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Friday, March 12th
Day 71 Of The Year 2010
A forced remembrance of the crucial, and trivial, people and events that have painted the canvas of human achievement.
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  On This Day:
      417:St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
      604:St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
      1496:Citizens of the Jewish faith are expelled from Syria
      1664:New Jersey becomes a British colony. First naturalization act in American colonies
      1737:Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
      1755:First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
      1848:2nd republic established in France
      1849:First gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
      1850:First U.S. $20 gold piece issued
      1865:Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
      1868:British create Basutoland in Africa
      1868:Congress abolishes manufacturers tax
      1877:British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
      1884:Mississippi establishes first U.S. state college for women
      1888:2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE U.S. (400 die)
      1894:Coke-cola first sold in bottles
      1904:Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
      1908:Montreal Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908)
      1910:Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup
      1912:Capt Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane
      1912:The Girl Scouts are founded (first Girl Scout troop) in Savanah GA under the name “American Girl Guides” by Juliette Gordon Low
      1917:Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
      1930:Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
      1930:Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
      1933:FDR conducts his first “fireside chat”
      1935:England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
      1936:President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first “Fireside Chat”
      1938:Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
      1939:Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
      1940:Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, giving up some territory
      1945:British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day
      1945:NY is first to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
      1946:Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
      1948:The Hells Angels are created. (Heaven's Devils comes next!)
      1950:Pope Pius XII encyclical “On combating atheistic propaganda”
      1954:In Cranston, Rhode Island, four bridge players are each dealt a 'perfect' hand. First recorded time that's happened
      1956:101 Southern congressmen call for massive resistance to Supreme Court decisions against segregation
      1958:British Empire Day is renamed “Commonwealth Day”
      1959:House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
      1963:Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
      1963:Bob Dylan cancels “Ed Sullivan Show” television appearance
      1966:Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
      1966:Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
      1966:Love's first album released “Love”
      1967:Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
      1968:Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
      1969:120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
      1970:U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18
      1977:Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrorist from Israel
      1980:Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
      1980:NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
      1981:Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
      1981:Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
      1982:PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on “Nightline”
      1984:British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
      1984:National Union of Mineworkers in England begin a 51 week strike
      1985:Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
      1986:210.25 million shares (a record) are traded in the NY Stock Exchange
      1986:Giotto encounters Comet Halley
      1986:Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
      1987:David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
      1987:Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
      1989:2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
      1990:The LA Raiders announce they are returning to Oakland
      1993:Janet Reno is sworn in as the first female U.S. Attorney General
      1995:The Church of England ordains its first female priests

  Born On This Day:
      1336:Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern (674 years ago)
      1685:George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne (325 years ago)
      1710:Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) (300 years ago)
      1788:Pierre J David, (David d'Angers), French sculptor (222 years ago)
      1806:Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57) (204 years ago)
      1816:David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 (194 years ago)
      1818:John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897 (192 years ago)
      1821:Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern (189 years ago)
      1821:Sir John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92) (189 years ago)
      1823:William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 (187 years ago)
      1824:Gustave Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen) (186 years ago)
      1827:John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 (183 years ago)
      1827:William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 (183 years ago)
      1830:William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 (180 years ago)
      1831:Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (179 years ago)
      1832:Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager (caused boycotts) (178 years ago)
      1835:Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist/mathematician/astronomer (175 years ago)
      1838:William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye) (172 years ago)
      1862:Jane Delano, U.S., nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross (148 years ago)
      1863:Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacaos poet (147 years ago)
      1863:Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (The Intruder) (147 years ago)
      1874:Edmund Eysler, Austria composer (136 years ago)
      1877:Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia (133 years ago)
      1881:Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee) (129 years ago)
      1881:Kemal Atatark, first president of the Republic of Turkey (129 years ago)
      1881:Veinš A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27) (129 years ago)
      1889:Johannes IV, (Kasa), Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89) (121 years ago)
      1889:Philip Guedalla, historian (121 years ago)
      1890:A Evert Taube, Swedish writer (120 years ago)
      1890:Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet master (NS) (120 years ago)
      1891:Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist (119 years ago)
      1900:David Croll, QC senator (110 years ago)
      1910:Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant) (100 years ago)
      1911:Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico (99 years ago)
      1912:James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh (98 years ago)
      1912:Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven) (98 years ago)
      1912:Paul Weston, Springfield Massachusetts, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour) (98 years ago)
      1917:Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing) (93 years ago)
      1917:Tom Normanton, British MP (93 years ago)
      1918:James Bracken, race horse trainer (92 years ago)
      1921:Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers) (89 years ago)
      1921:Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) (89 years ago)
      1921:Ralph Shapey, Philadelphia, composer (Fantasy, Rituals) (89 years ago)
      1922:Helen Parrish, Columbus Georgia, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business) (88 years ago)
      1922:Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues, Dharma Bums) (88 years ago)
      1922:Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO) (88 years ago)
      1923:Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952) (87 years ago)
      1923:Norbert Brainin, violinist (87 years ago)
      1923:Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7) (87 years ago)
      1925:Harry (Maxwell) Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy) (85 years ago)
      1925:Leo Esaki, (Esaki Reona), Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973) (85 years ago)
      1925:Louison Bobet, French bicyclist, won 3x Tour de France (85 years ago)
      1925:William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va) (85 years ago)
      1926:David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE) (84 years ago)
      1926:David Williams, trade unionist (84 years ago)
      1926:George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii) (84 years ago)
      1926:Gudrun Ure, actress (84 years ago)
      1926:Hildy Park, Washington DC, actress (To Tell the Truth) (84 years ago)
      1926:John C(lellon) Holmes, U.S. writer (Horn) (84 years ago)
      1926:Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery) (84 years ago)
      1927:Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor (3/27 NS) (83 years ago)
      1927:Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina) (83 years ago)
      1928:Edward Albee, U.S. playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story) (82 years ago)
      1928:Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music) (82 years ago)
      1928:Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority) (82 years ago)
      1929:Bernard Costello, U.S., double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956) (81 years ago)
      1930:Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to U.S. (80 years ago)
      1930:Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda) (80 years ago)
      1931:Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection) (79 years ago)
      1932:Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/Mayor Atlanta (D) (78 years ago)
      1934:Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields) (76 years ago)
      1935:Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu) (75 years ago)
      1935:John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century) (75 years ago)
      1936:Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co) (74 years ago)
      1936:Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Virginia, newscaster (NBC News Overnight) (74 years ago)
      1936:Patrick Procktor, painter (74 years ago)
      1937:Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (73 years ago)
      1938:Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael (72 years ago)
      1938:Norman Hogg, British MP (72 years ago)
      1939:Barbara Feldon, Pitts PA, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart) (71 years ago)
      1939:David Mlinaric, British interior director (71 years ago)
      1940:Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting) (70 years ago)
      1940:Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting) (70 years ago)
      1941:Barbara Feldon, actress (Agent 99) (69 years ago)
      1942:Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's) (68 years ago)
      1942:Paul Kanter, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit) (68 years ago)
      1942:Salvatore “the Bull” Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti) (68 years ago)
      1945:Hans van Emden, guitarist (Les Baroques) (65 years ago)
      1946:Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret) (64 years ago)
      1947:Jill O'Hara, Warren PA, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!) (63 years ago)
      1948:James Taylor, singer/songwriter (Up on the Roof) (62 years ago)
      1948:Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota) (62 years ago)
      1948:Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health (62 years ago)
      1949:Bill Payne, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero) (61 years ago)
      1949:David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury (61 years ago)
      1949:Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV) (61 years ago)
      1949:Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian) (61 years ago)
      1950:Willie Duggan, rugby football player (60 years ago)
      1951:Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties) (59 years ago)
      1953:Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains) (57 years ago)
      1956:Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP) (54 years ago)
      1957:Marlon Jackson, singer (Jackson 5) (53 years ago)
      1957:Steve Harris, rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast) (53 years ago)
      1958:Debra Jensen, Orange County California, playmate (January, 1978) (52 years ago)
      1962:Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers) (48 years ago)
      1963:Candy Costie, Seattle Washington, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984) (47 years ago)
      1963:Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984) (47 years ago)
      1963:Paul Way, British golfer (47 years ago)
      1966:Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, U.S. Olympic water polo forward (Olympic-92) (44 years ago)
      1970: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

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