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March 14th
1681 ~ Birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann, German Composer.
1804 ~ Birthday of Johann Strauss Sr.
1835 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian Astronomer.
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.
1984 ~ Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
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jseal,
I was unaware that LBJ was in Presidency a year before USA joined the Allies in WW1.
Another thing to argue at PAGAN.
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Oops!
That SHOULD read 1966.
TY
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March 17th
180 ~ Death of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
461 ~ Death of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland.
1673 ~ Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet began their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river.
1782 ~ Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Mathematician.
1834 ~ Birthday of Gottlieb Daimler, Engineer & Inventor.
1845 ~ The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry.
1919 ~ Birthday of Nat King Cole, Singer. Oh! what a singer!
1942 ~ Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
1959 ~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet and traveled to India.
1973 ~ The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy was taken.
Feastdays & Holidays
Catholicism ~ Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland and Montserrat, widely celebrated in North America.
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March 21st
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer.
1839 ~ Birthday of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1867 ~ Birthday of Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway Impresario.
1945 ~ UK Troops liberated Mandalay, Burma.
1960 ~ Police fired on demonsTraTors in Sharpeville, SouTh Africa, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 ~ The federal peniTenTiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, AlcaTraz, was closed.
1965 ~ Rev. King led 3,200 people on The sTarT of a civil righTs march from Selma To MonTgomery, Alabama.
1980 ~ PresidenT CarTer announced a U.S. boycoTT of The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow To proTesT The SovieT Invasion of AfghanisTan.
1999 ~ BerTrand Piccard and Brian Jones became The firsT men To circumnavigaTe The EarTh in a hoT air balloon.
2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme CourT ruled The governmenT lacked auThoriTy To regulaTe Tobacco as an addicTive drug.
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March 23rd
1749 ~ Birthday of Pierre Simon de Laplace, Mathematician & Astronomer.
1775 ~ Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech - "give me liberty or give me death" in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1857 ~ Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
1882 ~ Birthday of Emmy Noether, Mathematician. Now there's a lady who had a tough row to hoe!
1912 ~ Birthday of Wernher von Braun, Engineer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
1983 ~ President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept missiles.
1989 ~ Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1989 ~ A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid (4581 Asclepius) missed the Earth by 400,000 miles.
2001 ~ The Russian space station Mir was de-orbited, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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