This day in history.....

[Mare]

March 15th


1916: A United States expedition under the command of General John J. Pershing is sent into Mexico to pursue the Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa.

1919: The American Legion is formed in Paris, France.

1937: The first blood bank in the world is established in Chicago, Illinois.

1956: The musical My Fair Lady, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, makes its debut performance in New York City.

1964: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are married in Montreal, Canada.

1989: A large rally in Budapest calls for democracy and national independence for Hungary.

 

[Mare]

March 16


1516: Louis II, aged nine, succeeds as king of Bohemia and Hungary on the death of Ladislas II.

1802: West Point, site of the United States Military Academy, is founded by the Congress of the United States.

1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.
Learn more about Nathaniel Hawthorne.

1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.

1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.

1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.

 

[Mare]

March 17th HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!


1737: The Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Massachusetts, hosts the first nonliturgical celebration of Saint Patrick's Day.

1762: The first Saint Patrick's Day parade in New York, New York, inaugurates a strong traditional celebration among Irish Americans.

1861: The kingdom of Italy is formally proclaimed.

1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

1969: Golda Meir is sworn in as Israel's fourth prime minister.

 

[Gato_Solo]

1929...Gato's father was born.

 

[Mare]

March 18th


1554: Princess Elizabeth, heir apparent to the throne in England, is imprisoned for suspected complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion against her half sister, Queen Mary I of England.

1922: Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian Home Rule movement, is sentenced to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience.

1925: Thousands of people are injured and 689 killed when a tornado, the worst in United States history to date, passes through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that approves statehood for Hawaii. Hawaii officially becomes a state on August 21, 1959.

1967: The Beatle's hit single "Penny Lane" goes Number One.

 

[Mare]

March 19th


1687: The French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is murdered on the banks of the Rio Brazos (in modern Texas) by his mutinous men.

1823: Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico is forced to abdicate by insurgents.

1831: The first recorded bank robbery in history takes place in New York City. The bank robbers make off with about $245,000, some of which is later recovered.

1920: The United States Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles for the second time; the United States does not join the League of Nations.

1977: CBS broadcasts the final episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

1995: Michael Jordan returns to professional basketball after a 17-month period of retirement.

2003: United States forces invade Iraq, beginning the U.S.-Iraq War of 2003.

 

[Mare]

March 20th


1602: The Dutch East India Company is chartered to establish bases and fortifications against Spain and Portugal, in return for a monopoly of trade in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is first published in book form. i remember doing a book report on her!


1956: France recognizes the independence of its protectorate of Tunisia. The bey of Tunis is head of state with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as prime minister.


1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry on the Rock of Gilbralter.


1995: Nerve gas kills 12 people and injures about 5000 on the underground railroad in Tokyo, Japan. Two days later police raid the offices of the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect (founded in 1987) in Kamikuishiki, Honshu.

 

[Mare]

March 22


1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1763: To raise revenue in the American colonies, the British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, levying a direct tax on colonial legal and commercial documents.

1945: The Arab League is formed in Cairo, Egypt.

1963: The Beatles' first album Please Please Me is released in Britain; it is soon number one on the pop charts.


1972: The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification; it ultimately fails to win enough states to become part of the U.S. Constitution.

 

[Mare]

March 23


1775: In a speech to the Virginia convention, Patrick Henry utters the immortal words "Give me liberty or give me death!"

1919: Benito Mussolini founds the right wing Fascist Party in Italy.

1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."

1983: President Ronald Reagan announces plans for developing a space-based defense system that becomes known as "Star Wars."

1983: Retired dentist Barney B. Clark dies 112 days after receiving the first artificial heart.


1996: Lee Teng-hui becomes Taiwan's first democratically elected president.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."

Simple, really. He broke a state law. He was prosecuted for doing so. Why would that cause confusion?

 

[Mare]

March 24th


1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces that he has discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis.


1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Tydings-McDuffie Act, granting future independence to the Philippines.


1958: Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," enters the U.S. Army for two years.


1989: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 260,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

 

[Mare]

1925:Simple, really. He broke a state law. He was prosecuted for doing so. Why would that cause confusion?

Ok wrong smilie there i put........I was reading up on it when i posted it and i found it to be very interesting...especially the opening statements.....Got me to thinking what would have happened if he could have tought it!

And Now Adays how people freak out with....In God We Trust on our $$....... and prayer in schools....and ten commandments in public places.....Would people think different of him now???

"Opening statements pictured the trial as a titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance. Bryan claimed that "if evolution wins, Christianity goes." Darrow argued, "Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial." The prosecution, Darrow contended, was "opening the doors for a reign of bigotry equal to anything in the Middle Ages." To the gasps of spectators, Darrow said Bryan was responsible for the "foolish, mischievous and wicked act." Darrow said that the anti-evolution law made the Bible "the yardstick to measure every man's intellect, to measure every man's intelligence, to measure every man's learning." It was classic Darrow, and the press--mostly sympathetic to the defense--loved it."

"The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis, as it appears in the King James version. It did. Superintendent White led off the prosecution's list of witnesses with his testimony that John Scopes had admitted teaching about evolution from Hunter's Civic Biology. Chief Prosecutor Tom Stewart then asked seven students in Scope's class a series of questions about his teachings. They testified that Scopes told them that man and all other mammals had evolved from one-celled organism. Darrow cross-examined--gently, though with obvious sarcasm--the students, asking freshman Howard Morgan: "Well, did he tell you anything else that was wicked?" "No, not that I can remember," Howard answered. After drugstore owner Fred Robinson took the stand to testify as to Scope's statement that "any teacher in the state who was teaching Hunter's Biology was violating the law," the prosecution rested. It was a simple case."

 

[Mare]

March 25th


1634: The first settlers arrive in Maryland and found the town of Saint Mary's.

1807: Britain abolishes the African slave trade.

1957: The Treaty of Rome was signed, providing for the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC), or Common Market.

1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated; he was succeeded by his half brother, Prince Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz.

 

[chcr]

On this day in 1956:
The lovely and semi-talented Dara Rogers (née Menges) was born and subsequently screamed loudly. Happy Birthday, honey!

 

[Mare]

March 28th


1797: The first U.S. patent for a washing machine was granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.

1834: For the first time in history, the U.S. Senate votes to censure a president, declaring that Andrew Jackson inappropriately removed federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1930: The ancient Turkish city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.

1941: British writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning.

1969: In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles.


1979: A nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania increases public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.

 

[Mare]

March 29th


1867: The British North America Act establishes the Dominion of Canada, comprising the provinces of Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.

1932: American comedian Jack Benny makes his radio debut.

1961: The 23rd Amendment is ratified, giving residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.

1973: The last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, ending U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.

1974: The Mariner 10 spacecraft, launched by NASA in November, is the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and take close-up pictures of the planet.

 

[chcr]

1961: The 23rd Amendment is ratified, giving residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.

Umm... That one may have been a mistake.

 

[Mare]

March 30th


1858: Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents his idea of attaching an eraser to the top of a lead pencil.

1867: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia, purchasing Alaska for $7,200,000; critics dub the deal "Seward's Folly."

1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.

1986: Actor James Cagney, who won Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy, dies at 86.


1999: A jury in Portland, Oregon orders Phillip Morris to pay $81,000,000 to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.

 

[chcr]

1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.

But he did it for love.

 

[Winky]

PRESIDENT REAGAN SHOT:
March 30, 1981

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.

The president was shot in the left lung, and the .22 caliber bullet just missed his heart. In an impressive feat for a 70-year-old man with a collapsed lung, he walked into George Washington University Hospital under his own power. As he was treated and prepared for surgery, he was in good spirits and quipped to his wife, Nancy, ''Honey, I forgot to duck,'' and to his surgeons, "Please tell me you're Republicans."