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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

Today is Wednesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2013. There are 279 days left in the year. 1625 ― Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends to throne 1790 ― The shoelace invented 1914 ― First successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) 1931 ― Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor 1940 ― Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice 1945 ― Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. soldiers killed 1958 ― Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of Communist Party 1966 ― Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia 1979 ― Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars 1988 ― Ku Ok-hee wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament 

Mar 26, 2013

TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

Today is Tuesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2013. There are 280 days left in the year. 1780 ― First British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor) 1812 ― Earthquake destroys 90 percent of Caracas; about 20,000 die 1824 ― First performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” 1845 ― Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band aid 1871 ― Paris Commune founded 1872 ― Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher 1885 ― Eastman Film Co manufactures first commercial motion picture film 1945 ― Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima 1971 ― Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence 1994 ― Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds) 

Mar 25, 2013

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

Today is Saturday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2013. There are 284 days left in the year. 1743 ― George Frederick Handel's oratorio “Messiah" premieres in London 1775 ― Patrick Henry proclaims “Give me liberty or give me death" 1839 ― First recorded use of “OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1857 ― Elisha Otis’ first elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) 1903 ― Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1919 ― Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy 1966 ― First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church 1972 ― Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars 1983 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan introduces “Star Wars” plan (SDI) 1984 ― World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic) 

Mar 22, 2013

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013

Today is Friday, March 22, the 81st day of 2013. There are 284 days left in the year. 1457 ― Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book 1790 ― Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U.S. secretary of state1903 ― Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1914 ― World's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins1922 ― British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to six years in prison 1935 ― Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York) 1954 ― First shopping mall opened in Southfield, MI1963 ― Beatles release first album, “Please, Please, Me”1965 ― U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1990 ― “Les Miserables” opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston, Mass. 

Mar 21, 2013

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013

Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2013. There are 285 days left in the year. 1697 ― Czar Peter the Great begins tour through Western Europe 1804 ― French Civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1857 ― Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die 1935 ― Persia officially renamed Iran 1947 ― President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States 1951 ― 290,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea 1961 ― Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club 1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Al. 1975 ― Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3,000 years 1984 ― Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 

Mar 20, 2013

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013

Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2013. There are 286 days left in the year. 1627 ― France and Spain signs accord for fighting Protestantism 1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1852 ― Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) 1934 ― Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany 1952 ― U.S. Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan 1968 ― President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money 1969 ― Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar 1981 ― Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron sentenced to eight years 1995 ― Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured 1996 ― U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka mad cow disease)

Mar 19, 2013

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013

Today is Tuesday, March 19, the 78th day of 2013. There are 287 days left in the year. 721 B.C. ― First recorded lunar eclipse; location, Babylon 1644 ― 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1682 ― Nationally Council accept independence of French church 1775 ― Four people buried by avalanche for 37 days, three survive (Italy) 1859 ― Charles Francois Gounod's opera “Faust" premieres in Paris, France 1918 ― Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight saving time 1945 ― Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree”; destruction of German facilities 1964 ― Sean Connery’s first day of shooting on “Goldfinger” 1994 ― 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands 1994 ― Largest omelet (1,383-ft.) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan 

Mar 18, 2013

MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

Today is Monday, March 18, the 77th day of 2013. There are 288 days left in the year. 1871 ― Communards revolt in Paris, France 1902 ― Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record 1930 ― Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (U.S.) 1937 ― Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas; 296 die 1940 ― Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain 1944 ― 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Ill., department store 1952 ― Communist offensive in Korea 1967 ― Beatles’ “Penny Lane” single goes No. 1 1978 ― 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, Calif. 1990 ― Largest art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen 

Mar 17, 2013

SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013

Today is Saturday, March 16, the 75th day of 2013. There are 290 days left in the year. 1079 ― Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar 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 1830 ― New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded) 1850 ― Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Scarlet Letter” published 1935 ― Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 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 

Mar 15, 2013

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013

Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2013. There are 291 days left in the year. 1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1945 ― Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is No. 1) 1952 ― Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean 1956 ― “My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances 1957 ― Third nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) 1964 ― LBJ asks for “War on Poverty” 1964 ― Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton) 1968 ― LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world" 1999 ― Pluto again becomes outermost planet

Mar 14, 2013

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