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March 14
44 BC Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live. 1663 Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum. 1757 Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. 1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London. 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. 1903 The HayHerrαn Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty. 1910 The Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere. 1936 The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. 1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. 1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. 1994 Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. 1995 Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. ![]() ![]() 1804 Johann Strauss I♪ ♫, 1863 Casey Jones, 1874 Anton Philips (co-founded Philips Electronics), 1879 Albert Einstein, 1912 Les Brown♪ ♫, 1914 Lee Petty ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1757 John Byng, 1883 Karl Marx, 1932 George Eastman (founded Eastman Kodak), 1973 Chic Young (created comic strip Blondie), 1975 Susan Hayward, 1976 Busby Berkeley, 2010 Peter Graves, 2013 Jack Greene♪ ♫
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My last regular This Day In History post will be April 14. That will make one year since I've been posting regularly in this thread.
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Thank you for doing it too! I don't always comment on these posts, and sometimes don't even have time to read them. But when I do, I am always rewarded.
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Thanks for all your efforts, Grav.
There's always something interesting to read and ponder over. However, some of the occurrences that I remember well, and thought happened only a handful of years ago, actually took place a couple of decades back. Perhaps that is what happens when you are no longer in the first flush of youth. ![]()
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You mean closer to the last flush?
![]() I'd read them all but never used the links, if something blew my skirt up I'd Google it.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Yes, I'm painfully aware that there are more flushes behind me than there are in front of me!
![]() I made a will a couple of years ago which hammered home that stark fact. It's life's only certainly, but it's difficult for me to articulate just how much making that will affected me. It didn't help matters that I'd taken my canine chum for a walk through the church yard just before signing. For some reason I took an inordinate interest in the inscriptions on the grave stones.
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Who ever will lead us in our education? Without you we are nothing. Whatever will we do. (As he leaves sobbing into the Night)
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44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 493 Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together. 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. 1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'ιtat never takes place. 1819 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton. 1820 Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state. 1906 Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated. 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty. 1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board. 1952 In Cilaos, Rιunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16). 1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. 2011 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. Births 270 Saint Nicholas (no, not that one), 1767 Andrew Jackson, 1887 Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1911 Lightnin' Hopkins, 1913 Macdonald Carey, 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1935 Judd Hirsch, 1935 Jimmy Swaggart, 1940 Phil Lesh, 1941 Mike Love, 1943 David Cronenberg, 1943 Sly Stone, 1947 Ry Cooder, 1955 Dee Snider, 1956 Clay Matthews, Jr., 1959 Fabio, 1962 Terence Trent D'Arby, 1963 Bret Michaels, 1964 Rockwell, 1968 Mark McGrath, 1969 Kim Raver, 1972 Mike Tomlin, 1975 will.i.am, 1975 Eva Longoria, 1985 Kellan Lutz Deaths 44 BC Julius Caesar, 220 Cao Cao, 493 Odoacer, 1898 Henry Bessemer, 1937 H. P. Lovecraft, 1975 Aristotle Onassis, 1997 Gail Davis, 1998 Benjamin Spock, 2001 Ann Sothern, 2007 Bowie Kuhn, 2009 Ron Silver, 2014 David Brenner, 2015 Mike Porcaro
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1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, in English, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." 1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. 1870 The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its premiθre performance. 1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the USMexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. 1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. 1936 Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh. 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. 1945 Ninety percent of Wόrzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths. 1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. 1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado. 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. (He later dies in captivity.) 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. 1988 IranContra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 1988 Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people. 1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. Births 1751 James Madison, 1822 Rosa Bonheur, 1906 Henny Youngman, 1911 Josef Mengele, 1916 Mercedes McCambridge, 1926 Jerry Lewis, 1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, 1941 Chuck Woolery, 1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, 1949 Erik Estrada, 1949 Victor Garber, 1950 Kate Nelligan, 1951 Ray Benson, 1954 Nancy Wilson, 1956 Clifton Powell, 1959 Flavor Flaaaaav, 1961 Todd McFarlane, 1964 Gore Verbinski, 1967 Ronnie McCoury Deaths 37 Tiberius, 455 Valentinian III, 1903 Judge Roy Bean, 1971 Bebe Daniels, 1971 Thomas E. Dewey, 1975 T-Bone Walker, 1983 Arthur Godfrey, 1988 Mickey Thompson, 2013 Frank Thornton, 2014 Gary Bettenhausen, 2016 Frank Sinatra, Jr.
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