appearance at the Cavern Club  1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Al.1969 ― John & Yoko stage their first bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)   1975 ― Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3,000 years  1994 ― Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe’s NHL record of 801 goals 

Mar 20, 2015

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015

Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2015. There are 286 days left in the year.1345 ― Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought “cause of plague epidemic” 1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule  1852 ― Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published (Boston)  1890 ― German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck  1914 ― First international figure-skating tournament held in U.S., New Haven  1934 ― Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers  1952 ― U.S. Senate’s final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan  1954 ― First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)  1981 ― Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron sentenced to eight years  1990 ― Los Angeles Lakers retire Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s No. 33  1996 ― U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka m

Mar 19, 2015

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015

Today is Thursday, March 19, the 78th day of 2015. There are 287 days left in the year.721 B.C. ― First recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon 1571 ― Spanish troops occupy Manila  1644 ― 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide  1915 ― Pluto photographed for first time (although unknown at the time)  1945 ― 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan  1945 ― Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities  1970 ― West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph meet  1973 ― Dean tells Nixon, ``There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"  1978 ― 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb  1994 ― 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands  1994 ― Largest omelet (1,383 feet) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan  1996 ― Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage 

Mar 18, 2015

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015

Today is Wednesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2015. There are 288 days left in the year. 1532 ― English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome  1871 ― Communards revolt in Paris France  1902 ― Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record  1921 ― Steamer “Hong Kong” runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000  1930 ― Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (U.S.)  1931 ― First electric shavers go on sale in U.S. (Schick)  1937 ― Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas; 296 die  1940 ― Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany’s war against France and Britain  1952 ― Communist offensive in Korea  1977 ― U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia  1978 ― 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, Calif.

Mar 17, 2015

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

Today is Tuesday, March 17, the 76th day of 2015. There are 289 days left in the year.432 ― St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave 455 ― Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor  1580 ― Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam  1804 ― Johann von Schiller's ``Wilhelm Tell" premieres  1917 ― Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne )  1921 ― Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics  1950 ― Element 98 (Californium) announced  1959 ― Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India  1966 ― US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean  1988 ― Iran says Iraq uses poison gas 1991 ― USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; nine of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty 

Mar 16, 2015

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2015

Today is Monday, March 16, the 75th day of 2015. There are 290 days left in the year.1190 ― Jews of York, England, commit mass suicide rather than submit to baptism 1345 ― Holy spirit glides above fire; “the miracle of Amsterdam” (legend)  1521 ― Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines  1850 ― Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” published  1935 ― Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty  1941 ― Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize  1945 ― U.S. defeats Japan at Iwo Jima  1955 ― President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war  1968 ― My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die  1977 ― U.S. President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland  1978 ― Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, five killed 

Mar 15, 2015

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

Today is Friday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2015. There are 293 days left in the year.1519 ― Cortez lands in Mexico 1634 ― Academie Francaise opens  1781 ― Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)  1904 ― Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated  1923 ― Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City)  1935 ― Driving tests introduced in Great Britain  1951 ― Israel demands D.M. 6.2 billion compensation from Germany  1965 ― Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds1981 ― Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca   1991 ― Exxon pays $1 billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)  1996 ― Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergarteners, their teacher and himself 

Mar 12, 2015

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015

Today is Thursday, March 12, the 71st day of 2015. There are 294 days left in the year.1587 ― English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1737 ― Galileo’s body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy  1917 ― Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets  1930 ― Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile (321-km) march protesting British salt tax  1945 ― Italy’s Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy  1945 ― New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment  1947 ― President Truman introduces Truman Doctrine to fight communism  1951 ― Communist troops driven out of Seoul  1954 ― First performance of Arnold Schonberg’s "Moses und Aaron"  1967 ― Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority  1977 ― Egypt’s Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel  

Mar 11, 2015

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