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03-20-2011, 07:31 PM
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March 21st
1685 ~ Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, 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.
1998 ~ Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
2000 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the government lacked authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.
2010 ~ Death Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt.
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03-22-2011, 09:09 PM
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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.
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"
1962 ~ NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched.
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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03-23-2011, 08:13 PM
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03-24-2011, 03:44 AM
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RIP Jules Verne
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03-24-2011, 05:53 AM
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dicksbro, he's only been gone 106 years.
Maybe it's a bit too soon.
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03-24-2011, 07:15 PM
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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.
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.
1978 ~ Birthday of Teanna Kai, Porn Actress.
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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03-25-2011, 09:05 PM
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March 26th
1827 ~ Death of Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer.
1874 ~ Birthday of Robert Frost, 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.
1986 ~ Birthday of Misty Stone, Porn actress and model.
1997 ~ The 39 Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1999 ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian was found guilty of second-degree murder.
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03-26-2011, 08:52 PM
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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.
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.
2006 ~ Death of Stanisław Lem, Polish writer.
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March 28th
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1928 ~ Birthday of Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Carter.
1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War.
1942 ~ Birthday of Neil Kinnock, British Labor politician.
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.
1985 ~ Death of Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter.
1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer.
2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor.
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03-28-2011, 07:52 PM
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March 29th
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 ~ Death of Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana).
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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03-28-2011, 08:04 PM
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Carmina Burana is the best piece of music no-one understands the words to.
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03-29-2011, 08:10 PM
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^^ Lol! ^^
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03-29-2011, 08:21 PM
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