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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 3, 2024 16:21:52 GMT

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Post by shaliby on Mar 3, 2024 16:21:52 GMT

ToDay : March 3rd

=EVENTS =
1913 – Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Suffrage_Procession

1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj

2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett

= BIRTHS =
=1831 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (d. 1897)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pullman

1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the telephone (d. 1922)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

1868 – Émile Chartier, aka "Alain",French philosopher and journalist (d. 1951)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Chartier

1920 – Ronald Searle, English-French illustrator (d. 2011)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle

= DEATHS =
1982 – Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (b. 1936)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Perec

1983 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator, creator of Tintin (b. 1907)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9

1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kaye

1988 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (b. 1918)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Szeryng

1993 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1903)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Montoya

1993 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist ("polio vaccine ")(b. 1906)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sabin

1996 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Duras

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 3, 2024 22:11:01 GMT

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Post by moi on Mar 3, 2024 22:11:01 GMT

1913 Women's Suffrage March ....... t2041

Star Spangled Banner chosen as national anthem in 1931 .When I was working in Beijing in 2012 at an election we burst out singing it when Barack Obama was elected

Herge .I remember Tintin cartoons on HBO , very European.

Albert Sabin .A great man!

Gandhi .A major influence on Martin Luther King back home t2041

Last Edit: Mar 3, 2024 22:15:53 GMT by moi

shaliby Winter Posts: 1,235	What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 4, 2024 15:21:37 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by shaliby on Mar 4, 2024 15:21:37 GMT Thanks, Moi.

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 4, 2024 15:45:21 GMT

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Post by shaliby on Mar 4, 2024 15:45:21 GMT

ToDay : March 4th

=EVENTS =
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec

1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France

1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Constitutional_Convention

1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

= BIRTHS =
1394 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese explorer (d. 1460)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Henry_the_Navigator

1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi

1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet and author (d. 1947)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on-Paul_Fargue

1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2008)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba

= DEATHS =
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze

1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (b. 1790)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion

1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright (b. 1809)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol

1916 – Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc

1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud

1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams

2004 – Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (b. 1929)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Nougaro

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 4, 2024 21:21:16 GMT

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Post by moi on Mar 4, 2024 21:21:16 GMT

Woodstock . A sacred event to Boomers .I wud not have liked being at a huge concert in the rain with no bathroom .

Napoleon Bonaparte . A hot topic here at the mostly expat filled apartment building I live in . Some of my French neighbors are up in arms about the Hollywood movie about him .Really too emotional !

To me only a movie and to retaliate advised my French neighbors to make a French movie about some American President or someone like Elvis

Kabul falls. A guy I went to high school with was killed there earlier .In the army , had no idea where Afghanistan was but died there. A sad thing .

Miriam Makeba . Someone new and I loved her PATA PATA

Last Edit: Mar 4, 2024 21:24:25 GMT by moi

shaliby Winter Posts: 1,235	What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 5, 2024 13:37:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by shaliby on Mar 5, 2024 13:37:03 GMT Thanks, Moi !

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 5, 2024 15:19:28 GMT

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Post by shaliby on Mar 5, 2024 15:19:28 GMT

ToDay :March 5th

= EVENTS =
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain

2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_bus_37_suicide_bombing

=BIRTHS =
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg

1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos

1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Harrison

1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini

1949 – Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault

=DEATHS =
1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer

1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Taine

1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jacob

1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev

1953 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Last Edit: Mar 5, 2024 15:21:44 GMT by shaliby

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 6, 2024 7:28:57 GMT

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Post by sunnydays on Mar 6, 2024 7:28:57 GMT

Winston Churchill certainly had a way with words. A maverick at times but such a marvelous orator!

Rex Harrison another great for me in black and white movies. A very distinctive voice. My favourite part he played is in the film Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

Sunshine is the best medicine.

shaliby Winter Posts: 1,235	What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 6, 2024 9:52:47 GMT sunnydays likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by shaliby on Mar 6, 2024 9:52:47 GMT Thanks, SD ! Rex Harrison : "The Ghost and Mrs Muir"; "My Fair Lady "

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 6, 2024 15:04:24 GMT

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Post by shaliby on Mar 6, 2024 15:04:24 GMT

ToDay :March 6th

=EVENTS =
1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ch%C3%A2teau_Gaillard

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_France

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 Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett

1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin

1943 – World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Medenine

1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

1951 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_and_Julius_Rosenberg

1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)

= BIRTHS =
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac

1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (d. 1861)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning

1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda

1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez

1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorin_Maazel

1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut -first woman in space

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

1946 – Patrick Baudry, French military officer and astronaut

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Baudry

1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist(Pink Floyd)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilmour

= DEATHS =

1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott

1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Kod%C3%A1ly

1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe

1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture ( Never on Sunday)(b. 1920)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Mercouri

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 6, 2024 16:19:15 GMT

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Post by moi on Mar 6, 2024 16:19:15 GMT

Lots of interesting events /people.

The Alamo .Texans really Americans massacred trying to break free of Mexico .In the end Texas won and 10 years later the USA beat Mexico in another war and took in Texas. But the Mexicans won in the end since today all around the Alamo in Houston is full of Mexicans and they won't speak English and hate gringo's m0786

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg .Soviet spies who were caught & executed . A personal connection .The Chief Judge of the US Supreme court Fred Vinson and moi are from Louisa Kentucky , population 3,000 .He refused to block the Rosenberg's execution sending them to the electric chair . In such a small town my ancestors must have known him or his family . Especially since his father was the Sheriff or jailer and the Lawrence County jailhouse has always been a second home for men in my family

Michelangelo . A genius . My neck got very sore from looking at his painting on the Sistine Chapel in Rome but it was worth it.

Melina Mercouri . Loved her NEVER ON SUNDAY t2041

Georgia O'Keefe .An American original .

Last Edit: Mar 7, 2024 6:07:50 GMT by moi

shaliby Winter Posts: 1,235	What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 7, 2024 16:26:50 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by shaliby on Mar 7, 2024 16:26:50 GMT Thanks, Moi !

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 7, 2024 16:39:04 GMT

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Post by shaliby on Mar 7, 2024 16:39:04 GMT

toDay :March 7th

= EVENTS =

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludendorff_Bridge

1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches

1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

2007 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_of_the_House_of_Lords

= BIRTHS =
1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce

1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel

1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk

1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (d. 1944)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian

1875 – Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (Bolero) (d. 1937)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel

1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer , principal architect of the Holocaust(d. 1942)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973);

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Magnani

1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (d. 2017)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Armstrong-Jones,_1st_Earl_of_Snowdon

1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Easton_Ellis

= DEATHS =

1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas

1932 – Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Briand

1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (Spartacus;2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange; Barry Lyndon;The Shining;Full Metal Jacket;Eyes_Wide_Shut)(b. 1928)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 7, 2024 18:57:27 GMT

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Post by moi on Mar 7, 2024 18:57:27 GMT

Am still thrilled about yesterday's post seeing how I had a connection with Julius & Ethel Rosenberg even though it is thru the Judge Fred Vinson who helped send them to the chair

1965 Selma .A great day for the civil rights movement .Was not spontaneous but planned and the organizers knew there wud be trouble . A white Protestant minister was killed by the police for helping the black protestors.

Thomas Garrigue Masaryk .Quite a name !From what I read the only democratically elected leader between Switzerland and the USA /Canada in the 1930's .Also was i the USA teaching at the University of Chicago where one of my hero's President Obama also taught .Found he had helped a Jewish guy falsely accused of murder t2041

Anna Magnani. Another earthy Mediterranean women like yesterday's Melina Mercouri !

Anthony Armstrong - Jones.The royal family sure gets some wild ones doesn't it ?

Saint Thomas Aquinas . Interesting man .

Stanley Kubrick .Has made some famous movies , EYES WIDE SHUT was strange but kept your attention .

Last Edit: Mar 7, 2024 19:08:55 GMT by moi

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What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death Mar 7, 2024 22:24:03 GMT

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Post by sunnydays on Mar 7, 2024 22:24:03 GMT

Anthony Armstrong Jones clearly struggled to be straight jacketed into the royal regime. A definite rebound choice.

Stanley Kubrick and Spartacus with the masculine Kirk Douglas and pretty boy Tony Curtis as he was then. Clockwork Orange was banned in this country for many years, never really understood why.

Sunshine is the best medicine.