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Post by Tamrin on Mar 8, 2009 7:47:26 GMT 10
8 MarchInternational Women's Day1702 - England's Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III 1913 - [US] Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes 1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime 1917 - Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg) 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 9, 2009 8:06:58 GMT 10
9 March1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus, 1st recorded astronomical observation 1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1841 - US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) 1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold 1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1993 - Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 10, 2009 5:30:01 GMT 10
10 March0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78 1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy 1913 - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in New York 1916 - Birth of James Herriot, Scotland, writer (All Creatures Great & Small) 1959 - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 1969 - James Earl Ray (born this day, 1928) pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr 1993 - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 11, 2009 6:04:00 GMT 10
11 MarchUS: Johnny Appleseed Day (anniversary of John Chapman's death - 1845) 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to "Shakespeare" 1845 - John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County Indiana 1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/minutes (8 km/minute) 1931 - Birth of Rupert Murdoch, Australia, [OGG] publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network 1952 - Birth of Douglas Adams, Cambridge England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC  Johhny Appleseed (John Chapman)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 12, 2009 5:54:58 GMT 10
12 MarchWorld: World Culture Day British Commonwealth: Commonwealth Day 1628 - John Bull, thought to have composed British national anthem (God Save The King), dies 1753 - George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday 1881 - Birth of Kemal Atatürk,1st President of Republic of Turkey 1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid 1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax 1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp 1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests  John Bull as national icon
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2009 6:24:26 GMT 10
13 March1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico 1569 - Lodewijk Cond, French prince/co-leader of Huguenots, dies 1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly 1906 - Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85 1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution 1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80 1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67  Uncle Sam as national icon
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 14, 2009 6:39:39 GMT 10
14 March1833 - Birth of Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866) 1864 - Birth of [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) 1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921) 1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1900 - US currency goes on gold standard 1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 15, 2009 8:02:35 GMT 10
15 March0044 -BC- Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey 1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer 1838 - Birth of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist/author/Indian music (Stranger in Her Native Land) 1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet 1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed  Beware the Ides of March
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 16, 2009 5:20:04 GMT 10
16 March0597 - BC - According to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred. In the Bible, the event is recorded in 2 Kings 24:1ff. and in 2 Chronicles 36:5-8. It is also implied in the early chapters of Jeremiah and Ezekiel 1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism 1774 - Birth of Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia, with his cat, Trim) 1882 - Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73 1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 17, 2009 5:35:25 GMT 10
17 March
Saint Patrick's Day:- 0432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave 0461 - St Patrick patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend) 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day 1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern 1973 - St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday 1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade 1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade[/color] 0180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1680 - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld writer, dies 1876 - General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps 1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 1942 - General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India  W.Bro. Elizabeth St. Ledger(Ireland's most famous Freemason)
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