On March 21st in history ..


1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1844 - Bah '¡ New Year
1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal
1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
1907 - US invades Honduras
1918 - During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive -
1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany
1946 - UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)
1960 - S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville
1963 - Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
1965 - US Ranger 9 launched takes 5 -814 pictures before lunar impact
1986 - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange



Famous birthdays for March 21st..




1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany Composer
1713 - Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
1806 - Benito Juarez, pres of Mexico (1858-72)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, king of Mormons on Beaver Is MI (1850-56)
1839 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov Night on Bald Mtn.)
1866 - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
1906 - John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire
1923 - Mort Lindsey, band leader
1930 - James Coco, actor
1934 - Al Freeman Jr
1939 - Kathleen Widdoe

On March 22nd in history ..


1621 - Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1733 - Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
1765 - Britain enacts Stamp Act
1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash state
1799 - F.W.A. Argelander - cataloguer of 324 -000 stars - dies
1820 - Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
1882 - Congress outlaws polygamy
1894 - Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
1903 - NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
1945 - Arab League founded
1946 - Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes
1960 - AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
1963 - Beatles release 1st album - Please Please Me
1967 - Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
1968 - Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 - Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1975 - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1978 - Robert Frost Plaza - at Calif - Drumm & Market - dedicated
1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1981 - 1st class postage raised to 18› from 15›
1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
1984 - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game



Famous birthdays for March 22nd..




1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter
1846 - Randolph Caldecott, England Illustrater
1907 - James Gavin, genl
1908 - Maurice Stans, sec of commerce
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute)
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, English writer
1913 - Karl Malden, don't leave home without it (St of SF)
1920 - Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes Col Klink
1923 - Marcel Marceau, mime France
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, US composer
1931 - William Shatner, Mont (Capt. Kirk T J Hooker)
1934 - Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah sen
1936 - May Britt, German actress & former wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1942 - Barbara Parkins, Engl (Peyton Place)
1943 - George Benson, singer-guitarist
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

On March 23rd in history ..

1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio `Messiah' London premiere
1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias - died 2 days later
1775 - Patrick Henry asks for liberty or death
1806 - Lewis & Clark reached Pacific coast
1840 - 1st photo of moon taken
1919 - Benito Mussolini founded Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1933 - German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1937 - LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
1940 - All-India-Muslim league calls for a Muslim Homeland
1942 - US began moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers
1944 - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5 -500 m without a parachute & lives
1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
1956 - Pakistan became independent within British Commonwealth
1962 - JFK visits SF
1965 - Gemini 3 launched - 1st US 2-man space flight
1976 - Intl Bill of Rights goes into effect - 35 nations ratify
1982 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick - 4 goals
1983 - 1st Artificial heart recipient Dr Barney Clark died after 112 days



Famous birthdays for March 23rd..




1699 - John Bartram, naturalist explorer botanist
1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician astronomer physicist
1823 - Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
1857 - Fannie Farmer
1876 - Sir Muirhead Bone, etcher engraver
1881 - Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist dramatist (Nobel 1937)
1907 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
1908 - Joan Crawford, No wire hangers ever! (Mildred Pierce)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, film director
1912 - Wernher von Braun, Wirsitz Germany rocket expert
1922 - Marty Allen, Comedian (Allen & Rossi)
1923 - Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC NFL def tackle (NY Yankees Giants)
1926 - Martha Wright, Seattle Wash
1952 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba Olympic boxer
1953 - Chaka Khan, Great Lakes Ill rocker
1954 - Moses Malone, Basketball player

On March 24th in history ..


1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act
1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF - 89 days out of NY
1878 - British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1894 - 37 miners die at Franklin - Wash
1934 - FDR grants future independence to Philippines
1936 - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 9th period. 176 minute games is hockey's longest
1944 - In occupied Rome - Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
1955 - 1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
1955 - Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
1958 - Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
1965 - US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
1972 - Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
1976 - Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
1980 - Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
1981 - Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
1986 - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra



Famous birthdays for March 24th..




1755 - Rufus King, (F) framer of US constitution sen
1834 - John Wesley Powell, geologist
1834 - William Morris, Engl artist
1855 - Andrew W. Mellon, financier
1874 - Harry Houdini, escape artist
1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh Pres candidate
1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer
1925 - Norman Fell, (Mr Roper - 3s Company)
1929 - Roger Bannister, English runner; 1st 4-min mile
1930 - Steve McQueen, actor
1938 - Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
1940 - Bob Mackie, designer
1954 - Robert Carradine
1959 - Renaldo Nehemiah, track star

On March 25th in history ..

1634 - Maryland founded as a Catholic colony
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan - (Saturn's largest satelite)
1753 - Annunciation Day
1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1857 - Frederick Laggenheim takes the 1st photograph of a solar eclipse
1913 - Great Dayton Flood
1920 - Greek Independence Day
1951 - E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 - RCA manufactures 1st COLOR TV set
1955 - E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power - USSR
1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)



Famous birthdays for March 25th..




1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Italy conductor
1867 - Gutzon Borglum, sculpted Mt. Rushmore
1881 - Býla Bartýk, Hungary - composer - pianist
1899 - Bella Spewack, Hungary - playwright
1908 - Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Brit theater & hotel director
1908 - David Lean, director (Dr. Zhivago & Ryan's Daughter)
1920 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster
1921 - Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass
1921 - Simone Signoret, (Casque d'Or & Room at the Top)--Weisbaden Germany
1928 - James A. Lovell Jr, astronaut (Gemini 7 & 12 & Apollo 8 & 13)
1934 - Gloria Steinhem, feminist - Toledo Oh
1940 - Anita Bryant, Oklahoma Miss America candidate
1942 - Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn Soul Sister #1
1947 - Elton John, singer - England
1948 - Bonnie Bedelia, NY
1953 - Mary Gross, Chicago Ill (SNL)

[Ace917]

Hi, Gwen!

I think we should add Nancy Barbato, Jersey City, New Jersey to your list of famous birthdays!

I left that honor to the opening page to the site, but it is gladly added here as well.

Happy Birthday to Nancy Barbato

[Ace917]

Look at all the music on this day... Toscanini, d'Oyly Carte, Aretha, Elton John, Bartok. Pretty high company.

On March 26th in history ..


1668 - Bombay - India transferred to England
1804 - Orleans territoy organized in LA Purchase
1827 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster - precusor of bandaid
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1885 - Eastman Film Company manufactured 1st coml motion picture film
1892 - Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden NJ
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City - Tx - erect statue of Popeye
1951 - USAF flag approved
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
1958 - Army launched US's 3rd successful satellite Explorer III
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark
1971 - E Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1982 - Groundbreaking in Wash DC for Vietnam Vet Memorial



Famous birthdays for March 26th..




1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician & astronomer & author
1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1858 - Jane Delano, nurse & teacher
1859 - A.E. Housman, England - poet (Shropshire Lad)
1874 - Robert Frost, poet (Mending Wall & Road Not Taken) SF
1899 - James B. Connant, Yale pres
1911 - Tennessee Williams, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Columbus Miss
1914 - William Westmoreland, army general
1924 - Bob Elliott, Comedian (Bob & Ray)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, France composer
1930 - Gregory Corso, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death Long Live Man)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court justice
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, (Spock)
1934 - Alan Arkin, actor
1934 - Gino Cappelletti, AFL running back
1939 - James Caan, actor (Brian's Song)
1942 - Erica Jong, NYC. author (Fear of Flying)
1943 - Robert Woodward, reporter (Watergate CIA crimes)
1944 - Diana Ross, (Lady Sings the Blues) Detroit Mich Supremes
1948 - Steve Tyler, Rock singer
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, California (Carol Burnette show Mama's Family)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, singer

On March 27th in history ..

1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Fla
1625 - Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne
1794 - Pres Washington & Congress creates US Navy
1802 - Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
1807 - Vesta (asteroid) discovered by OLbers
1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland Ohio
1855 - Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene
1860 - ML Byrn patents corkscrew (NY)
1912 - 1st Japanese cherry trees planted in Wash DC
1917 - Seattle Metropolitans 1st US team to win Stanley Cup beat Canadiens
1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1945 - Gen Eisenhower declared German defenses on Western Front broken
1958 - Khrushchev became Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska - 8.4 on Richter scale - 100 die
1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated
1968 - Yuri Gagarin - 1st man to orbit Earth & Seryogin died in a plane crash
1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus
1977 - 582 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM 747-Pan Am 747 crash
1977 - Diana Hyland dies at 40
1980 - Mt. St. Helens becomes active after 123 years
1986 - Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking



Famous birthdays for March 27th..




1785 - Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during French Rev
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1845 - Wilhelm R”ntgen, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 - Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910)
1863 - Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder
1871 - Heinrich Mann, German novelist & essayist
1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1892 - Ferde Grofe, composer
1899 - Gloria Swanson, actress (Sadie Thomson Queen Kelly)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard coach
1912 - James Callaghan, (Labour) British PM (1976-79)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, author
1914 - Snooky Lanson
1917 - Cyrus R. Vance, Sec of State
1924 - Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ jazz singer
1927 - Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer
1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer
1942 - Michael York, actor (Cabaret)
1952 - Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris
1953 - Annemarie Proell, Alpine skier
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)

On March 28th in history ..


0193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
1592 - Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1802 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
1807 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
1834 - Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1871 - SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
1930 - Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
1941 - Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
1942 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
1953 - Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
1969 - Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
1979 - Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa



Famous birthdays for March 28th..




1472 - Fra Bartolomeo, monk Florentine Renaissance painter
1862 - Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
1868 - Aleksey Peshikov, (pen name Maksim Gorky) Russia
1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, pianist
1914 - Edmund S. Muskie, (D) Sec of State Maine sen
1922 - Dirk Bogarde, actor
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor
1933 - Sen Frank Murkowski, (R-Alaska)
1944 - Ken Howard, actor
1944 - Rick Barry, NBA star (Golden State Warriors)
1955 - Reba McEntire, Country singer

On March 29th in history ..


1847 - Vera Cruz - Mexico falls to Americans
1871 - Albert Hall opens in London
1886 - Coca-Cola created (with cocaine)
1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio
1948 - Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17 - spring training game
1961 - 23rd Amendment ratified - Wash DC can vote for pres.
1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My-Lai massacre
1973 - US troops leave Vietnam - 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1974 - Mariner 10's 1st fly-by of Mercury - returns photos
1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers



Famous birthdays for March 29th..




1790 - John Tyler, 10th Pres (1841-1845)
1799 - Edward Stanley Earl Derby, (C) British PM (1852 1858-59 1866-68)
1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well US
1867 - Cy Young, winningest pitcher (509 wins 1890-1911)
1875 - Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady
1888 - James E. Casey, founded UPS
1902 - Sir William Walton, English composer
1916 - Eugene McCarthy, (D) Minn sen
1918 - Pearl Bailey, jazz singer
1919 - Eileen Heckart, Colombus Ohio
1925 - Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants Packers)
1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong
1945 - Walt Frazier, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan
1955 - Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston New Orleans)
1956 - Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az

On March 31st in history ..


1814 - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1831 - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1849 - Col John W Geary 1st postmaster of SF
1854 - Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
1868 - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 - Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
1880 - Wabash Ind - 1st town completely illuminated by electric light
1889 - Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
1917 - US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million
1918 - 1st US daylight savings time goes into effect
1923 - 1st dance marathon - NYC - Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1932 - Ford publicly unveiled its V-8 engine
1933 - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper - "Soperton News" (Ga)
1933 - Congress authorized Civilian Conservation Corps
1941 - Ground broken for Union Sq Garage
1943 - Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
1949 - Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province
1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general
1958 - US Navy forms atomic sub division
1963 - LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1966 - USSR launches Luna 10 - 1st spacecraft to orbit moon
1968 - LBJ announces he would not seek re-election
1973 - Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders - on 60 shots
1976 - Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan could be disc from respirator
1980 - Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az at 66
1986 - 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes



Famous birthdays for March 31st..





1596 - Ren‚ Descartes, he thought therefore he was
1621 - Andrew Marvell, English poet
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, composer helped develop Classical style
1809 - Edward FitzGerald, writer "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
1809 - Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
1811 - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist
1854 - Sir Dugald Clerk, invented 2-stroke motorcycle engine
1895 - John J. McCloy, lawyer banker
1915 - Henry Morgan
1927 - Cesar Chavez, labor leader (United Farm Workers)
1927 - William Daniels, (St Elsewhere-Dr Mark Craig 1776)
1928 - Gordie Howe, Redwings right wing
1934 - Shirley Jones, Penn (Partridge Family)
1935 - Herb Alpert, band leader (Tijuana Brass) A&M music exec
1935 - Richard Chamberlain, TV (Dr. Kildare Shogun Thornbirds)
1940 - Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont
1943 - Christopher Walken, actor
1945 - Gabe Kaplan, (Welcome Back Kotter)
1948 - Rhea Perlman, Bkln (Taxi & Cheers)

On this day in history ..

0374 - Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
1578 - William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1581 - Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1663 - Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1748 - Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1792 - Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1803 - French law rules the use of intention
1826 - Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1853 - Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1866 - US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1868 - Hampton Institute opens
1876 - 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1881 - Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1920 - Church disforms in Wales o
1929 - Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1934 - Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers in NYC
1941 - Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
1945 - US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1946 - Weight Watchers forms
1947 - 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1948 - H H H Johnson bowls WI to win v England 10-96 match on debut
1952 - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 - KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India
1954 - 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 - 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1954 - Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 - US Air Force Academy forms
1956 - 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1960 - RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1961 - Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1963 - NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
1963 - NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 - Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
1966 - 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1967 - 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1969 - Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1969 - Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
1970 - John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank
1971 - United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1972 - Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1973 - Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 - John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1976 - Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1981 - CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1986 - World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1990 - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1990 - It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1990 - Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan
1991 - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1992 - NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 - Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 - WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn)
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1998 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn

Famous Birthday...

1883 - Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces

1972 - Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike


...And how many since?

***

I have beel looking around Bob, best I can tell there has been 9. If anyone else knows for sure please feel free to jump in

1776 - Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1882 - Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1918 - House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1948 - Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1964 - US & Panam agree to resume diplomatic relations
1968 - N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1970 - Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
1975 - James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1978 - European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 - Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1981 - Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1985 - Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 - Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1991 - UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1994 - 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
1995 - Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
2000 - 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis


Famous Birthdays...


1783 - Washington Irving
1924 - Doris Day
1924 - Marlon Brando
1934 - Jane Goodall
1942 - Wayne Newton
1944 - Tony Orlando
1958 - Alec Bladwin
1959 - David Hyde Pierce
1961 - Eddie Murphy

[Tony]

Doris & Marlon OK, but Wayne Newton 62 the mind boggles, thanks Gwen

On April 4th in history ..



1460 - University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1581 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
1660 - Declaration of Breda
1660 - English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion)
1686 - English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1687 - King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1818 - Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1828 - Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1850 - City of Los Angeles incorporated
1862 - Battle of Yorktown begins
1896 - Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1902 - Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1911 - Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1945 - US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1958 - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39
1968 - Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1969 - Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
1975 - Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1983 - 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1984 - Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1985 - Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1990 - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1992 - John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
1992 - Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1994 - LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1994 - Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1994 - Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 - Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1997 - Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
1997 - DMSP Titan 2 launched
1998 - NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season


Famous Birthdays..



1895 - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1915 - Muddy Waters, Mississippi, musician
1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (Sandpiper, Loving, Exodus)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress
1928 - Maya Angelou, [Marguerite Johnson], St Louis, poet/actress
1946 - Craig T. Nelson, actor (Coach)
1950 - Christine Lahti, Michigan, actress
1965 - Robert Downey Jr, NYC, comedian
1966 - Nancy McKeon, Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
1973 - David Blaine, NYC, magician
1979 - Heath Ledger, Australia, (whew what a hottie!) actor, (10 Things I Hate About You, The Order)