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Post by Richard Frost » Wed Mar 10 2021 11:35am

10 March

NATIONAL MARIO DAY
National Mario Day on Mar 10 recognizes an iconic character from a popular video game. The character, known today as Mario, first appeared in 1981 in a game called Donkey Kong made by Nintendo.

NATIONAL PACK YOUR LUNCH DAY
National Pack Your Lunch Day on March 10 encourages everyone across the country (Americia) to take their lunch to work, school or where ever they’re spending the day. It’s an opportunity to revitalize lunchtime with fresh and healthful meal choices.

NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY
Observed annually on March 10th, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day empowers people everywhere with knowledge and information regarding HIV/AIDS. It also focuses on the often overlooked impact it has on women and girls.

NATIONAL REGISTERED DIETITIAN NUTRITIONIST DAY
Observed annually on the second Wednesday in March, National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day celebrates the contributions of these medical professionals.

On This Day in history - 10th March

241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end
418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1198 The Giralda minaret designed by architect Ben Ahmad for the Almohad mosque in Seville is completed. Now the Bell Tower for Seville's cathedral
1535 Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1578 Queen Elizabeth I of England gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalls it 11 years later
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1697 Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1735 An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
1762 French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspires Voltaire to begin campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform
1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
1791 John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1801 First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately 10 million
1830 The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created
1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1861 West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali
1862 Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar
1862 US issues 1st paper money in the form of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000 notes
1864 Ullyses Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Red River campaign begun in Louisiana by Union forces
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1888 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
1888 Heavyweight Boxing champ John L. Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d'Ivoire)
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1896 Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1900 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks outclass Halifax Crescents, 11-0 to sweep challenge series, 2-0
1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of their country, which is under British protection.
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 Europe's worst mining accident when a coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres, France
1906 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens, constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July 1906.
1910 Republic of China officially abolishes slavery
1910 Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing
1913 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs retain trophy; defeat Sydney Millionaires (NS), 6-2 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
1913 William Knox becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1914 Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez
1915 British Army captures Neuve Chapelle, Belgium
1917 Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas
1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Joe Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1920 Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa
1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1926 Run on Belgian banks
1927 Albania mobilizes due to threats from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches
1928 Christine Collins' son, Walter Collins, disappears in Los Angeles
1931 Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the "New Party"
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins, 3 ties
1934 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1934 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1938 10th Academy Awards: "The Life of Emile Zola", Spencer Tracy & Luise Rainer win
1938 "Jezebel" film premieres directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, from the play by Owen Davis
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India
1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard
1945 Fieldmarshal Albert Kesselring succeeds Gerd von Rundstedt as commander of German Army Command in the West
1945 Germany blows up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.
1945 US troops land in western Mindanao, Philippines in Operation VICTOR IV
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju, northeast Brazil
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1948 5th Golden Globes: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, & Rosalind Russell win
1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1951 Ireland clinches their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Wales at the National Stadium, Cardiff
1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC
1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet
1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1960 17th Golden Globes: "Ben-Hur", Anthony Franciosa, & Elizabeth Taylor win
1962 Due to its no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1964 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City
1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged
1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1968 North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
1970 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection
1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1971 Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army
1972 1st black US political convention opens in Gary, Indiana
1972 General Lon Nol becomes President & Prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1973 20th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 76-74
1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1975 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1975 Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1977 CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1978 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
1982 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Saleem Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1982 Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1982 The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982 8th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Barbara Mandrell win (TV)
1983 Walter Alston, Los Angeles Dodgers manager is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1984 25th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
1984 5th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 82-71 (OT)
1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1985 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
1985 32nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina, 57-54
1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1988 Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort Klosters nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1990 4th American Comedy Award: "When Harry Met Sally"
1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1990 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1990 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
1991 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
1991 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
1991 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole, Color Me Badd win
1992 Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1992 "Come and Talk to Me" single released by Jodeci (Billboard Song of the Year 1992)
1994 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
1996 NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani visits Israel
1996 43rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #12 Wake Forest beats #18 Georgia Tech, 75-74
1996 37th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Kentucky, 84-73
1997 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on WB Television Network
1997 The PalmPilot, as developed by Jeffrey Hawkins, is released
2000 The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
2000 16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
2001 22nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Boston College beats Pittsburgh, 79-57
2002 49th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
2002 43rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Alabama, 61-58
2003 "My Front Porch Looking In" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 2003)
2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2006 Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
2007 21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri, Jennifer Hudson win
2007 28th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Pittsburgh, 65-42
2009 Billy Corgan testifies in front of Congress, on behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition, in support of H.R. 848, the Performance Rights Act
2010 Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net worth of US$53.5 billion
2010 Laureus World Sports Awards, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Serena Williams; Team: Brawn F1 team
2012 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
2012 33rd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Cincinnati, 50-44
2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution
2015 The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.
2015 "See You Again" released by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth commissioned by film "Furious 7" as tribute to Paul Walker (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
2017 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
2018 16 people die after being struck by lightning at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda
2018 Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the first female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest
2019 Taliban force attacks Afghan army base killing or capturing about 50 soldiers in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
2019 Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes just after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board
2020 Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths
2020 Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life
2020 New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of COVID-19 detected
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Thu Mar 11 2021 9:29am

11th March

NATIONAL JOHNNY APPLESEED DAY
March 11th – On National Johnny Appleseed Day, we remember a man who made apple (and pear) trees bloom across the nation. The day celebrates a kindly legend who lived by sage teachings and laboured to bring the shade of fruit trees into many lives

NATIONAL OATMEAL NUT WAFFLES DAY
National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day on March 11th celebrates a healthier version of the classic waffle. Whole grain oats and chopped nuts mixed into a waffle recipe is a delicious, healthy way to start your morning.

NATIONAL WORSHIP OF TOOLS DAY
March 11th is National Worship of Tools Day. This is a day to go out into the garage, the tool shed, the storage closet or wherever it is you keep your tools. You can clean them, reorganize them, make something new with them or maybe go to the store and buy a new one.

NATIONAL FUNERAL DIRECTOR RECOGNITION DAY
National Funeral Director Recognition Day on March 11th reminds us to thank the professionals who consider every need during the most difficult time in our lives.

WORLD KIDNEY DAY
World Kidney Day on the second Thursday in March sets out each year to create increased awareness about kidney care.Our kidneys are vital to our everyday health, and many health issues contribute to Chronic Kidney Disease. Preventative measures help to reduce our risks and improve outcomes.

On This Day in history - 11th March

1425 BC Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
537 Goths lay siege to Rome
843 Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople
928 Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1387 The Battle of Castagnaro begins.
1502 Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)
1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 Archduke Albrecht occupies Amiens, France
1649 The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000
1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes
1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation
1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London
1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.
1791 Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1829 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin
1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1850 Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania opens, 2nd female medical school in the US
1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellen as general-in-chief
1862 12] General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1863 25th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 2nd GN aboard 4/1 Emblem; winning mare's full sister Emblematic wins the following year
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield
1865 General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris
1869 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter
1872 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain
1872 The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture
1876 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers and Old Estonians draw, 1-1; Wanderers win replay, 3-0 for 3rd title
1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey
Discovery
1882 Fridtjof Nansen sets out on a sea voyage to study Arctic zoology
1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeastern USA
1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
1893 Carlos Gardel and his mother, Berthe Gardès, arrive in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die
1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1900 British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury rejects peace overtures from the Boer leader Paul Kruger (on 5 March) as demanding too-favourable terms
1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
1905 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Rat Portage Thisles, 5-4 for 2-1 challenge series victory
1910 Jack Hobbs scores 187 vs South Africa, his 1st international test hundred only to get out hit wicket
1912 First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves), Quebec beats Moncton, 9-3 on way to series sweep
1912 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1915 The British declare a blockade of all German ports
1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1917 British forces occupy Baghdad, the capital of Mesopotamia, after Turkish forces evacuated
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
1918: A group of Americans in California with a message for their fellow countrymen
1919 General strike in Germany crushed
1920 Syria proclaims Emir Feisal king after the country has fought off French domination
1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife" premieres in London
1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Féin
1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 1st golden gloves tournament
1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
1930 William Taft, US 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington
1931 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union
1935 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 Japanese troops land on North Sumatra
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1956 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed
1958 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1959 4th Eurovision Song Contest: Teddy Scholten for Netherlands wins singing "Een beetje" in Cannes
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1963 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1964 21st Golden Globes: The Cardinal, Sidney Poitier, & Leslie Caron win
1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1966 A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1967 Pink Floyd releases 1st single "Arnold Layne"
1967 14th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 82-73
1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously receive gold record for his single "Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay"
1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 Iraqi Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1971 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1972 OPEC threatens "appropriate sanctions" against companies that "fail to comply with . . . any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with [OPEC] decisions."
1972 19th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 73-64
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 Rightist military coup in Portugal under General António de Spínola fails
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 Hanafi Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington, D.C.
1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet's second term begins
1981 Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus and Hawker in Suriname
1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion
1982 Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls, with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots
1982 US boycotts Libyan crude oil
1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki, Finland won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
1983 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
1983 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
1983 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1983 9th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV)
1984 31st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats Duke, 74-62
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1988 British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin
1990 16th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
1990 Lithuania declares its Independence
1990 37th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #14 Georgia Tech beats Virginia, 70-61
1990 31st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
1990 11th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Syracuse, 78-75
1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Kirstie Alley win (TV)
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
1995 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament
1995 Sinn Féin party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
1996 The EU Database Directive is passed
1996 John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history, ending December 3, 2007.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2000 21st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Connecticut, 80-70
2001 48th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53
2001 42nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Ole Miss, 77-55
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190
2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile
2006 27th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Pittsburgh, 65-61
2007 54th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #8 North Carolina beats NC State, 89-80
2007 48th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Arkansas, 77-56
2008 Plácido Domingo named "The King of Singers" in BBC Music Magazine, based on voting by 16 renowned opera critics for the April 2008 issue
2009 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2010 Sebastián Piñera becomes Chilean president for the 1st time
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
2012 US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
2012 59th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82
2012 53rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Vanderbilt beats Kentucky, 71-64
2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
2013 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the
2013 Laureus World Sports Awards, Municipal Theater, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Missy Franklin; Team: FC Bayern Munich
2014 Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
2017 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
2017 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins
2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life
2018 Superhero movie "The Black Panther" becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide
2018 Greek football Super League suspended after PAOK Salonika's president Ivan Savvidis invades pitch with a gun after goal disallowed
2019 Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, refutes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it.”
2019 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) changes his mind saying he will not seek a fifth term and postpones elections after mass protests
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
2020 Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York
2020 Smallest dinosaur ever discovered - skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar, reported in "Nature"
2020 11-year bull market ends as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 20%, becoming a bear market
2020 NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri Mar 12 2021 9:10am

12th March

PLANT A FLOWER DAY
Spring is just around the corner, and March 12th is the day to participate in Plant a Flower Day. Each year this day is dedicated to the planting of flowers and looking forward to the spring season. Flower gardening has become a hobby for many, young and old, and Plant a Flower Day is a start to the new season each year.

Marigolds and Daffodils are the flowers of March.

BAKED SCALLOPS DAY
March 12th celebrates Baked Scallops Day and a popular delicacy, the scallop.

Scallops are a cosmopolitan family and can be found in all of the world’s oceans. They are one of the most popular shellfish in the world and highly prized as a food source.

WORKING MUMS DAY
Every mom is a working mum. On March 12th, Working Mums Day celebrates the breadwinners and the breadmakers, the educators and the role models, those resilient, inspirational fixtures in our children’s lives.

On this day in history - 12th March

538 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1088 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 University of Vienna founded
1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Poet Luís Vaz de Camões publishes the epic poem "Os Lusíadas" in Portugal
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England sends troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 Abel Tasman is the 1st European to sight New Zealand, viewing the north-west coast of the South Island
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes an English colony
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1790 French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree allowing for the sale of church land by French municipalities
1794 Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
1799 Austria declares war on France
1832 The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
1848 2nd Republic established in France
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice
1862 24th Grand National: Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman; first French trained winner; only human fatality recorded in the event, jockey Joe Wynne
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
1868 US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in north east US (400 die)
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal" premieres in Brussels
1900 President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1905 The continuing strikes and disorders that unsettle Italy force out Premier Giovanni Giolitti, though he will return in March, 1906
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs, 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1908 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
1909 Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill
1910 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 Helen Hayes Theater (Little Theatre) opens at 240W 44th St, NYC
1912 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 French airship mistakenly attacks and sinks British submarine D3 with loss of all hands
1917 [OS Feb 27] Russian Duma sets up the Provisional Committee; Soviets form Executive Committee
1917 In the wake of the February Revolution, Communist Party members Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Matvei Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg) and seize control of the Pravda newspaper
1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit" premieres in NYC
1921 Cairo Conference begins, British meeting to determine Middle Eastern policies, Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence attend
1925 British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people
1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax
1930 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn, Estonia
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin
1935 Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of Bengal
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1949 Ireland retains Five Nations Rugby Championship & Triple Crown with a 5-0 win over Wales at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano'
1954 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1958 3rd Eurovision Song Contest: Andre Claveau for France wins singing "Dors, mon amour" in Hilversum
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Barbra Streisand wins 2
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 S. N. Behrman's play "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in NYC
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress strips President Sukarno of authority and names General Suharto as acting President
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell wins best record
1969 120 cannabis joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Hafez al-Assad consolidates power in Syria by installing himself as President
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1971 The Allman Brothers Band record their live album "Live at Fillmore East" on this date and the following day
1971 Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army
1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
1974 Ted Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (body never found)
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1983 4th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Boston College, 85-77
1984 British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Joan Collins & Linda Evans win (TV)
1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (Soviet Union)
1987 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
1989 15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1989 36th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
1989 30th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Florida, 72-60
1989 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
1989 Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submits his first proposal for an "information management system" to his boss at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who finds it “vague, but exciting”
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards: Johnny Gill, Mariah Carey win
1991 OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 World Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
1995 World Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
1995 42nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
1995 36th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
1995 16th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Connecticut, 94-78
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 "Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2000 47th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #20 Maryland, 81-68
2000 41st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
2002 Animated film "Ice Age" directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres
2002 US crime series "The Shield" starring Michael Chiklis premieres on FX
2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea, is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2005 26th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia, 68-59
2006 53rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #7 Boston College, 78-76
2006 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2011 32nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Connecticut beats #3 Louisville, 69-66
2012 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
2012 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2012 China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
2012 "The Hunger Games" directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles
2013 JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
2013 The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
2014 8 people are killed, 70 injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York
2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent
2018 Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
2018 Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years
2018 Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai
2018 Civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta passes 1,000 in three weeks as Syrian government forces capture the town of Mesraba
2019 Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman
2019 K-pop and Big Bang singer Seungri is arrested for procuring prostitutes, retires to fight the charges in South Korea
2019 Theresa May's British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242
2019 More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid battle for last ISIS stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, according to Syrian Democratic Forces officials
2020 US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries, though not the UK, due to COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added a day later)
2020 UK PM Boris Johnson says the UK is facing the “worst public health crisis for a generation”, that up to 10,000 people may already be infected with COVID-19
2020 NHL announces the pausing of the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 2020 NCAA men's basketball tournament is cancelled over concerns of the spread of COVID-19; first time 'March Madness' not held since it began in 1939; women's tournament also cancelled
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Mar 13 2021 9:52am

13th March

NATIONAL COCONUT TORTE DAY
National Coconut Torte Day on March 13th recognizes a rich dessert featuring the decadent flavour of coconut and decorated with it, too! Coconut lovers may enjoy this holiday savouring the delicious taste of this rich dessert.

The word torte is German and literally means cake. Torte refers to both a multi-layered cake filled with buttercream, jam, or cream and to a rich, moist and dense single-layered cake. A torte may be made with little to no flour, but instead with ground nuts or breadcrumbs, as well as sugar, eggs, and flavourings.

NATIONAL EARMUFF DAY
National Earmuff Day on March 13th recognizes the creation of the protection that keeps our ears warm. The annual celebration highlights the history of the fun and innovative invention each year.

If you live in a cold climate like Chester Greenwood did, and had large, protruding ears, like Chester Greenwood did, you might be thankful for his invention. National Earmuff Day honours the man who found a better way to keep our ears warm all winter long.

NATIONAL GOOD SAMARITAN DAY
National Good Samaritan Day on March 13th recognizes the unselfish actions of those who provide help when needed. The day is also known as Good Samaritan Involvement Day and celebrates kindness in all its forms.

NATIONAL JEWEL DAY
National Jewel Day on March 13th recognizes the makers, the jewellers and the special pieces that take our breath away. Each year, the day reminds us to wear those pieces and to appreciate the artisans who make them shine!

NATIONAL OPEN AN UMBRELLA INDOORS DAY
National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day on March 13th annually is a national science experiment of sorts. Open an umbrella indoors and pay attention to whether or not you suffer any bad luck.

On this day in history - 13th March

483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
624 Battle of Badr: Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army
1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
1639 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Galotti" premieres in Brunswick
1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus
1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 Cherubini's opera "Medée" premieres in Paris
1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena" premieres in Königsberg
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1861 23rd Grand National: Joseph Kendall wins aboard Jealousy at 5/1
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War)
1868 Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
1875 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers and Old Etonians draw 1-1; replay
1877 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
1878 Oxford University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match
1881 Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg
1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages across the east coast of the USA and Canada
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1897 San Diego State University is founded.
1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State (Boer War)
1900 In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
1903 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilean border dedicated
1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris
1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in NYC
1911 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 7-4
1911 The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax
1912 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
1912 Bulgaria and Serbia conclude an alliance pact ostensibly against Austria, but it secretly provides for a possible war against Turkey
1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
1918 Leon Trotsky gains control of the Red Army
1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1918 1st NHL championship: Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1920 After the German government is forced to cut its army to 10,000 men, military groups plot an unsuccessful coup - a revolt ended by a general strike
1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh V" premieres in NYC
1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
1929 20 year old Australian cricket super-batsman Donald Bradman scores 123 in 5th Test vs England at MCG; his second Test century
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
1933 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1936 Irish-bred Golden Miller with Evan Williams aboard wins record 5th consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cup steeplechase at 21/20 favourite; only horse to complete Gold Cup-Grand National double
1938 In a process known as Anschluss, Austria is annexed into Nazi Germany
1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische
1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight
1944 USSR recognizes Italian government of Pietro Badoglio
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1946 Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms Belgian government - shortest Belgian government (ends 31 March)
1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", De Havilland, March win
1948 Ireland beats Wales, 6-3 at Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship and first Grand Slam
1949 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 General Motors Corporation reports record net earnings of $656,434,232
1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 Viet Minh General Võ Nguyên Giáp opens the assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu, northwest Vietnam
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 6th Titleholders title by 2 strokes from Mary Lena Faulk
1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1956 "The Searchers" American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood is released
1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of US Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 Paul Hindemith and Thornton Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC
1963 Indonesia & Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ..." premieres in NYC
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah, kills 6,000 sheep
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins her 10th Australian singles title; beats fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong 2-6, 7-6, 7-5
1971 18th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: South Carolina beats North Carolina, 52-51
1972 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in NYC
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1980 American John Wayne Gacy receives the death sentence in Illinois for the murder of 12 people
1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (GBR)
1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
1982 ABC TV crime drama "T.J. Hooker" premieres, starring William Shatner
1983 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1983 30th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Virginia, 81-78
1983 24th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Alabama, 86-71
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV)
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1987 John Gotti, boss of the Gambino crime family, is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Michael Douglas & Glenn Close win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)
1988 35th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61
1988 29th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57
1988 9th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Villanova, 85-68
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1991 Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east USA
1993 Australian Federal elections: Australian Labour Party headed by Paul Keating re-elected for a fifth term
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed
1994 41st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 North Carolina beats Virginia, 73-66
1994 35th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 73-60
1994 15th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Georgetown, 74-64
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.
1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader
1997 Phoenix lights seen at night over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. Now a hotly debated controversy.
2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy
2004 25th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats Pittsburgh, 61-58
2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"
2005 Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2005 52nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 69-64
2005 46th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Kentucky, 70-53
2005 Bob Iger is named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner
2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
2009 30th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Louisville beats #10 Villanova, 69-55
2010 31st Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 West Virginia beats #22 Georgetown, 60-58
2011 58th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 75-58
2011 52nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 70-54
2012 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
2012 Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia
2012 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
2012 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
2013 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
2013 The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
2013 An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil
2013 North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
2013 Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
2014 After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
2014 "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", directed by directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, premieres in Los Angeles
2015 Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific, including 15-16 deaths.
2016 Suicide Bombing in Ankara, Turkey kills 37 people
2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump
2018 National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.
2019 President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months
2019 Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump
2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom announces an indefinite moratorium on the death sentence in the state, saying it discriminates against marginalized communities
2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia
2019 British MPs vote to reject a no-deal Brexit, defeating Theresa May's government 321 votes to 278
2019 Shooting at school in Suzano, near São Paulo, Brazil, kills six including five children, before former student gunmen turn guns on themselves
2019 Australian cardinal George Pell is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual abuse in Australia
2019 Australian cricketers beat India by 35 runs in Delhi to win ODI series, 3-2; first Australian team to recover from 0-2 in a 5-match series; Usman Khawaja 100, Adam Zampa 3/46
2019 Member of the New York Gambino mob family Frank Cali shot dead outside his home, first killing of a high-ranking mobster since 1985
2020 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion to fight COVID-19
2020 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company's board to focus on philanthropic activities
2020 12 hours after PGA Tour cancelled its flagship event, The Players Championship, Augusta National announces postponement of the Masters Tournament to a date to be fixed because of COVID-19 pandemic
2020 Elite football in Britain, including England's Premier League, EFL, Women's Super League plus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is suspended until at least 3 April because of COVID-19 pandemic
2020 African American Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant on her flat with a battering ram in Louisville, Kentucky [1]
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Mar 14 2021 9:11am

14th March

MOTHERS DAY
Mothering Sunday, sometimes known as Mother's Day, is held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. It is exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday and usually falls in the second half of March or early April.

CHILDREN’S CRAFT DAY
Each year, Children’s Craft Day on March 14th unleashes a boost of creative energy right in the middle of National Craft Month. The day celebrates crafting with children. By opening children’s eyes to the world of crafts, we spark their imagination, and from there, the possibilities are endless.

LEARN ABOUT BUTTERFLIES DAY
On March 14th, Learn About Butterflies Day encourages us to look for a blur of colour as butterflies begin migrating across the country. Each year the celebration brings with it an awareness of the varieties of butterflies and their importance to our survival. Spring and summer are just right around the corner, so it is an excellent time to take a few minutes and learn something new about butterflies and appreciate their beauty.

PI DAY
Pi Day on March 14th recognizes the mathematical constant π. Also known as pi, the first three and most recognized digits are 3.14. The day is celebrated by pi enthusiasts and pie lovers alike!

POTATO CHIP DAY
Potato Chip Day on March 14th celebrates a #1 snack food.

WRITE DOWN YOUR STORY DAY
Everyone has a story and on March 14th, Write Your Story Day challenges you to tell your story in written form.

You may think to yourself, “There’s nothing in my life to tell.” It will surprise you once you put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard and the words start filling the pages. Words have a way of triggering memories. They form a moment in time, and before you know it, there’s a story flowing from your fingertips. Even if you never share your tale, it can be an essence of who you are and where you’ve been.

Trips down memory lane or recreating the moment when a spark of inspiration occurred, are more intriguing than you know. Today, they fill blogs, inspire novels and entire television series. More importantly, they are treasures to family and loved ones.

On this day in history - 14th March

1369 Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II
1489 The last Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro is forced to abdicate by Venice
1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands
1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
1592 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1743 1st American town meeting is held in Boston's Faneuil Hall
1757 On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of besieged British garrison
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1801 Henry Addington becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his friend William Pitt the Younger resigns after being unable to persuade King George III of the need for Catholic Emancipation
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
1840 Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid
1845 -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen
1847 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence
1858 Ellen G. White receives a vision while attending a funeral service in Lovett's Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio
1862 Battle of New Bern North Carolina: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 Gioachino Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1869 Defeat of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand
1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1874 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Oxford University beats Royal Engineers, 2-0
1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres
1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre
1888 Second largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
1896 Sutro Baths in San Francisco opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University, 6-2 to clinch trophy for CAHL
1899 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon"
1900 Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1901 Germany's Chancellor von Bulow declares that the agreement Germany signed with Great Britain in October 1900, to restrain foreign aggression and maintain open trade, does not apply to Manchuria
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
1903 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, Ontario: Ottawa HC beats Rat Portage Thisles, 4-2 for a 2-0 challenge series sweep
1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
1904 In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; first case in T. Roosevelt's 'trust-busting' campaign
1907 By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals, 6-4
1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Italy injured in an assassination attempt
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1913 South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid
1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal
1916 Battle of Verdun: Germans capture Cumières-le-Mort-Homme and Chattancourt in France
1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco
1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 Allies accepts Vilnius taking East-Galicia in Poland
1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)
1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1926 Train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 Civilian Conservation Corp begins tree conservation
1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1936 Wales beats Ireland, 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record
1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio during their "feud"
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1940 "The Road to Singapore" directed by Victor Schertzinger starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, first of seven such films premieres
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"
1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox
1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
1954 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her second Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Patty Berg
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
1958 South Africa's government prohibits the African National Congress
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
1960 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA playoff record of 53 points in Warriors' 132-112 win over Syracuse Nationals at Philadelphia Civic Center
1961 Former New York Yankees general manager George Weiss becomes first President of New York Mets after MLB expansion franchise formed
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 Red Wings' forward Gordie Howe becomes second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals in Detroit's 3-2 loss to NY Rangers
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1966 British film "Born Free" based on the book "Born Free" by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1967 1967 NFL Draft: Michigan State defensive end Bubba Smith first pick by Baltimore Colts
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win at Aqueduct Racetrack, NYC aboard 2-year-old bay Bravy Galaxy at 13 to 1
1969 West Indies cricket batsman Seymour Nurse scores career high 258 in his last Test innings in 3rd Test win over NZ at Christchurch
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1971 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American defending champion Arthur Ashe 6-1, 7-5, 6-3; first man to win an Open era Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals, plagued by poor home attendance, announce they are moving franchise to Kansas City
1972 Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Marines terminate Moluccan action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1979 A Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, China, killing at least 200
1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul 49-48
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating of STS 41-C mission
1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
1991 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1991 English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonmen
1991 The Dave Matthews Band perform their first show as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1993 40th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats #1 North Carolina, 77-75
1993 34th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
1993 14th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
1994 Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 President Clinton trips & injures his knee requiring surgery
1997 The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
2003 Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2004 51st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats #5 Duke, 95-87
2004 45th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 89-73
2004 WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
2005 Cedar Revolution, where over a million Lebanese march in the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
2009 Canterbury winger Hazem El Masri becomes highest point scorer in Australian Rugby League history; 33rd minute penalty in Bulldogs' 34-12 win over Manly at ANZ Stadium, Sydney takes him to 2,178; Andrew Johns, 2,176
2010 57th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #4 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 65-61
2010 51st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 75-74 (OT)
2013 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico
2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
2015 62nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Notre Dame beats North Carolina, 90-82
2015 36th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Villanova beats Xavier, 69-52
2016 President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria
2016 Marco Rubio announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race
2016 NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average
2017 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
2018 UK announces it will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Russian-made nerve agent used on former spy in UK
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2018 World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest
2018 Angela Merkel sworn in for fourth term as German Chancellor, head of a coalition government, 171 days after the general election
2018 US students across American commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country
2018 Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio, prompting mass protests
2019 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration
2019 Former US Democratic representative Beto O'Rourke announces he is running for president
2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
2019 California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)
2019 Tropical Cyclone Idai comes ashore in Mozambique, killing at least 417 people, and Malawi killing at least 56, after causing widespread flooding,
2020 Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance by Air Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France 9,765 m (15715 km) due to COVID-19 and it was domestic
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Mon Mar 15 2021 9:50am

15th March

EVERYTHING YOU THINK IS WRONG DAY
March 15th recognizes Everything You Think Is Wrong Day, a day where decision-making should be avoided, as your thoughts are (according to the founder of this holiday) wrong. It is also a day created for some people to realize that they are not always right.

While starting a conversation, one might want to avoid using the words “I think.” The observance may be a time for all to contemplate our own lack of knowledge. It is okay that one does not know everything, and if there is a need to feel as if you do, hold on. Tomorrow will be here soon, and then once again, you can think that you do!

PEARS HELENE DAY
On March 15th, Pears Hélène Day celebrates a food holiday about the delicious, smooth French dessert combining warm poached pears, vanilla ice cream, and chocolate sauce.

Pears Hélène is a dessert made from pears poached in sugar syrup and served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and crystallized violets. Around 1864, French Chef Auguste Escoffier created the dessert in honor of the operetta La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach

SHOE THE WORLD DAY
Each year, Shoe The World Day on March 15th shines a light on the value of good footwear for millions of people around the world.

Each day, over 500 million children, teens, and adults do not have a pair of shoes to wear. Despite the terrain and the climate, they walk barefoot everywhere. Their daily struggle is one we cannot begin to imagine. Living daily without protection on your feet can lead to a lifetime of problems including pain, injury, cuts, sores, infections, parasites. Schools and businesses ban students and customers without shoes. We attach stigmas to people who do not have proper footwear, too. Life without footwear also affects their health, education, and financial well-being. One issue leads to another, creating a never-ending cycle.

On this day in history - 15th March


44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome
221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
351 Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
493 Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, murders King Odoacer of Italy with his sword at a banquet in Ravenna
933 Battle of Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyars
1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1360 French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
1391 Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
1526 French Dauphin Francis and his brother Henry exchanged as hostages for their father Francis I, beginning four years of captivity in Spain under Treaty of Madrid
1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France
1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1580 Spanish King Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of Prince William of Orange
1672 King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on Britain
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain James Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House; British troops under Cornwallis defeat American forces but their heavy losses led to ceding of territory and a strategic loss
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1812 1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union
1827 University of Toronto is chartered
1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st professional baseball team
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at the MCG, Melbourne, Australia
1885 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race March 16th
1906 Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico
1916 University of Ghent taken under Dutch control
1917 Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
1919 American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1922 Sultan Faud crowned King of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment
1923 Vladimir Lenin suffer his 3rd stroke
1926 Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
1928 Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 US Information Service opens
1935 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
1937 First American blood blank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates
1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia
1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 people
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going My Way", Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1946 British Prime Minister Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Cricket's master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 performances
1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
1953 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th Titleholders title by 9 strokes from Betsy Rawls
1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champion
1958 "Body Beautiful" musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game
1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapses during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test in Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (of 36 total for 1958)
1958 England retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Scotland at Murrayfield, Edinburgh; England’s 16th FN title
1959 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls
1959 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
1962 Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 Five research groups announce the discovery of anti-matter
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Frank Sintra & Barbra Streisand
1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns after having a drunken row with Prime Minister Harold Wilson
1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 Uprising in South Yemen
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1972 "The Godfather", based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1973)
1972 Two British soldiers killed when attempting to defuse a bomb in Belfast; an RUC officer is also killed in an IRA attack in Coalisland, County Tyrone
1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1975 "That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
1975 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship
1976 Failed coup in Niger
1977 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
1977 US House of Representatives begins 90 day test of televising its sessions
1977 TV comedy "Three's Company" starring Jack Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC
1978 -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1980 England beats Scotland, 30-18 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to claim it's 18th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 8th Grand Slam and 15th Triple Crown
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans win (TV)
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered
1986 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1986 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater in NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1991 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1992 39th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74
1992 33rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 80-54
1992 13th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1997 France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
1998 "Cabaret" opens at Club Expo Theater, NYC, starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson
1998 An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
2001 The world's largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions
2003 Hu Jintao becomes President of the People's Republic of China
2003 24th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Connecticut, 74-56
2004 Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
2006 18th Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne, Australia
2008 29th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Pittsburgh beats Georgetown, 74-65
2008 Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
2009 56th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State, 79-69
2009 50th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Tennessee, 64-61
2013 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa
2013 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
2013 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
2013 Li Keqiang assumes office as the 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China
2013 Justin Timberlake releases his 3rd studio album “The 20/20 Experience” (2013 Billboard Album of the Year)
2014 35th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Providence beats Creighton, 65-58
2014 Ireland edges France, 22-20 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis to beat England on points difference and win Six Nations Rugby Championship; final international match for Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll with record 141 caps
2015 56th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 78-63
2016 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
2017 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
2017 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom
2017 French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller
2018 More than 12,000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
2018 Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico resigns amid crisis after the murder of a journalist Jan Kuciak investigating mafia connections
2018 Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy
2018 Pedestrian bdge in Miami, Florida, collapses onto 8-lane highway 5 days after it was built, killing 6
2019 Terrorist attack on two mosques by a right-wing Australian gunman kills 51 and wounds 50 in Christchurch, New Zealand
2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg
2019 The Vessel, a honeycomb viewing structure designed by Thomas Heatherwick opens at Hudson Yards development, New York City
2020 European countries impose restrictions on gatherings and borders as COVID-19 deaths rates rise dramatically - Italy 1,809, Spain 288, France 120
2020 US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Tue Mar 16 2021 9:40am

16th March

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DAY
March 16th recognizes Freedom of Information Day

PANDA DAY
On March 16, Panda Day draws attention to one of the world’s unique bears. Pandas are also one of the world’s most endangered and adored animals. Conservationists and animal lovers alike spread the word about increasing efforts of the international community dedicated to protecting and restoring habitat.

WORLD SOCIAL WORK DAY
World Social Work Day on the third Tuesday in March recognizes the hard work and dedication of social workers. A global organization of social workers comes together for social justice, human rights, and social development all through the promotion of best practices in social work

On this day in history - 16th March

597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather than submit to baptism
1249 The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany
1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence
1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1527 Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga consolidating Mughal power
1621 Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts
1641 General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 English Long Parliament disbands
1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. In 2004 it merged with the Royal Regiment of Wales to form the Royal Welsh Regiment.
1690 French King Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 Treaty of Vienna signed by Prince Eugene of Savoy, Count Sinzendorf and Count Gundacker, Thomas Stahremberg and the British envoy to Vienna, Sir Thomas Robinson.
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29
1802 US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1802 1st US Military Academy at West Point is established through Congressional act (opened July 4, 1802)
1815 Willem I proclaimed King of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1818 Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín
1827 First US newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" owned and operated by African Americans begins publishing in New York City
1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1834 Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, anchors in the recently British-acquired Falklands Islands for the first time
1836 Constitution of the Republic of Texas approved, legalises slavery
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who is evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy (US Civil War)
1862 Battle at Pound Gap, Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualties)
1867 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in "The Lancet"
1869 Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 1st English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers, 1-0; Morton Betts scores winner
1875 English FA Cup Final Replay, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers beat Old Etonians, 2-0 after initial 1-1 draw
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1882 U.S. Senate ratifies the Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross
1883 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman graduate of a pharmacy college
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris, includes piece “Méditation” for violin and orchestra
1896 Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1900 AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces AL league will be Chicago White Stockings, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Blues, Boston Americans, Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles
1900 Sir Arthur Evans rediscovers the bronze age city of Knossos in Crete, home of the legendary Minotaur
1900 Isadora Duncan giver her first dance performance in Europe, in London
1907 First 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
1911 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur Bearcats (ON), 13-4
1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella" premieres in London
1916 US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1917 Russian Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicholas II declines the Russian throne [OS Mar 3]
1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung" premieres in Hamburg
1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1921 Britain signs a trade agreement with the USSR and sends a trade mission to Moscow: this goes against the US, who in the same month refused to sign a trade agreement
1922 Egypt achieves independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche" premieres in Vienna
1924 The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
1933 Adolf Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht as President of Bank of Germany
1934 US Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1934 Academy Award gold statuette 1st called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky
1934 6th Academy Awards: "Cavalcade", Charles Laughton and Katharine Hepburn win, host Will Rogers announces "Come and Get it Frank" and wrong Frank gets up
1935 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
1935 Scotland beats England, 10-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to allow Ireland to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1 record
1938 Noël Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London
1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
1943 Ships Elin K (Norway) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed by German U-boats and sink
1944 French Vichy Internal minister Pierre Pucheu sentenced to death for treason
1945 Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers
1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1948 Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behaviour
1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 6th Golden Globes: Johnny Belinda, Laurence Olivier, & Jane Wyman win
1950 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Island of Reunion (world record)
1952 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Betsy Rawls
1953 AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1955 NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Montreal Canadiens superstar Maurice "Rocket" Richard for the remainder of the season after he viciously attacked an opponent; Riots ensued in Montreal
1956 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young win
1957 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 7th Titleholders title by 3 strokes from amateur Anne Quast
1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1957 England clinches its 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship, the Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup with a 16-3 win over Scotland at Twickenham, London
1958 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 5 strokes ahead of Betty Dodd
1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic and technical treaty
1961 18th Golden Globes: "Spartacus", Burt Lancaster, & Greer Garson win
1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1963 England edges Scotland, 10-8 at Twickenham, wins its 17th Five Nations Rugby Championship
1964 LBJ asks Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 My Lai massacre occurs when American soldiers kill ~400 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, in one of the most controversial incidents of the Vietnam War
1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado
1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 New English Bible published
1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy Award
1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Edward Heath to discuss the security situation in Northern Ireland
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are served with deportation papers
1973 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Consortium members agree to nationalize all assets immediately in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil
1973 OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value
1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1974 Both Wales (12-16 v England) and France (6-19 v Scotland) lose their final round matches handing Ireland their 8th Five Nations Rugby Championship
1975 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation
1977 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland
1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 South Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 MLB Pitcher Denny McLain, convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrsn
1988 Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 US sends 3,000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1988 Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians - largest ever chemical weapons attack
1991 Seven members of Reba McEntire's band are killed in a plane crash
1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1991 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1991 England beats France, 21-19 at Twickenham for it's 19th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 9th Grand Slam and 16th Triple Crown; fullback Simon Hodgkinson 4 penalties and a conversion
1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
1995 World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain heavyweight title
1996 Montreal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena (Bell Center)
1996 England beats Ireland, 28-15 at Twickenham for a second consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown; fly-half Paul Grayson lands 6 penalties, a conversion and drop goal
1997 NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
1998 Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust
2003 The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
2003 50th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #12 Duke beats NC State, 84-77
2003 44th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 64-57
2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2006 The United Nations votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
2008 55th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #1 North Carolina beats #22 Clemson, 86-81
2008 49th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia beats Arkansas, 66-57
2011 U.S. Postal Service issues a set of five "Latin Music Legends" stamps, including one of Carlos Gardel
2012 Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul,
2012 Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
2012 George Clooney and other several prominent participants, including Martin Luther King III, are arrested outside the Sundanese Embassy for civil disobedience
2013 A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens' bank deposits
2013 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed in Rawalpindi after their bus falls down a ravine
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Wed Mar 17 2021 9:25am

17th March

ST. PATRICK’S DAY
St. Patrick’s Day kicks off a worldwide celebration. On March 17th, many will wear green in honour of the Irish and decorate with shamrocks. According to lore, the wearing of the green tradition dates back to a story written about St. Patrick in 1726. St. Patrick (c. AD 385–461) used the shamrock to illustrate the Holy Trinity and worn green clothing. And while the story is unlikely to be true, many will revel in the Irish heritage and eat traditional Irish fare, too.

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE DAY
On March 17th Corned Beef and Cabbage Day coincides with St. Patrick’s Day in the United States.

To “corn” something is simply to preserve it in a salty brine (the term corn refers to the coarse grains of salt used for curing).

Corned beef is a salt-cured beef product. Traditional Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage recipes used salt pork or a bacon joint instead of corned beef. However, sometime in the mid-1800s when the Irish emigrated to America, they found Jewish corned beef very similar in texture to the bacon joint (pork). As a result, they used corned beef as a replacement for the bacon when preparing corned beef and cabbage meals. Soon after, Irish-Americans began having Corned Beef and Cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day.

On this day in history - 17th March

45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda
180 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies leaving his son Commodus aged 18 as sole emperor
432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1337 Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines
1526 French King Francis I freed from Spain
1537 French troops invade Flanders
1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1775 Transylvania Land Company, headed by Richard Henderson, buys most of Kentucky through treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (later declared illegal)
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1824 Britain & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1829 Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a performance at Sadler's Wells, London
1833 Phoenix Society forms (NY)
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour
1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts
1860 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
1861 Italy is unified into a single kingdom under Victor Emmanuel II following the campaigns led by Giuseppe Garibaldi
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia with 211 causalities
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 British high jump champion Marshall Jones Brooks clears 1.83m at Oxford, England for unofficial world record; thought to be first leap over 6'
1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
1877 Australian / English all-rounder Billy Midwinter completes Test cricket's first 5-wicket haul, 5-78 in the first ever Test match v England in Melbourne
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight at Otay, California
1886 Carrollton Massacre (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1893 Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (Stanley Cup): Montreal Hockey Club claim inaugural trophy after finishing top of final Amateur Hockey Association of Canada standings with a 7–1–0 record
1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1897 British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada
1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899.
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1901 At a show in Paris 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings cause a sensation, 11 years after his death
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1906 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: ECAHA playoff: Montreal Wanderers lose, 9-3 to Ottawa HC but win challenge series, 12-10 on aggregate
1906 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Irish challenger Jem Roche in 1:28s of the 1st round at the Theatre Royal, Dublin; then quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1913 The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School
1917 Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino
1918 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1918 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic in London
1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1921 The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in NYC
1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1926 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC
1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1932 German police raid Adolf Hitler's Nazi headquarters
1932 Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz registers his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v NY Americans; passes Cy Denneny as NHL leader for career points
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1934 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1938 The Italian Air Force, in support of Francisco Franco, bombs Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War
1939 Battle of Nanchang between Kuomintang and the Japanese (Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945)
1942 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC
1943 Physician Willem J Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
1944 Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts after months of volcanic unrest, destroying several towns nearby.
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1947 Arnold J. Toynbee appears on the front cover of Time magazine
1950 Belgian government of Gaston Eyskens resigns due to constitutional crisis
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1951 Test cricket debut of great English fast bowler Brian Statham, England v NZ at Christchurch; goes on to play 70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, (professional ice hockey player) riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city.
1956 8th Emmy Awards: "Ed Sullivan Show", Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball win
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 Presidential plane crashes on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, Philippines killing 25 including Filipino President Ramon Magsaysay
1958 US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 One of the first French New Wave films, "Breathless", directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg is released in France
1961 NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1961 Jaguar head William Lyons debuts the first E-Type model at the Geneva International Motor Show, creating a sensation
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung on Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 South Africa's government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
1967 British harpist Shiela Bromberg plays with string section for the Sgt. Pepper track "She's Leaving Home", becomes the first female to perform on a Beatles recording
1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington, D.C. by US & 6 European nations
1968 Bee Gees make their US TV debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" performing "To Love Somebody" and "Words"
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1971 Government of Trygve Bratteli takes office in Norway
1972 Ringo Starr releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon
1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1979 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel in Berwickshire, Scotland, collapses during works, killing two workers.
1979 Wales beats England, 27-3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff for its 2nd consecutive Five Nations Rugby Championship and record 21st outright title; record 4th straight Triple Crown
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1984 Scotland beats France, 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938; Grand Slam first time since 1925
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
1988 Then highest scoring NCAA basketball game to date; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1990 Scotland beats England, 13-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh for it's 14th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship, 3rd Grand Slam title and 10th Triple Crown
1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC
1991 NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 44th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Goodfellas" Best Film, Martin Scorsese Best Director
1992 "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Candice Bergen win (TV)
1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
1992 South African President F. W. de Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
1996 Cricket World Cup, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan: Aravinda de Silva scores 107 no and takes 3/42 as Sri Lanka beats Australia by 7 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya, Player of Series
1997 CNN begin Spanish broadcasts
2000 The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of cult
2001 OPEC decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day, effective April 1
2002 WrestleMania XVIII, Skydome, Toronto, ON (68,237): Triple H beats Chris Jericho for the undisputed WWF Heavyweight title
2003 British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2004 Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
2008 The popular online game for children, Fantage, is launched
2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
2012 MESSENGER spacecraft begins its extended mission
2012 Wales beats France, 16-9 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
2013 10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq
2013 Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize
2013 Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
2013 60th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Miami beats North Carolina, 87-77
2013 54th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Ole Miss beats Florida, 66-63
2014 The Republic of Crimea is declared
2014 Sia releases her single "Chandelier" with a music video featuring Maddie Ziegler
2016 Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy
2016 Archaeologists announce the discovery of an 2,500 year old iron age warrior king burial ground, with 75 graves in Pocklington, Northern England
2017 Live-action remake "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Bill Condon starring Emma Watson opens.
2018 Ireland beats England, 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship; 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown
2018 China's National People's Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-president
2018 Africa's only female head of state, Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim confirms she is resigning amid an expenses scandal
2019 Wales beats Ireland, 25-7 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Six-Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam; Welsh fly-half Gareth Anscombe kicks 6 penalties and a conversion
2019 Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency after Cyclone Idai tears through eastern Zimbabwe killing at least 259
2019 Flash flooding and a landslides kills at least 73 and injures about 60 in Sentani and Jayapura, Papua, eastern Indonesia
2019 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her presidential bid
2019 Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack, although only 1.2 million blocked at upload
2019 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins biggest cheque in golf ($2.25m) by 1 stroke from Jim Furyk
2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives in the US for face-to-face meetings with Donald Trump
2020 European Union announces a 30-day ban on entering its 26 countries for almost all travelers as it struggles to contain COVID-19
2020 Golden Raspberry Film Awards (Razzies): Musical "Cats" wins six awards including worst film
2020 Chad begins repaying a $100 million debt to Angola with cattle, as more than 1,000 cows arrive in Luanda
2020 UEFA announces the postponement of its flagship national team football competition, UEFA EURO 2020, due to be played in June / July due to the COVID-19 emergency
2020 French Open becomes first Grand Slam tennis tournament to be postponed due to COVID-19, moves from May 24-June 7 to September 20-October 4; conflicts with Laver Cup men’s team event.
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by macliam » Wed Mar 17 2021 10:37am

Happy St. Pat's..... but the second in a row with no celebrations in Ireland :-(

The corned beef story has a bitter twist.... the clearances in the West to allow beef production were one of the causes of evictions and the famine.... so no cause for celebration there!
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Wed Mar 17 2021 12:08pm

2018 Ireland beats England, 24-15 at Twickenham to wrap up Six Nations Rugby Championship; 3rd Grand Slam & 11th Triple Crown
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