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* Birthdays
B03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer.
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
B03011910 David Niven, actor
B03011927 Harry Belafonte, Singer
B03011954 Catherine Bach, Warren Ohio, oh those legs
B03011954 Ron Howard, Actor/Director
B03021793 Sam Houston, statesman-general
B03021824 Bedrich Smetana, composer
B03021904 Dr. Seuss, Author
B03021917 Desi Arnaz, Singer/Actor
B03021919 Jennifer Jones, Oklahoma
B03021950 Karen Carpenter, Connecticut
B03031831 George M. Pullman, inventor-financier (Pullman Car)
B03031847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
B03031859 Shalom Alekhem, Russian author
B03031895 General Matthew Ridgeway, military leader
B03031911 Jean Harlow, Sex Goddess of the 30s
B03031933 Princess Lee Radziwell, New York City
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages
B03041888 Knute Rockne, Football Player/coach
B03041921 Joan Greenwood, London, England
B03041939 Paula Prentiss, Actress
B03041939 Barbara McNair, Singer/Actress, Chicago, Illinois
B03041944 Susan Clark, Ontario Canada
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.)
B03051887 Hector Villa-Lobos, composer
B03051908 Rex Harrison, Actor
B03051939 Samantha Eggar, London, England
B03051958 Andy Gibb, Singer
B03061475 Michelangelo, artist
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac.
B03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist.
B03061806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
B03061923 Ed McMahon, #1 second banana
B03061924 Sarah Caldwell, Conductor, Maryville Mo.
B03061927 Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut
B03061937 Merle Haggard, Singer
B03061940 Joanna Miles in Nice France
B03061944 Mary Wilson (Supremes)
B03061945 Rob Reiner, Actor/Director
B03061947 Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, Composer, was born in Cibourne, France.
B03071938 Janet Guthrie, race car driver
B03071940 Daniel J. Travanti, Hill Street Blues, Capt. Furillo
B03071946 Peter Wolf, Rock singer
B03071947 Donna Loren, Boston Mass
B03071952 Lynn Swann, Football player
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery.
B03081841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice
B03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
B03081923 Cyd Charisse, Comedienne/Dancer
B03081943 Lynn Redgrave, Actress
B03081947 Carole Bayer Sager, New York - Mrs. Burt Bachrach
B03091454 Amerigo Vespucci. We could be called Vespucciland
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University.
B03091918 Mickey Spillane, mystery writer
B03091934 Joyce Van Patten, Actress
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space.
B03091943 Bobby Fischer, Chess Player
B03101892 Arthur Honegger, composer
B03101922 Pamela Mason,  London England
B03101945 Katherine Houghton, Actress
B03101964 Prince Edward of England
B03111903 Lawrence Welk, Bandleader
B03111926 Ralph D. Abernathy, Civil rights leader
B03111931 Rupert Murdoch, Newspaper publisher
B03111934 Sam Donaldson, ABC White House correspondent
B03111934 Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, The professor and Mary Ann
B031119?? Susan Richardson,  in Bath Maine
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B03121932 Andrew Young, Atlanta Mayor
B03121936 Lloyd Dobyns, NBC newsman
B03121941 Barbara Feldon, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Agent 99
B03121946 Liza Minnelli, Singer/Actress
B03121947 Jill O'Hara in Warren Pennsylvania
B03121948 James Taylor, Singer/Songwriter
B03121962 Darryl Strawberry, of the N.Y. Mets
B03131914 Sammy Kaye, Bandleader
B03131931 Rosalind Elias, Opera singer
B03131939 Neil Sedaka, Singer/Songwriter
B03131946 Steve Kanaly, Actor
B03131953 Deborah Raffin in Los Angeles California
B03141879 Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany, scientist
B03141933 Actor Michael Caine
B03141933 Composer-conductor Quincy Jones
B03141933 Michael Caine, Actor
B03141933 Quincey Jones, Composer/singer
B03141947 Billy Crystal, Comedian/Actor
B03141958 Prince Albert of Monaco
B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from 1828 - 1836.
B03151916 Harry James, trumpeter
B03151926 Jerry Lewis, French god and American Comedian.
B03151935 Judd Hirsch, Actor
B03151949 Erik Estrada, Actor
B03161751 James Madison, 4th President  from 1809 - 1817.
B03161787 Georg Simon Ohm, scientist
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
B03161906 Henny Youngman, Comedian
B03161912 Patricia Nixon, First Lady, born in Ely Nevada
B03161954 Nancy Wilson, Singer  San Francisco (Heart)
B03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.)
B03171938 Rudolf Nureyev, Ballet Dancer
B03171942 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship)
B03171944 John Sebastian, Singer-songwriter
B03171949 Patrick Duffy, Actor
B03171951 Kurt Russell, Actor
B03171954 Leslie-Anne Down,  in London
B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
B03181926 Peter Graves, Actor: Mission Impossible
B03181927 Author George Plimpton
B03181927 Composer John Kander
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
B03181939 Charley Pride, Singer
B03181959 Irene Cara, New York
B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, Actor
B03191928 Patrick McGoohan, Actor-director
B03191933 Philip Roth, Author: Portnoy's Complaint
B03191935 Phyllis Newman, in Jersey City NJ
B03191936 Ursula Andress, Actress, in Switzerland
B03191947 Glenn Close, Greenwich Connecticut
B03191955 Bruce Willis, Actor: Moonlighting
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
B03201922 Carl Reiner, Comedian/Producer/Director
B03201928 Fred Rogers, It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood ...
B03201931 Hal Linden, Actor, "Barney Miller"
B03201936 Ted Bessell, Actor: That Girl's boyfriend
B03201937 Jerry Reed, Singer
B03201939 Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada
B03201948 Bobby Orr, Hockey Hall of Famer
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque.
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist.
B03211839 Modest Moussorgsky, composer
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
B03211923 Merv Griffin's Bandleader Mort Lindsey
B03211930 James Coco, Actor/Comedian
B03221913 Karl Malden, Actor
B03221920 Werner Klemperer, Actor: Hogan's Heroes. Col. Klink
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, Mime
B03221930 Stephen Sondheim, Composer-lyricist
B03221931 William Shatner, Capt. Kirk, himself
B03221942 Barbara Parkins, Actress: Peyton Place
B03221943 George Benson, Singer-guitarist
B03231904 Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever!
B03231912 Wernher Von Braun, Rocket Scientist
B03231922 Marty Allen, Comedian
B03231926 Martha Wright,  Seattle Washington
B03231953 Chaka Khan, Rocker, Great Lakes Ill
B03231954 Moses Malone, Basketball player
B03241855 Andrew W. Mellon, financier
B03241902 Thomas E. Dewey, Ohio politician
B03241925 Norman Fell, Actor: 3's Company landlord, Mr. Roper
B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor
B03241940 Bob Mackie, Costume Designer
B03241954 Robert Carradine, Actor
B03251867 Arturo Toscanini, conductor
B03251920 Howard Cosell, Sportscaster
B03251934 Gloria Steinem, Feminist, Toledo, Ohio
B03251940 Anita Bryant, Oklahoma,  Former Miss America candidate
B03251942 Aretha Franklin, Singer, in Memphis Tenn.
B03251947 Elton John, Singer
B03251953 Mary Gross of Saturday Night Live, Chicago Illinois
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet.
B03261911 Tennessee Williams, Playwright, in Columbus Miss.
B03261914 Gen. William Westmoreland
B03261931 Leonard Nimoy, Actor/Director "Those Vulcan Ears"
B03261939 James Caan, Actor
B03261949 Vicki Lawrence, California, The Carol Burnette show
B03261950 Teddy Pendergrass, Singer
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
B03271924 Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ
B03271927 Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist
B03271934 Arthur Mitchell, Dance company director
B03271939 Cale Yarborough, Auto racer
B03271942 Michael York, Actor
B03271952 Maria Schneider, Actress: Last Tango in Paris
B03281903 Rudolf Serkin, pianist
B03281914 Edmund S. Muskie, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State
B03281928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, National security adviser
B03281933 Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska)
B03281944 Ken Howard, actor
B03281955 Reba McEntire, Country singer
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from 1841 - 1845.
B03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
B03291916 Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator
B03291918 Pearl Bailey, Singer
B03291919 Eileen Heckart,  Colombus Ohio
B03291939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.
B03301746 Francisco Jose de Goya, artist
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear.
B03301930 Peter Marshall, former host of "Hollywood Squares"
B03301930 John Astin, Actor
B03301937 Warren Beatty, Actor
B03301945 Eric Clapton, Rocker
B03311811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, of burner fame
B03311915 Henry Morgan, Actor
B03311928 Gordie Howe, hockey player
B03311935 Herb Alpert, A & M Music executive and Tijuana Brass leader
B03311935 Richard Chamberlain, Dr. Kildare and mini series actor
B03311943 Christopher Walken, Actor
B03311945 Gabe Kaplan, Actor: "Welcome Back Kotter"

* Events
E03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
E03011784 E. Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain.
E03011790 First U.S. census begins.
E03011803 Ohio becomes the 17th state.
E03011867 Nebraska becomes the 37th state.
E03011879 Library of Hawaii founded.
E03011927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
E03011937 First permanent automobile license plates issued, Ct.
E03011947 International Monetary Fund begins operations.
E03011969 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
E03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
E03021901 First telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
E03021923 Time magazine first published.
E03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
E03021949 First non-stop, round-the-world airplane flight completed
E03021949 First street light on automatic system - New Milford, Conn.
E03021974 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
E03021978 Russians' Soyuz 28 is launched.
E03031634 First tavern in Boston is opened.
E03031791 Congress passes a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
E03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.
E03031845 Florida becomes the 27th state.
E03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
E03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
E03031875 A 20-cent coin is authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
E03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
E03031923 Time magazine publishes their first issue.
E03031931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem.
E03031943 U.S. wins Battle of Bismark Sea over Japan.
E03031945 U.S. and Philippine forces recapture Corregidor.
E03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
E03031969 Apollo 9 is launched.
E03031972 Pioneer 10 launched.
E03031985 TV Show "Moonlighting" premieres.
E03041681 Pennsylvania is deeded to William Penn.
E03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
E03041791 Vermont becomes the 14th state.
E03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
E03041826 First railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
E03041861 Confederate States of America adopted "Stars and Bars" flag.
E03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
E03041954 First Black U.S. sub-cabinet member appointed - J.E. Wilkins
E03041960 Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz.
E03051770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed.
E03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
E03051900 The American Hall of Fame is founded.
E03051946 "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill.
E03051956 King Kong first televised.
E03051979 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.
E03061836 The Alamo falls.  Remember it!
E03061981 Russians' Soyuz 39 returns to Earth.
E03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
E03071850 Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850
E03071876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone.
E03071911 US sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border.
E03071926 Transatlantic phone service begins between New York and London.
E03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
E03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to Rhineland.
E03071945 During World War II, U.S. forces cross the Rhine River.
E03071955 Mary Martin as Peter Pan is televised.
E03071959 First aviator to fly a million miles in a jet airplane - M.C. Garlow
E03071965 March by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala.
E03071975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate
E03071977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with President Carter.
E03071981 Walter Cronkite's final appearance as CBS anchor.
E03071986 Former Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., dies in Palm Beach, Fla.
E03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
E03081910 Baroness de Laroche of Paris becomes first licensed female pilot.
E03081946 First helicopter licensed for commercial use - NY city
E03081950 First woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel - B.R. Walters
E03081959 Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together.
E03091661 Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France, dies
E03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.
E03091822 US grants first patent for artificial teeth to Charles Graham.
E03091860 First Japanese ambassador to the US is appointed.
E03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen McCarthy on "See it Now."
E03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
E03101876 The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.
E03101948 First civilian to exceed speed of sound -H.H. Houver, Edwards AFB Ca
E03101978 Russians' Soyuz 28 returns to Earth.
E03111302 According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
E03111810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise.
E03111847 John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County, Ind.
E03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopts constitution.
E03111865 Union forces under Gen. Sherman occupied Fayetteville, N.C.
E03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
E03111888 Blizzard strikes the northeastern United States.  400 people die.
E03111892 First public game of basketball.
E03111930 Former President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
E03111941 Pres FDR signs into law the Lend Lease Bill.
E03111942 Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
E03111953 First woman doctor commissioned in regular army - F.M. Adams
E03111958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21."
E03121664 NJ becomes a British colony.
E03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
E03121912 The first Girl Scout troop is organized in Atlanta, GA.
E03121925 Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen dies.
E03121930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile march protesting British salt tax
E03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."
E03121938 Germany invades Austria.
E03121939 Pope Pius XII is crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
E03121940 Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union during World War II.
E03121959 House joins the Senate in approving statehood for Hawaii.
E03121963 Bob Dylan cancels appearance on Ed Sullivan.
E03121969 Beatle Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman in London.
E03121977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrority from Israel.
E03121980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murders of 33 men and boys.
E03121981 Russians' Soyuz T-4 is launched.
E03131639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
E03131781 Planet Uranus is discovered by Sir William Herschel.
E03131868 Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the Senate.
E03131884 Standard Time is adopted throughout the United States.
E03131901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president, dies in Indianapolis.
E03131906 American suffragist Susan B. Anthony dies.
E03131925 Tennessee law prohibits teaching of evolution.
E03131928 400 people die in California after the St. Francis Dam bursts.
E03131938 Famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow dies.
E03131969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth.
E03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
E03131985 Funeral services held in Moscow for leader Konstantin Chernenko.
E03141743 First town meeting in America was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
E03141794 Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin.
E03141883 German political philosopher Karl Marx dies.
E03141931 First theatre built for rear projection of motion pictures, NY city
E03141951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
E03141964 Dallas Jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald.
E03141965 Israel's cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
E03141967 Body of JFK moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial.
E03141975 Susan Hayward dies at age 56.
E03141980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers.)
E03141983 OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
E03151820 Maine becomes the 23rd state.
E03151892 NY State unveils the Automatic Ballot Cabinet (The Voting Machine.)
E03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
E03151937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Ill.
E03151937 First state contraceptive clinic opened, Raleigh, N.C.
E03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park.)
E03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
E03151986 First all-color television station to televise live local programs.
E03151999 Pluto again to become the outermost planet.
E03161802 Congress establishes West Point Military Academy in New York.
E03161945 U.S. forces defeat Japanese at Iwo Jima.
E03161966 Gemini VIII is launched.
E03161978 Russians' Soyuz 26 returns to Earth.
E03170461 St. Patrick  -  the patron saint of Ireland  -  dies in Saul.
E03171776 British forces evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War.
E03171905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.
E03171906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses the term "muckrake."
E03171910 Camp Fire Girls organization is formed.
E03171941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
E03171950 Element 98 - Californium, announced.
E03171958 The U.S. Navy launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
E03171963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY is beatified. Later sainted in 1975.
E03171966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
E03171969 Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
E03171970 US casts first veto in UN Security Council. (Support England)
E03171982 4 Dutch television crew members are shot dead in El Salvador
E03181766 Britain repeals the Stamp Act.
E03181850 American Express founded.
E03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark first broadcast by a "ham" operator.
E03181919 The Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City.
E03181922 Mohandas K. Gandhi sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment.
E03181931 First electric razor marketed by Schick, Inc.
E03181937 400 people, mostly children, killed in a gas explosion in Texas.
E03181938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties on its soil.
E03181952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia Pa.
E03181959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii statehood bill.
E03181962 France and Algerian rebels agree to a truce.
E03181965 Russia launches 2nd & final Voshkoid-1st spacewalk-Aleksei Leonov.
E03181974 Most Arab oil producing nations end US embargo.
E03181977 Vietnam hands over MIA to a US delegation.
E03181985 Capital Cities Communications Inc. acquires ABC.
E03181986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money.
E03191859 "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris.
E03191895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service.
E03191917 US Supreme Court upholds the eight-hour work day for railroads.
E03191918 Congress approves daylight saving time.
E03191920 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for second time
E03191928 'Amos and Andy' debuts on radio.
E03191931 Nevada legalizes gambling.
E03191942 FDR orders men between 45 and 64 register for non-military duty.
E03191945 800 people killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan.
E03191949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
E03191951 Herman Wouk's war novel The Caine Mutiny is published.
E03191953 Academy Awards ceremony telecast for the first time.
E03191954 First rocket-driven sled on rails tested, Alamogordo, N.M.
E03191974 Anne Klein dies at age 50.
E03191976 Buckingham Palace announces separation of Princess Margaret.
E03191981 2 workers killed in accident, testing space shuttle Columbia.
E03191984 TV Show "Kate and Allie" premieres.
E03191987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns.
E03201727 Sir Isaac Newton dies in London.
E03201815 Napoleon enters Paris, beginning his Hundred Days rule.
E03201833 US and Siam conclude a commercial treaty.
E03201852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
E03201896 US Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens.
E03201942 Gen. Douglas MacArthur vows, "I shall return!"
E03201956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends.
E03201963 First "Pop Art" exhibition in New York City.
E03201969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
E03201976 Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.
E03201980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.
E03201981 Jean Harris sentenced 15 to life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr.
E03211804 French civil code, the Code Napoleon, is adopted.
E03211851 Yosemite Valley is discovered in California.
E03211891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ending a long feud in W. VA.
E03211918 During World War I Germany launches the Somme Offensive.
E03211945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 days of raids over Germany.
E03211946 UN sets up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in the Bronx.
E03211963 Alcatraz federal pen in San Francisco Bay is closed.
E03211965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
E03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
E03221765 Britain enacts the Stamp Act.
E03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy.
E03221941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation.
E03221972 Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment, states never ratify.
E03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as prime minister of India.
E03221979 Israel's parliament approves a peace treaty with Egypt.
E03221981 First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
E03221981 Russians' Soyuz 39 is launched - First Mongolian in space.
E03221982 Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 is launched.
E03221983 Chaim Herzog elected president of Israel.
E03231743 George Frideric Handel's oratorio ``Messiah'' London premiere.
E03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later.
E03231775 Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death."
E03231806 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific coast.
E03231919 Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist movement in Milan Italy.
E03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
E03231933 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
E03231942 US begins moving Japanese-Americans to detention centers.
E03231956 Pakistan becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
E03231965 Gemini III is launched the first of the Gemini two-manned missions.
E03241765 Britain enacts the Quartering Act.
E03241882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus, cause of TB.
E03241934 FDR grants future independence to the Philippines.
E03241944 In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians.
E03241955 First oil drill seagoing rig is placed in service.
E03241955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway.
E03241958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis Tenn.
E03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
E03241976 Argentine pres. Isabel Peron is deposed by her country's military.
E03241981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premieres.
E03241986 US and Libya clash in the Gulf of Sidra.
E03251821 Greece gains its independence.
E03251913 New York City's famed Palace Theatre opens its doors for the first time.
E03251913 The Great Dayton Flood.
E03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set.
E03251960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine (Halibut)
E03261804 La Purchase divided into Territory of Orleans & Dist of Louisiana.
E03261827 Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna.
E03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
E03261885 Eastman Film Company manufacturs first commercial motion picture film.
E03261892 Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey.
E03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect a statue of Popeye.
E03261951 U.S. Air Force flag approved.
E03261953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to immunize people against polio.
E03261958 Army launches US's third successful satellite, Explorer III.
E03261971 E Pakistan proclaims independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
E03261979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is signed.
E03261982 Groundbreaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
E03271512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
E03271794 President Washington and Congress authorize creation of US Navy.
E03271836 First Mormon temple is dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
E03271860 M.L. Byrn of New York patents a corkscrew.
E03271912 First Japanese cherry trees planted in Washington, D.C.
E03271933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized.
E03271945 Gen. Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
E03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on the Richter scale, 100 killed.
E03271977 Diana Hyland dies at age 40.
E03281794 Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
E03281930 Cities of Constantinople & Angora changed to Istanbul & Ankara.
E03281939 Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
E03281941 Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf dies.
E03281942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
E03281943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies.
E03281979 Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa.
E03291848 Niagara Falls stops flowing -- for 1 day -- because of an ice jam.
E03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine) (really!)
E03291961 23rd Amendment ratified, Pres. vote for District of Columbia.
E03291973 Last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs. after the Tonkin Resolution.
E03301950 Invention of phototransistor announced, Murray Hill, N.J.
E03301964 John Glenn withdraws from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate.
E03301973 Ellsworth Bunker resigned as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
E03301981 President Reagan is shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr.
E03301982 Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth.
E03301984 US ends participation in multinational peace force in Lebanon.
E03301986 James Cagney dies at his farm in Stanfordville N.Y. at age 86.
E03311831 Quebec and Montreal are incorporated as cities.
E03311889 The Eiffel Tower in Paris is officially opened to the public.
E03311917 US takes possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
E03311932 Ford Motor Co. publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
E03311943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway.
E03311949 Newfoundland enters confederation as Canada's 10th province.
E03311953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general.
E03311980 Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame dies in Az. at 66.
E03311986 167 die when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes in Los Angeles.
* Celebrations
C0301     International Hamburger & Pickle Month.
C0303     Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
C0303     Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
C0311     Johnny Appleseed Day.
C0315     The day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
C0315     Beware the Ides of March!
C0317     St. Patrick's Day
C0317     Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
C0319     The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, CA.
C0320-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0320-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0320-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0321     The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la.
C0321     The start of the Persian New Year.
C0321-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0322-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0323-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0324-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0325     Independence Day, celebrated in Greece.
C0325-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0326     Prince Kuhio Day (celebrated in Hawaii).
C0326-5   Daylight Savings Time in WESTERN EUROPE starts this Sunday.
C0330-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0331-5   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins at 2AM Sunday.
C0331-6   Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. begins tomorrow morning.
C0331-6   Set your clock ahead--Daylight Savings Time starts Tomorrow.