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February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author. 1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet. 1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine. 1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure. 1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the U.S. State Department was infested with Communists. 1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1981 ~ Birthday of John Walker Lindh, American Taliban. 1984 ~ Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev. 2001 ~ The USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Japanese training vessel Ehime-Maru. |
February 10th
1840 ~ Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1890 ~ Birthday of Boris Pasternak, Poet, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature. 1898 ~ Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, Author. 1927 ~ Birthday of Leontyne Price, Soprano. 1933 ~ The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York. Sic transit gloria mundi. 1962 ~ Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1996 ~ Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. :( 1998 ~ Voters in Maine repealed a gay rights law passed in 1997. 2005 ~ Death of Arthur Miller, playwright . 2007 ~ Sen. Barack Obama announced his bid for president. |
February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist. 1938 ~ BBC Television produced the first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.') 1941 ~ Birthday of Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician (Brazil '66). 1945 ~ President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement. 1961 ~ The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. 1975 ~ The Tories selected Margaret Thatcher as their new leader. 1979 ~ Followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, after the religious leader returned to his home after his exile. 1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author. 1990 ~ South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. |
February 12th
1804 ~ Death of Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher.
1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist. 1893 ~ Birthday of Omar Bradley, General. 1924 ~ George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' premiered in New York City. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops enter Austria. 1984 ~ Birthday of Lolly Badcock, English Porn Actress. 1994 ~ Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen from a museum in Norway. 1999 ~ The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. 2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. 2002 ~ The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began in The Hague. |
February 13th
1883 ~ Death of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight. 1935 ~ A jury found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. 1945 ~ The RAF & USAAF created a firestorm in Dresden, Germany which killed tens of thousands of civilians. 1960 ~ France tested its first nuclear weapon. 1974 ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature, was exiled from the Soviet Union. 1988 ~ Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta. 1991 ~ Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed when a pair of laser-guided bombs destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad identified by U.S. officials as a military installation, but which Iraqi officials said was a bomb shelter. 1997 ~ Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope performed by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. 2002 ~ Death of Waylon Jennings, American musician. |
February 14th
1766 ~ Birthday of Thomas Malthus, Economist.
1779 ~ James Cook was killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands. 1895 ~ First performance of Oscar Wilde's last play "The Importance of Being Earnest”. 1929 ~ The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage. 1966 ~ Australian currency was decimalized. 1975 ~ Death of P. G. Wodehouse, English writer. 1989 ~ The first of the 24 Global Positioning System satellites was placed into orbit. 1989 ~ Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of ''The Satanic Verses,'' a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous. 2003 ~ Death of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of Saint Valentine. |
February 15th
1820 ~ Birthday of Susan B. Anthony, Activist & Suffragist.
1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer. 1898 ~ The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260. 1965 ~ Death of Nat “King” Cole, Singer. 1965 ~ A new red and white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1974 ~ Birthday of Gina Lynn, Porn Actress. 1988 ~ Death of Richard Feynman, Physicist. 1995 ~ Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the more "secure" U.S. computer systems. 1989 ~ The Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan after more than nine years of military intervention. 2005 ~ YouTube was launched. |
Did u know that today is buger lovers day, natl gumdrop and i want butterscotch day?
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February 16th
1923 ~ Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1935 ~ Birthday of Sonny Bono, Singer & Congressman. 1941 ~ Birthday of Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader. 1959 ~ Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. 1978 ~ The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was created in Chicago, Illinois. 1985 ~ Hezbollah founded. 1986 ~ The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 2001 ~ Death of William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (Masters and Johnson). 2005 ~ The Kyoto Protocol came into effect. 2006 ~ The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the U.S. Army. |
February 17th
1653 ~ Birthday of Arcangelo Corelli, Composer.
1801 ~ An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved when Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the House of Representatives. 1867 ~ The first ship passed through the Suez Canal. 1895 ~ Swan Lake, one of the more famous ballets, with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, was first completely performed in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 1909 ~ Death of Geronimo, Apache leader. 1972 ~ President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China. 1973 ~ Birthday of SaRenna Lee, Porn Actress. 1979 ~ China invaded Vietnam. 1979 ~ Birthday of Dee, Puerto Rican Porn Actress. 1992 ~ Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. |
February 18th
1546 ~ Death of Martin Luther, religious reformer.
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential. 1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher. 1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. 1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published. 1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. 1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon. 1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry. 1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist. 2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date. |
February 19th
1743 ~ Birthday of Luigi Boccherini, Italian Composer.
1915 ~ The Battle of Gallipoli began. 1942 ~ Some 250 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin, Australia. The attack killed at least 243 people. 1942 ~ President Franklin Roosevelt signed the order allowing the U.S. military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps. 1945 ~ About 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima. 1964 ~ Paul Simon wrote "The Sounds of Silence”, the song which would take him and Art Garfunkel to stardom. 1971 ~ Birthday of Gil Shaham, Israeli-born American violinist. 1980 ~ Bon Scott, the lead singer of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, died after a night of heavy drinking. 1986 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. 1997 ~ Death of Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries. |
February 20th
1626 ~ Death of John Dowland, Composer.
1792 ~ President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office. 1902 ~ Birthday of Ansel Adams, Photographer. 1904 ~ Birthday of Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union. 1927 ~ Birthday of Sidney Poitier, Actor. 1952 ~ The film The African Queen opened in New York City. 1958 ~ An announcement was made that the Sheerness Docks, established the in the 17th century by Samuel Pepys, were to close. 1962 ~ John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth aboard Friendship 7. 1966 ~ Death of Chester Nimitz, American admiral. 2001 ~ FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years. |
February 21st
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist. 1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer. 1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet. 1916 ~ The Battle of Verdun began. French casualties during the battle were estimated at 550,000 with German losses set at 434,000, half of the total being fatalities. 1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. 1958 ~ The Peace symbol was completed for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. 1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to a prostitute. |
I had forgotten it was the Nation of Islam that topped Malcolm X.
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I wonder if this might be an example of the Church Militant?
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No, just high order gang violence.
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February 22nd
1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st U.S. President.
1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World. 1879 ~ Frank Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y. 1935 ~ Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House. 1946 ~ George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram - the "Long Telegram" - to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment. 1980 ~ In the Olympic competition, the U.S. Ice Hockey team defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, NY. 1982 ~ Birthday of Jenna Haze, Porn Actress. 1987 ~ Death of Andy Warhol, Celebrity 1994 ~ Double agent Aldrich Ames was arrested. 1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced that a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned. |
February 23rd
1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist.
1685 ~ Birthday of Georg Friederich Händel, Composer. 1836 ~ The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio , Texas. 1855 ~ Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician & Physicist. 1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine. 1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay. 1927 ~ President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission. 1945 ~ The Stars and Stripes raised over Iwo Jima . The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount Suribachi. 1954 ~ Lasting prevention of polio reported in vaccine tests. 1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian. |
February 24th
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, Philologist & Folklorist.
1803 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review. 1856 ~ Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician. 1868 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson. 1903 ~ The U.S. signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. 1942 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator. 1949 ~ At White Sands NM, "Project Bumper” a WAC CORPORAL attached to a German built V-2 rocket, reached a height of 250 miles above sea level, the first rocket to reach outer space. The entire trip took 6-1/2 minutes from firing. 1955 ~ Birthday of Steve Jobs, Computer Pioneer. 1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. 2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon , "father of information theory". 2008 ~ Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba. |
February 25th
1723 ~ Death of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1841 ~ Birthday of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter & Sculptor. 1870 ~ Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the U.S. Senate. 1901 ~ Incorporation of the United States Steel Corporation. 1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, Beatle. 1970 ~ Death of Mark Rothko, American painter. 1986 ~ Corazon Aquino assumed the Philippine presidency after Ferdinand E. Marcos fled. 1994 ~ Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death. 1999 ~ Death of Glenn T. Seaborg, Nuclear Chemist & Public Servant, awarded the 1951 Nobel Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2004 ~ Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was released in the U.S., and became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made. |
February 26th
1797 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.
1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet. 1848 ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto” in London. 1918 ~ Birthday of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer. 1935 ~ Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of RADAR. 1852 ~ Birthday of Julia Bond, Porn Actress. 1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the first web browser. 1991 ~ On Baghdad Radio, Saddam Hussein announced that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. 1993 ~ A van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City exploded, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. 2001 ~ The Taliban destroyed two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan. |
February 27th
1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet (The Song of Hiawatha, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride).
1827 ~ The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans. 1900 ~ The British Labour Party was formed. 1902 ~ Birthday of John Steinbeck, Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962. 1912 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Durrell, Writer. 1933 ~ Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties. 1951 ~ In a victory for freedom lovers, the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified. 1980 ~ Birthday of Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton. 1991 ~ President Bush declared "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated", and announced a Gulf War ceasefire. 2008 ~ Death of William F. Buckley, Jr., Conservative author and commentator. |
February 28th
1827 ~ The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal. 1854 ~ The U.S. Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery. 1916 ~ Death of Henry James, American writer (The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors). 1901 ~ Birthday of Linus Pauling, double Nobel Prize winner: Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962. 1935 ~ Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon. 1953 ~ James Watson and Francis Crick announced that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA. The formal announcement followed in the April 25 publication of Nature. For those who would like to learn more about this interesting development. In Crick’s own words. 1983 ~ The final episode of M*A*S*H was broadcast in the U.S. 1986 ~ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm. 1993 ~ Four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) agents and six Branch Davidians were killed when the agents tried to serve warrants on the Davidians. |
March 1st
1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.
1872 ~ U.S. Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park. 1896 ~ Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. 1912 ~ Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the singing family memorialized in the musical "The Sound of Music", married Agathe. 1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Musician & Actor. 1932 ~ The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. 1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. 1954 ~ The Castle Bravo 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It produced the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the U.S. 1975 ~ Color television transmission began in Australia. 2002 ~ The peseta is replaced by the euro (€) as Spain's official currency. |
March 2nd
1836 ~ The Republic of Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1877 ~ Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. 1904 ~ Birthday of Dr. Seuss, Author. 1930 ~ Death of D. H. Lawrence, Writer. 1931 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). 1939 ~ Death of Howard Carter, British archaeologist. 1962 ~ Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points against the New York Knicks, an NBA record which still stands. 1963 ~ Release of Please Please Me in the U.K., the first LP from The Beatles. 1969 ~ The maiden flight of the Concorde. 2004 ~ Al Qaeda carried out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. |
March 3rd
1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.
1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor. 1923 ~ Birthday of James Doohan, Actor. 1931 ~ ”The Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem of the U.S. 1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast to protest the British rule in India. 1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator. 1985 ~ England’s coal miners accept defeat and vote to return to work after a year long strike. 1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. 2002 ~ Switzerland voted to become a member of the United Nations. 2005 ~ Steve Fossett becomes the first man to fly around the world solo without any stops without refueling. |
March 4th
1193 ~ Death of Saladin, Kurdish sultan.
1678 ~ Birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer. 1804 ~ The Battle of Vinegar Hill, New South Wales. 1861 ~ The "Stars and Bars" was adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. 1877 ~ Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet “Swan Lake” first performed. 1936 ~ First flight of airship Hindenburg (LZ-129), in Germany. 1975 ~ Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. 1994 ~ Four terrorists were convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand. 1997 ~ U.S. President Clinton prohibited federal funding for any research on human cloning. 2007 ~ In Estonia, the world's first national election in which internet voting was permitted. |
March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit. 1946 ~ Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent…”. 1953 ~ Death of Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator. 1953 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer. 1970 ~ The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into effect. 1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time. 2000 ~ Death of Lolo Ferrari, French Porn Actress. 2001 ~ 35 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death during the Hajj pilgrimage. 2004 ~ Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she dumped her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price dropped. |
March 6th
1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist.
1806 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet. 1836 ~ After a 13 day seige, the Mexican army commanded by General Antonio López de Santa Anna captured the Alamo. 1857 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court. 1888 ~ Death of Louisa May Alcott, Novelist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, American economist. 1951 ~ Beinning of the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. 1957 ~ The former UK colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. 1982 ~ Death of Ayn Rand, Author. 1987 ~ 197 people died when a car ferry capsized just outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. |
March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer. 1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. 1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies. 1969 ~ Golda Meir elected Prime Minister of Israel. 1986 ~ Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger. 1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director. 2004 ~ An investiture ceremony was held for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop. 2006 ~ Apple was granted the patent to the iPod. |
March 8th
1862 ~ The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) was launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1869 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer. 1917 ~ Death of Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer. 1917 ~ The first stage of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution started in St. Petersburg. 1942 ~ Death of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player. 1950 ~ The Soviet Union claimed to have an atomic bomb. 1959 ~ George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia. 1981 ~ Birthday of Jessica Jaymes, Porn Actress. 1983 ~ President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire. 2001 ~ The wreck of Bluebird, Donald Campbell's speedboat, was recovered. |
March 9th
1934 ~ Birthday of Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut, first human in space.
1943 ~ Birthday of Bobby Fischer, chess player. 1945 ~ A fire storm in Tokyo, caused by incendiary bombs from American bombers killed over 100,000 people. 1954 ~ CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now”. 1959 ~ The debut of the Barbie doll. 1967 ~ Stalin's daughter defected to the West. 1990 ~ Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirmed he would rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord. 1992 ~ Death of Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. 1996 ~ Death of George Burns, Actor. 2005 ~ The final broadcast by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News. |
March 10th
1844 ~ Birthday of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist.
1913 ~ Death of Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist. 1949 ~ Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally”, was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. 1957 ~ Birthday of Osama bin Laden, Terrorist. 1965 ~ Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway. 1969 ~ James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1977 ~ Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus. 1982 ~ The U.S. placed an embargo on Libyan oil because of Libya’s support of terrorist groups. 1985 ~ Death of Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader. 1993 ~ Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. |
March 11th
1941 ~ President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill.
1952 ~ Birthday of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction/Comedy novelist. 1959 ~ Birthday of Nina Hartley, American porn star. 1968 ~ Death of John Wyndham, Author. 1981 ~ Birthday of Heidi Cortez, Erotic Broadcaster. 1985 ~ Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader. 1993 ~ Janet Reno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Attorney General. 1996 ~ John Howard became the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia. 1997 ~ Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. 2004 ~ Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, killed 191 people and wounded at least 1,800 in an attack linked to al-Qaida. |
March 12th
1912 ~ The Girl Scouts (née Girl Guides) were started in the U.S.
1913 ~ Canberra officially named. 1922 ~ Birthday of Jack Kerouac, Writer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Harry Harrison, Science Fiction author. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops occupied Austria; annexation declared the following day. 1947 ~ The “Truman Doctrine” established. 1971 ~ Birthday of Tony Eveready, Porn Actor. 1987 ~ ”Les Misérables” opened on Broadway. 1994 ~ The Church of England ordained its first female priests. 1999 ~ Death of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. |
March 13th
1781 ~ The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
1855 ~ Birthday of Percival Lowell, Astronomer. 1868 ~ The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate. 1906 ~ Death of Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist. 1925 ~ A law in Tennessee, the Butler Act, was passed, prohibiting the teaching of evolution. 1938 ~ Death of Clarence Darrow, Attorney. 1947 ~ The musical “Brigadoon” opened on Broadway. 1954 ~ Viet Minh forces begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ against the French. 1964 ~ Kitty Genovese was murdered in an incident which shocked the world and prompted investigation into the Bystander effect. 1997 ~ 16 children and 1 teacher are murdered in Dunblane, Scotland. |
March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1879 ~ Birthday of Albert Einstein, physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1921. 1883 ~ Death of Karl Marx, political theorist. 1900 ~ The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing U.S. currency on the gold standard. 1942 ~ First successful use of penicillin to treat a patient. 1943 ~ The SS under the command Sturmbannführer Amon Goth began the 'liquidation' of the Kraków Ghetto. 1964 ~ A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. 1975 ~ Birthday of Johan Paulik, Slovak Porn Actor. 1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. 1985 ~ Birthday of Eva Angelina, Porn Actress. |
March 15th
44 B.C. ~ Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators.
1877 ~ The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia. 1898 ~ Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist. 1906 ~ Rolls-Royce Ltd. was registered. 1916 ~ Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Lyndon Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote. 1937 ~ Death of H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer. 1975 ~ Death of Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate. 1985 ~ The computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered the first 'dot com' domain name, symbolics.com 1990 ~ British journalist Farzad Bazoft was executed for spying. 2004 ~ Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest "planet" in the Solar system so far observed. |
March 16th
1736 ~ Death of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer.
1789 ~ Birthday of Georg Ohm, German physicist and developer of Ohm's Law. 1850 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published. 1898 ~ Death of Aubrey Beardsley, British Artist. 1926 ~ Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1968 ~ The My Lai Massacre was carried out by U.S. troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley. 1978 ~ Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and was later killed by his captors. 1984 ~ William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists; he died in captivity. 1988 ~ The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5,000. 1521 ~ Death of Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier. |
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