| Ambit's Today In History: A forced remembrance of the crucial, and trivial, people and events that have painted the canvass of human achievement. | |||||||
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March Is:
• Colo-Rectal Health M. • Hamburger/Pickle M. • Irish-American M. • Mental Ret. Aware. M. • Music In Schools M. • National Craft Month • National Eye Donor M. • National Kidney Month • National Nutrition M. • National Peanut Month • Parenting Aware. M. • Red Cross Month • Woman's History M. |
Friday, March 12th Day 71 Of The Year 2010 |
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| On This Day: |
| St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope | |
| Citizens of the Jewish faith are expelled from Syria | |
| New Jersey becomes a British colony. First naturalization act in American colonies | |
| Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy | |
| First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine | |
| 2nd republic established in France | |
| First gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif | |
| First U.S. $20 gold piece issued | |
| Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri | |
| British create Basutoland in Africa | |
| Congress abolishes manufacturers tax | |
| British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa | |
| Mississippi establishes first U.S. state college for women | |
| 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE U.S. (400 die) | |
| Coke-cola first sold in bottles | |
| Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund | |
| Montreal Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908) | |
| Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup | |
| Capt Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane | |
| The Girl Scouts are founded (first Girl Scout troop) in Savanah GA under the name “American Girl Guides” by Juliette Gordon Low | |
| Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets | |
| Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax | |
| Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) | |
| FDR conducts his first “fireside chat” | |
| England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages | |
| President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first “Fireside Chat” | |
| Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) | |
| Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies | |
| Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, giving up some territory | |
| British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day | |
| NY is first to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment | |
| Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland | |
| The Hells Angels are created. (Heaven's Devils comes next!) | |
| Pope Pius XII encyclical “On combating atheistic propaganda” | |
| In Cranston, Rhode Island, four bridge players are each dealt a 'perfect' hand. First recorded time that's happened | |
| 101 Southern congressmen call for massive resistance to Supreme Court decisions against segregation | |
| British Empire Day is renamed “Commonwealth Day” | |
| House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood | |
| Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold | |
| Bob Dylan cancels “Ed Sullivan Show” television appearance | |
| Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record | |
| Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) | |
| Love's first album released “Love” | |
| Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet | |
| Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) | |
| 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home | |
| U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18 | |
| Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrorist from Israel | |
| Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago | |
| NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin | |
| Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station | |
| Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA | |
| PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on “Nightline” | |
| British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships | |
| National Union of Mineworkers in England begin a 51 week strike | |
| Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points | |
| 210.25 million shares (a record) are traded in the NY Stock Exchange | |
| Giotto encounters Comet Halley | |
| Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race | |
| David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game | |
| Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North | |
| 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) | |
| The LA Raiders announce they are returning to Oakland | |
| Janet Reno is sworn in as the first female U.S. Attorney General | |
| The Church of England ordains its first female priests |
| Born On This Day: |
| Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern (674 years ago) | |
| George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne (325 years ago) | |
| Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) (300 years ago) | |
| Pierre J David, (David d'Angers), French sculptor (222 years ago) | |
| Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57) (204 years ago) | |
| David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 (194 years ago) | |
| John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897 (192 years ago) | |
| Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern (189 years ago) | |
| Sir John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92) (189 years ago) | |
| William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 (187 years ago) | |
| Gustave Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen) (186 years ago) | |
| John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 (183 years ago) | |
| William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 (183 years ago) | |
| William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 (180 years ago) | |
| Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (179 years ago) | |
| Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager (caused boycotts) (178 years ago) | |
| Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist/mathematician/astronomer (175 years ago) | |
| William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye) (172 years ago) | |
| Jane Delano, U.S., nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross (148 years ago) | |
| Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacaos poet (147 years ago) | |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (The Intruder) (147 years ago) | |
| Edmund Eysler, Austria composer (136 years ago) | |
| Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia (133 years ago) | |
| Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee) (129 years ago) | |
| Kemal Atatark, first president of the Republic of Turkey (129 years ago) | |
| Veinš A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27) (129 years ago) | |
| Johannes IV, (Kasa), Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89) (121 years ago) | |
| Philip Guedalla, historian (121 years ago) | |
| A Evert Taube, Swedish writer (120 years ago) | |
| Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet master (NS) (120 years ago) | |
| Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist (119 years ago) | |
| David Croll, QC senator (110 years ago) | |
| Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant) (100 years ago) | |
| Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico (99 years ago) | |
| James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh (98 years ago) | |
| Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven) (98 years ago) | |
| Paul Weston, Springfield Massachusetts, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour) (98 years ago) | |
| Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing) (93 years ago) | |
| Tom Normanton, British MP (93 years ago) | |
| James Bracken, race horse trainer (92 years ago) | |
| Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers) (89 years ago) | |
| Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) (89 years ago) | |
| Ralph Shapey, Philadelphia, composer (Fantasy, Rituals) (89 years ago) | |
| Helen Parrish, Columbus Georgia, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business) (88 years ago) | |
| Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues, Dharma Bums) (88 years ago) | |
| Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO) (88 years ago) | |
| Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952) (87 years ago) | |
| Norbert Brainin, violinist (87 years ago) | |
| Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7) (87 years ago) | |
| Harry (Maxwell) Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy) (85 years ago) | |
| Leo Esaki, (Esaki Reona), Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973) (85 years ago) | |
| Louison Bobet, French bicyclist, won 3x Tour de France (85 years ago) | |
| William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va) (85 years ago) | |
| David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE) (84 years ago) | |
| David Williams, trade unionist (84 years ago) | |
| George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii) (84 years ago) | |
| Gudrun Ure, actress (84 years ago) | |
| Hildy Park, Washington DC, actress (To Tell the Truth) (84 years ago) | |
| John C(lellon) Holmes, U.S. writer (Horn) (84 years ago) | |
| Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery) (84 years ago) | |
| Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor (3/27 NS) (83 years ago) | |
| Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina) (83 years ago) | |
| Edward Albee, U.S. playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story) (82 years ago) | |
| Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music) (82 years ago) | |
| Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority) (82 years ago) | |
| Bernard Costello, U.S., double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956) (81 years ago) | |
| Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to U.S. (80 years ago) | |
| Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda) (80 years ago) | |
| Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection) (79 years ago) | |
| Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/Mayor Atlanta (D) (78 years ago) | |
| Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields) (76 years ago) | |
| Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu) (75 years ago) | |
| John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century) (75 years ago) | |
| Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co) (74 years ago) | |
| Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Virginia, newscaster (NBC News Overnight) (74 years ago) | |
| Patrick Procktor, painter (74 years ago) | |
| Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (73 years ago) | |
| Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael (72 years ago) | |
| Norman Hogg, British MP (72 years ago) | |
| Barbara Feldon, Pitts PA, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart) (71 years ago) | |
| David Mlinaric, British interior director (71 years ago) | |
| Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting) (70 years ago) | |
| Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting) (70 years ago) | |
| Barbara Feldon, actress (Agent 99) (69 years ago) | |
| Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's) (68 years ago) | |
| Paul Kanter, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit) (68 years ago) | |
| Salvatore “the Bull” Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti) (68 years ago) | |
| Hans van Emden, guitarist (Les Baroques) (65 years ago) | |
| Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret) (64 years ago) | |
| Jill O'Hara, Warren PA, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!) (63 years ago) | |
| James Taylor, singer/songwriter (Up on the Roof) (62 years ago) | |
| Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota) (62 years ago) | |
| Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health (62 years ago) | |
| Bill Payne, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero) (61 years ago) | |
| David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury (61 years ago) | |
| Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV) (61 years ago) | |
| Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian) (61 years ago) | |
| Willie Duggan, rugby football player (60 years ago) | |
| Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties) (59 years ago) | |
| Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains) (57 years ago) | |
| Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP) (54 years ago) | |
| Marlon Jackson, singer (Jackson 5) (53 years ago) | |
| Steve Harris, rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast) (53 years ago) | |
| Debra Jensen, Orange County California, playmate (January, 1978) (52 years ago) | |
| Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers) (48 years ago) | |
| Candy Costie, Seattle Washington, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984) (47 years ago) | |
| Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984) (47 years ago) | |
| Paul Way, British golfer (47 years ago) | |
| Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, U.S. Olympic water polo forward (Olympic-92) (44 years ago) | |
| Graham Coxon, rocker (Blur) (40 years ago) |
| And Don't Forget, Today Is: |
| (British Commonwealth) Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day) | |
| (Gabon) Renovation Day (National Day) | |
| (Lesotho) Moshoeshoe's Day | |
| (Libya) King's Birthday | |
| (Mauritius) Independence Day (1968) | |
| (Venezuala) Flag Day | |
| (World) Girl Scouts Day (1912) | |
| Commonwealth Day | |
| National Holiday (Gabon) | |
| (New Mexico) Arbor Day |
