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BETH! That looks just like you! CUTE! SO whatchu listenin to there on your player?
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 15:
0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1767 Andrew Jackson Waxhaw SC, General/(D) 7th President (1829-37)
1779 William Lamb (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41)
1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1st President of Liberia
1811 Robert Allen Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1852 Lady Augusta Gregory Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1874 Harold L Ickes social activist, New Deal politician
1901 J Pat O'Malley Burnley England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1905 Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 Joe E Ross comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1912 Sam [Lightnin'] Hopkins Centerville TX, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1913 MacDonald Carey Sioux City IA, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1916 Harry James Albany GA, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1926 Norm Van Brocklin NFL QB/coach (Los Angeles Rams), hall of famer
1932 Alan Lavern Bean Wheeler TX, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
1935 Jimmy Lee Swaggart evangelist
1935 Judd Hirsch Bronx NY, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People, Independence Day)
1940 Phil Lesh [Chapman] Berkeley CA, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1941 Mike Love Los Angeles CA, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, Surfin' USA)
1944 Sly Stone Dallas TX, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1946 Bobby Bond baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya Russian cosmonaut
1947 Ry[land] Cooder Los Angeles CA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1961 Fabio [Lanzoni] Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1972 Casey Cristin Mizell Miss South Carolina-USA (1997)
Deaths which occurred on March 15:
0044 BC Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey
0493 Odiaker German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies
0752 Zachary Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies
0963 Romanus II Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 Mieszko II King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1929 Pine-Top Smith jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1944 Otto von Below German commandant (WWI), dies at 86
1966 Abe Saperstein founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1971 Jean-Pierre Monseré Flemish cyclist, dies at 22
1973 Carl Benton Reid actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 Antonino Rocca professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 Aristotle S Onassis Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 Kamal Joemblat Lebanese politician, murdered
1988 Dmitri F Polyakov Russian Secretary-General/top spy for US, executed
1993 Anthony Bowles music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
2000 Durward Kirby (b.1912), TV funnyman ("Candid Camera" and "The Garry Moore Show") died
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1965 CLYDESDALE CHARLES F.---PITTSBURGH PA.
[DITCH AT SEA NO RECOVERY]
1966 HOLMES DAVID H.---BELMONT MA.
[SAR UNABLE TO LOCATE PILOT]
1966 MC ELROY GLENN DAVID---SIDNEY IL.
1966 NASH JOHN M.---TIPTON IN.
1966 SCOTT MARTIN R.---TULSA OK.
1966 STEWART PETER J.---WINTER HAVEN FL.
1967 FREDERICK PETER J.---LONG ISLAND CITY NY.
1967 SMITH DEAN JR.---SAVANNAH GA.
1967 THOMPSON VICTOR HUGO III---HOUSTON TX.
[08/73 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1971 SEXTON DAVID M.---HURON OH.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0493 Theodorik the Great defeats Odoaker of Italy
0752 St Zachary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0933 Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1360 French invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange (wonder how they did that?)
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
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 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 1st Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1916 General Pershing leads, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate
1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)
1922 1st southern radio station begins radio transmissions (WSB-AM, Atlanta GA)
1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1928 Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
1940 Göring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going my Way", Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1971 CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO
1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon to rid area of Palestine guerrillas
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1991 4 Los Angeles police are charged with beating Rodney King
1993 Searchers found the body of the sixth and last missing victim of the World Trade Center bombing in New York
1998 CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president.
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2000 Their presidential nominations secured, Al Gore and George W. Bush dig in for the eight-month battle to Election Day, with Bush saying he was braced for Gore's "politics of personal destruction and distortions," and Gore arguing that Bush's "risky tax scheme" would hurt the economy. (You remember Al Gore right? Sure you do, come on invented the internet, kind of tall dull vacant look in the eye..ring a bell?)
2004 Scientists announced the discovery of a new planetoid named Sedna. The frozen, shiny red world is some 8 billion miles from Earth, the most distant known object in the solar system
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
World : Boss's Day Off
Honduras : Thanksgiving Day
Hungary : National Day
India, Mauritius, Nepál : Holi
Iran : Armed Forces Day/Labor Day
Liberia : JJ Robert's Birthday (1809)
Maine : Admission Day (1820)
Tennessee : Andrew Jackson's Birthday (1767)
US : Taxes in one month!
US : Daffodil Days (Day 2)
Foot Health Month.
Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Longinus, soldier with spear
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Louise de Marillac, widow
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Clement Hofbauer, priest/missionary
Religious History
1729 A Ceremony of Profession was held for Sister St. Stanislaus Hachard at the Ursuline convent in New Orleans, thereby making her the first Catholic woman to become a nun in America.
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'All my ideas of peace and joy are linked in with my Bible; and I would not give the hours of secret converse with it for all the other hours I spend in this world.'
1875 In New York City, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop John McCloskey, 65, became the first American to be named a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The believer is a displaced person. He loses the controlling features of both environment and heredity.'
1953 The first Southern Baptist church in North Dakota was formed in Williston, with 12 charter members. (The North Dakota Southern Baptist Association was formed the following year with five member churches.)
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Beware the Ides of March"
