March 24......

March 24 is the 83rd (84th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Activism "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream." - Anatole France

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Absurdity "It is particularly fitting to honor the Freedom President on this particular piece of coinage because, as has been pointed out, President Reagan was wounded under the left arm by a bullet that had ricocheted and flattened to the size of a dime." - Mark Souder, Republican congressman, explaining why Reagan should replace Roosevelt on the dime.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 650 BC - Gabriel appears to Daniel, and teaches him to interpret dreams.

● 79 - Famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius buries the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum and some 20,000 inhabitants. Although some manage to flee, most inhabitants of these seaport towns were cut off by damage to docks, boat landings, and rough seas.

● 1241 - Mongols under Kaidu take Cracow, Poland.

● 1379 - End of Gelderse war victory

● 1545 - German Parliament opens in Worms

● 1550 - France & England sign Peace of Boulogne

● 1580 - First bombs (grenades) thrown, in Holland.

● 1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England.

● 1629 - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia

● 1638 - Rhode Island purchased from the Indians for 40 fathoms of beads.

● 1645 - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beats Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III

● 1661 - Willi Leddra executed in New England for being a Quaker.

● 1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

● 1720 - In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis.

● 1731 - An Act to naturalize Hieronimus De Salis Esquire, passed.

● 1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops.

● 1774 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'What a mercy it is to be separated in spirit, conversation, and interest from the world that knows not God.'

● 1788 - People of Rhode Island, in a special referendum, reject the new United States Constitution by a 10-to-1 margin.

● 1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.

● 1801 - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia

● 1818 - American statesman Henry Clay wrote: 'All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty.'

● 1828 - Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized

● 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.

● 1834 - Bank of Maryland collapses; depositors lose between $2 and $3 million. It eventually became clear that a "stupendous fraud" had been committed, and, fully 17 months after the bank failure, it inspires a bloody riot erupted in Baltimore.

● 1837 - Canada gives African men the right to vote.

● 1848 - State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam

● 1855 - Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS

● 1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York

● 1874 - Harry Houdini, the Hungarian-born magician and escape artist, was born.

● 1878 - Birth of Charles Benoit, Rouen, France. Revolutionary socialist, then an anarchist.

● 1878 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.

● 1880 - The first "hail insurance company" was incorporated in Connecticut. It was known as Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company.

● 1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).

● 1883 - 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago

● 1887 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)

● 1894 - Emile Digeon (1822-1894) dies. French revolutionary socialist journalist, libertarian free thinker, anarchist journalist, responsible for the "Commune of Narbonne," declared in 1871 when Paris rose up. Again in Narbonne, in 1883, Digeon is presented during the election campaigns as "an anarchist candidate."

● 1894 - 37 miners killed at Franklin WA

● 1897 - Birth of William Reich, German anarchist psychoanalyst.

● 1898 - Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.

● 1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

● 1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.

● 1905 - In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed independence from Turkey.

● 1906 - In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Istmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.

● 1906 - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

● 1910 - 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March

● 1911 - In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.

● 1918 - Canadian women win the right to vote, years before the U.S. grants similar rights.

● 1919 - League of Women Voters is founded.

● 1919 - Workers in Barcelona, Spain reprise a successful general strike when, after government concessions for higher wages and an eight-hour day end the previous strike, authorities reneg on promises to release some of the imprisoned strike leaders.

● 1919 - Birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet/painter/beat/publisher and founder of San Francisco's influential City Lights bookstore. Yonkers, New York. Among other accomplishments, Ferlinghetti was the first to publish Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," an act immediately resulting in his arrest (and eventual acquittal) on obscenity charges.

● 1920 - 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)

● 1923(24?) - Greece becomes a republic.

● 1926 - The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands

● 1927 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty

● 1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.

● 1930 - Planet Pluto named

● 1933 - Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency

● 1934 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

● 1937 - Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL)

● 1937 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress

● 1938 - The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.

● 1940 - Dr. Samuel Cavert of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America officiated at a Protestant Easter service in New York City. It was the first religious program to be broadcast over television, and was carried by local NBC affiliate TV station W2XBS, in NYC.

● 1941 - British troops defeat British Somalia

● 1941 - German troops occupy El Agheila Libya

● 1942 - The first deportation of Slovakian Jews to Auschwitz begins.

● 1944 - 811 British bombers attack Berlin

● 1944 - German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.

● 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

● 1945 - General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany

● 1945 - Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders

● 1945 - Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine

● 1945 - US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa

● 1946 - The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran.

● 1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency

● 1947 - John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

● 1952 - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa

● 1953 - Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness; Her Majesty Queen Mary, the Queen's grandmother, dies in her sleep after a lengthy illness.

● 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1954 - Britain opened trade talks with Hungary.

● 1955 - 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service

● 1955 - British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years

● 1956 - Danilo Dolci and 22 others are tried in a Sicily court for the nonviolent direct action of attempting to repair an old road without proper government authorization.

● 1959 - Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact

● 1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

● 1960 - US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene

● 1962 - 1,172 arrested in sit-down against nuclear weapons, Parliament Square, Britain.

● 1964 - Kennedy half-dollar issued

● 1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing.

● 1966 - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance

● 1967 - University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam

● 1972 - The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland.

● 1974 - Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) founded.

● 1976 - Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Perón and start the National Reorganization Process.

● 1977 - Argentina - Rodolfo Walsh writes an open letter to the military junta regards its infamous crimes; a day later, the dictatorship assassinates him.

● 1977 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named archbishop of Munich and Freising in Germany.

● 1978 - The Wampanoag claim to land in Cape Cod (Mass.) is dismissed by U.S. District Court in Boston because they had no tribal status in 1869. Tribal status is finally granted nine years later, without most of their land.

● 1978 - Tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two; Violent seas split the wreck of the super tanker destroying any hopes of salvaging any remaining oil.

● 1979 - Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center

● 1980 - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline with Ted Koppel"

● 1980 - Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by U.S.-supported rightists, San Salvador, El Salvador. Romero had exhorted the police and soldiers to disobey orders to kill innocent people, refusing to be silenced by those in power. Worshippers had interrupted, with ovations, his homilies condemning the terrorism of the state.

● 1980 - Mexico's worst oil well blowout is finally capped. In the previous nine months, it dumped 3.1 billion barrels into the Bay of Campeche, near the Yucatan Peninsula.

● 1981 - Biggs rescued after kidnapping; Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping.

● 1981 - Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba

● 1982 - Five congregations in the eastern San Francisco Bay area became the first to declare themselves publicly as sanctuary churches, in an effort to help refugees from Central America establish themselves in the U.S. during political and military unrest in their native countries.

● 1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia

● 1985 - Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain.

● 1986 - NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"

● 1986 - Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

● 1986 - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra

● 1988 - After a secret seven-month trial, Mordechai Vanunu, an employee in a bomb-making factory, is convicted of espionage for revealing details of Israel's atomic weapons program to the London Sunday Times. His revelations show Israel's nuclear capability to be greater than experts assumed, and that Israel could build up to 200 atomic bombs as well as neutron and hydrogen bombs. He got 18 years in prison and 10 years later, in 1998, was allowed out of solitary confinement for the first time.

● 1988 - Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded innocent to Iran-Contra charges.

● 1989 - The Exxon Valdez destroys thousands of square miles of pristine wildlife habitat in the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Exxon Corp. spends the next several years successfully avoiding lawsuits and obstructing cleanup efforts.

● 1989 - The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.

● 1990 - Bob Hawke and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) defeat Andrew Peacock and the Liberal Party of Australia in his final election as Prime Minister of Australia.

● 1990 - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka

● 1991 - In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen

● 1991 - The African nation of Benin held its first presidential elections in about 30 years.

● 1992 - 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

● 1992 - Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die

● 1993 - In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.

● 1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die

● 1995 - Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martan. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.

● 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.

● 1996 - MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way

● 1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law

● 1998 - Jonesboro massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School; four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.

● 1998 - Tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.

● 1998 - A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray's car supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

● 1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured.

● 1999 - NATO launched 78 days of air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

● 1999 - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people died when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in Mont Blanc Tunnel.

● 2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.

● 2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

● 2005 - The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from the parents of Terri Schiavo to have a feeding tube reinserted into the severely brain-damaged woman.

● 2005 - The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev's presidential compound and government offices.

● 2006 - In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire.

● 2006 - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.

● 2006 - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.

● 2007 - Doctor Who Series Three begins broadcasting in the UK, with the episode Smith and Jones

BIRTHS

● 1490(94? NYT) - Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)

● 1607 - Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)

● 1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)

● 1693 - John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)

● 1725 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)

● 1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (d. 1788)

● 1755 - Rufus King, American founding father; helped frame the Constitution (d. 1827)

● 1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)

● 1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)

● 1809 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)

● 1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)

● 1823 - Thomas Spencer Baynes, English editor of 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (d. 1887)

● 1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)

● 1834 - William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)

● 1834 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)

● 1835 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)

● 1855 - Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)

● 1855 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920)

● 1869 - Emile Fabre, French playwright and administrator of the Comedie-Francaise (d. 1955)

● 1874 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)

● 1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

● 1886 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)

● 1887 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)

● 1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)

● 1889 - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)

● 1893 - George Sisler, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1973)

● 1893 - Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)

● 1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)

● 1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)

● 1902 - Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York (1943-55); and unsuccessful presidential contender (1944,48) (d. 1971)

● 1903 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

● 1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)

● 1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)

● 1910 - Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)

● 1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)

● 1915 - Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)

● 1916 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist

● 1917 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1997)

● 1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist

● 1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher

● 1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)

● 1920 - Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)

● 1922 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)

● 1923 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)

● 1924 - Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)

● 1926 - Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1927 - Martin Walser, German author

● 1928 - Byron Janis, American pianist

● 1930 - David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)

● 1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)

● 1935 - Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer

● 1936 - David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist

● 1938 - Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)

● 1938 - David Irving, British historian

● 1940 - Bob Mackie, Fashion designer

● 1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor

● 1944 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister

● 1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist

● 1945 - Curtis Hanson, American film director

● 1947 - Christine Gregoire, Governor of Washington

● 1947 - Alan Sugar, English businessman

● 1948 - Lee Oskar, Rock musician (War)

● 1949 - Nick Lowe, Rock singer

● 1951 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer

● 1951 - Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp)

● 1953 - Louie Anderson, American comedian

● 1954 - Robert Carradine, American actor

● 1954 - Donna Pescow, American actress

● 1958 - El Duce, American drummer/singer The Mentors (d. 1997)

● 1960 - Kelly LeBrock, American actress

● 1960 - Nena, German singer

● 1960 - Barry Horowitz, jobber in the WWF

● 1961 - Rodney "Kool Kollie" Terry, R&B DJ (Ghostown DJs)

● 1962 - Star Jones Reynolds, American television personality

● 1964 - Annabella Sciorra, American actress

● 1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler

● 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress

● 1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)

● 1970 - Maceo (aka P.A. Pasemaster Mase), Rapper (De La Soul)

● 1972 - Steve Karsay, American baseball player

● 1973 - Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer

● 1973 - Steve Corica, Australian footballer

● 1974 - Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)

● 1974 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "American Pie" movies)

● 1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player

● 1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player

● 1976 - Peyton Manning, American football player

● 1976 - Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer

● 1976 - Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer

● 1977 - Darren Lockyer, Australian Rugby League player

● 1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer

● 1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete

● 1980 - Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer

● 1983 - T.J. Ford, American basketball player

● 1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player

● 1984 - Benoît Assou-Ekotto, Cameroonian footballer

● 1985 - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model

● 1986 - Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver

● 1988 - Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer

● 1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress ("The Whale Rider")

DEATHS

● 809 - Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)

● 1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus

● 1361 - Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, English soldier and diplomat

● 1381 - Catherine of Sweden, Swedish saint

● 1455 - Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)

● 1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)

● 1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)

● 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

● 1653 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)

● 1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)

● 1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)

● 1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)

● 1992- AMBER the coolest chick ever.

● 1881 - Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)

● 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)

● 1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)

● 1905 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)

● 1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)

● 1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)

● 1916 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)

● 1921 - Larry McLean, baseball player (b. 1881)

● 1944 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)

● 1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)

● 1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)

● 1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)

● 1953 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)

● 1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)

● 1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)

● 1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)

● 1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (b. 1895)

● 1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)

● 1980 - Óscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador (b. 1917)

● 1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)

● 1990 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)

● 1990 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer innovator (b. 1920)

● 1991 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor General of Australia (b. 1914)

● 1993 - John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)

● 1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (b. 1902)

● 1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, baseball player and manager (b. 1912)

● 2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)

● 2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldemar
● St. Seleucus
● St. Caimin
● St. Cairlon
● St. Catharine of Sweden (d. 1381)
● St. Domangard
● St. Epicharis
● St. Gabriel, patron of postmen, telephone workers
● St. Hildelitba
● St. Latinus
● St. Macartan
● Sts. Mark & Timothy
● St. Pigmenius
● St. Romulus and Secundus
● St. Simeon (d. 1475)
● St. Timolaus & Companions

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 11 (Civil Date: March 24)
● St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
● St. Euthymius, Bishop of Novgorod.
● Hieromartyr Pionius of Smyrna and those with him: Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus and Sabina.
● Translation of the Relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium.
● St. George, abbot of Sinai.
● St. Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. George the New, wonderworker of Constantinople.
● St. Theodora the Queen, wife of Michael Comnenos.
● Martyrdom of Emperor Paul I of Russia (1801).
● Repose of Elder Alexius of Goloseyevsky Skete in Kiev (1917).

● Ancient Latvia - Kazimiras Diena observed.

● Laos : Army Day

● US : Agriculture Day

● World Tuberculosis Day.

IN FICTION

● 1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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