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March 3
1791         Congress passes a resolution authorizing the U.S. Mint; legislation creating the mint will be passed on Apr. 2, 1792.
1803         The first impeachment trial of a U.S. judge, John Pickering, begins.
1817         The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans is opened.
1845         Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
1857         Under pretexts, Britain and France declare war on China.
1861         The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.
1863         President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
1877         Rutherford B. Hayes, the republican governor of Ohio, is elected president; his election is confirmed by an electoral commission after a disputed election the previous November.
1878         Russia and the Ottomans sign the Treaty of San Stefano, granting independence to Serbia.
1905         The Russian Czar agrees to create an elected assembly.
1918         The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia.
1919         Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington.
1923         The first issue of Time magazine is published. Its editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale.
1931         President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner," the national anthem.
1939         In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.
1940         A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
1941         Moscow denounces Axis rule in Bulgaria.
1942         The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris.
1945         Finland declares war on the Axis.
1952         The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York's Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1969         Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
1973         Japan discloses its first defense plan since World War II.
1999         Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.
Born on March 3
1831         George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car.
1847         Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices.
1873         William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor.
1895         Matthew Ridgway, U.S. Army leader in World War II and Korea.
1911         Jean Harlow, actress (Hell's Angels, Dinner at Eight).
1916         Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons).
1918         Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1920         Robert Searle, cartoonist.
1926         James Merrill, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Divine Comedies).
1927         Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.

March 4
1152         Frederick Barbarossa is chosen as emperor and unites two factions which emerged in Germany after the death of Henry V.
1461         Henry VI is deposed and the Duke of York is proclaimed King Edward IV.
1634         Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1766         The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, the cause of bitter and violent opposition in the colonies.
1789         The first Congress of the United States meets in New York and declares that the Constitution is in effect.
1791         Vermont is admitted as the 14th state. It is the first addition to the original 13 colonies.
1793         George Washington is inaugurated as president for the second time.
1797         Vice-President John Adams, elected President on December 7, to replace George Washington, is sworn in.
1801         Thomas Jefferson becomes the first President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1813         The Russians fighting against Napoleon reach Berlin. The French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
1861         The Confederate States of America adopt the "Stars and Bars" flag.
1877         The Russian Imperial Ballet stages the first performance of "Swan Lake" in Moscow.
1901         William McKinley is inaugurated president for the second time. Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as vice president.
1904         Russian troops begin to retreat toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese advance in Korea.
1908         The New York board of education bans the act of whipping students in school.
1912         The French council of war unanimously votes a mandatory three-year military service.
1914         Doctor Fillatre of Paris, France successfully separates Siamese twins.
1921         Warren G. Harding is sworn in as America's 29th President.
1933         Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his first term as president in Washington, D.C.
1944         After the success of Big Week, which results in Allied air superiority in Europe, the USAAF (U.S. Army Air Forces) begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History]
1952         North Korea accuses the United nations of using germ warfare.
1963         Six people get the death sentence in Paris plotting to kill President Charles de Gaulle.
1970         Fifty-seven people are killed as the French submarine Eurydice sinks in the Mediterranean Sea.
1975         Queen Elizabeth II knights Charlie Chaplin.
1987         President Reagan takes full responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair in a national address.
Born on March 4
1394         Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese voyages of discovery.
1678         Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist.
1747         Casimir Pulaski, American Revolutionary War general.
1852         Lady (Isabella Augusta) Gregory, Irish playwright; helped found the Abbey Theatre.
1888         Knute Rockne, football player and coach for Notre Dame.
1901         Charles Goren, world expert on the game of bridge.
1904         Ding Ling, Chinese writer and women's rights activist.
1928         Alan Sillitoe, novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner).
1932         Miriam Makeba, South African singer.

06 March

1987 - Belgium Herald of Free Enterprise
1987 : The British ferry, the Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized after leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium in the English Channel on route to Dover with the loss of more than 140 passengers when the cargo doors were not closed allowing sea water to flood the ship through the car deck entrance. It is Believed the person in charge of closing the door had fallen asleep in the bunk. As a result, 188 people died.

1961 - England George Formby
1961 : George Formby the British entertainer known for his Ukulele has died after suffering a heart attack.

1899 - Germany Aspirin Patent
1899 : The Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for ( acetylsalicylic acid which was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees ) on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co.


Back In Time Gifts For All Occasions
1908 - Elwood Hauce
1908 : Elwood T. Hauce the first vice-president of the Union Trust Company, had taken his own life on this day. People who knew him had said that he had been depressed for quite some time as a result of financial problems.

1920 - U.S.A. Farm Labor Costs
1920 : According to a questionnaire generated by the U.S. Postmaster, high cost was a major influencer of farm production. The issue of keeping costs lower in order to keep consumer prices lower was addressed. A major consideration during this time was the cost of farm labor.

1936 - England Spitfire
1936 : The sleek new prototype (K5054) for what would become the Spitfire Fighter Aircraft takes off on its maiden flight from Eastleigh now called Southampton Airport. The aircraft started life as the Supermarine Type 300 fighter featuring undercarriage retraction, an enclosed cockpit, oxygen breathing-apparatus and the newly-developed Rolls-Royce PV-XII engine ( later named the Merlin ).

1940 - U.S.A. School Performance
1940 : Unlike other school minstrel performances that had taken place in this area, this particular production had been reported to have been one of the best. The jokes, music, and acting performances were considered to be phenomenal.

1947 - U.S.A. Hour Glass
1947 : For the last time, Hour Glass had aired on television. This particular production had featured performers such as Ed Canton, Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, and Abbott and Costello. It was considered the show that proved that "high-quality entertainment" and "novelty programming" could be achieved (presumably at the same time).

1951 - U.S.A. Rosenberg Trial
1951 : The trial of suspected spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were indicted for conspiring to obtain national defense secrets for the Soviets starts in New York.

1957 - Ghana Independence
1957 : Ghana gains it's independence from Britain and becomes the first black African country to become independent.

1962 - Canada No Nuclear Weapons Testing
1962 : It was reported on this day that Prime Minister Diefenbaker had approved Canada's desire to take a stand against nuclear weapon testing. As a result, provisions were being discussed, one being the possible mutual disarmament arrangement being made between the Soviet Union and Canada.

1964 - Greece King Paul, Constantine II
1964 : King Paul, Constantine II became the new King following the death of his father.

Back In Time Gifts For All Occasions
1965 - Vietnam Troop Movement
1965 : South Vietnam had requested troops to be sent to South Vietnam's Da Nang's air base. This action was intended to help free up South Vietnamese troops for battle work. The Marines had officially begun landing in Da Nang on March 8.

1965 - Canada Robbery
1965 : A team of 20 officers search the Northern Bushland in Canada. They were on the lookout for three men bearing weapons while speeding away in a stolen car. The three fugitives had a hostage in their possession as well. This high-speed chase had begun shortly after a robbery of a private home had taken place. At the end of the chase, the three robbers had escaped into a thick brush of bush. The hostage was left behind.

1970 - England Rabies Scare
1970 : The British government announces an indefinite ban on the importation of domestic pets following a pet dog imported from Pakistan dying from Rabies. Britain is one of the few countries in the world where rabies has not entered the wild animal population and cases of rabies are not often seen.

1974 - England Miners End Strike
1974 : British miners have called off a four-week strike following an agreement of a 35% increase in miners wages.

1981 - U.S.A. Walter Cronkite
1981 : Walter Cronkite retires as the nation's most beloved anchorman from CBS Evening News.

1983 - Germany Helmut Kohl
1983 : Helmut Kohl is elected German chancellor as his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is voted back into power.

1986 - U.S.A. Georgia O' Keefe
1986 : Georgia O' Keefe lived a fairly long life before passing away today at age 98. She is most known for her paintings of the American Southwest. O' Keefe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in the year 1887, and grew up in Virginia. Later on, she attended school at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1993 - Angola Rebel Fighting
1993 : A battle for the city of Huambo between Unita rebels and Angolan government forces in the city of Huambo, is continuing with the loss of over 350 lives. It is thought the rebels are likely to gain control of the city within the next few days.

2006 - Roe v. Wade has been challenged in South Dakota
2006 : Governor Rounds has signed legislation to ban most abortions in South Dakota, and has set a challenge to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion. The bill will make it a crime for doctors to perform abortions unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life, and makes no exception for cases of rape or incest.

2007 - U.S.A. Libby Convicted
2007 : Lewis ( Scooter ) Libby former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney is convicted of perjury, lying and obstruction of justice over charges relating to his role in the leaking of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

2009 - Two 'Mafia cops' are sentenced to life in New York
2009 : Two former police officers have been sentenced to life in prison on being convicted of eight murders in New York. Stephen Carapacca, 67, and Louis Eppolito, 61, were secretly on the payroll of New York's Lucchese Family the court found. Convicted in 2006, their sentences have been delayed. There is no possibility of early release. They are said to have earned $4,000 a month on the payroll of Luchese underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, and had orchestrated the murders as well as passed along confidential police information.

2012 - Three Year Old McNugget Sells for $8,100 on eBay
2012 : A woman from Nebraska has sold a three year old McNugget for a total of $8,100 on the internet auction website eBay. The woman claimed that the McNugget resembled George Washington and that she wanted to sell it to raise money to send children to a summer camp. The auction site eased its rules on selling expired food for the woman so that she could raise money to support her cause.

2014 - Ukraine Crimea Wants to Join Russia
2014 : Members of Crimea's parliament asked the Russian government if they could join Russia. They also said that they would hold a referendum on March 16 to find out the views of Crimean citizens on the matter. Crimea is a region in southern Ukraine that is home to many ethnic Russians and had been recently occupied by Russian forces.


Born This Day In History 6th March
Celebrating Birthdays Today
Dick Fosbury
Born: March 6th 1947, Portland, Oregon
Known For : Dick Fosbury is best known as the creator of the "Fosbury Flop" a new way of high jump, up till the point most high jumpers were using the "straddle method," to get over the high jump bar . His method of jumping gained world attention at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City when he not only won the gold medal for high jump he also set a new Olympic record at 2.24 meters (7 feet 4.25 inches). In 1972 just 4 years later in Munich 28 of the 40 competitors in the high jump used the "Fosbury Flop". Today it is the most popular high jumping technique in modern high jumping.

Alan Greenspan
Born: March 6th 1926 New York City, New York
Known For : Alan Greenspan is best known as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006, he was originally appointed by President Ronald Reagan and in total served under four US Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During his term he used his position to manage five major economic events including the "1987 stock market crash", 1997 - 1998 the Asian financial crisis, 2000 dot-com bubble burst and the 2001 September 11 attacks on the United States. The role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve is considered as important to the welfare of a country in times of economic crisis as the President of The United States and are analyzed and dissected by pundits for many years after the events with those who think the decisions were correct or wrong. I will leave others to publish findings and opinions.








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March 8
1618         Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1702         Queen Anne becomes the monarch of England upon the death of William III.
1790         George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.
1853         The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, D.C.
1855         The first train crosses Niagara Falls on a suspension bridge.
1862         On the second day of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Confederate forces, including some Indian troops, under General Earl Van Dorn surprise Union troops, but the Union troops win the battle.    
1862         The Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) is launched.
1880         President Rutherford B. Hayes declares that the United States will have jurisdiction over any canal built across the Isthmus of Panama.
1904         The Bundestag in Germany lifts the ban on the Jesuit order of priests.
1908         The House of Commons, London, turns down the women's suffrage bill.
1909         Pope Pius X lifts the church ban on interfaith marriages.
1910         Baroness de Laroche becomes the first woman to obtain a pilot's license in France.
1921         Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while leaving Parliament in Madrid.
1921         French troops occupy Dusseldorf.
1941         Martial law is proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.
1942         Japanese troops capture Rangoon, Burma.
1943         Japanese forces attack American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The battle will last five days.
1945         Phyllis Mae Daley receives a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She will become the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
1948         The U.S. Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
1954         France and Vietnam open talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.
1961         Max Conrad circles the globe in a record time of eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in a Piper Aztec.
1965         More than 4,000 Marines land at Da Nang in South Vietnam and become the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam.
1966         Australia announces that it will triple the number of troops in Vietnam.
1970         The Nixon administration discloses the deaths of 27 Americans in Laos.
1973         Two bombs explode near Trafalgar Square in London injuring 234 people.
1982         The United States accuses the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1985         Thomas Creighton dies after having three heart transplants in a 46-hour period.
Born on March 8
1783         Hannah Hoes Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren
1799         Simon Cameron, political boss.
1804         Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer
1841         Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1859         Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (The Wind in the Willows).
1879         Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
1902         Louise Beavers, film actress.
1923         Cyd Charisse, dancer, actress.
1923         John McPhee, writer (Oranges, A Sense of Where You Are).

Today in History
March 9
1617         The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops.
1734         The Russians take Danzig (Gdansk) in Poland.
1788         Connecticut becomes the 5th state.
1796         Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France.
1812         Swedish Pomerania is seized by Napoleon.
1820         Congress passes the Land Act, paving the way for westward expansion.
1839         The French Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photo process.
1841         The rebel slaves who seized a Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in 1839 are freed by the Supreme Court despite Spanish demands for extradition.
1862         The first and last battle between the ironclads U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ends in a draw.
1864         General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces.
1911         The funding for five new battleships is added to the British military defense budget.
1915         The Germans take Grodno on the Eastern Front.
1916         Mexican bandit Pancho Villa leads 1,500 horsemen on a raid of Columbus, NM killing 17 U.S. soldiers and citizens.
1932         Eamon De Valera is elected president of the Irish Free State and pledges to abolish all loyalty to the British Crown.
1936         The German press warns that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections will be arrested.
1939         Czech President Emil Hacha ousts pro-German Jozef Tiso as the Premier of Slovakia in order to preserve Czech unity.
1940         Britain frees captured Italian coal ships on the eve of German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop's visit to Rome.
1956         British authorities arrest and deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus. He is accused of supporting terrorists.
1957         Egyptian leader Nasser bars U.N. plans to share the tolls for the use of the Suez Canal.
1959         The Barbie doll is unveiled at a toy fair in New York City.
1964         The first Ford Mustang rolls off the Ford assembly line.
1967         Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter, defects to the United States.
1968         General William Westmoreland asks for 206,000 more troops in Vietnam.
1975         Iraq launches an offensive against the rebellious Kurds.
1986         Navy divers find the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger along with the remains of the astronauts.
Born on March 9
1451         Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator.
1824         Leland Stanford, railroad builder; he was the founder of Stanford University.
1890         Vyacheslav Molotov, former Soviet Prime Minister.
1892         Vita Sackville-West, writer.
1905         Peter Quennell, biographer.
1910         Samuel Barber, American composer (Adagio for Strings, Vanessa).
1918         Frank Morrison Spillane [Mickey Spillane], crime writer (Kiss Me, Deadly, The Erection Set).
1930         Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist.
1934         Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut; he was the first man to orbit the Earth.
1943         Bobby Fischer, the first American world chess champion.
1947         Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist (The Bone People).

This Day Today - 11 Mar 2018

1997
Paul McCartney knighted.

On this day in 1997, Paul McCartney, a former member of the most successful rock band in history, The Beatles, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his "services to music." The 54-year-old lad from Liverpool became Sir Paul in a centuries-old ceremony of pomp and solemnity at Buckingham Palace in central London. Fans waited outside in a scene reminiscent of Beatlemania of the 1960s. Crowds screamed as McCartney swept through the gates in his chauffeur-driven limousine and he answered with a thumbs-up.

McCartney's wife, Linda, who was fighting breast cancer, did not accompany him, but three of their four children were at the palace. "I would have loved the whole family to be here, but when we heard there were only three tickets, we had to draw straws," McCartney said. Linda McCartney would succumb to cancer 13 months later on April 17, 1998.

As for the surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, Sir Paul said that since they learned that he would be knighted, "They call me 'Your Holiness.'" McCartney dedicated his knighthood to fellow Beatles George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon and the people of the northwestern port of Liverpool. In October 1965, McCartney, along with fellow band members John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, collected MBE (Member of the British Empire) medals, much to the shock of the British establishment. Lennon, who returned his MBE in 1969 as a war protest, was assassinated in New York in 1980. Harrison would also succumb to cancer, passing away on November 29, 2001.

McCartney admitted he was very nervous before the ceremony but said it had been a great experience. "Proud to be British, wonderful day and it's a long way from a little terrace (street) in Liverpool," he told reporters. Aides said he won't be calling himself "Sir Paul," the title conferred when the queen tapped him on each shoulder with a naked sword as he knelt on the investiture stool. McCartney's knighthood was considered long overdue even by the conservative standards used in Britain, which sees most such honors going to judges, scientists and politicians.

McCartney formed the group Wings after the Beatles split up in 1970, and made records with stars like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder before trying his hand at composing classical music. "The first time I really ever felt a tingle up my spine was when I saw Bill Haley and The Comets on the telly," McCartney once said. "Then I went to see them live. The ticket was 24 shillings, and I was the only one of my mates who could go as no one else had been able to save up that amount. But I was single-minded about it. I knew there was something going on here."
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This Day Today - 12 Mar

1933 - Roosevelt First Fireside Chat
1933 : President Roosevelt gives his first " fireside chat " radio broadcast just 8 days after his inauguration telling the American people to keep faith with their country and their banking system, and asking them to leave their money in the bank where it would be kept safe . His chats to the people through these "fireside chats " on this day and future days were made friendly and informative but keeping them easy to understand by all and many consider helped him win an unprecedented 4 terms of office serving his country for a total of 12 years and 39 days. This is his fireside chat about the fail of the banking system.

1930 - India March Against Tax On Salt
1930 : Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin a 200 mile march to the salt beds of Jalalpur to campaign against British tax on salt beginning the fight for Indian independence from Great Britain. What must also be remembered is he was 61 years old at the time and marched over 200 miles in a peaceful march as a form of protest.

1894 - US Coca-Cola
1894 : Coca-Cola begins selling it's first bottles in 1894 in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1912 - U.S.A. Girl Scouts of America Founded
1912 : Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides in the United States, she had lived in England with her first husband for many years and had been a Girl Guide leader while living in England. On March 12th, 1912 She gathered 18 girls together to register the first troop of American Girl Guides in Savannah, Georgia. The next years the name was changed to Girl Scouts of America the following year.

1922 - India Mahatma Gandhi Arrested
1922 : The British run government in India has arrested Mahatma Gandhi who has always preached passive resistance to British rule by telling his followers to not buy goods from Europe or work with the British administration machine, he has a massive following in India and many believe a civil uprising could follow his arrest.

1924 - U.S.A. Tire Preservation
1924 : Tips were printed in a local newspaper regarding the preservation of tires. The importance of rotating car (or other vehicle) tires was equated to the storing of shoes and then using them. The point made is that tires should be rotated on a regular basis in order that the wear and tear on them would be about equal. This advice also applied to the use of a spare tire, in order to ensure that an extra tire would always be in excellent to good working order when needed. Another point made was that the proper storage of a spare tire is as equally important as the proper storage of a pair of boots. For instance, if they are stored in a damp place they may function differently than when stored in a dry location.

1928 - U.S.A. St. Francis Dam Burst
1928 : Hundreds Reported Drowned When the St. Francis dam burst flooding into the San Francisquito Canyon in California. St. Francis Dam Collapse TimeLine

1938 - Austria Part of Third Reich
1938 : German has forcibly "recruited" Austria to support the Third Reich, the Nazi Germany army. This was the second attempt of Germany to coerce Austria to comply. Austria Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg had tried to fight against Germany's attempt to make Austria part of Nazi Germany. During this resistance, the Austrian chancellor had met with Hitler personally-an action taken in hopes to restore Austria's independence. In fact, on March 9th Schuschnigg had posed a referendum to the public to help determine Austria's affiliation or autonomy. This action proved very unfruitful, and Schuschnigg was force to name members of his cabinet as part of the Nazi movement. Furthermore, Schuschnigg had resigned on the 11th of March, a day before Austria was seized by Germany.

1939 - U.S.A. Artie Shaw
1939 : Artie Shaw and his band record the single "Deep Purple." It goes on to become one of the big band's biggest hits.

1940 - Burma Disturbances
1940 : Disturbances at three newspaper journalist offices were caused by a crowd of 5,000 people. A large number of this huge crowd of people was members of Burma's workers' union and Burma's peasants' union.

1945 - Germany Anne Frank
1945 : Anne Frank, author of "The Diary of Anne Frank," died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Typhus during a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp.

1947 - The Truman Doctrine
1947 : Very soon after the war President Truman had decided that to use America to stop the spread of communism around the world telling congress the country must intervene wherever necessary throughout the world to prevent the subjection of free people to Communist inspired totalitarian regimes at the expense of their national integrity.
One of the first requests to provide this support around the world to stop the spread of communism was to give $400 million in aid to bolster the hard-pressed Greek and Turkish governments against Communist pressure. This is also known as the beginning of "The Truman Doctrine" and the beginning of the battle to stop the spread of communism.

1956 - Spain Stand Against Communism
1956 : A call for unity has spread among the European nations. Countries such as Yugoslavia, Greece, Spain, Brussels, Belgium, and Sweden, along with nations such as the United States, France and Italy gathered together to band against the communists. One organization responsible for this strong stand against the Reds (communists) is/was NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

1959 - U.S.A. Hawaii
1959 : Congressional approval to admit Hawaii as the 50th state in the U.S.

1964 - U.S.A. James Hoffa
1964 : The president of the powerful American Teamsters union James Hoffa is found guilty and sentenced to eight years on bribery charges. He had been on trial 4 times earlier but had not been found guilty. He appealed against the convictions and in 1966 while still going through the appeal process he was re-elected president of the lorry drivers' union in July 1966 - despite two prison sentences totaling 13 years hanging over him. He vanished in mysterious circumstances in 1975 and has never been seen since, his body has still not been found no one has been charged.

1969 - England George Harrison
1969 : The police search former Beatles George Harrison's home for illegal drugs. This was a year after John Lennon had been searched for hash (substance derived from marijuana).

1969 - England Paul McCartney
1969 : Beatle Paul McCartney Marries American Linda Eastman in London.

Back In Time Gifts For All Occasions
1972 - Vietnam Australia Withdraws
1972 : Australia withdraws from Vietnam following other countries withdrawal and US commitment to leave Vietnam.

1972 - Cambodia Son Ngoc Thanh
1972 : Many people may have considered it just the right time for a new leader to take over as prime minister. Son Ngoc Thanh had just accepted this position, after Cambodia had went four days without a ruler. Thanh had served his country in the past as well-during World War II.

1980 - U.S.A. The Killer Clown
1980 : A jury finds John Wayne Gacy Jr. ( also known as The Killer Clown ) guilty of the murders of 33 boys and young men, he had admitted the murders but he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He had started his murders in 1972 and continued till 1978 when he was caught, 27 were found in a crawl space under the floor of his house and others were found in nearby rivers. The sentence was 21 consecutive life sentences and 12 death sentences. On May 10th, 1994, Gacy was executed at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, by lethal injection.

1984 - England Miners Strike
1984 : Britain's miners have stopped work in protest against job losses with more than half the country's mineworkers now on strike. The miners are striking because of the announcement by the Chairman of the Coal Board Ian MacGregor that 20 uneconomic pits would close, putting 20,000 miners out of work. The miners' strike lasted a year and was one of the longest and possibly most damaging industrial disputes ever seen in the United Kingdom.

1986 - U.S.A. Les Miserables
1986 : Following it's success in London's West End Les Miserables opens at the Broadway Theater running till it closed on May 18, 2003. In 2006 it was revived and is again on Broadway showing at the Broadhurst Theatre.

1988 - Switzerland Avalanche
1988 : On 12th in 1988, a report was made regarding a narrow avalanche escape made by Prince Charles. He was skiing at a resort at the time the avalanche disaster took place. Charles barely escaped being buried by huge masses of snow. Moreover, he managed to help dig out the body of a friend Major Hugh Lindsey, former aid to Queen Elizabeth Despite the heroic royal rescue of Lindsey, he was unfortunately declared dead on arrival at a local Swiss hospital. Prince Charles' wife Diana and the Duchess of York were also in Switzerland at the time, but they were not skiing during the avalanche occurrence. Therefore, they were not as much at risk.

1990 - Germany Ticket Machines
1990 : Germany was considered to be a little behind in the implementation of computerized ticket purchase machines at this time. If this plan is approved by ticket outfits and concert halls, it was expected that this new ticket-selling service would be up and running within two years. Advantages and disadvantages of this new ticket purchasing system were expressed. The biggest pro of a computerized ticket system is that it is more convenient for buyers. One of the disadvantages is that competing performance halls can find out how well or how poorly competitors' tickets are selling.

1993 - India Bombay Bombing
1993 : A series of 13 bombs are exploded in Bombay's financial district including the Bombay Stock Exchange, Air India offices and government offices, banks, cinemas, bazaars, two hospitals, a university and several hotels, leaving over 200 dead and 1,000 injured. The bombs were thought to be in retaliation for anti-Muslim riots earlier in the year and were part of the ongoing Hindu-Muslim fighting which is still continuing today.

1994 - UK Church of England Women Priests
1994 : The ordination of women as priests The Church of England begins.

2002 - U.S.A. Andrea Yates
2002 : Andrea Yates, a 37-year-old housewife who drowned her five children in the bathtub of her Texas home in June, 2001 is found guilty.

2003 - U.S.A. Elizabeth Smart Found
2003 : A miracle had taken place. A 15-year-old Elizabeth Smart was found in Utah nine months after being kidnapped from her home. Her abductors (employee who worked at the Smart's home, and his wife) were captured as well, and were charged of kidnapping, burglary, and sexual assault.

2006 - U.S.A. C.I.A. identities uncovered
2006 : The Chicago Tribune has compiled a list of 2,653 C.I.A. employees by searching the Internet. The newspaper states that Washington was uncertain of whether the Bush Administration had revealed the names of covert C.I.A. operatives to the press, and asserts that getting this sort of information is not so very difficult. Today's Chicago Tribune reports that it had found the names by searching commercial databases on the Internet. The Tribune's deputy managing editor for news has edited the story, and says that the paper was surprised by how much it could learn from its online sources (including supposedly undercover operatives' names). He said that: We were able to get identities, internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret C.I.A. facilities around the United States. It has not published the names at the C.I.A's request. A C.I.A. spokeswoman has admitted that this will force the Agency to change its methods of protecting information.

2009 - The shoe-hurling Iraqi has been jailed
2009 : The Iraqi journalist that threw his shoes at President Bush has been jailed for three years. Muntadar al-Zaidi told the court that his actions were 'just like any Iraqi' against the leader of an occupying force. Shoe hurling is a grave insult in Arab culture. Al-Zaidi has been hailed as a hero in the Arab world.

2010 - Karl Rove says that he approved of waterboarding
2010 : President Bush's top political adviser has said he approved of the controversial techniques such as waterboarding. Known as the former president's 'brain,' Rove, said he did not believe that this form of interrogation amounted to torture. In an interview with BBC TV, he has claimed that waterboarding has helped prevent further terrorist attacks. 'I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots,' he said.

2012 - Robbers Attack Gold Market in Baghdad
2012 : Armed robbers killed at least nine people in an attack on a gold market in Baghdad. At least another fourteen people were injured from the robbery. Police stated that two cars full of gunmen attacked in the Ur district of the city where many jewelry shops were located in a mainly Shia area of the city. One of the men involved was arrested after the incident, but many of the others managed to escape.

2013 - Vatican City Cardinals Begin Pope Vote
2013 : 115 Cardinals of the Roman Catholic church entered the Sistine Chapel to begin voting on a new Pope after Pope Benedict XVI stepped down from the position. A day later the Cardinals chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio as the new Pope who took the name Pope Francis. Pope Francis is the first Pope from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope.

2014 - US President Meets Ukrainian Prime Minister
2014 : US President Barack Obama met with Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and pledged to back Ukraine in its dispute with Russia.


Born This Day In History 12th March
Celebrating Birthdays Today
Liza Minnelli
Born: 12th March 1946, Hollywood, California, United States
Known For : Liza Minnelli is an American actress and singer whose parents were the late great Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli. She has established herself over the years coming out from her parents shadow, her movies include Lucky Lady, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, A Matter of Time and New York, New York. She has won a number of awards in her own right including three Tony Awards, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globes and a winning an Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret.

On This Day - 13 Mar:


1997 - U.S.A. Phoenix Lights
1997 : Thousands of people report seeing a huge carpenter's square-shaped UFO including the Arizona Republican governor Fife Symington the phenomena is known as the Phoenix Lights and although many theories have been put forward for what the lights were, many of those that saw them are still convinced they were a V-shaped UFO.

1996 - Scotland Dunblane Massacre
1996 : In Dunblane, Scotland Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns and opens fire on a kindergarten class killing Sixteen children and their teacher . Hamilton was known to have a history of drug use. He also had resigned from his position as a Boy Scout leader in the 1980s, due to "improper behavior". As a result stricter gun laws were passed in Great Britain.

1936 - U.S.A. Boulder Dam
1936 : Work on the Boulder Dam is now complete two years ahead of schedule . The Dam is 727ft high, 600ft Thick at the base, 4 million cubic yards of concrete were used in it's construction and has taken 5 years to complete at a cost of $115,000,000 .The Dam is just 25 miles from Las Vegas and will provide power and water needs to the growing city. The name will be changed from the Boulder Dam to the Hoover Dam.

1942 - World War II K9 corps
1942 : The K9 corps begins training dogs for use in warfare, often used to carry messages close to the enemy front and as scout dogs which would bark when intruder was detected.

1925 - U.S.A. The Butler Act
1925 : A law goes in to place that makes it illegal to teach the theory of evolution in Tennessee schools ( The Butler Act ). In the next few years teachers who continued teaching evolution were prosecuted under this act. The basis of the Butler act was that by teaching evolution teachers would be denying the literal Biblical account of man's origin. The law stayed in place until it was repealed in 1967

1915 - France Award For General
1915 : A special military service award was given to General Michael Maunoury, a French leader who was wounded while expecting German trenches during the First World War. Maunoury was struck by a bullet that had broken his jaw and ruined his left eye.

1920 - U.S.A. Beef Improvements
1920 : Improvements in the type and quality of beef were proposed by the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture). USDA tips given to farmers included the following: providing enough feed and pasture, proper breeding procedures, correct fattening techniques, and adequate shelter. Farmers were also advised as how to decide whether cattle would produce suitable beef. For instance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture urged farmers to use pure bread registered bull in order for choice calves to be born consistently. Replacing old cows with heifer calves was also sometimes necessary for breeding in order to ensure quality meat production. Work also needed to be done in order to prevent disease to the flock of cattle as well.

1930 - U.S.A. Clyde Tombaugh
1930 : Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovers the ninth planet Pluto.

1938 - U.S.A. When the Saints Go Marching In
1938 : Louis Armstrong and his orchestra record "When the Saints Go Marching In." It becomes a big hit for among their list of other hits.

1938 - Germany and Austria Join Forces
1938 : It was made known that Germany and Austria joined forces. Hitler defied anyone who "dared" to tear these two countries apart.

1948 - U.S.A. Last of The Old West
1948 : According to an article dated this date, unregistered firearms were no longer in Bingham Canyon, Utah. This mountain mining camp town was the last town of the "Old West" to make it illegal to carry a firearm without a license.

1949 - U.S.A. Imperial Records
1949 : Imperial Records is created in Los Angeles, California. Lew Chudd creates the company that became famous for distributing recordings of some of music's greatest icons, including Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson and many others.

1957 - Vatican Pilgrims
1957 : Over 10,000 church pilgrims along with perish staff witnessed the 18th Anniversary celebration of the date that Pope Pius XII was crowned. Prominent guests that attended this event included Irish President Sean T. O' Kelley, Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella. Numerous ambassadors along with a total of 14 cardinals also were present.

1957 - England Plane Crash
1957 : A BEA Viscount 701 crashes on the edge of Manchester Ringway airport, close to a housing estate killing 22 passengers.

1957 - U.S.A. Jimmy Hoffa
1957 : Union leader Jimmy Hoffa is Charged with attempting to Bribe Lawyer.

1961 - UK Spy Ring
1961 : Three men and two women go on trial at the Old Bailey charged with plotting to pass official secrets to the Russians breaking the Official Secrets Act. The trial of the accused known as the Portland Spy Ring ( because they all worked in and around the Portland area with some of the accused working as civil servants at the Underwater Weapons Establishment in Dorset ) lasted about two weeks. One of the things they were selling the Russians included the plans HMS Dreadnought, Britain's first nuclear submarine. The five accused were Gordon Lonsdale, Henry Houghton, Peter Kroger, Helen Kroger, and Ethel Gee. They were all found guilty and sentenced to terms up to 20 years.

1969 - U.S.A. The Love Bug
1969 : The Love Bug, a popular Disney movie, was released on this day for the first time. It was a movie that featured the Volkswagen Beetle, a very popular German car.

1970 - United Kingdom Voting Age Reduced
1970 : The first election in the UK following the lowering of voting age from 21 to 18 in January takes place in the Bridgwater by-election.

1972 - U.S.A. the Hopelands
1972 : According to a report made on This Day 1972, the Hopelands was soon to become Aiken's public garden, which over 8,000 people per day have already visited. The Hopelands, an estate with a lot of over 14 acres, was willed to the city of Aiken in South Carolina as of the Friday before this date.

1979 - Grenada Coup
1979 : A left wing opposition group in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy in a military style coup.

1980 - U.S.A. The Ford Motor Co.
1980 : A case bought against The Ford Motor Co. of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto, ends with The Ford Motor Co. being found innocent.

1983 - Zimbabwe Civil War
1983 : Zimbabwe appears to be on brink of civil war and the leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, Joshua Nkomo, flees the country and goes to London due to fears for his safety.

1988 - U.S.A. Rod Matthews
1988 : According to past records, a 15-year man known as Rod Matthews was sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole after 15 years. He was known as the youngest person in the State of Massachusetts to receive this much time in prison.

1990 - U.S.A. Tornado
1990 : This was an event that usually would only happen in a fantasy movie. An off-duty policewoman and her dog was "sucked up" by a tornado and carried 25 feet, along with other debris such as tree branches and mud. She had only suffered minor injuries and aches and pains, and her dog was not hurt. This is one tornado story that is not often heard about-at least not in real life.

1992 - Turkey Earthquake
1992 : A 6.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershock near Erzincan, Turkey kill more than 500 and leave another 50,000 homeless.

2005 - U.S.A. Living Church Of God Shootings
2005 : Terry Ratzmann enters the Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin where the Living Church of God were having their meeting and fires 22 rounds into the congregation killing the minister and his son and five other members of the congregation before shooting himself.

2006 - Work begins on the 9-11 Memorial
2006 : Construction has begun on the memorial and museum to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks. These will be at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center, and will feature two reflecting pools that are surrounded by trees. It will be named Reflecting Absence, and will bear the names of the 2,900 people who died there. The design has been opposed by relatives of some of the victims. The Memorial's workers arrived to begin work on Monday, March 13th, and it is due to open in 2009

2007 - Canadian is arrested for sponsoring terrorist training camps
2007 : The Spanish police have arrested a Canadian man who is suspected of helping finance Islamic terrorist activities. Brian Anderson, 61, is wanted by U.S. authorities for fraud, and is thought to have helped finance a training camp in Afghanistan. He was arrested in a Madrid hotel, the Interior Ministry said. Anderson is thought to be linked to a New York businessman, Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, who has been charged with terrorism financing, material support of terrorism and money laundering.

2008 - U.S.A. Price of Gold
2008 : Gold reaches a landmark of $1,000 per ounce for the first time, currently March 12th, 2009 back to $926.00 per ounce.

2009 - Terrorists are not 'combatants'
2009 : The Obama administration has said that it will abandon the Bush administration's term of 'enemy combatant' for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. This is being seen as his intended desire to separate the new administration from the previous one's detention policies. The Justice Department has argued that the President has the authority to detain terror suspects there without criminal charges. It has provided a broad definition of those who can be held, which was not significantly different from the one that was used by the Bush administration.

2009 - Switzerland is to relax its secret banking practices
2009 : Switzerland has agreed to accept concessions on its banking secrecy. Despite this, it will only abide by the international rules on bank data sharing in response to requests for concrete and justified evidence. The government finished its statements by assuring that it will still be protecting banking customers from 'unjustified watching from abroad.'

2010 - Alaskan woman is killed by wolves
2010 : Wolves are suspected of killing a teacher that was jogging from an isolated Alaskan village. An autopsy has revealed that Candice Berner, 32, died of injuries sustained in an animal attack. Her body was dragged off a rural road, leaving a bloody track, and into a nearby bush. It was surrounded by wolf tracks. Police have said that the area's wolves had recently become more aggressive. If confirmed, it is believed to be the first fatal wolf attack in the U.S. in fifty years.

2010 - United States Obama focuses on education
2010 : The Obama Administration has called for an overhaul of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, and is trying to change the provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing. By announcing that the blueprint would be sent to Congress, Obama has returned to the campaign promise he made on repairing the federal law, which affects nearly 100,000 public schools. His plan will strike a careful balance, whilst retaining some of Bush-era's more crucial aspects, including its requirement for annual reading and math tests.

2010 - Major Storms Northeastern United States
2010 : Major storms with wind gusts up to 75 MPH have bought down power lines and trees leaving nearly 1/2 million homes without power.

2011 - Police and Protesters Clash in Bahrain
2011 : Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Bahrain as violence erupted during demonstrations in the capital, Manama. The protests, inspired by recent revolutions in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, were mainly by Shias who demanded reforms on the Sunni monarchy in the country.

2012 - Rebekah Brooks Arrested in UK Phone Hacking Scandal
2012 : Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief, was arrested in relation to the phone hacking scandal on charges of "suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice." Another five men were also arrested in relation the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

2013 - Germany Three Islamist Groups Banned
2013 : Three ultra-conservative Islamist groups were banned by authorities in Germany. The three groups were accused of being anti-democratic and were though to be imposing "Sharia law."

2014 - US Government Lifts BP Ban
2014 : The United States government lifted a ban on the British Petroleum (BP) company that stopped them from bidding on government contracts since 2010. The ban was put in place after the BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill disaster. The ban was removed after BP complied to a list of safety compliance requests.


Born This Day In History 13th March
Celebrating Birthdays Today
L. Ron Hubbard
Born: 13th March 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, United States
Died: January 24th 1986, San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
Known For : L. Ron Hubbard was an American science fiction author but is best known for creating the "Church of Scientology" which has between 10 million and 30 million followers depending on who publishes the figures. While researching this piece although it is called "Church of Scientology" there are major disputes into what it is with some calling it a cult, commercial organisation, some countries do recognize it as a church many others do not officially recognize it as a charitable organization or Church. I tried to find a single sentence to define "Scientology" the best I could come up with is "it teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature". Although there are any number of videos from critics below is one of them, I found difficulty finding a video I could to show what the "Church" does stand for, but whatever your thoughts it should be remembered they do appear to have some high profile believers. Sorry for the very controversial nature of Todays "Born This Day" but I found it interesting even if somewhat strange considering how many do follow this.

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1958 - Monaco Grace Kelly
1958 : Former film star Grace Kelly who is now married to Prince Rainier and is now known as Princess Grace gives birth to her second child a boy Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. He will take automatic precedence over his one-year-old sister, Princess Caroline to become the next King.

1920 - U.S.A. Spanish Immigrants
1920 : The number of Spanish immigrants was expected to be at an all-time high. During this time in history, they have been coming to America at record rates. Statistics regarding this were taken from local immigration application records in various Spanish cities.

1938 - England Hitler and Mussolini
1938 : Various reports were printed regarding support and anti-support of Hitler and his regime. Premier Mussolini of Italy extended to Hitler a hand of friendship while British Prime Minister Chamberlain the country of Germany and Hitler of further attack. Britain fought to try to keep Austria's independence before that country was absorbed by Germany.


1939 - Czechoslovakia Dissolved
1939 : The independent republic of Czechoslovakia which was created in 1918 is dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation following the 1938 Munich Agreement.

1948 - UK Marriage Laws
1948 : According to new proposed laws, British women married to foreigners would automatically retain their citizenship. The only women who would not remain British citizens are those who choose to formally renounce that status. More about 1948

1951 - Korea Seoul
1951 : Seoul had been captured by communist forces on January 4th, 1951 and on 14th March United Nations forces recapture Seoul during the Korean War.

1957 - Israel Gaza Strip
1957 : Chaos had taken place for quite awhile in the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas. However, a very important turn of events had taken place. One of those events included the joining of Jerusalem and the U.S. along with the United Nations in order to campaign against the re-entry of Egypt to The Strip.

1960 - England Jodrell Bank
1960 : The British radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire sets a new record when it makes contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles.

1964 - U.S.A. Jack Ruby Convicted
1964 : Jack Ruby is convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy, he is sentenced to death. The ruling is later overturned when his defense lawyers argued he did not receive a fair trial in Dallas due to the excessive publicity . A later date is set for a second trial at a change of venue, but he died of natural causes while waiting for the new trial.

1965 - Mexico Silver Prices
1965 : Tips regarding the purchase of buying silver in Mexico were presented in a newspaper article dated this day. The suggestion given regarding where to find the best buys was in Taxco, Mexico-no longer in Mexico City were silver prices were on the rise.

1967 - U.S.A. John F. Kennedy
1967 : John F. Kennedy's body is moved to a permanent grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

1972 - U.S.A. Howard Hughes
1972 : Irving wrote a "real" book while awaiting sentencing for charges against him regarding the "Howard Hughes" hoax. According to one source, a man and his wife helped Irving stage the "fake" Howard Hughes biography in order to make money. The new book planned was to be about the hoax that the author Irving had been involved with. Other records tell of the story of how checks for the book meant to be deposited in a bank account were stolen.

1984 - Northern Ireland Gerry Adams
1984 : The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, is shot in a street attack in central Belfast, and was hit in the neck, shoulder and arm as several gunmen riddled his car with bullets.
1988 - Bangladesh
1988 : According to records dated this date and year, a total of 88 citizens from Bangladesh were rescued by border guards. They were being smuggled from this country for various exploitive services (i.e. slavery, prostitution). Two men involved were already arrested shortly after this occurrence. They were charge of "trafficking in human lives". Two of the places where these humans would have been "shipped" include India and Pakistan.

1990 - Libya Chemical Weapons
1990 : A Libyan plant that was allegedly used to produce chemical weapons was burned. As a result, Libya had closed of its borders and maintained a high security alert. The fire started had started was reported to have occurred about 60 miles southwest of Tripoli. It was believed that this fire had been ignited by a U.S. and Israeli support team.

1991 - England Birmingham Six Released
1991 : Following a Television investigative programme into the innocence of six Irish men who had been sent to prison for the bombings of two Birmingham pubs. British authorities release the "Birmingham Six."

1995 - Space Norman Thagard
1995 : The US Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.

2002 - U.S.A. Arthur Andersen Indicted
2002 : Arthur Andersen the accounting firm is charged by federal prosecutors with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron.

2004 - Spain New Socialist Government Elected
2004 : Following the Madrid terrorist bombing which the public blamed on the conservative government's support for the US led war in Iraq. Spaniards go to the polls and elect a socialist government into power.

2004 - Soviet Union Vladimir Putin
2004 : Russian President Vladimir Putin wins a second term as president in the Soviet Union.

2005 - Lebanon Protests
2005 : Following ex Prime Minister of Lebanon's Rafik Hariri murder in February one million people take to the streets protesting in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Syrian withdrawal and the arrest of his killers.

2008 - Iranian Elections
2008 : The Iranians have voted in an election, in which conservatives are expected to win. Opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were barred from running, and the senior election official reported turnout as 'glorious.' Observers have predicted that turnout is unlikely to be above 50%. They have mooted that the lack of choice among candidates would have discouraged voters. Iranian authorities have called for a big turnout in defiance of the country's enemies. This election will shape the political map ahead of 2009's presidential poll.

2009 - Bin Laden accuses Arab states of siding against Muslims
2009 : An audio message that is said to be from the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, has accused the more moderate Arab leaders of conspiring with the West against Muslims. Bin Laden has also renewed his attacks on Israel. The audio was broadcast by the Qatari-based al-Jazeera TV station, which will not say how the tape was obtained.

2010 - Mexico Drug Gangs Fighting over Territory
2010 : The continued wars between gangs fighting over territory leaves 13 dead in Acapulco and 11 others around the country in one day. The Drug Wars between rival drug cartels have now left more than 3,000 murdered already this year.

2011 - UK Bans Immigrant Takeout Chefs
2011 : The government in the United Kingdom announced that immigrants from outside the European Economic Area will be banned from working as chefs in takeaway restaurants in the UK. A ban that is similar to that will also apply to immigrants working as realtors, beauty salon managers, and hairdressers.

2012 - Belgian Coach Bus Crashes in Swiss Tunnel
2012 : A Belgian coach returning children to towns in Belgium after a ski trip crashed head on into the wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing at least twenty-eight people (twenty-two of them children) and injuring another twenty-four children. The coach was carrying fifty-two people to the towns of Lommel and Heverlee. The reasons for the crash were unknown as there was no heavy traffic in the tunnel at the time and the driving conditions were normal.

2013 - Pope Francis Holds First Mass
2013 : Newly elected Pope Francis held his first mass in the Sistine Chapel, delivering his homily to the Cardinals.

2014 - Paris Runs Free Public Transportation
2014 : The city of Paris in France has announced it will run the public transportation systems for free for three days in an effort to combat smog and air pollution. The country was experiencing unseasonably warm temperatures that caused heavy smog and high levels of air pollution for this time of year. Authorities asked commuters to use the free public transportation, electric car shares, or bike sharing, hoping that it will help lessen the pollution.


Born This Day In History 14th March
Celebrating Birthdays Today
Sir Michael Caine
Born: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14th March 1933 in London, England, United Kingdom
Known For : English film actor best known for his cockney accent, he has appeared in major movies for more than 50 years including The Ipcress File, Alfie, The Italian Job, Educating Rita, Battle of Britain, A Bridge Too Far, The Cider House Rules and new Batman film series. He has been Oscar-nominated six times winning twice as best supporting actor for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules. He got his first big break in the 1964 film Zulu playing an upper class British Army officer Gonville Bromhead VC ( No Cockney accent. He was knighted in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II and although called Sir Michael Caine his official title is "Sir Maurice Micklewhite" In real life off screen his still uses his original name Maurice Micklewhite. He still lives in Britain and is an avid fan of Chelsea FC.

15 March


1965 - Johnson Addresses Discrimination
1965 : President Johnson pledges to Congress and millions of American Homes that we shall overcome what he called "a crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice" that exists in this country by acting on legislation designed to remove every barrier of discrimination against citizens trying to register and vote.

1956 - U.S.A. My Fair Lady
1956 : The musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway. The play based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion from the mid 1930's and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The stars of the musical Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle help to make the production was a smash hit.

1916 - US Soldiers Sent Into Mexico
1916 : President Woodrow Wilson sent thousands of American soldiers into Mexico today hoping to capture Pancho Villa, the Mexican revolutionary.

1917 - Russia Czar Nicholas II
1917 : Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894 , is forced to abdicate.


1919 - France The American Legion
1919 : The American Legion has it's first meeting in Paris with about 1,000 officers and enlisted men attended to decide the organizations name. The next meeting takes place in St. Louis, Missouri two months later. The Legion served as a supportive group, a social club and a type of extended family for former service men and women and was also instrumental in creating the U.S. Veterans' Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs.

1920 - Texas Town Fire
1920 : An entire Texas town had gone up in flames. As a result, about 1,000 people were left homeless. Fortunately, no one had died in this disaster.

1929 - Scottish National Party
1929 : Following the forming of the Irish Free State, Scotland men and women believe they should have the same rights and have formed the Scottish National Party whose candidates will stand for election in the next British Parliament Elections demanding a free Scotland run by Scots.

1938 - Germany Jews Not Allowed To Vote
1938 : On the same day of one of Hitler's addresses to over seven million people, it is declared that Jews will not be allowed to vote. This event took place after Hitler's return from his trip to Austria, and after Austria's treasury was combined with Germany's.

1948 - Palestine British Withdraw
1948 : It was recorded that Britain was preparing to withdraw from Palestine by this day. However, the Jews and Arabs were still fighting profusely. Incidentally, 1948 was the year that Israel had become a parliamentary democracy.

1957 - US Photogenic Search
1957 : A search took place in nine counties for the most photogenic girl. This person would represent the Golden Gate Bridge during the 20th Anniversary celebration.

1964 - U.S.A. Taylor Burton Marry
1964 : Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married for the first time getting divorced in June 1974 only to get married again in October 1975 which lasts less than 12 months.

1965 - Soviet Union Satellites Launched
1965 : Three artificial satellites were launched by the Soviet Union. These unmanned objects were reported as revolving around the earth approximately once every 106 minutes. Mayak radio transmitters were placed on board of these artificial space objects as well.

1966 - U.S.A. Rioting
1966 : Racial rioting broke out again in the Watts area of Los Angeles.

1972 - Vietnam War
1972 : This was considered one of the days of heaviest attack during the Vietnam War. U.S. destroyed a major North Vietnamese camp in two days, and 30 North Vietnamese ground troops were wiped out. Additional casualties occurred in the Central Highlands.

1974 - United Kingdom John Poulson
1974 : A high profile case involving British MPs, health authorities and civil servants and the architect John Poulson has ended with Poulson and the high ranking senior Scottish civil servant William George Pottinger both being jailed for five years for corruption after being found guilty of bribing public figures to win contracts.

1976 - United Kingdom Underground Train Bomb
1976 : The driver of a London Underground train is shot dead while chasing a gunman who detonated a bomb on his train.

1981 - Syria Hostages Released
1981 : The 147 passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways Boeing 720 aircraft held hostage for nearly two weeks are released in Syria, this follows the Pakistan government releasing 54 political prisoners from prison.

1988 - Japan Seiken Tunnel
1988 : Passengers were stuck in Seiken Tunnel, which just recently opened up in Tokyo just a couple of days before this time. This delay was caused by a power outage, during which time people were held up underground for three hours 460 feet underground.

1990 - Iraq Farzad Bazoft Executed
1990 : The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft is executed in Iraq after being convicted of spying, both Britain and the United Nations condemned the execution but has not cut diplomatic and trade relations with Iraq.

1990 - Indonesia Aeroflot
1990 : An announcement was made regarding the re-instatement of the Soviet airline Aeroflot service to Indonesia, after an eight-year ban. Spying allegations were the reason Indonesia did not allow flights from the Soviet Union prior to this time.

1990 - Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev
1990 : Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the first and only executive president of the Soviet Union.

1991 - U.S.A. Rodney King
1991 : Four Los Angeles police officers are indicted for the beating of Rodney King.

1998 - U.S.A. Titanic
1998 : The Movie Titanic surpassed Star Wars to become the highest grossing film in North American box offices.

2000 - U.S.A. Goodyear Blimp
2000 : A new Goodyear Blimp was launched, about a half a year after the previous Blimp had crashed. A woman described her experience while riding this airship for about 45 minutes. She said the ride was rougher than expected, but she also said it feels like an airplane (the buffeting).

2004 - U.S.A. Martha Stewart
2004 : Martha Stewart is forced to resign from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 10 days after she is convicted for insider trading.

2006 - Iraq Saddam Hussein describes his court as a comedy
2006 : The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, began his formal defense in his trial for crimes against humanity by saying that the court was a 'comedy.' The judge closed the hearing to the public when Hussein told the Iraqi people to 'resist [the] invaders.' Hussein and seven co-accused are being prosecuted for the deaths of 148 people in the Shi'ite village of Dujail, which followed a 1982 assassination attempt on him.

2006 - US Nuclear shelter found in New York City
2006 : A stockpile of provisions that were made for the survival of residents if New York City had been hit by a nuclear attack has been found inside the masonry foundations of Brooklyn Bridge. City workers had been conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, survivor blankets, drugs and food in the 350,000 Civil Defense All Purpose Survival Crackers. These are said to been put there in the 1950s.

2007 - The U.N. Security Council agree to sanction Iran
2007 : A new sanctions package has been created to put pressure on Iran's nuclear program. It has been agreed by the six countries handling the issue at the U.N. The package includes an arms embargo and economic penalties. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made a formal request to attend the Security Council's vote on the draft.

2011 - Syria Protests Staged in Damascus
2011 : Rare protests erupt in the Syrian capital of Damascus with hundreds of people calling for democratic reforms in the country. Witnesses said that police did not use force to break up the protests but did arrest several people. Pro-government supporters reportedly helped to break up the protests later in the day by attacking the demonstrators.

2012 - Libyan Stock Exchange Reopens
2012 : Libya has reopened its stock exchange for the first time since the fall of the Gaddafi regime, after much internal conflict after a prolonged battle between the regime and rebels. The exchange features ten companies and trade on its first day was worth about three billion US dollars. The move was made to show the world that Libya is trying to regain its stability, especially in financial matters, and the exchange planned to expand by adding oil companies, telecoms, and property firms soon.

2013 - US Republican Senator Changes Stance
2013 : Republican senator Rob Portman from the US state of Ohio has announced that he has reversed his position on gay marriage. the Reversal of opinion came after his son came out as gay. Portman had previously voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act which strictly defined marriage as a commitment between a man and woman.

2014 - Ukraine and Russia Crimea Tensions
2014 : Thousands gathered in Moscow to protest against Russian intervention in the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine. The next day (March 16) citizens of Crimea voted in a referendum on whether or not to join Russia. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia, however, critics say that the results could not be accurate as the region was currently being occupied by Russian troops and many boycotted the referendum in protest. The next day (March 17) the Crimean parliament officially applied to join Russia and Russian president Vladimir Putin recognized the region as a sovereign nation. The international community did not support or recognize any of these actions as legal.


Born This Day In History 15th March
Celebrating Birthdays Today
Sly Stone
Born: Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas, United States
Known For : Founder and front-man for the sixties San Francisco soul and funk group "Sly & the Family Stone" who had a number of top ten hits in the late sixties and early 1970s including "Dance To The Music", "Everyday People", "Stand!", "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Family Affair". Like many groups from the era Sly & the Family Stone including Front man Sly Stone became involved in the illegal drug scene, primarily cocaine and PCP which caused the group to miss scheduled live performances and friction in the band and record companies. In 1987 he was arrested and convicted for cocaine possession and use. Whatever happened in his personal life should not take away from the talent which greatly influenced the sound of American pop music, soul, R&B, funk, and hip hop music.

What Happened On This Day – 23 August

    1990 Armenia Declares Independence From the Soviet Union

    The Western Asian country had been part of the USSR since 1922. Until 1936, the country was part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSR), along with Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 1936, the TSFSR was broken up and Armenia was renamed the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. The country declared itself independent of the USSR on the 23rd of August, 1990, and finally achieved independence a year later on September 21, 1991.
    1966 First Photograph of the Earth Taken From the Orbit of the Moon

    NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first American unmanned spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Taking black and white pictures of the Earth was not the Orbiter's main task. Its primary task was to scope out landing sites on the Moon for future spacecrafts.
    1944 Romania Switches Sides in World War II

    A coup in the Southeast European country moved its allegiance from the Axis powers to the Allies during the Second World War. In the early years of WW II, Romania had tried to remain neutral but in 1940, due to external pressures, the country joined Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. On this day, King Michael I removed the government of Ion Antonescu and declared Romanian support to the Allies. Some experts believe that by switching sides Romania helped shorten the war by several months.
    1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed

    The German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and the Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov signed a non-agression pact in Moscow. The pact stipulated that the USSR would not get involved in a war in Europe.
    1904 Snow Chains Patented

    Harry D. Weed of New York was awarded a patent for snow chains by the United States Patent Office. Snow chains are attached to tires of vehicles to improve their traction on snowy and icy roads.

Births On This Day – 23 August

    1988 Jeremy Lin

    American basketball player
    1978 Kobe Bryant

    American basketball player
    1926 Clifford Geertz

    American anthropologist
    1912 Gene Kelly

    American dancer, actor
    1864 Eleftherios Venizelos

    Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece

Deaths On This Day – 23 August

    2006 Maynard Ferguson

    Canadian trumpet player, bandleader
    1926 Rudolph Valentino

    Italian/American actor
    1819 Oliver Hazard Perry

    American naval officer
    1305 William Wallace

    Scottish knight, landowner
    634 Abu Bakr

    Arabian caliph