03-24-2008, 11:10 AM
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03-26-2008, 11:55 AM
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March 25th
1634 ~ The first settlers arrived in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
1807 ~ The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1867 ~ Birthday of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor.
1881 ~ Birthday of Béla Bartók, Composer.
1918 ~ Death of Claude Debussy, Composer.
1942 ~ Birthday of Aretha Franklin, Singer.
1957 ~ The European Economic Community was established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1975 ~ King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1992 ~ Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1998 ~ President Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of one million Rwandans four years earlier.
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03-26-2008, 12:04 PM
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March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1874 ~ Birthday of Robert Frost, Poet.
1892 ~ Death of Walt Whitman, Poet.
1904 ~ Birthday of Joseph Campbell, Author & Mythologist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Tennessee Williams, Playwright.
1964 ~ The musical “Funny Girl”, starring Barbra Streisand, opened on Broadway.
1979 ~ Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in Washington, DC.
1981 ~ The "Gang of Four", Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.
1997 ~ The 39 Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1999 ~ The Melissa worm infected e-mail systems around the world.
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03-27-2008, 11:57 AM
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March 27th
1836 ~ Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
1845 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, physicist, awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.
1863 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer.
1871 ~ First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1886 ~ Birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect.
1958 ~ Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the USSR.
1968 ~ Death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
1972 ~ Death of M. C. Escher, Dutch artist.
1977 ~ A KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 582 people.
2002 ~ Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber killed 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
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03-27-2008, 01:46 PM
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March 27th
1903 ~ Chicago's National League baseball team, which had previously been known as the White Stockings, Colts, Cowboys, Broncos, Rainmakers, and Orphans, is referred to as the Cubs by Fred Hayner and George Rice of the Chicago Daily News, because of the number of young players on the team. The paper even created a logo, as the name would stick.
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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac
Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."
An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus
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03-28-2008, 12:16 PM
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March 28th
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1903 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist.
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War.
1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist.
1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century played on radio.
1965 ~ Conclusion of the 'Selma to Montgomey' Civil Rights march.
1979 ~ One of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island was severely damaged in what remains as the largest nuclear incident in U.S. history.
1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer.
2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor.
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03-29-2008, 01:02 PM
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March 29th
1799 ~ New York passed a law aimed at abolishing slavery in the state.
1867 ~ Queen Victoria gave Royal Assent to the British North America Act which established the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1899 ~ Birthday of Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader.
1912 ~ Death of Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer.
1973 ~ The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1981 ~ First running of the London Marathon.
1982 ~ Queen Elizabeth gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1984 ~ The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night.
2004 ~ Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 ~ Death of Alistair Cook, Journalist.
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03-30-2008, 06:36 AM
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March 30th
1135 ~ Birthday of Moses Maimonides, Medieval Jewish Philosopher.
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation.
1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter.
1870 ~ Texas was readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1951 ~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage.
1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
1981 ~ President Reagan was shot and seriously injured.
1998 ~ German automaker BMW bought Rolls-Royce for $570 million.
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03-31-2008, 10:08 AM
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March 31st
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet.
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter.
1855 ~ Death of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1918 ~ Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum.
1968 ~ President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election.
1970 ~ After 12 years in orbit, Explorer 1 burnt up when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
1991 ~ The end of the Warsaw Pact.
1995 ~ Latina superstar Selena was killed by the president of her fan club.
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04-01-2008, 03:48 PM
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April 1st
1815 ~ Birthday of Otto von Bismarck, Politician.
1884 ~ Birthday of Florence Blanchfield, the first woman to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army.
1873 ~ Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer, Pianist & Conductor.
1917 ~ Death of Scott Joplin, Musician & Composer.
1918 ~ The Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.
1945 ~ World War II: U.S. forces invaded Okinawa.
1970 ~ President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV.
1976 ~ Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
2001 ~ Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and taken to prison.
2001 ~ A U.S. intelligence gathering plane collided with a PRC Army fighter jet. The Navy crew made an emergency landing in Hainan, PRC and was detained.
Feastdays & Holidays
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April 3rd
1882 ~ Death of Jesse James (shot in the back and killed for the reward).
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1991 ~ Death of Graham Greene, English writer.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
2000 ~ Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws.
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left Ł6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged).
1984 ~ President Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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April 5th
1588 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1614 ~ In Virginia, Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe.
1792 ~ President Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1827 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lister, Surgeon.
1908 ~ Birthday of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1930 ~ In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1942 ~ The Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Colombo, Sri Lanka, and sank the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire southwest of the island.
1951 ~ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1964 ~ Death of General Douglas MacArthur, US Army.
1976 ~ Death of Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer.
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1917 ~ The United States declared war on Germany.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
1971 ~ Death of Igor Stravinsky, Composer.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
2001 ~ Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the U.S. days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
...a bad day for Ahmed.
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