This day in history.....

March 21st


1804: The French Civil Code, later renamed the Code Napoléon, is promulgated, providing a uniform civil law.


1918: The Second Battle of the Somme, the last major German offensives of World War I, is launched.


1960: South African police open fire on a group of black protesters in the township of Sharpeville.


1963: Alcatraz, a federal prison for dangerous criminals in the San Francisco Bay, closes.


1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a protest march that begins in Selma, Alabama; it arrives in Montgomery five days later.
 
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.
 
March 23rd


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.
 
Mar 23 1989
In 1989, a 1000-foot diameter asteroid misses the Earth by only 500,000 miles. (Astronomers did not see it until it passed.)

Mar 23 1990

Gerald Bull, the man assisting Iraq in the construction of a supergun, assassinated by Israeli agents outside his flat in Brussels, Belgium.

Mar 23 1997

Five dead bodies are found arranged in a cross formation at the burned Quebec home of Didier Queze. They were members of the Solar Temple cult who in 1994 to 1996 had totalled 69 suicides in Europe and North America.

Mar 23 1997

Heaven's gate suicides leave 39 dead, all wearing NIKE shoes
 
Mar 23 1989
In 1989, a 1000-foot diameter asteroid misses the Earth by only 500,000 miles. (Astronomers did not see it until it passed.)
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Gotta love science. I see why so many put their faith in it.
 
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 starts spilling 260,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
 
March 26th


1827: German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna.


1885: The first commercial motion picture film is manufactured by Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.


1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine against the crippling disease polio.


1962: American poet Robert Frost publishes his first new collection of poems in 15 years, In the Clearing.
 
March 27th


1866: President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.


1912: First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.


1917: The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.


1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union.


1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.
 
Mare said:
March 27th


1866: President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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More of that wonderful Lincolnian equality in action.

Oh ye easily misled...
 
March 28th


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

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.
 
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.
 
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. :alienhuh:
 
March 31st


1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."


1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.


1889: The Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris World's Fair, opens in France.


1949: Newfoundland becomes the 10th province in Canada.


1976: The New Jersey Supreme Court sets a precedent, ruling that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan can be taken off life support so she can "die with dignity."
 
April 1st


1621: Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, and John Carver, governor of Plymouth Colony, sign the first peace treaty between Native Americans and Pilgrims.


1789: The newly established U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting.


1972: The first major league baseball players strike in the U.S. begins.


1979: Following a referendum, Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by the Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini.


1984: R&B singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in Los Angeles.


1999: Nunavut becomes the third independent territory in Canada; it is the homeland of Canada's Inuit, who comprise the vast majority of the population of Nunavut.
 
Mare said:
1621: Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, and John Carver, governor of Plymouth Colony, sign the first peace treaty between Native Americans and Pilgrims.
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Ha Ha! April Fool's!
 
April 2nd


1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, searching for the mythical fountain of youth, discovers Florida.


1792: Congress passes the Coinage Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.


1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress to enter World War I, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."


1932: In New York, aviator Charles Lindbergh pays a ransom to secure the return of his kidnapped infant son; the baby is later found murdered.


1982: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, a British dependency; Britain responds by sending in its armed forces to retake the islands.


2003: Special operations forces rescue U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the early days fighting in Iraq.
 
Mare said:
1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, searching for the mythical fountain of youth, discovers Florida.
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I've always found it interesting how they say someone "discovered" a place that already had people living in it.
 
April 3rd


1860: The legendary Pony Express begins mail service between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.


1882: Jesse James, notorious U.S. bank and train robber, is shot in the back by a member of his own gang seeking to claim reward money.


1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, is executed by electrocution.

1991: The U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.


1996: Theodore Kaczynski is arrested on charges that he is the Unabomber, an anarchist whose homemade bombs killed three and wounded many others over 17 years.
 
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