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Today is the 65th day of 2017, and there are 300 days remaining in the year. There are 293 days until Christmas. Events 12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor. 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Daaaaaavy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured. 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark. 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. And this is the way it was. 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. Births 1475 – Michelangelo, 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1849 – Georg Luger (the Luger pistol), 1885 – Ring Lardner, 1905 – Bob Wills♪ ♫, 1906 – Lou Costello, 1923 – Ed McMahon, 1923 – Wes Montgomery, 1926 – Alan Greenspan, 1929 – Tom Foley, 1936 – Marion Barry, 1937 – Ivan Boesky, 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944 – Mary Wilson♪ ♫(The Supremes), 1946 – David Gilmour, 1946 – Richard Noble, 1947 – Kiki Dee♪ ♫, 1947 – Dick Fosbury (the Fosbury Flop), 1947 – Rob Reiner, 1947 – John Stossel, 1963 – D. L. Hughley, 1968 – Moira Kelly, 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal Deaths 1836 – James Bowie, Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, 1932 – John Philip Sousa♪ ♫, 1933 – Anton Cermak, 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1941 – Gutzon Borglum(Mt. Rushmore), 1951 – Ivor Novello♪ ♫, 1967 – Nelson Eddy♪ ♫, 1970 – William Hopper ('Paul Drake' on Perry Mason), 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, 1982 – Ayn Rand, 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, 2006 – Kirby Puckett, 2007 – Ernest Gallo (Earnest & Julio Gallo Winery), 2013 – Alvin Lee, 2016 – Nancy Reagan (42nd FLOTUS)
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321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. 1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen. 1965 Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 1970 - Lee Marvin was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Wand'rin Star', taken from the film 'Paint Your Wagon.' 1973 - A song from the movie Deliverance called 'Dueling Banjos' by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel became one of the few 1970s instrumentals to be awarded a Gold record. The record had topped the Cash Box Magazine Best Sellers list and reached No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1985 The song "We Are the World" receives its international release. 1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor. 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Births 1671 Rob Roy MacGregor, 1788 Antoine Cιsar Becquerel, 1792 John Herschel, 1875 Maurice Ravel♪ ♫, 1934 Willard Scott, 1940 Daniel J. Travanti, 1942 Michael Eisner, 1942 Tammy Faye Messner (Tammy Faye Baker), 1943 Chris White(The Zombies), 1944 Townes Van Zandt♪ ♫, 1945 John Heard, 1946 Peter Wolf♪ ♫(The J. Geils Band), 1950 Franco Harris, 1951 Rocco Prestia♪ ♫(The Tower of Power), 1952 Ernie Isley♪ ♫(The Isley Bros), 1956 Bryan Cranston, 1959 Tom Lehman, 1962 Taylor Dayne♪ ♫, 1964 Wanda Sykes, 1970 Rachel Weisz, 1971 Peter Sarsgaard Deaths 1967 Alice B. Toklas, 1988 Divine, 1999 Stanley Kubrick, 2004 Paul Winfield, 2006 Gordon Parks, 2013 Claude King (sang "Wolverton Mountain")
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Today is International Women's Day. Events 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. 1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed. 1702 Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1775 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. 1782 Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes. 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded. 1910 French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. 1917 International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar). 1924 A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. 1936 Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. 1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason. 1965 Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War. 1966 Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb. 1971 The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision. 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. 1978 The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. 1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time. 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. 2017 The Azure Window in Gozo, Malta, collapses after a severe storm. Births 1495 John of God, 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1848 LaMarcus Adna Thompson (developed the roller coaster), 1865 Frederic Goudy (created fonts Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style), 1899 Elmer Keith, 1910 Claire Trevor, 1921 Alan Hale, Jr., 1922 Ralph H. Baer (Magnavox Odyssey), 1922 Cyd Charisse, 1927 Dick Hyman, 1940 Susan Clark (Webster), 1943 Lynn Redgrave, 1945 Micky Dolenz(The Monkees), 1946 Randy Meisner(Poco, The Eagles), 1947 Carole Bayer Sager♪ ♫, 1958 Gary Numan♪ ♫, 1959 Aidan Quinn, 1961 Camryn Manheim, 1976 Freddie Prinze, Jr., 1977 James Van Der Beek Deaths 1550 John of God, 1723 Christopher Wren, 1874 Millard Fillmore (13th POTUS), 1887 Henry Ward Beecher (Beecher's Bibles), 1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 1930 William Howard Taft (27th POTUS), 1971 Harold Lloyd, 1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (The Grateful Dead), 1999 Peggy Cass (game show panelist To Tell The Truth, Match Game), 1999 Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, 2001 Edward Winter (M*A*S*H series), 2009 Hank Locklin♪ ♫, 2011 Mike Starr(Alice In Chains), 2016 George Martin
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1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide. 1796 – Napolιon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josιphine de Beauharnais. 1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine. 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. 1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz. 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships. 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. 1945 – World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more. 1957 – The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami that affected Hawaii, where two people were killed in a plane crash while documenting its arrival. 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. 1975 - Actor Telly Savalas was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the David Gates (from Bread) song 'If'. 1976 – Forty-two people died in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date. 1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage. 1982 – "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of time travel. 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. Births 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci (namesake of the Americas), 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga (namesake of Gonzaga University), 1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford (founded Stanford University), 1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov (namesake of the Molotov Cocktail), 1902 – Will Geer ('Grandpa Walton' on The Waltons, 'Bear Claw Chris Lapp' in Jeremiah Johnson), 1918 – Mickey Spillane, 1926 – Joe Franklin (I can't remember what Joe Franklin looks like, all I can see is Billy Crystal's impersonation), 1930 – Ornette Coleman♪ ♫, 1934 – Yuri Gagarin (1st man in space), 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, 1936 – Mickey Gilley♪ ♫, 1936 – Marty Ingels, 1940 – Raϊl Juliα, 1942 – Mark Lindsay♪ ♫(Paul Revere & The Raiders), 1943 – Bobby Fischer, 1943 – Charles Gibson, 1945 – Robin Trower♪ ♫, 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne♪ ♫, 1950 – Danny Sullivan, 1955 – Teo Fabi, 1958 – Linda Fiorentino, 1958 – Martin Fry♪ ♫, 1963 – David Pogue, 1964 – Juliette Binoche, 1965 – Brian Bosworth, 1971 – Emmanuel Lewis Deaths 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, 1994 – Charles Bukowski, 1994 – Fernando Rey, 1996 – George Burns, 1997 – Terry Nation (tv writer DR. Who, created the Daleks and 'Davros'), 1997 – Notorious B.I.G.♪ ♫, 2005 – Chris LeDoux♪ ♫, 2005 - Danny Joe Brown♪ ♫(Molly Hatchet), 2006 – John Profumo (notable for the Profumo Affair), 2007 – Brad Delp♪ ♫(Boston)
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Best pie bakers evah were based on the same road. It was a large bakery that made for stores and catering, but also had a little pie shop attached that sold the most amazing cheese and onion pies I've ever tasted. The steak and ale was pretty spectacular as well. J's dad has had season tickets for the wanderers for years. He used to go with his dad , J's granddad,when he was a kid. J broke his heart and became a Man Utd supporter :p At the grounds at half time, there were a few food vans to buy pies - the menu was: Hot Cold
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Funny - in my memory of it it took up that entire end - but it actually took up half of it
* also - just managed to find the name of the store on wiki: Normid - fucking Normid.
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241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. 1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. 1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. 1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. 1906 The Courriθres mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France. 1915 The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army in WWI. 1922 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. 1945 The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. 1959 Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal. 1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant. 1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes. 1977 Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus. 2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. Births 1845 Alexander III of Russia, 1888 Barry Fitzgerald, 1891 Sam Jaffe, 1903 Bix Beiderbecke, 1903 Clare Boothe Luce, 1920 Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 1928 James Earl Ray, 1933 Ralph Emery, 1936 Sepp Blatter, 1938 Norman Blake, 1940 Chuck Norris, 1940 David Rabe, 1946 Jim Valvano, 1949 Barbara Corcoran, 1952 Johanna Lindsey, 1953 Paul Haggis, 1957 Osama bin Laden, 1958 Sharon Stone, 1962 Jasmine Guy, 1963 Jeff Ament, 1963 Rick Rubin, 1964 Neneh Cherry, 1966 Edie Brickell, 1969 Paget Brewster, 1971 Jon Hamm, 1974 Biz Stone, 1977 Robin Thicke, 1983 Carrie Underwood, 1984 Olivia Wilde Deaths 1913 Harriet Tubman, 1942 Wilbur Scoville, 1973 Bull Connor, 1986 Ray Milland, 1988 Andy Gibb, 1998 Lloyd Bridges, 2005 Dave Allen, 2010 Corey Haim, 2016 Keith Emerson
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Today is Johnny Appleseed Day in the United States. Events 1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, Frankenstein; or The modern Prometheus, is published. 1845 – Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand. 1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England. 1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris. 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic, infecting 500,000,000 people, and killing and estimated 50 - 100,000,000 people (3 - 5% of the world population). 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. 1946 – Rudolf Hφss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. 1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States. 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Births 1885 – Malcolm Campbell, 1887 – Raoul Walsh, 1895 – Shemp Howard, 1898 – Dorothy Gish, 1903 – Lawrence Welk♪ ♫, 1928 – Albert Salmi, 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, 1932 – Leroy Jenkins, 1934 – Sam Donaldson, 1936 – Antonin Scalia, 1945 – Dock Ellis (MLB pitcher who pitched a no-hitter whilst tripping balls on LSD), 1945 – Harvey Mandel♪ ♫, 1946 – Mark Metcalf ('Neidermeyer' in Animal House), 1947 – Mark Stein♪ ♫(Vanilla Fudge), 1950 – Bobby McFerrin♪ ♫, 1950 – Jerry Zucker, 1952 – Douglas Adams, 1953 – Derek Daly, 1953 – Jimmy Iovine (co-founded Interscope Records and Beats Electronics), 1961 – Elias Koteas, 1964 – Peter Berg, 1964 – Vinnie Paul(Pantera), 1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., 1967 – Renzo Gracie(MMA fighter), 1968 – Lisa Loeb♪ ♫, 1969 – Terrence Howard, 1971 – Johnny Knoxville, 1982 – Thora Birch Deaths 1955 – Alexander Fleming, 1955 – Oscar F. Mayer, 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, 1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, 1967 – Geraldine Farrar, 1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner, 1971 – Philo Farnsworth, 1996 – Vince Edwards, 2007 – Betty Hutton, 2010 – Merlin Olsen
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Today, our Aztec Dwellers celebrate the New Year. Today is the Girl Scouts' Birthday, marking the founding of the first Girl Scout troop in the USA. Events 1550 Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile. 1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River. 1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn. 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. 1913 Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.) 1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. 1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people. 1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. 1933 Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". 1947 The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. 1950 The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time. 1961 First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. 1993 The 1993 Storm of the Century: Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours. 2003 WHO officially released global warning on pandemic SARS disease. 2009 Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history. 2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake. 2014 A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. Births 1806 Jane Pierce (15th FLOTUS), 1831 Clement Studebaker (yeah, that one), 1913 Agathe von Trapp (of The Sound of Music von Trapps), 1921 Gordon MacRae, 1922 Jack Kerouac, 1928 Edward Albee, 1933 Barbara Feldon, 1938 Johnny Rutherford, 1940 Al Jarreau♪ ♫, 1942 Ratko Mladić, 1945 Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano (mobster), 1946 Liza Minnelli♪ ♫, 1947 Mitt Romney, 1948 James Taylor, 1949 Mike Gibbins(Badfinger), 1956 Steve Harris(Iron Maiden), 1960 Courtney B. Vance, 1962 Darryl Strawberry, 1969 Jake Tapper, 1978 Casey Mears, 1979 Pete Doherty♪ ♫ Deaths 1628 John Bull, 1820 Alexander Mackenzie, 1914 George Westinghouse, 1929 Asa Griggs Candler, 1942 Robert Bosch, 1955 Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker♪ ♫, 1978 John Cazale, 1987 Woody Hayes, 1999 Yehudi Menuhin, 2001 Morton Downey, Jr., 2001 Robert Ludlum, 2003 Lynne Thigpen, 2005 Bill Cameron, 2012 Samuel Glazer (co-founded Mr. Coffee), 2012 Michael Hossack(The Doobie Bros), 2013 Clive Burr(Iron Maiden), 2015 Terry Pratchett
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1639 Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. 1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus. [I didn't even know he was back there.] 1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premiθre performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. 1862 American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. 1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.) 1897 San Diego State University is founded. 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakσw. 1985 The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an FA Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C.. 1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 1996 Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide. 1997 The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. 2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints have been found in Italy. 2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time. 2013 Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. Births 1798 Abigail Fillmore (14th FLOTUS), 1855 Percival Lowell, 1898 Henry Hathaway, 1910 Sammy Kaye, 1911 L. Ron Hubbard, 1913 William J. Casey, 1914 Edward 'Butch' O'Hare, 1920 Ralph J. Roberts, 1932 Jan Howard, 1933 Mike Stoller, 1939 Neil Sedaka, 1947 Lyn St. James, 1950 Danny Kirwan, 1950 Charles Krauthammer, 1950 William H. Macy, 1951 Charo, 1954 Robin Duke, 1971 Annabeth Gish, 1976 Danny Masterson Deaths 1842 Henry Shrapnel, 1881 Alexander II of Russia, 1901 Benjamin Harrison 923rd POTUS), 1906 Susan B. Anthony, 1938 Clarence Darrow, 1943 Stephen Vincent Benιt
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