today is an important day in history
pecan day (u.s. i presume)annunciation (celebration of the date when the angel gabriel appeared unto the virgin to announce her immaculate conception, christian tradition)
bandaged bear day (those wacky australians!)
commemoration day of victims of the communist terror (latvia)
good friday (christinan tradition, lunar calendar)
independence day (greece)
anniversary of the arengo (san marino)
waffle day (sweden)
maryland day (u.s., duh)
purim/feast of lots (judaic tradition)
on this day in history:
708 - Pope Constantine is consecrated.
1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (thus today is Maryland Day) led by Lord Baltimore.
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
1865 - The Claywater Meteorite explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg are recovered.
1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union. you go johnny reb!
1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C. to protest widespread unemployment as a result of the Panic of 1893.
1901 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes Benz wins its first racing victory.
1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 garment workers.
1918 - The Belarusian National Republic was established.
1924 - Greece proclaims itself a republic.
1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1947 - An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1949 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to the remotest areas of the Soviet Union.
1955 - United States Customs seizes Allen Ginsberg's Howl as obscene.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1960 - In London, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for singing "Tom Pillibi".
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr successfully complete their 4 day 50 mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a bed-in for peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Military of Pakistan against East Pakistani civilians.
1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth singing "Après toi" (After you).
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Space Shuttle Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1990 - In New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the Portland Pattern Repository.
1996 - An 81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana begins.
1996 - The European Union Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
2004 - Air Holland files for bankruptcy after unproven allegations of abuse by the their pilots led them to bankruptcy.
a few birth highlights:
1252 - Conradin or Conrad the Younger, king of Sicily
1741 - Jean Antoin Houdon, sculptor of great thinkers: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Franklin, Jefferson, Washingtom
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor
1873 - Ruldolph Rocker, anarcho-syndicalist (hmm, i'm intrigued...)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1918 - Howard Cosell, sports journalist
1925 - Flannery O'Connor
1935 - Gloria Steinem
1942 - Aretha Franklin
1947 - Sir Elton John
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker
1976 - Juvenile
1977 - me
posted by bls @ 1:09 PM
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