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Gardening, Nature, and Ecology Books Month - Read a book about gardening, nature, ecology, botany, agriculture, or biology. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.Herb Month in Missouri - Sponsor: Ozark Regional Herb Growers.
Humorists Are Artists Month - Recognizes the contributions of humorists. Sponsor: Lone Star Publications of Humor
Today is:
Caldecott Medal Day - On the birthday of Random
Caldecott, we celebrate all award winning (as well as ordinary illustrators of children's books.
International Day for the Elimination of Racism - First celebrated in 1966, this day Commemorates the anniversary Of the killing of 69 African demonstrators in
Sharpeville, South Africa in 1960. Sponsor; United Nations.
International Flower Day - Bring bouquets of spring flowers into your home, business, school, or other places you frequent. Sponsor All My Events.
James T. Kirk Birthday - According to the official Star Trek biography, Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise will be born in a small lows town in the year 2228. Riverside, Iowa, claims to be that town. Contact; Riverside Chamber of Commerce
Johann Sebastian Bach's Birthday - One of the greatest classical composers, Bach was born in
Eisenach, Germany in 1685.
Master Gardener Day - The first full day of Spring recognizes master gardeners. Sponsor: Master Gardener Program
Memory Day - To examine the use of memory aids throughout history. Sponsor: Puns Corp.
National Teenagers Day - To improve relationships between teenagers and adults. Formerly sponsored by M.
Mamakos
Born on this Day
1274: Robert I, "the Bruce," King of Scotland
1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The organist/composer had 10
brothers; four of whom were musicians. He fathered 20 children and was married twice.
1713: Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence
1768: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician and Egyptologist
1806: Mexican statesman Benito Juarez, who was Mexico's first president
of Indian ancestry, was born in Oaxaca.
1813: James Jesse Strang, America's only crowned king (king of the
Mormons)
1839: Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky
1869: Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
1905: Poet Phyllis McGinle
1923: Bandleader Mort Lindsey
1925: English theatrical director Peter Brook
1929: Actor James Coco (some sources 1930)
1934: Actor Al Freeman Junior
1939: Actress Kathleen Widdoes ("As the World Turns")
1944: Actress Marie-Christine Barraul
1944: Actor Timothy Dalton
1945: Rock musician (Sly & The Family Stone) Rosie Stone
1946: Actor Timothy Dalton
1950: Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
1951: Rock musician Conrad Lozano (Los Lobos)
1951: Rhythm-and-blues singer Russell Thompkins Junior (The Stylistics)
1958: Actor Gary Oldman
1958: Actress Sabrina LeBeauf
1958: Actor-comedian Brad Hal
1962: Actor Matthew Broderick
1962: Comedian-talk show host Rosie O'Donnell
1966: Actress Cynthia Geary
1967: Rock musician Jonas "Joker" Berggren (Ace of Base)
1967: Rock M-C Maxim (Prodigy)
1968: Rock musician Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel)
1969: "Hip-hop DJ" DJ Premier (Gang Starr)
0630: Heraclius restores the True Cross, recaptured from
the Persians
1144: William of Norwich allegedly murdered, leading to
1st charge of ritual murder against Jews in the Middle Ages
1146: Bernard of Clairveaux preaches the Second Crusade
1152: Annullment of the marriage of King Louis VII of
France and Elanor of Aquitaine
1241: Death of Valdemar II, King of Denmark
1282: Start of the final struggle between England and
Wales
1487: Death of St. Nicholas von Flue
1507: Death of Caesare Borgia
1556: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was
burned at the stake as a heretic.
1604: Orlando Gibbons became organist of Kings College,
Cambridge... a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
1790: Thomas Jefferson reported to President George
Washington in New York as the new secretary of state.
1804: The French civil code, the "Code
Napoleon," was adopted.
1806: Mexican statesman Benito Juarez, who was Mexico's
first president of Indian ancestry, was born in Oaxaca.
1826: The Rensselaer School in Troy, New York was
incorporated. The school, known today as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, became the
first engineering college in the United States.
1839: Franz Schubert's "Great" Symphony in C
major was premiered in Leipzig. Schumann discovered it and Mendelssohn conducted it.
Schubert had been dead 11 years.
1851: Yosemite Valley is discovered in California.
1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous
expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.
1891: A marriage in Kentucky ended the feud between the
Hatfields and the McCoys. The last of the original feuding families died in 1984. The feud
started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 10 years.
1917: Tsar Nicholas II and his family were arrested by the
revolutionary forces in Russia.
1918: American and German soldiers fought the key World
War I battle of the Somme.
1925: The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard on radio.
Thomas was heard talking about "Man's First Flight Around the World," on KDKA
Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1927: The Nationalist Chinese forces of Chiang Kai-shek
took the city of Shanghai.
1936: Alexander Glazunov died in exile in Paris. Glazunov
was born almost 71 years earlier, so he grew up in the world of Brahms, Wagner and
Tchaikovsky, and lived long enough to hear Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
1939: Kate Smith recorded "God Bless America," a
song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 as a tribute of a successful immigrant to his
adopted country, for Victor Records.
1940: A new government was formed in France by Paul
Reynaud, who became prime minister, succeeding Edouard Daladier.
1945: During World War Two, Allied bombers began four days
of raids over Germany.
1946: The United Nations set up temporary headquarters at
Hunter College in New York.
1946: The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, the
first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
1960: Some 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South
Africa, when police fired on demonstrators.
1961: The Beatles made their debut in an appearance at
Liverpool's Cavern Club, where they became regulars in a matter of months.
1962: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged that Russia
would cooperate with the United States in peaceful exploration of space. The joint
American-Soviet Soyuz space mission was conducted in July 1975.
1963: The Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco
Bay was emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
1965: More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by
the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior began their march from Selma to Montgomery,
Alabama. More than 25,000 people join in the march by the time the marchers reach
Montgomery, Alabama.
1972: The US Supreme Court ruled that states may not
require one-year residency for voting eligibility.
1976: Skier Spider Sabich was shot to death by singer
Claudine Londet at their Aspen, Colorado, residence. She was later found guilty of
criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
1979: The Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved a peace
treaty with Israel.
1983: President Ronald Reagan tapped former Environmental
Protection Agency administrator William D. Ruckelshaus to again head the EPA, following
the resignation of Anne M. Burford.
1985: Police in Langa, South Africa, opened fire on blacks
marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21
demonstrators.
1986: The presidential commission investigating the
Challenger disaster viewed footage of the space shuttle's fatal launch the previous
January; the film showed flame from a booster rocket leak which triggered the explosion.
1987: Actor Robert Preston, best known for his portrayal
of conman Professor Harold Hill in the musical "The Music Man," died in Santa
Barbara, California, at age 68.
1988: The Sandinista government of Nicaragua and US-backed
Contra rebels began three days of talks in the border town of Sapoa by exchanging
cease-fire proposals and agreeing to a truce during the negotiations.
1989: A Trident Two missile exploded seconds after being
test-fired from a submarine for the first time.
1989: After 33 years, Dick Clark announced he was stepping
down as host of "American Bandstand." More than 65,000 records were played on
the TV show. More than 10,000 guests appeared; over 600,000 teenagers danced.
1989: Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a
police officer was overturned after the evidence was questioned in the documentary
"The Thin Blue Line," was released from a Texas prison.
1990: Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev increased
pressure on the breakaway republic of Lithuania, ordering its citizens to turn in their
guns.
1990: Secretary of State James Baker met black nationalist
leader Nelson Mandela in Namibia.
1990: Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa, became
independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1991: A U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the
food embargo on Iraq.
1991: Test results released in Los Angeles showed that
Rodney King, the motorist whose beating by police was videotaped by a bystander, had
marijuana and alcohol in his system following his arrest.
1992: During a debate in Buffalo, New York, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton sought to turn the tables on rival Jerry Brown by
accusing the former California governor of hypocrisy on the issue of campaign
contributions.
1992: President Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl met
at Camp David, Maryland.
1993: Voters in France handed the Socialist government a
devastating defeat in first-round parliamentary elections.
1994: "Schindler's List" won best picture at the
66th Academy Awards; Holly Hunter was named best actress for "The Piano," while
Tom Hanks was named best actor for "Philadelphia.""
1994: Actor MacDonald Carey died in Beverly Hills,
California, at age 81.
1995: Thousands of Japanese police raided the offices of a
secretive religious group, Aum Shinri Kyo, in connection with nerve-gar attacks on Tokyo
subways that killed 12 people and sickened thousands.
1996: General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a
settlement in a 17-day brake-factory strike that idled more than 177,000 employees and
brought the world's number-one automaker to a near standstill.
1996: Goran Persson, a former finance minister, became
Swedish prime minister.
1997: President Clinton and Russian President Boris
Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO
expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals.
1997: A suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv,
killing three Israeli women.
1998: Pope John Paul the Second began a visit to Nigeria
with the Vatican pressing the African nation's military regime to release dozens of
prisoners, including prominent opposition figures and journalists.
1998: President Boris Yeltsin criticized the Russian
government for huge delays in paying wages to state sector workers.
1999: Israel's Supreme Court rejected a final effort to
have American teen-ager Samuel Sheinbein returned to the United States to face murder
charges. (Under a plea agreement with Israeli proseuctors, Sheinbein was later sentenced
to 24 years in prison for the murder of Alfred Tello Jr.)
1999; At the Academy Awards, "Shakespeare in
Love" won seven Oscars, including best picture and best actress for Gwyneth Paltrow;
Roberto Benigni won best actor for "Life is Beautiful," while Steven Spielberg
won best director for "Saving Private Ryan."
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