On this day:
Saturday, Mar. 1 (Day: 61, 305 left)
* Peace Corps established by Pres. Kennedy in 1961 under an excecutive order. What RPCVs (Returned Peace Corps volunteers) achieve after returning from service:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=703531
Born: Frédéric Chopin (1810); Glenn Miller (1904); Ralph Ellison (1914); Ron Howard (1954)
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Sunday, Mar. 2:
* The Academy Awards are broadcast on television for the first time in 1953, with NBC televising them. Some history of the film awards:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=396645
Born: Sam Houston (1793); Dr. Seuss (1904); Tom Wolfe (1931); John Irving (1942)
Monday, Mar. 3:
* Though written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, it would be more than a century (1931) before the "Star-Spangled Banner" becomes Congress makes it the national anthem. The humble origins of the melody as an English drinking song:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=342399
Born: George Pullman (1831); Alexander Graham Bell (1847); Doc Watson (1923)
Tuesday, Mar. 4:
* City of Chicago incorporated in 1837 with a population of 4,170:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=92574
Born: Casimir Pulaski (1746); Karl Bayer (1847); Knute Rockne (1888); Miriam Makeba (1932)
Wednesday, Mar. 5:
* Nikola Tesla describes the process under which "ball lightning" forms in 1904. Films which document the life of Tesla, who was born during an electrical storm :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=589697
Born: Gerardus Mercator (1512); Rex Harrison (1908); James Tobin (1918); Penn Jillette (1955)
Thursday, Mar. 6:
* The fall of the Alamo in 1836 and the death of Davey Crockett (as well as Jim Bowie and William B. Travis). Part of the Crockett lore :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=482350
Born: Michelangelo (1475); Philip Sheridan (1831); Ring Lardner (1885); Lou Costello (1906); Shaquille O'Neal (1972)
Friday, Mar. 7:
* In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell files patent #174,465 for a device he calls the "telephone". What happened to the original investments in AT&T made the following year:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=191398
Born: John Herschel (1792); Piet Mondrian (1872); Maurice Ravel (1875); Alan Hale (1958)
Saturday, Mar. 8:
* New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) founded in 1817:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=205447
Born: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841); John McPhee (1931); Jim Bouton (1939); Carole Bayer Sager (1947)
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Sunday, Mar. 9: Daylight Savings Time begins-- U.S. (69)
* First Ford Flathead engine comes off assembly line in 1934. Initially 65 horsepower, it would rise to over 100 hsp by the end of production in 1953:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=110613
Born: Amerigo Vespucci (1454); Yuri Gagarin (1934); Bobby Fischer (1943); Michael Kinsley (1951)
Monday, Mar. 10:
* The Louisiana Territory is formally transferred from French to American control on this day in 1804 at St. Louis. What led up to the sale of the territory for $15 million:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=95055
Born: Bix Beiderbecke (1884); Osama bin Laden (1957); Sharon Stone (1958);
Tuesday, Mar. 11:
* First confirmed cases of the Spanish flu confirmed in the U.S. in 1918. The global pandemic would become the leading killer of Americans in the century:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=196121
Born: Vannevar Bush (1890); Lawrence Welk (1903); Ruppert Murdoch (1931); Douglas Adams (1951)
Wednesday, Mar. 12:
* The Truman Doctrine proclaimed in 1947 to block the spread of Communism. The debate over it invented the term, "Cold War" :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=590114
Born: George Berkeley (1685); Charles C. Boycott (1832); Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881); Jack Kerouac (1922)
Thursday, Mar. 13:
* Pope Pius XI condemns Nazi political philosophy in 1937 with his address, "Mit Brennender Sorge":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=424766
Born: Joseph Priestley (1733); Walter Annenberg (1908); L. Ron Hubbard (1911); William H. Macy (1950)
Friday, Mar. 14:
* The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list first appears in 1950. One Google Answers researcher helped capture someone on the famous list as part of his "day job":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=783604
Born: Casey Jones (1863); Albert Einstein (1879); Frank Borman (1928); Billy Crystal (1948)
Saturday, Mar. 15:
* "Beware the Ides of March" -- Spurinna and the soothsayer in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar':
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=182746
Born: Andrew Jackson (1767); Eduard Strauss (1835); Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933); Sly Stone (1943)
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Sunday, Mar. 16: Palm Sunday
* Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts. Where it fits in the timeline of rocket development:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=354563
Born: Georg Simon Ohm (1789); Reza Shah Pahlavi (1877); Marlin Perkins (1905); Jerry Lewis (1926)
Monday, Mar. 17: St. Patrick's Day (77)
* The busiest art museum in the U.S., the National Gallery of Art at Washngton, DC, is opened in 1941:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=755063
Born: Jim Bridger (1804); Bobby Jones (1902); Nat King Cole (1919); Rudolf Nureyev (1938); John Sebastian (1944)
Tuesday, Mar. 18:
* Google Answers (beta) goes live on this day in 2002. More background on the service:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=260926
Born: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844); Rudolf Diesel (1858); Edward Everett Horton (1866); Ernest Gallo (1909)
Wednesday, Mar. 19:
* Eight planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa in 1916, the first American air combat mission. It was in support of Gen. John Pershing's "Punitive Expedition":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=344308
Born: William Bradford (1589); David Livingstone (1813); Wyatt Earp (1848); Earl Warren (1891); John Sirica (1904)
Thursday, Mar. 20:
* "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published in 1852:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=324863
Born: Henrik Ibsen (1828); B.F. Skinner (1904); Ozzie Nelson (1906); Fred Rogers (1928); Spike Lee (1957)
Friday, Mar. 21: Spring (Vernal) Equinox (81)
Good Friday
Juarez Birthday -- Mexico
* How to find the exact time of the Spring equinox (and the solstice too) from the U.S. Naval Observatory :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=287376
Born: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685); King James Strang (1813); Florenz Ziegfield (1869); Eddie Money (1949)
Saturday, Mar. 22:
* Though now commonly used in consumer products, it was only 1960 when Schawlow and Townes receive the first patent for a laser. Where it fits in 20th Century developments:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=249738
Born: Bahá'u'lláh (1813); James Gavin (1907); Louis L'Amour (1908); William Shatner (1931); Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)
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Sunday, Mar. 23: Easter
* Patrick Henry delivers his "give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 to the Virgina House of Burgesses. Henry's family genealogy:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=269063
Born: William Kidd (1645); Erich Fromm (1900); Joan Crawford (1905); Wernher von Braun (1912)
Monday, Mar. 24:
* Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1994 at Alaska's Prince William Sound unleashes 240,000 barrels of crude oil:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=326156
Born: John Wesley Powell (1834); Harry Houdini (1874); George Sisler (1893); Ub Iwerks (1901)
Tuesday, Mar. 25:
* The European Union's Veterinary Committee bans British beef due to risks of mad cow disease (BSE). But scientists continue to look at the risk for medicines:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=361053
Born: Arturo Toscanini (1867); Eileen Ford (1922); Aretha Franklin (1942); Elton John (1947)
Wednesday, Mar. 26:
* French actress Sarah Bernhardt dies in 1923. A state funeral is held as she is mourned in the U.S. and Europe:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=516474
Born: Nathaniel Bowditch (1773); Robert Frost (1874); Tennesee Williams (1911); Leonard Nemoy (1931)
Thursday, Mar. 27:
* First 5-million share day on the New York Stock Exchange in 1930:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=496152
Born: Baron Haussmann (1802); Nathaniel Currier (1813); Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845); Mariah Carey (1970)
Friday, Mar. 28:
* Union forces stop a Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass in 1862. How the 331 casualties compared to other Civl War battles:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=744984
Born: Frederick Pabst (1836); Maxim Gorky (1868); August Anheuser Busch, Jr. (1899); Reba McEntire (1955)
Saturday, Mar. 29:
* Dr. John Pemberton brews his first batch of Coca-Cola in his backyard in 1886 at Atlanta, GA. It would be another half century before "Coke" is trademarked:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=785316
Born: Cy Young (1867); Sam Walton (1918); Vangelis (1943);
Lucy Lawless (1968)
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Sunday, Mar. 30:
* Alaska purchased in 1867 for $0.02 per acre or $7.2 million in what what known as "Seward's Folly". But his square in Washington, DC doesn't have a statue of William H. Seward:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=497933
Born: Vincent Van Gogh (1853); Warren Beatty (1937); Eric Clapton (1945); Jeopardy! (1964)
Monday, Mar. 31:
* Civilian Conservation Corps established in 1933. By the end of the decade, 2 million men would participate:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=312205
Born: René Descartes (1596); Joseph Haydn (1732); César Chávez (1927); Liz Claiborne (1929); Al Gore (1948)
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