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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014

Today is Monday, March 17, the 76th day of 2014. There are 289 days left in the year.455 ― Roman Senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 1521 ― Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1753 ― First official St. Patrick’s Day 1804 ― Johann von Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” premieres 1845 ― Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1898 ― First practical submarine first submerges, New York, N.Y. (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 1919 ― Dutch steel workers strike for 8-hour day & minimum wages 1959 ― Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1988 ― Iran says Iraq uses poison gas 1992 ― De Klerk wins a white only referendum 

Mar 16, 2014

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014

Today is Saturday, March 15, the 74th day of 2014. There are 291 days left in the year. 1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York, N.Y.) 1908 ― First performance of Maurice Ravel’s “Rapsodie Espagnole” 1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1928 ― Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 1946 ― British premier Attlee agrees with India’s right to independence 1951 ― Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1957 ― Third nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) 1964 ― LBJ asks for a “War on Poverty” 1964 ― Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton) 1968 ― LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world” 

Mar 14, 2014

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2014

Today is Friday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2014. There are 292 days left in the year.1558 ― Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1900 ― U.S. currency goes on gold standard 1931 ― First theater built for rear movie projection (New York City) 1951 ― During Korean War, U.S./U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1953 ― Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary of Communist Party 1967 ― JFK’s body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1976 ― Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race 1983 ― OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years 1990 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress 1995 ― First time 13 people in space

Mar 13, 2014

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2014

Today is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2014. There are 293 days left in the year. 1519 ― Cortez lands in Mexico 1634 ― Academie Francaise opens 1639 ― Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1921 ― Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1954 ― Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu 1961 ― Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)1963 ― Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations1965 ― Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds1979 ― European Monetary System is established, ECU created1991 ― Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alas.)

Mar 12, 2014

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2014

Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 71st day of 2014. There are 294 days left in the year.1587 ― English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1622 ― Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint 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 1951 ― Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1969 ― 11th Grammy Awards: “Mrs. Robinson,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” win1984 ― National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51-week strike 1987 ― “Les Miserables” opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances 1994 ― Church of England ordains first 33 women priests 

Mar 11, 2014

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014

Today is Tuesday, March 11, the 70th day of 2014. There are 295 days left in the year.1302 ― Romeo & Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1702 ― First English daily newspaper, “Daily Courant,” is published 1810 ― Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1851 ― Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice 1918 ― Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1942 ― First deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1967 ― Pink Floyd releases their first song (Arnold Layne) 1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1986 ― 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 B.C. 1997 ― Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

Mar 10, 2014

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

Today is Monday, March 10, the 69th day of 2014. There are 296 days left in the year.241 B.C. ― Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships 1629 ― King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1876 ― First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1880 ― Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity 1893 ― New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before 1910 ― China ends slavery 1959 ― Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet1982 ― President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1987 ― Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer 1994 ― 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral

Mar 9, 2014

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014

Today is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 2014. There are 298 days left in the year.1813 ― First concerto of Royal Philharmonic 1854 ― U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s second trip to Japan 1858 ― Leoncavallo’s opera “I Pagliacci” is produced (Naples) 1911 ― International Women’s Day (first celebrated) 1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg) 1930 ― Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1934 ― Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1958 ― William Faulkner says U.S. schools degenerated to become babysitters 1983 ― President Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire” 1995 ― Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece 

Mar 7, 2014

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014

Today is Friday, March 7, the 66th day of 2014. There are 299 days left in the year.1530 ― King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s church 1857 ― Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs 1876 ― Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1912 ― Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole 1917 ― First jazz record “Dixie Jazz Band One Step,” recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, N.J.1986 ― Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist 1988 ― Jim Abbott, one-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award 1989 ― Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses"1996 ― First surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope) 1997 ― Five sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country’s constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Mar 6, 2014

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2014. There are 300 days left in the year.1521 ― Magellan discovers Guam 1853 ― Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “La Traviata” premieres in Venice 1899 ― “Aspirin” patented by Felix Hoffmann 1921 ― Police in Sunbury, Pa., issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee 1955 ― Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' “Waiting for Godot” 1964 ― Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali 1964 ― Liz Taylor’s third divorce (Eddie Fisher) 1970 ― Beatles release “Let it Be” in U.K. 1972 ― Jack Nicklaus passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner 1981 ― Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of “The CBS Evening News”

Mar 5, 2014

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