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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011

Today is Wednesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2011. There are 283 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" 1840 ― Draper takes first successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype) 1857 ― Elisha Otis' first elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) 1858 ― Streetcar patented (Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia) 1903 ― Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1919 ― Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy 1934 ― U.S. Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 1972 ― Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars 1994 ― Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored

Mar 22, 2011

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2011. There are 284 days left in the year. 1457 ― Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book 1622 ― First Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va.; 347 slain 1872 ― Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment 1896 ― Charilaos Vasilakos wins first marathon (3:18) 1903 ― Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1914 ― World's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins 1935 ― Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York City) 1946 ― First U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1965 ― U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1968 ― Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone

Mar 21, 2011

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011

Today is Monday, March 21, the 80th day of 2011. 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 1927 ― Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1935 ― Persia officially renamed Iran 1944 ― General Eisenhower postpones Southern France invasion until after Normandy 1961 ― Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club 1975 ― Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3,000 years 1979 ― Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel 1983 ― Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled 1984 ― Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

Mar 20, 2011

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011

Today is Saturday, March 19, the 78th day of 2011. 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 1920 _ U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for second time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy) 1945 _ 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1945 _ Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities 1965_ Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies 1970 _ West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and East German Premier Willi Stoph meet 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, 2011

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011

Today is Friday, March 18, the 77th day of 2011. There are 288 days left in the year. 1532 ― English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome 1865 ― Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time 1902 ― Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record 1921 ― Steamer ``Hong Kong" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 1922 ― British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to six years for disobedience 1931 ― First electric shavers go on sale in U.S. (Schick) 1940 ― Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain 1945 ― 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin 1952 ― Communist offensive in Korea 1977 ― U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia

Mar 17, 2011

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2011. There are 289 days left in the year. 455 ― Roman senator Petronius Maximus first official St Patrick's Day 1756 ― St. Patrick's Day first celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern 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 City (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 1917 ― Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne 1921 ― Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics 1929 ― General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 1959 ― Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1988 ― Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

Mar 16, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011

Today is Wednesday, March 16, the 75th day of 2011. There are 290 days left in the year. 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 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

Mar 15, 2011

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2011. There are 291 days left in the year. 1493 ― Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage 1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1928 ― Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 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" 1978 ― People's Republic of China performs nuclear test 1999 ― Pluto again becomes outermost planet

Mar 14, 2011

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2011

Today is Monday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2011. There are 292 days left in the year. 1826 _ General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama 1901 _ First performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A 1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as General Secretary of Communist Party 1954 _ Braves Henry Aaron homers in his first exhibition game 1958 _ RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American) is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's ``Catch A Falling Star”) 1965 _ Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1967 _ JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1971 _ The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 1992 _ Soviet newspaper ``Pravda" suspends publication 1995 _ First time 13 people in space

Mar 13, 2011

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011

Today is Saturday, March 12, the 71st day of 2011. There are 294 days left in the year. 1587 ― English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1642 ― Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand 1917 ― Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1930 ― Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax 1933 ― FDR conducts his first ``fireside chat" 1938 ― Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 1945 ― New York is 1st 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 1967 ― Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority

Mar 11, 2011

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