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Post by LuLu on Mar 15, 2013 2:27:44 GMT -5
Today In History
On March 15, 1913,
President Woodrow Wilson met with about 100 reporters for the first formal presidential press conference.
In 1493,
Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
In 1767,
the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 16, 2013 1:34:48 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 16, 1968,
during the Vietnam War, the My Lai (mee ly) Massacre of Vietnamese civilians was carried out by U.S. Army troops; estimates of the death toll vary between 347 and 504.
In 1521,
Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
In 1751,
James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 17, 2013 0:23:16 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 17, 1973,
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted by his family on the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base in California in a scene...
In 1762,
New York's first St. Patrick's Day parade took place.
In 1861,
Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed the first king of a united Italy.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 18, 2013 0:21:02 GMT -5
Today In History
On March 18, 1963,
the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, ruled unanimously that state courts were required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who could not afford to hire..
In 1766,
Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765.
In 1837,
the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 19, 2013 0:20:47 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 19, 2003,
President George W. Bush ordered the start of war against Iraq. (Because of the time difference, it was early March 20 in Iraq.)
In 1687,
French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle — the first European to navigate the length of the Mississippi River — was murdered by mutineers in...
In 1863,
the Confederate cruiser Georgianna, on its maiden voyage, was scuttled off Charleston, S.C., to prevent it from falling into Union hands
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Post by LuLu on Mar 20, 2013 0:16:46 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 20, 1933,
the state of Florida electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara for the shooting death of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
In 1413,
England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.
In 1727,
physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 21, 2013 0:18:18 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 21, 1963,
the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1556,
Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy.
In 1685,
composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 22, 2013 0:16:07 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 22, 1963,
The Beatles' debut album, "Please Please Me," was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.
In 1312,
Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
In 1638,
religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 23, 2013 1:48:18 GMT -5
Today in History
On March 23, 1913,
five days of heavy rain began falling in the Ohio River Valley; Dayton, Ohio, saw catastrophic flooding as the rising Great Miami River breached its levees. Hundreds of deaths...
In 1775,
Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
In 1792,
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the "Surprise" symphony) had its first public performance in London.
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Post by LuLu on Mar 23, 2013 23:59:59 GMT -5
![]() [/img][glow=red,2,300] Today In History[/glow] ![]() [/img] [glow=red,2,300] On March 24, 1913,[/glow] New York's Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway. [glow=red,2,300] In 1765,[/glow] Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. [glow=red,2,300] In 1832,[/glow] a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. |
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Post by LuLu on Mar 24, 2013 0:10:17 GMT -5
 Today In HistoryOn March 24, 1913,New York's Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway. In 1765,Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. |
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Post by LuLu on Mar 25, 2013 0:03:05 GMT -5
 Today in HistoryOn March 25, 1965,the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. In 1306,Robert the Bruce was crowned the King of Scots. In 1634,English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrived in present-day Maryland. |
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Post by LuLu on Mar 26, 2013 0:02:55 GMT -5
 Today in HistoryOn March 26, 1979,a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH'-kem BAY'-gihn) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the... In 1812,an earthquake devastated Caracas, Venezuela, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1827,composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna. |
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Post by LuLu on Mar 26, 2013 23:41:04 GMT -5
 Today in HistoryOn March 27, 1513Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon (hwahn pahns duh LEE'-ohn) sighted present-day Florida. In 1625Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I. In 1794Congress approved "An Act to provide a Naval Armament" of six armed ships. |
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Post by LuLu on Mar 28, 2013 0:12:24 GMT -5
 Today in HistoryOn March 28, 1979,America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa. In 1834,the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. In 1854,during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. |
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