📖🗣️ Notable Events

[KellytheBelly]

I found these historic events to be quite interesting, and just wanted to share!  🙂

Notable Events for October 21st:

[source: National Day Calendar - October 21 | Birthdays & Events]

1774 - The first flag to include the word "Liberty" is flown in Massachusetts.
1867 - The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed Great Plains Indian leaders, relocating the tribes to a reservation in Indian Territory.

[While the treaty did relocate some Plains tribes, it's important to note that it was a complex event with significant cultural and historical implications. The treaty process was often fraught with misunderstandings and unequal power dynamics.]
1869 - The first shipment of fresh oysters is delivered from Baltimore.
1871 - The first amateur outdoor athletic games begin in NY.
1879 - Thomas Edison applies for a patent for an incandescent light bulb.
1915 - The first radiotelephone message overseas is made from Arlington, VA to Paris, France.

[This was a significant milestone, but it's worth noting that wireless communication had been evolving for several decades before this point.]
1917 - The first U.S. troops see action on the front lines in WWI.
1921 - President Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president in opposition of lynching in the South.

[While this was a significant step forward, it's important to recognize that lynching persisted in the South for many years after this speech.]
1940 - Ernest Hemingway's first novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is published.
1944 - American forces take the city of Aachen, Germany, after three weeks.

[This was a crucial battle, but it was part of a larger Allied offensive in Western Europe.]

1959 - The Guggenheim Museum opens to the public in NY.
1959 - President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA.
1964 - My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, premieres in NY.
1967 - Fifty thousand people march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War.

[This was a major event in the history of the anti-war movement, but it's important to note that there were many other protests and demonstrations against the war.]
1975 - Women are allowed to enroll in the Coast Guard Academy for the first time.
1986 - Journalist Edward Tracy is kidnapped in Beirut.

[This was a tragic event, and Tracy was eventually released after several years in captivity.]
1989 - Bertram Lee and Peter Bynoe become the first major sports team owners after they purchase the Denver Nuggets for $65 million.
1991 - Hostage Jesse Turner is released from captivity in Beirut after 5 years.
2019 - Facebook takes down disinformation campaigns from Iran and Russia.
2020 - Over 545 children are left without parents after being separated at the U.S./Mexican border.

[This was a highly controversial policy that led to widespread condemnation and legal challenges.]

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Notable Events for April 29th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 29 | Birthdays & Events]

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1429 - Joan of Arc leads French forces to victory over the English at the Siege of Orléans, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years' War.
1661 - The Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1770 - Captain James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay and names it.
1813 - Jacob Hummel receives the first rubber patent/varnish of elastic gum in the United States.
1845 - Macon Allen and Robert Morris, Jr., become the first Black Americans to open a law practice in the U.S.
1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus is published.
1854 - Lincoln University in Pennsylvania is chartered as the first historically Black degree-granting institution in the United States.
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from the Union during the American Civil War.
1862 - During the American Civil War, Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrender to Union Admiral David Farragut outside of New Orleans.
1864 - Theta Xi, the first professional fraternity, is founded in Troy, New York.
1903 - A landslide in Frank, Alberta, kills at least 70 people.
1913 - Gideon Sundback patents the all-purpose zipper.
1916 - The Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British forces.
1931 - U.S. President Hoover receives King and Queen of Siam – 1931
1945 - Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker, shortly before their suicide.
1945 - The German Army in Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
1945 - U.S. military liberates 31,601 prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp [WWII].
1945 - Desmond Doss saves 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge.
1953 - The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast airs on the ABC sitcom 'Space Patrol.'
1961 - ABC’s 'Wide World of Sports' premieres.
1967 - Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title after refusing induction into the U.S. Army the previous day.
1968 - The groundbreaking and controversial musical 'Hair' premieres on Broadway.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.  
1975 - Operation Frequent Wind begins as the U.S. starts to evacuate its citizens from Saigon before the expected North Vietnamese takeover [Vietnam War].  
1980 - A proposed Newfoundland flag design is revealed.
1988 - The first condor to be conceived in captivity hatches at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, helping to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.
1991 - A powerful cyclone strikes Bangladesh, causing a massive storm surge that kills at least 138,000 people and leaves millions homeless.
1992 - Riots erupt in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of four police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King.
1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, prohibiting the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons.
2004 - The last Oldsmobile comes off the assembly line [Lansing, Michigan], marking the end of the 106-year-old automotive brand.
2004 - The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. is opened to the public.
2008 - A perfect pink ring around the Sun is visible for several hours from Key Largo to Key West, Florida. It’s known as the rare halo phenomenon, a refraction of light through multiple layers of ice-crystal clouds in the upper levels of the atmosphere. A halo usually indicates that rain is on the way.
2011 - Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London in a globally televised ceremony.
2019 - Mikah Meyer completes a 3-year journey to visit all 419 U.S. National Park Service sites.

Other Observances:

International Dance Day
[A global celebration of dance, created by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute [ITI], the main partner for the performing arts of UNESCO.]  
National Supply Chain Day
[A day to mark the binding importance of the global supply chain in the everyday lives of people.]
National Shrimp Scampi Day
[A food holiday in the United States celebrating the popular dish.]
Peace Rose Day
[Celebrates the iconic yellow blend rose known as 'Peace.']
Poem in Your Pocket Day
[Encourages people to carry a poem in their pocket and share it with others throughout the day.]
Viral Video Day
[A day to acknowledge the impact and spread of viral videos.]
We Jump The World Day
[A fun, unofficial holiday encouraging people to jump and share their photos/videos online.]
World Wish Day
[Celebrated on the anniversary of the wish that inspired the founding of Make-A-Wish.]
Zipper Day
[Commemorates the patenting of the zipper.]
Yom HaZikaron [Evening]
[In Israel, the Day of Remembrance for the Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism begins in the evening.]
Day of Trees [Colombia]

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Notable Events for April 10th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 10 | Birthdays & Events]

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1815 - Mount Tambora in Indonesia begins a massive three-month-long eruption, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
[This event led to a 'year without a summer' in 1816 due to the amount of ash released into the atmosphere and caused an estimated 71,000 deaths.]
1849 - Safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt.
1861 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is established by William Barton Rogers in Massachusetts.
1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh, marking a significant step in animal welfare.
[The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.]
1872 - First Arbor Day celebration is held in Nebraska.
1887 - On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.  
1912 - The RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its maiden and only voyage. This ill-fated journey would end in tragedy on April 15th.  
1916 - The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City, establishing a formal organization for professional golfers.
1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos, a significant loss for the peasant movement.  
1925 - 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, becoming a landmark of American literature.
1937 - Trans-Canada Air Lines is created by Parliament.
1939 - Alcoholics Anonymous' 'Big Book' is first published, laying the foundation for the self-help group focused on recovery from alcoholism.  
1941 - During World War II, the Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
1945 - U.S. troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, revealing the horrors of the Holocaust.
1953 - Feature length, full color, 3-D movie premieres in NYC: House of Wax starring Vincent Price.
1959 - 'Gidget' premieres.
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up, a pivotal moment in music history, signaling the official end of one of the most influential bands of all time.
1984 - A 5-pound white crappie is caught in the Bibb County pond in Georgia.
1988 - The comic strip 'FoxTrot' debuts.
1994 - Charles Osgood becomes host of 'CBS’s Sunday Morning.'
1998 - Politicians in Northern Ireland reach the Good Friday Agreement, a landmark agreement aimed at ending 30 years of violent conflict known as 'The Troubles.'
2010 - The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, dies in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, along with numerous other high-ranking Polish officials.
2016 - Danny Willett wins the Masters golf tournament.
2023 - A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.

Other Observances:

National Cherry Blossom Festival [Washington D.C.]
[Continues until April 13th, celebrating the blooming cherry blossoms.]

National Nana Day
National Siblings Day
[A day to celebrate the unique bond between brothers and sisters.]
National Erase Self-Negativity Day
[Encouraging people to identify and overcome negative self-talk.]

National Encourage a Young Writer Day
[Promoting the importance of writing among young people.]
National Farm Animals Day
[Raising awareness about the care and well-being of farm animals.]
ASPCA Day [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Day]
[Recognizing the work of the ASPCA in protecting animals.]

National Cinnamon Crescent Day
[A day to enjoy the sweet and flaky pastry.]
National Alcohol Screening Day
[Part of the first full week of April, this day promotes awareness about alcohol misuse and encourages people to seek help if needed.]
Global Work From Home Day
[Celebrating the flexibility and benefits of remote work.]
Golfer's Day
[A day for golf enthusiasts.]
The Masters Tournament
[The prestigious golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, takes place from April 10th to 13th.]

International Safety Pin Day
[Recognizing the invention and usefulness of the safety pin.]

National Hug Your Dog Day
[A day for dog lovers to show affection to their canine companions.]
National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
[Raising awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on young people.]
Salvation Army Founder's Day
[Commemorating the founding of the Salvation Army by William Booth.]
National Report IRS Tax Fraud Day
Take Action for Libraries Day
[Also during National Library Week, encouraging support for libraries.]

Celebrate Teen Literature Day
[Observed during National Library Week, highlighting books for young adults.]
National Bookmobile Day
[Observed during National Library Week]
World Homeopathy Day

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Notable Events for April 10th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 10 | Birthdays & Events]

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Born:

1778: William Hazlitt, English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. [Died: September 18, 1830]
1829: William Booth, British Methodist preacher who founded the Salvation Army. [Died: August 20, 1912]
1847: Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher & founder of Pulitzer Prize. [Died: October 29, 1911]
1865: 'Wild Goose' Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist/conversationist. [Died: November 3, 1944]
[Called, by some, the 'father' of North American conservationism.]
1880: Frances Perkins, American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. [Died: May 14, 1965]
[The first woman to hold a cabinet-level position.]
1886: Johnny Hayes, American athlete, a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of the marathon race at the 1908 Summer Olympics. [Died: August 25, 1965]
[Olympic gold medalist who contributed to the growth of long-distance running in the U.S.]
1900: Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. [Died: May 18, 2004]
[Inventor of the pH meter.]
1910: Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine 'Monthly Review.' [Died: February 27, 2004]
[He is best remembered for his contributions to economic theory as one of the leading Marxian economists of the second half of the 20th century.']
1915: Harry Morgan, American actor whose television and film career spanned six decades. Fondly remembered for his role as Colonel Sherman Potter in M.A.S.H. [Died: December 7, 2011]
1919: John Houbolt, American aerospace engineer. [Died: April 15, 2014]
[NASA engineer who lead the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode team, whose concept was used to land on the moon.]
1926: Junior Samples, American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the television show 'Hee Haw.' [Died: November 13, 1983]
1927: Wesley A Clark, American physicist who is credited for designing the first modern personal computer. [Died: February 22, 2016]
[Designed the personal computer (LINC).]
1929: Liz Sheridan, American actress ['Seinfeld,' and 'ALF']. [Died: April 15, 2022 - She was 93.]
1929: Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor known for his roles in films like 'The Seventh Seal' and 'The Exorcist.' [Died: March 8, 2020]
1930: Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and feminist activist.
[Co-founder of the United Farm Workers.]
1932: Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. [Died: July 10, 2015]
1936: John Madden, Pro Football HOFer player and coach and sports newscaster. [Died: December 28, 2021]
1952: Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician.
[Known for 'Above the Law' and 'Hard to Kill'.]
1959: Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer.
1960: Steve Bisciotti, American business executive and the current majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).
[Co-founder of the Allegis Group recruiting agency.]
1960: Katrina Leskanich, Former lead singer of 'Katrina and the Waves.'
1963: Warren DeMartini, American musician.
[Best known as the lead guitarist of the [glam metal] rock band 'Ratt.']
1968: Orlando Jones, American stand-up comedian and actor.
[Best known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series 'MADtv,' for his role as the 7 Up spokesman [1999 to 2002], and for his role as the African god 'Anansi' on Starz's 'American Gods.']
1970: Q-Tip, American rapper and member of the hip-hop group 'A Tribe Called Quest.'
1975: David Harbour, American actor known for his role as Jim Hopper in 'Stranger Things.'
1979: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer and songwriter.
1980: Charlie Hunnam, English actor known for his role as Jax Teller in 'Sons of Anarchy.'
1982: Chyler Leigh, American actress known for her roles in 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Supergirl.'
1983: Jamie Chung, American actress and former reality television personality.
1984: Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress ['Walk to Remember' and 'This Is Us'].
1987: Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress known for her role in 'Pretty Little Liars.'
1988: Haley Joel Osment, American actor.
[Child actor best known for his role in 'The Sixth Sense' (1999).]
1990: Maren Morris, American country music singer-songwriter.
1991: AJ Michalka, American actress, musician and singer-songwriter who is best known as one half of the musical duo Aly & AJ [briefly 78violet].
1992: Daisy Ridley, English actress known for her role as Rey in the 'Star Wars' sequel trilogy.
1993: Sofia Carson, American actress and singer.

Died:

1813: Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer. [Born: January 25, 1736]
1863: Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. [Born: March 25, 1786]
1919: Emiliano Zapata, a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution. [Born: August 8, 1879]
1931: Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet and author of 'The Prophet.' [Born: January 6, 1883]
1938: Joe 'King' Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader, mentor to Louis Armstrong. [Born: December 19, 1881]
1955: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest. [Born: May 1, 1881]
1958: Chuck Willis, American rhythm and blues singer. [Born: January 31, 1926]
1962: Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish-British artist and the original bassist for The Beatles. [Born: June 23, 1940]
1962: Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American film director ('Casablanca'). [Born: December 24, 1886]
1965: Linda Darnell, American actress. [Born: October 16, 1923]
1966: Evelyn Waugh, English author known for 'Brideshead Revisited.' [Born: October 28, 1903]
1975: Marjorie Main, American actress best known as 'Ma Kettle.' [Born: February 24, 1890]
1979: Nino Rota, Italian composer who won an Academy Award for his score for 'The Godfather Part II.' [Born: December 3, 1911]
1980: Kay Medford, American actress nominated for an Academy Award for 'Funny Girl.' [Born: September 14, 1919]
1986: Linda Creed, American songwriter, lyricist, background singer and record producer who co-wrote hits like 'You Are Everything' and 'The Greatest Love of All.' [Born: December 6, 1948]
[She teamed up with Thom Bell to produce some of the most successful Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.]
1991: Natalie Schafer, American actress best known as Mrs. Howell on 'Gilligan's Island.' [Born: November 5, 1900]
1991: Kevin Peter Hall, American actor who played the Predator in the 'Predator' films and Harry in 'Harry and the Hendersons.' [Born: May 9, 1955]
[Hall stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) tall, and frequently played monster characters.]
1992: Sam Kinison, American comedian. [Born: December 8, 1953]
2000: Arnold Johnson, American actor ['Rocky' and 'Menace II Society']. [Born: November 15, 1921]
2000: Larry Linville, American actor best known as Major Frank Burns on 'M*A*S*H,' [Born: September 29, 1939]
2007: Dakota Staton, American jazz vocalist. [Born: June 3, 1930]
2010: Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland, died in a plane crash along with many other Polish dignitaries. [Born: June 18, 1949]
2010: Dixie Carter, American actress best known for her role in the TV series 'Designing Women.' [Born: May 25, 1939]
2010: John Forsythe, American actor ['Bachelor Father,' 'Charlie's Angels,' 'Dynasty']. [Born: January 29, 1918]
2010: Arthur Mercante Sr., American boxing referee. [Born: January 26, 1920]
2013: Jimmy Dawkins, American blues guitarist and singer. [Born: October 24, 1936]
2014: Phyllis Frelich, American actress who starred in 'Children of a Lesser God' on Broadway. [Born: February 29, 1944]
2020: Abigail Thernstrom, American political scientist and member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. [Born: September 14, 1936]
2023: Al Jaffee, American cartoonist, best known for his work in Mad magazine, including the Fold-In. [Born: March 13, 1921]
2024: Trina Robbins, American cartoonist and pioneer in women's underground [comix] comics movement. [Born: August 17, 1938]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 9th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 9 | Birthdays & Events]

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1105 - Great Britain’s King Henry I is reprimanded in church for his long hair.
1682 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the territory for France, naming it Louisiana.
[Explorer La Salle claims the Mississippi basin for France, calling it Louisiana.]
1833 - The first tax-supported public library opens in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
[First tax-supported U.S. public library is founded, in Peterborough, New Hampshire.]
1860 - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of the human voice, singing the French folk song 'Au clair de la lune' on his phonautograph.
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
[Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.]
1866 - Despite a veto by President Andrew Johnson, the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 is passed by Congress, granting African Americans the rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship.
1882 - Jumbo the circus elephant arrives in the U.S.
1905 - The Aerial Ferry Bridge opens in Duluth, Minnesota.
1909 - The Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act, raising tariffs on goods entering the U.S.
1912 - The Boston Red Sox played Harvard University in the first official baseball game at Fenway Park.
[The Boston Red Sox won, 2-0.]
1917 - The Battle of Arras begins during World War I, with Canadian forces launching a major assault on Vimy Ridge.
1917 - Battle of Vimy Ridge (WWI) begins in France.
1939 - African-American opera singer Marian Anderson performs a historic concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after being denied the use of Constitution Hall due to her race.
1939 - The Daughters of the American Revolution deny Marian Anderson entry to Constitutional Hall to perform a concert. She performs on the Lincoln Memorial instead.
1940 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway as part of Operation Weserübung during World War II.
1941 - The Golf Hall of Fame is established.
1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Bataan ends with the surrender of approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops to the Japanese. This leads to the infamous Bataan Death March.
1945 - Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a prominent opponent of Nazism, is hanged in Flossenbürg concentration camp.
1945 - The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1948 - Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist groups attack the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, resulting in over 100 deaths.
1950 - Bob Hope makes his first television appearance.
1952 - The Bolivian National Revolution overthrows the government of Hugo Ballivián, leading to significant reforms including universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines.
1957 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is reopened to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
1959 - NASA introduces the 'Mercury Seven,' America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton.
[NASA introduced first seven astronauts to press.]
1959 - The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to sweep an NBA championship series.
1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, survives an assassination attempt.
1962 - Golfer Arnold Palmer wins his third Masters Tournament.
1963 - Sir Winston Churchill is proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen.
1965 - The first baseball game is played in an indoor stadium, in Houston, Texas.
1967 - The first Boeing 737 aircraft makes its maiden flight. It goes on to become the best-selling commercial jetliner in history.
1970 - Paul McCartney officially announces the breakup of The Beatles.
1974 - San Diego Padres owner Ray Kroc famously addresses disgruntled fans, saying, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life.'
1981 - Nature magazine publishes the longest known scientific name, which was about 207,000 letters.
[In 1981, Nature magazine published the systematic name for human mitochondrial DNA, which, with 16,569 nucleotides, was a whopping 207,000 letters long.]
1989 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, a peaceful demonstration against Soviet rule is violently dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in multiple deaths.
1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug trafficking and racketeering charges.  
2003 - Baghdad falls to American forces during the Iraq War.
2005 - Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony.
2011 - A mass shooting in a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, results in several deaths and injuries.
2012 - 'The Lion King becomes the highest-grossing Broadway show in history, surpassing 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
2014 - A rare Bactrian camel is born at the Budapest Zoo.

Other Observances:

National Mature Women’s Day
National Cherish an Antique Day
[Encourages people to appreciate and learn about their antique items.]
International ASMR Day
[Raises awareness about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, a tingling sensation some people experience in response to specific stimuli.]
National Gin and Tonic Day
[A day for enthusiasts to enjoy this classic cocktail.]
National Unicorn Day
[A day to celebrate the mythical and enchanting unicorn.]
International Day of Pink  [Second Wednesday in April]
[An anti-bullying awareness day.]
National Chicken Little Awareness Day
[A humorous day to remind people not to overreact to minor events.]
Jumbo Day
[Possibly related to the famous elephant 'Jumbo,' though its exact origin as a holiday is unclear.]
Name Yourself Day
[A fun day to perhaps try out a new name or appreciate the one you have.]
Appomattox Day
[Commemorates the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.]
Jenkins Ear Day
[A quirky historical observance related to an incident that contributed to the War of Jenkins' Ear between Britain and Spain.]
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
[Honors the courageous men and women who have endured brutal treatment at the hands of their captors. As a result, they've also suffered separation from family and displayed incredible endurance and faith during their captivity.]
Chinese Almond Cookie Day
[A day to enjoy this tasty and lucky treat.]
Day of the Finnish Language [also known as 'Mikael Agricola Day.']
[Celebrates the Finnish language and the contributions of Mikael Agricola, who translated the New Testament into Finnish.]
Winston Churchill Day
[Commemorates the day in 1963 when Winston Churchill was made an honorary citizen of the United States.]
National Library Outreach Day  [Wednesday of 'National Library Week.']
[Highlights the valuable outreach work done by libraries.]
National Education and Sharing Day  [Changes Annually]
[An annual observance that focuses on the importance of education and sharing.]

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Notable Events for April 9th:

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Born:

1794: Theobald Boehm, German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system [now known as the "Boehm system'.] [Died: November 25, 1881]
[He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer.]
1830: Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer. [Died: May 8, 1904]
[Known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.]
1875: Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and mystery writer. [Died: April 15, 1912]
[He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as 'The Thinking Machine' for his use of logic. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.]
1883: Frank King, American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Gasoline Alley. [Died: June 24, 1969]
1898: 'Curly' Lambeau, Former NFL player and co-founder of the Green Bay Packers. [Died: June 1, 1965]
1898: Paul Robeson, African-American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances. [Died: January 23, 1976]
1903: Gregory Pincus, American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill. [Died: August 22, 1967]
1919: J. Presper Eckert, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. [Died: June 3, 1995]
[Engineer who co-invented the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.]
1921: Mary Jackson, American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [Died: February 11, 2005]
[In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.]
1925: Art Kane, American fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s. [Died: February 3, 1995]
[Famous music photographer who created portraits of Bob Dylan, Sonny and Cher, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones and The Who.]
1926: Hugh Hefner, American magazine publisher. [Died: September 27, 2017]
[He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling media interest.]
1930: Jim Fowler, Zoologist and host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. [Died: May 8, 2019]
1932: Carl Perkins, American singer and guitarist, a pioneer of rockabilly. [Died: January 19, 1998]
[A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis in 1954. Among his best known songs are 'Blue Suede Shoes,' 'Honey Don't,' 'Matchbox,' and 'Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby.']
1933: Fern Michaels, American author-writer of romance and thriller novels.
[Her books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series.]
1939: Michael Learned, American actress who played Olivia Walton on 'The Waltons.'
1954: Dennis Quaid, American actor.
[Multi-award winning actor in such films as, 'The Right Stuff' (1983), 'The Parent Trap' (1998), 'Far from Heaven' (2002), and 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' (2023).]
1957: Seve Ballesteros, Spanish professional golfer. [Died: May 7, 2011]
1963: Marc Jacobs, [Famous] American fashion designer.
1966: Cynthia Nixon, American actress, activist, and theater director.
[Known for playing Miranda Hobbes in HBO's 'Sex and the City' TV series (1998–2004).]
1979: Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress.
[She began her career as a child actor. She landed her breakthrough role as Rudy Huxtable, on the NBC sitcom 'The Cosby Show' (1984–1992), and became the youngest person to be nominated for an Emmy Award.]
1986: Leighton Meester, American actress, singer, and model.
[She is known for her starring role as Blair Waldorf on the CW television series 'Gossip Girl, which ran from 2007 to 2012.]
1990: Kristen Stewart, American actress
[Best known as Bella Swan in the 'The Twilight Saga' film series (2008–2012).]
1998: Elle Fanning, American actress.

Died:

1024: Pope Benedict VIII. [Born: Theophylact, circa 980]
[Bishop of Rome, and ruler of the Papal States from 18 May 1012, until his death in 1024.]
1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. [Born: February 4, 1906]
1959: Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator. [Born: June 8, 1867]
1976: Phil Ochs, American songwriter, protest singer [or, as he preferred, 'topical singer'], and political activist. [Born: December 19, 1940.]
[Known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, and political commentary. He wrote approximately 200 songs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and released eight albums. He was 35 when he passed away.]
2004: Harry Babbitt, American singer and star during the Big Band era. [Born: November 2, 1913]
[Sang with the Kay Kyser big band on such hits as, 'The White Cliffs of Dover,' and voiced the laugh of 'Woody Woodpecker.']
2005: Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist writer and activist best known for her analysis of pornography. [Born: September 26, 1946]
2011: Sidney Lumet, American film director. [Born: June 25, 1924]
[Known for '12 Angry Men, and 'Network.']
2012: Mark Lenzi, American Olympic diver and diving coach. [Born: July 4, 1968]

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Notable Events for April 8th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 8 | Birthdays & Events]

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217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated and succeeded by Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
876 - The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.  
1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Pope Innocent II.
1232 - The Mongols begins their siege of Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
1250 - During the Seventh Crusade, Ayyubids of Egypt captures King Louis IX of France.
1271 - In Syria, Sultan Baibars conquers Krak des Chevaliers.
1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1730 - Shearith Israel dedicates its first synagogue in continental North America.
1751 - William Pigott opens first inn in Nova Scotia (in Halifax).
1812 - Czar Alexander I of Russia announces the transfer of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1838 - The steamship Great Western begins her voyage from Bristol, England, to New York, marking a significant step in transatlantic travel.
1838 - The steamship the Great Western begins her voyage from Bristol, England, to New York.
1864 - Gallaudet University is founded in Washington, D.C.
1866 - Italy and Prussia signs a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
1869 - The American Museum of Natural History opens in New York City.
1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1893 - The first recorded college basketball game occurs at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1904 - France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente Cordiale, resolving colonial disputes and establishing a diplomatic understanding. Longacre Square in Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
1910 - The first race is held at the Playa Del Ray Motordrome in California.
1913 - The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, requiring the direct popular election of U.S. senators. The Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes.
1926 - Second day of fire tornadoes in San Luis Obispo, California.
1927 - Honolulu Academy of Arts opens in Hawaii.
1935 - The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is established by the U.S. Congress as part of FDR's New Deal.
1940 - The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders a nationwide wage freeze in an effort to curb inflation.
1946 - The League of Nations assembles for the last time, Geneva.
1947 - A sunspot is enlarged to 330+ times Earth’s area.
1952 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman seized control of America's steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1953 - Jomo Kenyatta, a leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is convicted by British rulers for leading the Mau Mau uprising.
1954 - A Royal Canadian Air Force plane collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines plane over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1954 - South African Airways Flight 201 crashes into the sea, killing 21.
1959 - COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), one of the first modern programming languages, is created.
1960 - The U.S. Senate passes the Civil Rights Bill addresses discriminatory voting practices.
1965 - The first U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam, on the beaches of Da Nang.
1968 - BOAC Flight 712 catch fire shortly after takeoff; Barbara Jane Harrison is posthumously awarded the George Cross for her actions.
1970 - Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian primary school in Bahr El-Baqar, killing 46 children.
1970 - In Toronto, the CBC announces it bought Sesame Street to show on its television network.
1974 - Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's all-time record.
1975 - Frank Robinson makes his debut as the first Black manager in Major League Baseball, managing the Cleveland Indians.
1977 - The Clash release their debut album.
1983 - David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty 'disappear' in a televised magic trick.
1986 - Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1990 - Ryan White, a teenager who became a national symbol for the fight against AIDS, dies at age 18.
1993 - The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
1994 - Smoking is banned in the Pentagon, and all U.S. military bases.
2002 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-110 to the International Space Station; Jerry L. Ross becomes the first person to fly on seven spaceflights.
2005 - Over four million people pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II, at his funeral.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
2013 - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, passes away.
2022 - The first all-private space flight (Axiom-1) launches to the International Space Station.

Other Observances:

Draw a Picture of a Bird Day
[A creative day to express yourself by drawing or painting a bird.]
Free Cone Day [Ben & Jerry's]

Zoo Lovers Day
[Another reminder to appreciate and support zoos and their conservation efforts.]

Pygmy Hippo Day

Baby Massage Day
International Feng Shui Awareness Day
[Learn about the principles of Feng Shui and how they can impact your living spaces.]

National Library Workers Day
National Empanada Day
National All is Ours Day
Dog Farting Awareness Day
[A lighthearted and humorous observation. It's a day to raise awareness about canine digestive health and share tips on dealing with dog flatulence, which can sometimes indicate underlying health issues.]

National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
[A crucial day to raise awareness about the cruelty of dog fighting and to learn how to recognize and report it.]

Step Into the Spotlight Day
[A day to overcome shyness and embrace opportunities to be seen and heard.]

Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day
[A nostalgic day to revisit the fun of collecting and trading cards.]

International Pageant Day
International Kids’ Yoga Day

International Roma Day [also International Romani Day] [Kosovo]
[A day to celebrate Romani culture, heritage, and traditions, and to raise awareness about the issues facing Romani people worldwide.]
National Be Kind to Lawyers Day

Born:

1732: David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. [Died: June 26, 1796]

1726: Lewis Morris, Farmer who signed the Declaration of Independence. [Died: January 22, 1798]
[American Founding Father, landowner, and developer from Morrisania, New York, presently part of Bronx County. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York.]

1827: Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican doctor and politician. [Died: September 16, 1898]
1842: Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Author and wife of General George Custer. [Died: April 4, 1933]

1850: William H. Welch, Founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. [Died: April 30, 1934]

1859: Edmund Husserl, Austrian mathematician and philosopher. [Died: April 27, 1938]
1869: Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. [Died: October 7, 1939]
[Surgeon and person who Cushings Disease is named after. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of physician William Osler in three volumes.]

1912: Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American champion figure skater and actress. [Died: October, 12 1969]

1918: Betty Ford, former First Lady of the United States. [Died: July 8, 2011]
[First Lady of the U.S. President Ford.]
1920: Carmen McRae, One of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century. [Died: November 10, 1994]

1921: Franco Corelli, Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. [Died: October 29, 2003]

1924: Sara Northrup Hollister, Second wife of Ron Hubbard and was influential in the creating Dianetics (later known as Scientology). [Died: December 19, 1997]
1926: Henry N. Cobb, Co-founder of the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. [Died: March 2, 2020]

1929: Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor. [Died: October 9, 1978]
1933: James Lockhart, Scholar who studied colonial Latin America intensively to learn more and understand the culture. [Died: January 17, 2014]
1942: Douglas Trumbull, Special effects artist. [Died: February 7, 2022]
[Credited for his work in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture.']
1938: Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations. [Died: August 18, 2018]

1946: 'Catfish' Hunter, American baseball player. [Died: September 9, 1999]
1960: John Schneider, Actor best known for his role as Bo Duke on the series 'The Dukes of Hazzard.'
1962: Izzy Stradlin, Guitarist who co-founded the rock band Guns N' Roses.
1963: Julian Lennon, English musician, photographer, author, and philanthropist.
1966: Robin Wright, American actress.
1968: Patricia Arquette, American actress.
1977: Mark Spencer, Computer programmer who authored the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim (later renamed to Pidgin).
1981: Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor.
2002: Skai Jackson, American actress.
[She is best known for playing Zuri Ross in the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie [2011–2015], and its spin-off series Bunk'd [2015–2018]. Jackson appeared on Time's list of the 'Most Influential Teens' [2016], and was nominated for 'Best Influencer' at the Shorty Awards, in 2017.]
  
Died:

1857: Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter. [Born: Unknown]
1947: Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. [Born: July 30, 1863]
1950: Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer. [Born: March 12, 1889]
1973: Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor. [Born: October 24, 1881]
1981: Omar Bradley, American general. [Born: 12 February 1893]
1990: Ryan White, American AIDS activist. [Born: December 6, 1971]
1993: Marian Anderson, American contralto singer. [Born: February 27, 1897]
[She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals.]
2013: Margaret Thatcher, British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [1979 to 1990]. [Born: October 13, 1925]
2013: Annette Funicello, American actress and singer. [Born: October 22, 1942]
[One of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club.]

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Notable Events for April 7th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 7 | Birthdays & Events]

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1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague, becoming the first university in Central Europe.
1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reached Cebu in the Philippines.
1712 - In New York City, 27 enslaved Black people rebel, resulting in multiple deaths and subsequent executions and suicides of the rebels.
1724 - Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion premieres in Leipzig, Germany.
1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington capture the British ship Edward.
1788 - Marietta, Ohio, was established as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
[Marietta becomes the first first settlement in Ohio.]
1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized in the United States.
1805 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition breaks camp among the Mandan tribe in North Dakota along the Missouri River.
[The Lewis and Clark expedition depart Fort Mandan in present-day North Dakota to continue their journey west.]
1827 - English chemist John Walker sells the first friction matches.
1862 - The Battle of Shiloh concludes in a Union victory in western Tennessee.
1902 - The Texaco oil company forms.
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts, devastating Naples, Italy.
1923 - Dr. Winfield Ney performs the first brain tumor operation under local anesthesia.
1927 - AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast.
1933 - National Beer Day (the Cullen-Harrison Act) takes effect, legalizing the sale of low alcohol beer.
[In the United States, the Cullen-Harrison Act takes effect, legalizing the sale of low-alcohol beer (3.2% by weight), marking a significant step towards the end of Prohibition.]
[This day is now celebrated as 'National Beer Day' in the U.S.]
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first Black American to be depicted on a postage stamp.
[Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.]
1943 - The NFL makes helmets mandatory and implements a 10-game schedule for all teams.
1945 - During World War II, the Japanese battleship Yamato, one of the largest battleships ever built, is sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft off Okinawa.
1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
[This Day is now 'World Health Day']
1949 - Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific opens on Broadway, New York City.
1951 - The American Bowling Congress hosts the first bowling masters tourney.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower articulated the 'domino theory' regarding the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
1959 - After 51 years, Oklahoma finally ends Prohibition.
1959 - First distinguishable radar echo bounces off the Sun.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus wins Masters Golf Tournament.
1963 - A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Josip Broz Tito president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1964 - IBM announces the System/360 Mainframe computer.
1966 - The U.S. recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean Sea.
1969 - The Internet is born.
[The internet's symbolic birth date: the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) awards a contract to BBN Technologies to build a precursor of the World Wide Web, and RFC 1 is published.]
1970 - John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar for his role in 'True Grit.'
1970 - Paul McCartney officially announces his departure from The Beatles.
1971 - President Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of 'Vietnamization.'
1977 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first American League baseball game.
1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter cancels the development of the neutron bomb.
1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.
1987 - The National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington, D.C.
1990 - An arson attack on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star kills 159 people.
1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins.
2001 - NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft is launched.
2003 - U.S. troops captures Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, marking a major turning point in the Iraq War.
2009 - After an undefeated season, UConn’s women’s basketball team win the NCAA championship.
2009 - A 4.9-magnitude aftershock registers in central Italy following the previous day’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake.
2017 - Joan Baez, Journey, Pearl Jam, 2Pac Shakur, and Yes are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2017 - Smurfs: The Lost Village movie is released.
2017 - A stolen truck rams into pedestrians in Stockholm, Sweden, killing four people.

Other Observances:

Community Garden Week is celebrated on the first full week of April each year and this year it will be marked from April 7 to 13.

World Health Day
Make The First Move Day
Metric System Day

Public Television Day

International Beaver Day

National Girl Me Too Day

Motherhood and Beauty Day  [Armenia]

Born:

1770: William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet. [Died: April 23, 1850]
1775: Francis Cabot Lowell, American businessman for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is named. [Died: August 10, 1817]
[He was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States. Founder of the first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill.]
1859: Walter Camp, American college football player and coach, and sports writer. [Died: March 14, 1925]
[Known as the 'Father of American Football.' Creator of the Line of Scrimmage and the system of Downs.]
1860: Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist in food manufacturing, who founded the Kellogg Company, which produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. [Died: October 6, 1951]
1890: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development. [Died: May 14, 1998]
1893: Irene Castle, Dancer. [Died: January 25, 1969]
[Irene and husband, Vernon, were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers, and dance teachers, who appeared on Broadway and in silent films, in the early 20th century.]
1895: John Bernard Flannagan, American sculptor. [Died: January 6, 1942]
[WWI veteran who became a prominent sculptor and is considered one of the first artists to use direct carving to create sculptures.]
1897: Walter Winchell, syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. [Died: February 20, 1972]
1915: Billie Holiday, American jazz and swing music singer. [Died: July 17, 1959]
[Nicknamed 'Lady Day' by her friend and music partner, Lester Young. Holiday made significant contributions to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Jazz and swing-singer remembered for her vocal talent in Lady Sings the Blues and God Bless the Child.]
1918: Robert Pershing 'Bobby' Doerr, American professional baseball second baseman and coach. [Died: November 13, 2017]
1928: James Garner, American actor. [Died: July 19, 2014]
[Actor whose credits include, Cash McCall [1960], Support Your Local Sheriff! [1969], Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files [1974 - 1980], and Murphy's Romance [1985], to name a few.]
1933: Wayne Rogers, Actor fondly remembered for his comedic role as Trapper in M.A.S.H. [Died: December 31, 2015]
1935: Yvonne Fedderson, American philanthropist and retired actress. [Died: April 7, 1935]
[Co-founder of the organization Childhelp USA.]
1938: Spencer Dryden, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer [1996] who is remembered as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane. [Died: January 11, 2005]
1939: Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker.
[Multi-award winning director, producer, and screenwriter for movie hits like The Godfather I, II and III (1972-90), American Graffiti (1973), The Outsiders (1983), and Megalopolis (2024). He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood and one of the greatest directors of all time.]
1946: Robert Metcalfe, American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s.
[Engineer who was the co-inventor of Ethernet.]
1946: Stan Winston, American television and film special make-up effects artist. [Died: June 15, 2008]
[Best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands. He won four Academy Awards for his work.]
1948: John Oates, American musician.
]The other half of the rock duo 'Hall and Oates.']
1953: Santa Barraza, American mixed-media artist and painter.
[World renowned mixed media artist.]
1954: Tony Dorsett, American former professional football running back.
[NFL Teams: Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.]
1954: Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman.
1964: Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor and film director.
1975: Tiki Barber, American former professional football running back.
[He had a 10-year career span with the NFL New York Giants.]

Died:

1891: Phineas Taylor/P.T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, and politician. [Born: July 5, 1810]
[Remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding, with James Anthony Bailey, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist.]
2009: Dave Arneson, American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. [Born: October 1, 1947]
2010: George Nissen, American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport and recreation. [Born: February 3, 1914]
2012: Mike Wallace, American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. [Born: May 9, 1918]
[Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. He is the father of Chris Wallace.]

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Notable Events for April 6th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 6 | Birthdays & Events]

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Today is Day 96 of 2025
75 days until summer begins

1712 - The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins.
1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
1830 - Joseph Smith and 5 others officially organize the 'Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.'
1868 - Brigham Young, the Mormon Church leader, marries his 27th and last wife.
1869 - Snow-melting apparatus is patented.
1886 - Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated.
1889 - George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time.
[A revolutionary step that made photography more accessible to the public.]
1896 - The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece.
1909 - Admiral Robert Peary and his African-American assistant Matthew Henson reach what was believed to be the North Pole.
1917 - The United States enters World War I.
[The U.S. declares war on Germany and enters World War I.]
1924 - The first successful round-the-world flight begins.
1926 - Varney Airlines [later United Airlines] makes its first commercial flight.
1930 - James Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies.
[Bakery manager, Jimmy Dewar, invented a cream filled sponge cake, now known as the Twinkie.]
1938 - Roy Plunkett [Dupont] invents Teflon.
1941 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
1947 - The first Tony Awards are held, and were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday.
1956 - Paramount Pictures signs Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract just five days after his first screen test.
1965 - Intelsat-1 [nicknamed Early Bird], the world’s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, is launched from Cape Kennedy [now Cape Canaveral, in Florida.
1992 - Microsoft announces Windows 3.1.
[Microsoft releases Windows 3.1]
1994 - The Rwandan genocide begins.
2004 - UConn’s women’s basketball team complete a championship sweep for the school by beating Tennessee 70-61 for the NCAA women’s title. The victory followed UConn’s win over Georgia Tech in the men’s championship game the previous night, making Connecticut the first Division I school to sweep both titles.
2009 - A magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes central Italy.

Technological Events:

1965: The first commercial communications satellite is launched.

Other Observances:

National Siamese Cat Day
National New Beer's Eve
Drowsy Driver Awareness Day
National Sorry Charlie Day
Fresh Tomato Day
California Poppy Day  [aka Golden Poppy]
Jump Over Things Day
National Açaí Bowl Day
National Food Faces Day
National Carbonara Day
National Library Day
Celebrate National Pajama Day
National Twinkie Day
National Caramel Popcorn Day
Plan Your Epitaph Day  [Is celebrated on April 6, or November 2nd, every year.]
Good Deeds Day  [Takes place annually on a chosen Sunday in April. This year it's on April 6th.]
Geologists Day
Chakri Day  [Thailand]
Army Day
National Tartan Day
Evolution of Dance Day
National Teflon Day
National Student-Athlete Day
National Employee Benefits Day  [Changes Annually]
  
Births:

1483 [or March 28th]: Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. [Died: April 6, 1520]
1857: Arthur Wesley Dow, Painter, American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator. [Died: December 13, 1922]
1886: Walter Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist. [Died: April 19, 1946]
[One of the founding fathers of neurosurgery.]
1892: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft industrialist and engineer. [Died: February 1, 1981]
[Founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company.]
1894: Gertrude Baines, was the oldest person in the world at the time and the last person known to be born in 1894. [Died: September 11, 2009]
[Gertrude was 115 years old when she died, in 2009.]
1895: Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter and film director. [Died: January 4, 1960]
[The first person first decline an Academy Award to show his support for the Screen Writers Guild union.]
1900: Leo Robin, American composer, lyricist and songwriter. [Died: December 29, 1984]
[He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song 'Thanks for the Memory,' sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film 'The Big Broadcast of 1938,' and with Jule Styne on 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.']
1903: Mickey Cochrane, American professional baseball player, manager and coach. [Died: June 28, 1962]
[MLB player and manager known as 'Black Mike.']
1903: Harold Edgerton, American scientist, researcher, and professor [of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]  [Died: January 4, 1990]
[Engineer who is credited with the development of high-speed photography techniques. Known as 'Papa Flash.']
1906: Virginia Hall, [code named Marie and Diane], American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II. [Died: July 8, 1982]
[U.S. spy during WWII.]
1916: Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and earth scientist. [Died: January 23, 1987]
[Geologist who became an world-side authority on deep-sea mineral deposits.]
1920: Jack Cover, American aerospace scientist who was the inventor of the taser stun gun. [Died: February 7, 2009]
1927: Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. [Died: January 20, 1996]
[Known as 'Jeru.']
1928: James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
[A Geneticist who co-authored an academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.]
1929: André Previn, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. [Died: February 28, 2019]
[Oscar and Grammy-winning composer, conductor, and jazz pianist.]
1937: Merle Haggard, American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. [Died: April 6, 2016]
[Considered one of the greatest all-around musicians in country music.]
1937: Billy Dee Williams, American actor, novelist and painter.
[Multi-award winning actor who appeared on over 100 films, including the Star Wars franchise and 'Lady Sings the Blues.']
1947: John Ratzenberger, American actor.
[Recognized for his role as Cliff in 'Cheers.]
1952: Marilu Henner, American actress and author.
1969: Bret Boone, American former Major League Baseball second baseman.
1969: Paul Rudd, American actor.
[Credits in 'Clueless' and 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin.']
1971: Lou Merloni, American sportscaster, and former Major League Baseball player.
[Nicknamed 'Sweet Lou.']
1975: Zach Braff, American actor and filmmaker.
1998: Peyton List, American actress.
2012: Twin mongoose lemurs [born at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida].

Deaths:

1199: King Richard I, English monarch. [Born: September 8, 1157]
[Called 'Richard the Lionheart.]
1520: Raphael, Italian Renaissance painter. [Born: March 28 or April 6, 1483]
1970: Sam Sheppard, American osteopath. [Born: December 29, 1923]
[Subject of a controversial murder trial.]
1998: Tammy Wynette, American country music singer and songwriter. [Born: May 5, 1942]
[Considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.]
2004: Niki Sullivan, American rock and roll guitarist, born in South Gate, California. [Born: June 23, 1937]
[Guitarist for 'Buddy Holly and the Crickets.']
2005: Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Prince of Monaco. [Born: May 13, 1923]
2010: Corin Redgrave, English actor. [Born: July 16, 1939]
2012: Thomas Kinkade, American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. [Born: January 19, 1958]
[Often referred to as 'Painter of Light']
2014: Mickey Rooney, American actor. [Born: September 23, 1920]
[In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era.]
2015: James Best, American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. [Born: July 26, 1926]
[Best known as Rosco P. Coltrane on 'The Dukes of Hazzard.']
2016: Merle Haggard, American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. [Born: April 6, 1937]
[As mentioned above, he shares his birth and death date.]

2023: Ingvar Hirdwall, Swedish actor. [Born: December 5, 1934]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 5th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 5 | Birthdays & Events]

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Early History:

823 - Lothair I is crowned King of Italy.
1242 - The Battle on the Ice on Lake Peipus.
1614 - Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia.
1768 - The first Chamber of Commerce is formed in New York City.  
1792 - George Washington exercises the first presidential veto.
[President Washington vetoes his first bill.]
1795 - Peace of Basel between France and Prussia.
1818 - The Battle of Maipú, a key event in Chile's independence.
1859 - Charles Darwin sends the first chapters of 'On the Origin of Species' to his publisher.
1862 - The Battle of Yorktown begins in the American Civil War.
1887 - Anne Sullivan makes a breakthrough with blind/deaf student Helen Keller, by conveying the meaning of the word water.
[Anne Sullivan teaches 'water' to a 6-year old Helen Keller.]

20th Century:

1915 - Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson to win world heavyweight boxing title.
1917 - Women are granted the right to vote in British Columbia.
1922 - The American Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood) is founded.
1923 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. begin production of inflatable tires.
1955 - Richard J. Daley is elected to his first term as Chicago’s 39th mayor.
1955 - Winston Churchill retires as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1963 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, declares a security risk in 1954, and is named winner of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Enrico Ferni award.
1965 - 'My Fair Lady' wins an Academy Award for Best Picture.
1968 - James Brown helps to keep peace in Boston after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1970 - Bobby Orr first NHL defenseman wins scoring title.
1974 - Stephen King publishes his first novel ('Carrie'), which was later turned into a horror film.  
1976 - Howard Hughes dies.  
1984 - Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [L.A. Lakers] becomes the highest scoring player in NBA history. He reached 31,420 points, beating Wilt Chamberlain’s record.
[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks the NBA all-time scoring record.]
1986 - The La Belle nightclub bombing in West Berlin.
1998 - The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan opens.

21st Century:

2003 - A camel named Bert is deputized, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California.
2005 - A minor earthquake shakes southeastern Massachusetts.
2007 - Elsie McLean, at 102 years old, becomes the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.

Other Observances:

National Deep Dish Pizza Day
National Flash Drive Day
National Love Our Children Day  [First Saturday of April]
Gold Star Spouses Day
First Contact Day
National Read A Road Map Day
National Go For Broke Day
National Caramel Day
National Raisin and Spice Bar Day
National Play Outside Day  [First Saturday of Every Month]
National Nebraska Day

Born:

1588: Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher. [Died: December 4, 1679]
[Best known for his 1651 book 'Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.]
1761: Sybil Ludington, The daughter of a Colonel Henry Ludington who apparently rode 40 miles throughout the night on horseback to alert British militiamen were on their way. [Died: February 26, 1839]
1934: Prentice Mulford, American literary humorist and California author. [Died: May 30, 1891]
[Author who contributed to the New Thought Movement, including the Law of Attraction theory.]
1856: Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, and orator. [Died: November 14, 1915]
[The first Black person on a U.S. stamp]
1858: Washington Atlee Burpee, Botanist, and seedsman. [Died: November 26, 1915]
[Founder of the W. Atlee Burpee & Company, now more commonly known as 'Burpee Seeds.']
1872: Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety [rules], food science, public health, and industrial microbiology. [Died: March 19, 1962]
1894: Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation. [Died: October 20, 1956]
1899: Alfred Blalock, Academic and American surgeon. [Died: September 15, 1964]
[Widely known for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as Tetralogy of Fallot, which is commonly known as blue baby syndrome.]
1900: Spencer Tracy, American actor. [Died: June 10, 1967]
1908: Bette Davis, American actress of film, television, and theater. [Died: October 6, 1989]
[Actress who is celebrated as one of Hollywood's greatest actresses.]
1908: Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor. [Died: July 16, 1989]
1909: Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. [Died: June 27, 1996]
1916: Gregory Peck, American actor. [Died: June 12, 2003]
[One of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.]
1916: Bernard Baily, American comic book artist. [Died: January 19, 1996]
[Best known as co-creator of the DC Comics.]
1925: Janet Rowley, American human geneticist. [Died: December 17, 2013]
[She was the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.]
1930: Mary Costa, American retired actress and singer.
[Most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the original [1959 Disney animated] 'Sleeping Beauty.']
1937: Allan R. Thieme, Inventor of the first electric mobility scooter [Amigo Mobility].
1937: Colin Powell, American diplomat. [Died: October 18, 2021]
[Former U.S. Secretary of State.]
1949: Judith Resnik, American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. [Died: January 28, 1986]
1950: Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer, songwriter, and a former member of the pop group ABBA.
1950: Franklin Chang-Diaz, Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut.
1951: Dean Kamen, American engineer, inventor, and businessman.
[He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 patents.]
1966: Mike McCready, American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam.
1972: Krista Allen, American actress and model.

Died:

1697: Karl XI, King of Sweden. [Born: December 4 [O.S. November 24], 1655]
1976: Howard Hughes, American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and aircraft pilot. [Born: December 24, 1905]
1992: Sam Walton, American business magnate.
[Best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983, respectively.]
1994: Kurt Cobain, American musician. [Born: February 20, 1967]
1997: Allen Ginsberg, American poet and writer. [Born: June 3, 1926]
2000: Lee Petty, American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. [Born: March 14, 1914]
2005: Saul Bellow, Canadian American writer. [Born: June 10, 1915]
[Author of 'Humboldt’s Gift' and other novels, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.]
2008: Charlton Heston, American actor. [Born: October 4, 1923]
2020: Bobby Mitchell, American professional football player. [Born: June 6, 1935]
2023: Bill Butler, American cinematographer. [Born: April 7, 1921]
[Known for his work on The Conversation (1974), Jaws (1975), and three Rocky sequels.]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 4th:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 4 | Birthdays & Events]

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1581 - Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation of the world and is later knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for this feat.
1789 - The first Congress begins their regular session.
1818 - The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and a star for each of the 20 states [at the time].
[Congress decides the U.S. flag will have 13 red and white stripes, and 20 stars.]
1841 - William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, dies of pneumonia after serving only 32 days in office. The first U.S. President to die in office.
[The shortest term in U.S. presidential history.]
1841 - Vice President John Tyler replaces President Harrison after his death.
[John Tyler becomes the first Vice President to assume the presidency.]
1850 - Los Angeles, California, is incorporated as a city.
1887 - Susanna M. Salter is elected as the first female mayor in the United States, in Argonia, Kansas.
[Susanna Madora Salter becomes the first woman to be elected mayor of an American community, in Argonia, Kansas.]
1925 - First one-way radio telephone communication, New York to Delaware.
1945 - The U.S. Army liberates the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty is signed in Washington, D.C.
[The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty by twelve nations, forming a military alliance for common defense.]
1960 - Ben Hur wins 11 Academy Awards.
1964 - The Beatles occupy all the top 5 positions on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray.
[This tragic event sparked riots in over 100 U.S. cities and had a profound impact on the Civil Rights Movement.]
1969 - The world’s first totally artificial heart is implanted in a human, by US surgeon, Dr. Denton A. Cooley.
[The patient, Haskell Karp, lived only a few days, dying of pneumonia and kidney failure.]
1973 - The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are officially dedicated.
[At the time, it was the tallest building in the world.]
1975 - An Air Force plane carrying orphans crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam, killing 172 people.
1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft, which would become a leading force in the personal computer revolution.
1979 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former President of Pakistan, is executed despite international appeals for clemency.
1984 - President Reagan calls for a ban on chemical weapons.
2005 - Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith’s son accepts the nation’s highest award for valor for his late father, who exposed himself to enemy fire in Iraq and saved at least 100 of his fellow U.S. soldiers. It was the first medal of honor awarded in the Iraq War.
2010 - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali.
2023 - Finland officially becomes a member of NATO.  
2025 - The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, following his declaration of martial law, is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

Other Observances:

National Vitamin C Day
Jeep 4x4 Day
National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day
National School Librarian Day
National Hug a Newsperson Day
National Walk Around Things Day
World Rat Day
404 Day
International Carrot Day
International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
National Picky Eaters Day
Qingming Festival  [Celebrated in China and some other East Asian countries]

Born:

1802: Dorothea Dix, American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. [Died: July 17, 1887]
[American social reformer who championed the cause of the mentally ill. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses. She was a nurse who advocated on behalf of the mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums.]
1821: Linus Yale Jr., American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. Inventor of the cylinder lock. [Died: December 25, 1868]
1843: William Henry Jackson, American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer. Famous for his images of the American West. [Died: June 30, 1942]
1869: Mary Colter, American architect and designer. [Died: January 8, 1958]
[She was one of the very few female American architects in her day. She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, notably in Grand Canyon National Park. She also designed the Desert View Watchtower. Her work had enormous influence as she helped to create a style, blending Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission Revival architecture with Native American motifs and Rustic elements, that became popular throughout the Southwest. Colter was a perfectionist, who spent a lifetime advocating and defending her aesthetic vision in a largely male-dominated field.]
1884: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor. [Died: April 18, 1884]
1887: William Cumming Rose, American biochemist and nutritionist. [Died: September 25, 1985]
[He discovered the amino acid threonine, and his research determined the necessity for essential amino acids in diet and the minimum daily requirements of all amino acids for optimal growth.]
1913: Tris Speaker, American professional baseball player and manager. Considered one if the greatest MLB players of all time. [Died: December 8, 1958]
1913: Jules Léger, Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as the 21st governor general of Canada from 1974 to 1979. [Died: November 22, 1980]
1913: Frances Langford, American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades. [Died: July 11, 2005]
[Known as 'G.I. Nightingale,' and was considered the American armed-forces sweetheart.]
1913: Muddy Waters, Influential American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the 'Father of Modern Chicago Blues.' [Died: April 30, 1983]
1922: Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor. [Died: August 18, 2004]
[A composer of some of the most famous film scores of all time, including The Ten Commandments (1956), The Great Escape (1963), Animal House (1978), and Ghostbusters (1984)].
1928: Maya Angelou, Memoirist and celebrated American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, best known for her autobiography 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.' [Died: May 28, 2014]
1932: Clive Davis, Prominent American record producer and executive who founded Arista Records and J Records.
1932: Anthony Perkins, American actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.' [Died: September 12, 1992]
1933: Bill France, Jr., American motorsports executive who served from 1972 to 2000 as the chief executive officer (CEO) of NASCAR. [Died: June 4, 2007]
1944: Craig T. Nelson, Actor best known his role as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach. American actor known for his roles in the TV series 'Coach,' and the movie 'Poltergeist.'
1956: Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
1965: Robert Downey Jr., Acclaimed award-winning American actor on the big screen and Broadway.
[Known for his roles in Chaplin, Iron Man [in ten Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Sherlock Holmes.]
1966: Nancy McKeon, American actress.
[She is known for her roles as Jo Polniaczek on the NBC sitcom 'The Facts of Life,' and Jinny Exstead on 'The Division.']
1973: David Blain, American magician, mentalist, and endurance performer.
1976: James Roday, American actor, director, and screenwriter.
1979: Heath Ledger, Australian actor who received critical acclaim for his roles in 'The Dark Knight' and 'Brokeback Mountain. [Died: January 22, 2008]
1979: Roberto Luongo, Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.

1979: Natasha Lyonne, American actress, writer, director, and producer.
[Known for her roles in 'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Russian Doll.']

1983: Eric Andre, American comedian, actor, television host, writer, producer, and musician.
2012: Tardar Sauce/Grumpy Cat, American internet celebrity cat. [Died: May 14, 2019]
[She was the subject of a popular Internet meme in which humorously negative, cynical images were made from photographs of her.]

Died:

1807: Jérôme Lalande, French astronomer, freemason and writer. [Born: 11 July 1732]

1841: William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States. [Born: February 9, 1773]
[Serving from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history.]
1929: Karl Benz, German engineer and automobile pioneer who founded Mercedes-Benz. [Born: November 25, 1844]
1968: Martin Luther King Jr., American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. [Born: January 15, 1929]
1979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 4th President of Pakistan. [Born: January 5, 1928]
[Pakistani barrister, politician, and statesman. He served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. Bhutto founded the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and served as its chairman until his execution for murder.]
1983: Gloria Swanson, American actress. [Born: March 27, 1899]
2013: Roger Ebert, Renowned American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. [Born: June 18, 1942]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 3rd:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 3 | Birthdays & Events]

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1513 - Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain.  
1776 - George Washington receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard College.
1776 - The Continental Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels.
1829 - James Carrington patents a coffee mill.
1848 - Thomas Douglas becomes the first public teacher in San Francisco.
1860 - The Pony Express begins delivering mail by horse and rider.
1865 - Confederate capital of Richmond is captured.
1882 - Outlaw Jesse James is killed.
[The outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang.]
1920 - Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre are married.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.
Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby – 1936
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan to authorize $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1953 - TV Guide publishes their first issue, with Lucille Ball's son on the cover.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I've Been to the Mountaintop speech.
1973 - Martin Cooper (of Motorola) makes the first handheld mobile phone call.
1978 - Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall wins four Academy Awards, including that for Best Picture.
1882 - Jesse James is murdered.
1989 - The Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi.
1996 - The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is arrested.
2007 - A French train breaks the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph.
2009 - The Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement with Canada and British Columbia goes into effect.

Other Observances:

National Burrito Day  [First Thursday in April]
Pony Express Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
World Party Day
National Tweed Day
Independent Artist Day
Fan Dance Day
National Film Score Day
National Grey Day  [International]
National Find a Rainbow Day
Weed Out Hate Day
American Circus Day

Born:

1783: Washington Irving, American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. [Died: November 28, 1859]
1837: John Burroughs, American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. [Died: March 29, 1921]
1893: Leslie Howard, English actor, director, producer and writer. [Died: June 1, 1943]
1922: Doris Day, American actress and singer. [Died: May 13, 2019]
1924: Marlon Brando, American actor. [Died: July 1, 2004]
1934: Jane Goodall, English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist [renowned for her work with chimpanzees].
1942: Wayne Newton, also known as 'Mr. Las Vegas,' is an American singer and actor.
1958: Alec Baldwin, American actor and film producer.
1959: David Hyde Pierce, American actor.
1961: Eddie Murphy, American actor, comedian, and singer.
1973: Adam Scott, American Actor.
1982: Sofia Boutella, Algerian actress, dancer and model.
1986: Amanda Bynes, American actress. ['The Amanda Show' and 'All That' - Nickelodeon]

Died:

1882: Jesse James, American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. [Born: September 5, 1847]
1897: Johannes Brahms, German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. [Born: 7 May 1833]
1990: Sarah Vaughn, American jazz singer and pianist. [Nicknamed 'Sassy' and 'The Divine One'] [Born: March 27, 1924]
1991: Graham Greene, English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. [Born: October 2, 1904]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 2nd:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 2 | Birthdays & Events]

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1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León becomes the first known European to reach Florida.
[Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida and claimed it for the King of Spain.]
1792 - U.S. Mint is established.
[The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint in Philadelphia. The act also authorizes the minting of the first U.S. coins, including gold eagles, half-eagles, and quarter-eagles, as well as silver dollars, half-dollars, quarters, dimes, and half-dimes.]
1800 - Ludwig van Beethoven's First Symphony premieres in Vienna, Austria.
1801 - During the Napoleonic Wars, the British Navy defeats the Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.
1819 - American Farmer journal is founded.
[The American Farmer is published for the first time.]
1827 - Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils.
1863 - A major bread riot occurs in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, as desperate citizens demand food.
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee informs President Jefferson Davis that Richmond, Virginia, must be evacuated due to the Union Army's advance. Davis and his cabinet flee the city.
1866 - President Johnson ends the civil war.
1868 - 7.9 earthquake triggers a tsunami in Hawaii.
1872 - Engineer George Brayton patents an internal combustion engine.
[George Brayton patents the first commercially successful internal combustion engine.]
1889 - Charles Martin Hall patents an inexpensive way to make aluminum.
1902 - The first full-time movie theater opens in LA.
[The 'Electric Theatre,' the first dedicated movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.]
1911 - The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the first national census of Australia.
1917 - Jeannette Rankin (MT) begins her term as the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
[Jeannette Rankin of Montana is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.]
1917 - President Wilson asks the Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
[U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany, marking the entry of the United States into World War I.]
1930 - Haile Selassie is proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia following the death of Empress Zewditu.
1931 - A 17-year old girl named Jackie Mitchell strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition baseball game.
1932 - Charles Lindbergh pays a $50,000 ransom for his kidnapped son.
1935 - Mary Hirsch becomes the first woman licensed as a horse trainer in the United States.
1956 - 'As the World Turns' debuts on television.
[The soap operas 'As the World Turns' and 'The Edge of Night' premiere on CBS.]
1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Zond 1 spacecraft towards Venus.
1968 - Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey' has its world premiere in Washington, D.C.
1973 - 199.5+ mph wind gust recorded at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire.
1978 - 'Dallas' makes its television debut.
1979 - The Sverdlovsk anthrax leak occurs at a Soviet bioweapons facility, leading to numerous deaths, though initially downplayed by Soviet authorities.
1982 - Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, initiating the Falklands War with the United Kingdom.

1992 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted on 13 counts, including murder and racketeering.  
2002 - Israeli forces besiege the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where armed Palestinians have taken refuge.  
2011 - India wins the Cricket World Cup for the second time, defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
2012 - A mass shooting occurs at Oikos University in Oakland, California, resulting in seven deaths and three injuries.
 
Other Observances:

Childhelp National Day of Hope  [USA]  [First Wednesday in April]
[This day raises awareness about child abuse and neglect.]  
Global Day of the Engineer  [First Wednesday in April]
[This day recognizes the contributions of engineers to society.]
International Children's Book Day
International Fact-Checking Day
National Ferret Day  [USA]
National Love Your Produce Manager Day  [USA]
National DIY Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day  [USA]
National Walking Day  [USA]
Pascua Florida Day  [Florida, USA]
[Usually observed on April 2nd [but can vary], commemorating Juan Ponce de León's arrival in Florida.]
Reconciliation Day  [USA]
[An unofficial holiday to encourage mending broken relationships.]
World Autism Awareness Day
[A UN-designated day observed annually to raise awareness about autism spectrum disorder.]
Day of Hope  [First Wednesday in April]

Born:

742: Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor. [Died: January 28, 814]
[King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.]
1725: Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer. [Died: June 4, 1798]
1805: Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author. [Died: August 4, 1875]
1814: Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor of weaving machines, industrialist, and a founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Died: December 6, 1879.]
1840: Émile Zola, French novelist and essayist. [Died: September 29, 1902]
1875: Walter Chrysler, American automotive pioneer and founder of the Chrysler Corporation. [Died: August 18, 1940]
1891: Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and a pioneer of the Dada and Surrealist movements. [Died: April 1, 1976]
1908: Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer.
1908: Charles 'Honi' Coles, American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the 'American Tap Dance' Hall of Fame in 2003. [Died: November 12, 1992]
1914: Sir Alec Guinness, English actor.
[Known for roles in 'Star Wars' and 'Lawrence of Arabia.']
1939: Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter, known as the 'Prince of Soul.' [Died: April 1, 1984]
1947: Emmylou Harris, American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist.
1955: Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian. ['Saturday Night Live,' and 'Wayne's World]
1961: Christopher Meloni, American actor.  ['Law & Order: Special Victims Unit']
1962: Clark Gregg, American actor, director, and screenwriter.  ['Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.']
1975: Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor.  ['The Mandalorian,' 'Game of Thrones,' and 'The Last of Us']
1977: Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor.  ['X-Men,' 'Shame,' and '12 Years a Slave']

1988: Jesse Plemons, American actor.  ['Fargo,' and 'Breaking Bad']
2002: Emma Myers, American actress.  ['Wednesday']

Died:

1872: Samuel Morse, American inventor [of the telegraph], and painter.
1966: C. S. Forester, English novelist.
1974: Georges Pompidou, former President of France.
1987: Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
2005: Pope John Paul II, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death, in 2005.
2013: Jane Henson, American puppeteer and co-founder of Muppets, Inc. with her husband Jim Henson.
2015: Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist.

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for April 1st:

[source: National Day Calendar - April 1 | Birthdays & Events]

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1789 - The first U.S. House of Representatives achieves its first quorum in New York City and elected Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1816 - Jane Austen declines writing advice from the Prince Regent's librarian, suggesting she write a historical romance.
1853 - Cincinnati becomes the first city to employ full-time professional firefighters.
[In Ohio, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time, salaried fire department in the U.S.]
1863 - The first wartime enlistment law goes into effect.
1865 - During the American Civil War, Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett at the Battle of Five Forks, cutting off the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1867 - Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1873 - The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, resulting in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century with over 500 deaths.
1889 - Josephine Cochran markets the first dishwasher.
1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded.
1900 - Prince George becomes the absolute monarch of the Cretan State.
1918 - The Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).
1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in fortress confinement for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch, though he served less than a year.  
1933 - The Nazi regime in Germany organizes a one-day boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, marking a significant step in their persecution of Jews.  
1939 - General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 - U.S. ground forces invade Okinawa.
[The U.S. invasion of Okinawa begins (WW II).]
1946 - An 8.6 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands triggers a massive tsunami that caused significant damage and killed 159 people in Hawaii.
1948 - Cosmologists Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, and George Gamow propose the Big Bang theory in a scientific journal.
1948 - The Faroe Islands gains autonomy from Denmark.
1954 - President Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1954 - The first U.S. Army helicopter battalion forms at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
1954 - The Air Force Academy is established.
[The United States Air Force Academy is established.]
1955 - The EOKA rebellion against British rule begin in Cyprus.
1957 - The BBC broadcasts the famous 'spaghetti tree hoax' on their current affairs program Panorama.
1960 - The satellite Tiros I is launched from Cape Canaveral and eventually transmitting thousands of photographs showing the distribution of Earth’s cloud formations.
1963 - The soap operas General Hospital and The Doctors premiere on ABC and NBC, respectively.
1967 - The U.S. Department of Transportation begins operation.
1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1970 - President Nixon signs a bill limiting cigarette advertisements.
[President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette ads on TV and radio.]  
1972 - Major League Baseball players go on strike [for the first time in history] over pension disputes.
1976 - Apple Computer, Inc. is founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ronald Wayne.
1979 - Iran officially becomes an Islamic republic following a referendum.  
1984 - Singer Marvin Gaye is tragically shot and killed by his father.
1991 - The Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race.
1993 - NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash.  
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp passes perihelion, its closest point to the sun, making it highly visible.  
1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory.
2001 - Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, surrenders to police to face war crimes charges.
2001 - The Netherlands become the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2002 - The Netherlands legalize euthanasia.
2004 - Google launches its email service, Gmail.
2007 - French acrobat Willy Martignon breaks the world record for longest-distance somersaulting slam dunk.

Other Observances:

April Fools' Day
National Tom Foolerys Day
National Sourdough Bread Day
National One Cent Day
SAAM Day of Action  [First Tuesday in April]
Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action  [Changes Annually]
International Fun at Work Day
U.S. Air Force Academy Day
National Reading is Funny Day
Boomer Bonus Days
St. Stupid Day
National Trombone Players Day  [International]
Fossil Fools Day
International Tatting Day
Library Snap Shot Day
Lupus Alert Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
Nickelodeon Anniversary Celebration Day
National Greeting Card Day
National Loyal Day
Assyrian New Year (Kha b-Nisan)
Edible Book Day
Cyprus National Holiday
Odisha Day
[Or, ‘Utkal Divas,’ is a regional Indian holiday celebrated every April 1.]
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month  [Changes Annually]

Born:

1578: William Harvey, English physician who described the circulatory system. [Died: June 3, 1657]
1815: Otto von Bismarck, German statesman who unified Germany. [Died: July 30, 1898]
1852: Edwin Austin Abbey, American muralist, illustrator, and painter. [Died: August 1, 1911]
1873: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. [Died: March 28, 1943]
[(1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873]
1875: Edgar Wallace, English-British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories. writer. [Died: February 10, 1932]
1908: Abraham Maslow, American psychologist known for Maslow's hierarchy of needs. [Died: June 8, 1970]
1920: Toshiro Mifune, iconic Japanese actor and producer. [Died: December 24, 1997]
1927: Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian football player (and manager), one of the greatest of all time. [Died: November 17, 2006]
1932: Gordon Jump, American actor. [Died: September 22, 2003]
[Best known for playing Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson in the series WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982).]
1932: Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and entrepreneur. [Died: December 28, 2016]
[Her acting career spanned almost 70 years. Reynolds performed on stage and television and in films into her 80s.]
1938: Ali MacGraw, American actress.
1940: Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate. [Died: September 25, 2011]
1947: Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter.
1961: Susan Boyle, Scottish singer.
1971: Method Man, American rapper and actor.
1980: Randy Orton, American professional wrestler.
1988: Courtney McCool, American former artistic gymnast who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Died:

1917: Scott Joplin, American composer and pianist. Dubbed the 'King of Ragtime.'
1930: Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner.
1976: Max Ernst, German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.
[A leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements.]
1984: Marvin Gaye, American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
[He helped shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s.]
1991: Martha Graham, American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.
2005: Pope John Paul II, head of the Catholic Church.
[He was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.]
2010: John Forsythe, American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist.
[His career spanned six decades.]
2015: Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian. - Japanese woman who was recognized as the world’s oldest person at the time.
[She was born on March 5, 1898, and died at age 117, in 2015.]
[Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years.]
2019: Dan Robbins, Artist who created paint-by-number pictures.

2025: Val Kilmer, American actor.

[Kilmer died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on April 1, 2025, at the age of 65.]

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Notable Events for March 31st:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 31 | Birthdays & Events]

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1492 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile issue the Alhambra Decree, ordering the expulsion of Jews from Spain unless they convert to Christianity.
[This was a significant event in Spanish history, marking the end of a long period of Jewish presence in the country.]
1736 - Bellevue Hospital is founded in New York City and becomes the first public hospital in the U.S.
[While Bellevue Hospital has a long history, its origins trace back to an almshouse in the 1730s. It's more accurate to say that it evolved into the first public hospital in the U.S. later.]
1774 - The Boston Port Act is passed by the British Parliament, closing the port of Boston as a response to the Boston Tea Party. This act was one of the Intolerable Acts that fueled the American Revolution.
1776 - Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John, at the second Continental Congress about the proposed Declaration of Independence, 'Remember the ladies and be more favorable and generous to them than your ancestors.'
[Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the Continental Congress to 'remember the ladies' when drafting the new nation's laws, highlighting early advocacy for women's rights.]
1840 - President Van Buren issues executive order establishing 10-hour workday for federal employees.
1854 - Commodore Matthew C. Perry signs Treaty of Kanagawa of friendship and trade with Japan.
[This event opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and ending Japan's long period of isolation.]
1870 - Thomas Mundy Peterson (NJ) becomes the first Black to vote in the U.S. under the provisions of the 15th Amendment.
1880 - Wabash, Indiana, claims to be the first town to claim to use electric lighting throughout the town.
[It's more accurately stated that Wabash, Indiana, became the first incorporated community to be completely illuminated by electricity. Hence, Wabash, Indiana, becomes first incorporated community to be completely illuminated by electricity.]
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris, France.
[The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, was officially inaugurated, becoming an iconic symbol of the city and the country.]
1905 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visits Tangier, Morocco, and declares his support for the Sultan of Morocco's independence, sparking the First Moroccan Crisis and increasing tensions between European powers.
1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association is formed.
[It later become known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association.]
1917 - United States takes formal possession of Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1918 - The first daylight saving time goes into effect.
[Daylight Saving Time, greeted by opposition from farmers, goes into effect for first time.]
1923 - The first dance marathon is held in the U.S.
1930 - Longview Bridge (Lewis and Clark Bridge) opens in Washington/Oregon.
1931 - A devastating earthquake strikes Managua, Nicaragua, killing an estimated 2,000 people.
1933 - Act creating Civilian Conservation Corps for unemployed young men is signed by President FDR.
[President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of the New Deal, providing jobs to unemployed young men during the Great Depression.]
1939 - In the lead-up to World War II, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pledges British military support to Poland if it was invaded by Nazi Germany.
1943 - Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma opens on Broadway.
[The groundbreaking musical 'Oklahoma!' premiered on Broadway, revolutionizing musical theatre.]
1945 - Towards the end of World War II, a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet fighter, to the Americans.
1948 - Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe.
[In 1948, the US Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act, also known as the Marshall Plan, to provide economic aid to war-torn Western Europe, aiming to rebuild its infrastructure and economies, and to prevent the spread of communism.]
1949 - Newfoundland joins Canadian Federation as the tenth province.
[Newfoundland officially became the 10th province of Canada.]
1953 - The Department of Health, Education and Welfare established.
1959 - The Dalai Lama fleeing Chinese occupation of Tibet, is given political asylum by India.
[The Dalai Lama fled Tibet and was granted political asylum in India following the Chinese suppression of a national uprising.]
1964 - A military coup in Brazil marks the beginning of a 21-year military dictatorship.
1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which becomes the first space probe to orbit the Moon.
1967 - NATO Supreme Military Headquarters formally opened in Casteau, Belgium.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix infamously burns his guitar in London.
[On March 31, 1967, Jimi Hendrix famously set his guitar on fire for the first time, during a performance at The Astoria Theatre in London. During a performance at the Astoria Theatre in London, Hendrix doused his guitar with fuel, lit it on fire, and then smashed it on stage. This was a groundbreaking moment in rock and roll history, as Hendrix's performance was a mix of showmanship and musical innovation.]
1968 - President Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, increasing the number of soldiers to 549,500.
1968 - In a television speech, President Lyndon Johnson announces he would neither seek nor accept nomination for another term.
[President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election as President of the United States.]
1969 - Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five, is published.
1970 - The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, returns to the earth’s atmosphere more than 12 years after its launch.
[On March 31, 1970, the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, reentered Earth's atmosphere and burned up after remaining in orbit for over 12 years, having circled the Earth more than 58,000 times. Explorer 1, the first U.S.-built payload to enter Earth orbit, was launched on January 31, 1958, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Jupiter-C rocket. It was in response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, marking the beginning of the U.S. Space Age.]
1971 - U.S. Army jury sentences Lt. William Calley to life imprisonment for murder of S. Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968.
[He was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 29, 1971. The sentence was later reduced.]
1972 - The Beatles Fan Club is officially disbanded.
1976 - The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that the mechanical life sustaining system could be removed from Karen Ann Quinlan.
1982 - Team owners and the National Basketball Players Association agree on a four-year labor contract which introduced revenue sharing for players for the first time in professional sports.
1985 - The first WrestleMania is held in New York City, marking the beginning of a major annual event in professional wrestling.
1987 - New Jersey judge Harvey R. Sorkow awards custody of 'Baby M' to William and Elizabeth Stern and ruled that the surrogate parents’ contracts were 'constitutionally protected.'
[On March 31, 1987, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey R. Sorkow awarded custody of 'Baby M' to William and Elizabeth Stern, upholding the surrogacy contract and ruling it 'constitutionally protected,' while terminating the parental rights of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead.]
1990 - Large-scale riots erupts in London in protest against the newly introduced poll tax.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact, the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states, is formally disbanded.
1991 - Georgia holds a referendum where nearly 99% of voters support independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned.  
1993 - Actor Brandon Lee tragically dies in an accidental shooting on the set of the film 'The Crow.'
1995 - Tejano music superstar Selena is murdered by the president of her fan club.  
1999 - The science fiction film 'The Matrix' is released in theaters, becoming a major cultural phenomenon.
1999 - A modernization of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' is released.
['10 Things I Hate About You.']
2005: The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered.
2016 - NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a year-long mission.
[NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth after a year-long mission on the International Space Station.]
2017 - Crayola announces that the color dandelion would be retired from its 24-crayon pack to be replaced by a color in the blue family.
2022 - The city of Bucha, Ukraine, is liberated from Russian occupation, revealing evidence of extensive war crimes.
2023 - A significant tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.

Other Observances:

Cesar Chavez Day
National Crayon Day
National Prom Day
National Tater Day
National Bunsen Burner Day
National Clams on the Half Shell Day
World Backup Day
International Transgender Day of Visibility
  
Born:

1596: René Descartes, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. [Died: February 11, 1650]
1621: Andrew Marvell, English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician. [Died: August 16, 1678]
1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. [31 March [O.S. 21 March]] [Died: July 28, 1750]
1732: Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer. [Died: May 31, 1809]
1811: Robert Bunsen , German chemist. [Died: August 6, 1899]
1835: John La Farge, American artist. [Died: November 14, 1910]
1878: Jack Johnson, American boxer [Died: June 10, 1946]
1908: Kenneth "Red" Norvo, American musician, one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as 'Mr. Swing.' [Died: April 6, 1999]
1914: Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat. [Died: April 19, 1998]
1927: William Daniels, American actor.
1927: Cesar Chavez, American labor leader and civil rights activist (founder of United Farm Workers). [Died: April 23, 1993]
1929: Liz Claiborne, American fashion designer and businesswoman. [Died: June 26, 2007]
1934: Shirley Jones, American actress and singer.
1934: Richard Chamberlain, American actor and singer. [Died: March 29, 2025]
1943: Christopher Walken, American actor.
1945: Gabe Kaplan, American actor, comedian, and professional poker player.
1948: Al Gore, American politician, businessman, and environmentalist. He served as the 45th Vice President of the United States, from 1993 to 2001, under President Bill Clinton.
1948: Rhea Perlman, American actress.
1971: Pavel Bure, Russian former professional ice hockey player.
1971: Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor.
1976: Josh Saviano, American lawyer and former child actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Pfeiffer, in the ABC television show The Wonder Years.

Died:

1621: Philip III of Spain, King of Spain from 1598 until his death in 1621.
1850: John C. Calhoun, American statesman and former Vice President of the United States.
1931: Knute Rockne, American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.
1945: Anne Frank, German diarist and Holocaust victim.
[German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.]
1972: Meena Kumari, Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films.
1980: Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
1993: Brandon Lee, American actor.
1995: Selena, Mexican-American singer-songwriter.
2004: Scott Helvenston, American security contractor and former United States Navy SEAL.
2005: Frank Perdue, president and CEO of Perdue Farms.

2005: Terri Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. [died after a national controversy about the legality of terminating her medical life-support system.]
2013: Bob Clarke, American illustrator whose work appeared in advertisements and MAD Magazine.

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Notable Events for March 30th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 30 | Birthdays & Events]

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Early History:

598 - During the Avar-Byzantine wars, the Avars lifted their siege of the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis.
1282 - The Sicilian Vespers began as the people of Sicily rebelled against the Angevin king Charles I.
1296 - Edward I of England sacked Berwick-upon-Tweed during conflict with Scotland.

17th to 19th Century:

1791 - President Washington proclaims boundary of new capital city on Potomac River.
1822 - Florida Territory is created in the U.S.
1842 - Ether anesthesia is used for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long.
[Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia.]
1856 - The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the Crimean War.
1858 - Hyman Lipman receives the patent for a pencil with an attached eraser.
[H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser. This was a significant step in the development of the modern pencil.]
1867 - Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million.
[America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre.]
1870 - Texas becomes last Confederate state readmitted to Union.
[Marking the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted.]
1870 - Congress adopts the 15th Amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race.
[The 15th Amendment was adopted in 1870.]

20th Century:

1909 - Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opens in New York City.
1910 - The University of Southern Mississippi is founded.
1912 - Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918 - The bloody March Events begins in Baku, Azerbaijan and other locations in the Baku Governorate.
1919 - Mahatma Gandhi starts protesting against the Rowlatt Act.
1923 - The Cunard liner RMS Laconia becomes the first passenger ship to circumnavigate the globe.
1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record.
1939 - The comic strip 'Detective Comics' issue #27 is released, which featured the first appearance of Batman.
1945 - The Soviet Union invades Austria during World War II.
1950 - Bell Telephone Laboratories announces the invention of the phototransistor, a transistor operated by light.
[This invention had significant implications for the future of electronics.]
1954 - Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto).
1956 - Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land is copyrighted.
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City to begin regulation on drugs for medical and scientific use.
[This international treaty was signed in New York City.]
1964 - Jeopardy! game show makes its television debut.
1972 - The last rum ration is issued in the Royal Canadian Navy.
[The Royal Canadian Navy ended the daily rum ration.]
1972 - The Easter Offensive begins in the Vietnam War as North Vietnamese forces crossed into South Vietnam.
1975 - As the Vietnam War nears its end, Communist forces occupy the city of Da Nang.
1976 - Palestinians observe the first Land Day to protest against Israeli land expropriation.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel.
1987 - An anonymous buyer pays over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

21st Century:

2000 - Possible UFO seen at Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory.
[Accuracy cannot be definitively confirmed. While there may have been reports, the existence of a UFO sighting is not a confirmed historical fact.]
2007 - Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulls five railway cars more than 20 feet.
[Accuracy cannot be definitively confirmed. While this may have been reported, it's not a widely recognized historical event.]
2012 - The Mega Millions lottery hits a world record jackpot of $640 million.
2018 - The Israeli Army kills a number of Palestinians during Land Day protests in Gaza.  
2023 - A Manhattan grand jury votes to indict former U.S. President Donald Trump on charges related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Other Observances:

National Doctors' Day
World Bipolar Day
National Pencil Day
National Virtual Vacation Day
National I Am In Control Day
National Take A Walk In The Park Day
National Turkey Neck Soup Day

Born:

1820: Anna Sewell, English novelist. [Died: April 25, 1878]
1853: Vincent van Gogh, Influential Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. [Died: July 29, 1890]
1880: Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist. [Died: September 18, 1964]
1883: Jo Davidson, American sculptor. [Died: January 2, 1952]
1937: Warren Beatty, American actor and filmmaker.
1945: Eric Clapton, English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
1962: MC Hammer, American rapper.
1964: Tracy Chapman, American singer-songwriter.
1968: Celine Dion, Canadian singer.
[Foaled] 1970: Secretariat, champion American thoroughbred racehorse. [Died: October 4, 1989]
1979: Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter and pianist/musician.
1983: Scott Moffatt, Canadian musician.
1984: Anna Nalick, American singer-songwriter.

Died:

2002: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952, as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved on 15 August 1947. [Britain’s beloved “Queen Mum” was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II.]
2004: Timi Yuro, American singer.

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Notable Events for March 29th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 29 | Birthdays & Events]

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1461 - The Battle of Towton, one of the bloodiest battles of the Wars of the Roses, took place in England. Edward IV defeated Henry VI, securing his claim to the throne.
1638 - Swedish Lutherans become the first permanent (white) settlement in Delaware.
[This event is generally accepted as the establishment of the first permanent European settlement in Delaware, known as Fort Christina.]
1806 - First federal highway, the Great National Pike, is authorized.
[The authorization of the National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road or the Great National Pike) occurred in 1806.]
1806 - National Road, the first federally funded road, is authorized.
[This is another way of stating the same event as the previous entry.]
1807 - Vesta, brightest asteroid, is discovered.
[Vesta was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807.]
1812 - The first White House wedding takes place.
[Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd.]
1847 - Gen. Winfield Scott formally occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
[General Winfield Scott's forces occupied Veracruz in March 1847 during the Mexican-American War.]
1848 - Due to ice jam, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for the first time in recorded history.
[This unusual event occurred on March 29, 1848, due to an ice jam on Lake Erie blocking the water flow to the Niagara River.]
1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for women and children (under 18) to work more than 10 hours a day.
[Ohio passed this legislation in 1852, marking an early effort in labor reform.]
1867 - The British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament, creating the Dominion of Canada.
1882 - The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, was chartered in Connecticut.
1886 - The first batch of Coca Cola is brewed over a fire in a backyard in Atlanta.
[John Pemberton created the concoction as a hangover cure, and it was advertised as brain tonic. Cocaine was an ingredient of Coke until 1904 when Congress banned it.]
1919 - First performance of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
[The combined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus premiered in 1919.]
1927 - Sunbeam 1000 HP becomes first car to exceed 200 mph.
[The Sunbeam 1000 HP, driven by Henry Segrave, achieved a land speed record exceeding 200 mph.]
1929 - President Hoover has the first telephone installed in the Oval Office.
1932 - Jack Benny's radio show premieres.
1943 - Meat, butter and cheese are rationed as part of the war effort (WW II).
[World War II food rationing began. While some rationing began earlier, meat, butter, and cheese were added to the list of rationed items.]
1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiring to convey atom bomb secrets to Soviet agents.
1961 - The 23rd Amendment is ratified to allow Washington, D.C. residents to vote in Presidential elections.
1971 - Lt. William Calley Jr. is convicted for massacre of civilians at My Lai, S. Vietnam.
[William Calley Jr. was convicted for his role in the My Lai Massacre.]
1973 - The last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam, marking the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1973 - After protesting—in song—that they were never featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show get their wish. A week later, the band’s single Cover of the Rolling Stone went gold.
[Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show's song 'Cover of the Rolling Stone' did lead to them being featured on the cover of the magazine, and the single went gold.]
1974 - Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
[Mariner 10 made its first flyby of Mercury.]
1974 - Farmers in China discovered the Terracotta Army, an incredible collection of thousands of life-sized terracotta figures depicting warriors and horses from the Qin Dyna
1976 - The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest wins five Academy Awards.
[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won five major Academy Awards at the 48th Academy Awards ceremony.]
1988 - Madonna makes her stage debut in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow in NYC.
[Madonna made her Broadway debut in David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow.]
1989 - First Soviet hockey player signs with the NHL.
[While several Soviet players had previously played in the NHL, 1989 marked a significant shift with more players being allowed to leave the Soviet Union.]
1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes the first woman to be elected premier (P.E.I.) in Canada.
[Catherine Callbeck became the Premier of Prince Edward Island in 1993, the first woman to hold that position in the province.]
2004 - Ireland became the first country in the world to implement a nationwide ban on smoking in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
2006 - Tom Jones is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
2007 - Bono of U2 is crowned a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in an informal ceremony in the Dublin home of British Ambassador David Reddaway.
[Bono received his honorary knighthood in an informal ceremony at the British Ambassador's residence in Dublin.]
2007 - Shiveluch volcano erupts in Kamchatka, Russia.
[The Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka experienced a significant eruption.]

Other Observances:

National Vietnam War Veterans Day
National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day
National Pita Day
National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
National Nevada Day

Born:

1790: John Tyler (10th U.S. President.) [Died January 18, 1862.]
1867: Cy Young (Major League Baseball pitcher, with the most career wins.) [Died November 4, 1955.]
1874: Lou Henry Hoover (American philanthropist, geologist, and U.S. First Lady from 1929-1933.) [Died January 7, 1944.]
1895: Ernst Jünger (German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist.) [Died February 17, 1998.]
1918: Sam Walton (American businessman/founder of Walmart.) [Died April 5, 1992.]
1918: Pearl Bailey (American actress, singer, comedian and author.) [Died August 17, 1990.]
1936: Judith Guest (American novelist and screenwriter.)
1943: Eric Idle (English actor, comedian, musician, playwright, screenwriter and songwriter.)
1943: Sir John Major (British politician/Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.)
1944: Dennis McLain (American former professional baseball player.)

1954: Karen Ann Quinlan, patient on life-support whose parents fought for her right to die. [Died June 11, 1985.]
1956: Kurt Thomas (American Olympic gymnast and part-time actor.) [Died June 5, 2020.]
1964: Elle Macpherson (Australian model, businesswoman, and television host.)
1968: Lucy Lawless (New Zealand actress and director.)
1976: Jennifer Capriati (American former professional tennis player.)

Died:

1772: Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedish scientist and theologian.)
1888: Charles-Valentin Alkan (French composer and pianist.)
1912: Robert Falcon Scott (British Royal Navy officer and explorer.)
1924: Charles Villiers Stanford (Irish composer/music teacher/conductor.)
2005: Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (American attorney - civil rights and police brutality.)
2016: Patty Duke (American actress.)
2018: Anita Shreve (American writer.)

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Notable Events for March 28th:

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845 - Viking raiders sack Paris. This was a significant raid that caused considerable damage and fear in Western Europe.
1384 - Cat eating is condemned by England’s Richard II.
[This event is documented.]
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs receives the patent for a washing machine.
[While there were earlier patents for devices resembling washing machines, Nathaniel Briggs is often credited with one of the early U.S. patents.]
1804 - Ohio passes a law restricting the movement (trade) of Blacks.
[Ohio was one of the states that enacted Black Laws during this period.]
1834 - The U.S. Senate expresses disapproval of President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of U.S.
[The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the U.S. - The Senate did censure Jackson for this action.]
1866 - The first ambulance goes into service for the community in Ohio.

[Likely accurate, but needs more specific context. While ambulance services were developing in the US around this time, pinpointing the very first community ambulance in Ohio on this specific date requires more localized historical records. It's plausible, but not definitively confirmed without further details.]
1885 - The Salvation Army is officially organized in the U.S.
1891 - First world weightlifting championships is held in London.
[This marks the beginning of formal international competition in the sport of weightlifting.]
1910 - Henri Fabre makes the first successful seaplane flight, taking off from water in Martigues, France. This was a significant milestone in aviation history.
1915 - Emma Goldman gives a shocking speech (on contraception) to an audience in NYC.
[She was arrested and given a choice of paying a $100 fine or going to jail for 15 days. She chose jail. This event and the consequences are well-documented.]
1920 - Mary Pickford, 'America's Sweetheart,' marries actor Douglas Fairbanks.
[This was a major celebrity event of the time, uniting two of Hollywood's biggest stars.
1935 - Robert Goddard uses a device to measure and maintain angular velocity (gyroscopes) to control a rocket.
1946 - The U.S. State Department releases a report outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power (Acheson-Lilienthal Report).
1951 - U.S. and U.N. officials signs an agreement permitting the U.N. to issue its own postage stamps.
1957 - The first National Curling Championship is held in Illinois.
[This was the first men's championship; the women's started later.]
1963 - Alfred Hitchcock's thriller film "The Birds" is released in the United States.
1964 - A tsunami in Alaska, strikes Port Alberni, British Columbia, causing significant damage.
[This was a significant event caused by the Alaska earthquake.]
1968 - The rock musical Hair opens at the Biltmore Theater in New York City.
[This was its Broadway debut.]
1973 - Basketball’s Wilt Chamberlain plays his last professional game. In 14 years, 1,045 games, he never fouled out of a game.
[His last game was on this date, and the statistic about not fouling out is a well-known fact about his career.]
1977 - Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone, wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
[This was at the 49th Academy Awards.]
1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in southeastern Pennsylvania seriously malfunctions, raising fears of a meltdown of the reactor’s core, causing the evacuation of thousands and creating widespread concern about the safety of such facilities.
[A partial meltdown in the U.S. Three Mile Island nuclear plant causes the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere.]
1982 - El Chichon volcano in Mexico begins series of eruptions, killing and injuring hundreds.
1982 - The 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000.
1983 - Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii, erupts.
[Kilauea has had many eruption periods, and one began around this time.]
1990 - Michael Jordan scored 69 points in a game.
[This was against the Cleveland Cavaliers.]
1992 - The PBA National Championship is won by Eric Forkel.
[Eric Forkel wins the PBA National Championship in bowling.]
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin claims victory after surviving attempts by the Russian Congress to depose him.
[This refers to the outcome of a referendum on confidence in Yeltsin.]
2005 - A major earthquake strikes off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
2019 - Around 6:15 a.m. EDT, a fireball is seen in the northeastern United States.
[This event was widely reported.]

Other Observances:

National Weed Appreciation Day
Respect Your Cat Day
National Black Forest Cake Day
National Triglycerides Day
National Something on a Stick Day

Born:

William Byrd (satirist) – 1674
August Anheuser Busch Jr. (brewer) – 1899
Rudolf Serkin (pianist) – 1903
Marlin Perkins (zookeeper) – 1905
Nelson Algren (novelist) – 1909
Edmund Muskie (politician) – 1914
Freddie Bartholomew (actor) – 1924
Dianne Wiest (actress) – 1948
Reba McEntire (country singer) – 1955
Vince Vaughn (actor) – 1970
Julia Stiles (actress) – 1981
Lady Gaga (entertainer) – 1986

Died:

Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible – 1584
Virginia Woolf – 1941

Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian composer) – 1943
[Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff died on March 28, 1943, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, four days before his 70th birthday, from melanoma.]
Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th U.S. president) – 1969
Maria von Trapp (singer) – 1987
Eugene Ionesco (playwright) – 1994
Peter Ustinov (actor, playwright, novelist, & director) – 2004
Art James (television game show host and announcer) – 2004
Richard Griffiths (actor) – 2013
James Noble (actor) – 2016
Peggy Fortnum (illustrator) – 2016

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Notable Events for March 27th:

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March 27th is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 279 days remaining until the end of the year.

1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America, specifically the peninsula of Florida, though he didn't go ashore until April 2nd. The exact location of his first sighting is debated, but it was somewhere along the northeastern coast of present-day Florida.
1776 - British General William Howe, his troops, and many Tories, sail from Boston’s outer harbor for Halifax, Nova Scotia, after evacuating the city.
1794 - The U.S. Government establishes a permanent Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
[This act provided the foundation for the United States Navy.]
1841 - The first steam fire engine is tested in New York City.
1841 - A corkscrew is patented by M.L. Byrn of New York City.
1866 - Andrew Rankin receives a patent for the urinal.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866, but his veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passed.
1871 - The first international rugby football match is played between Scotland and England in Edinburgh, with Scotland winning 1-0.
1883 - Regina becomes capital of North-West Territories.
1912 - First cherry trees, a gift from Japan, are planted on Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
1912 - First Lady Helen Taft and the Japanese ambassador wife Viscountess Chinda plant two Yoshino cherry trees near the Potomac River, sparking the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
1915 - Typhoid Mary (typhoid carrier) is put in permanent quarantine.
[Mary Mallon, known as 'Typhoid Mary,' the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever identified in the United States, is placed under permanent quarantine for the second time. She remained quarantined until her death in 1938.]
1917 - Seattle Metropolitans becomes first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup – 1917
1955 - Steve McQueen makes his debut on a Goodyear Playhouse episode called 'The Chivington Raid.'
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union in addition to first secretary of the Communist Party.
1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history with a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska, causing widespread damage and tsunamis, resulting in over 130 deaths.
1973 - Marlon Brando turns down an Oscar for his performance in 'The Godfather' as a gesture of support for the Indians occupying the Wounded Knee reservation in South Dakota.
1977 - A Dutch KLM 747 collides on takeoff with a Pan American 747 at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 582 people.
[The Tenerife airport disaster occurs when two Boeing 747s, a KLM and a Pan Am, collide on the runway, resulting in 583 fatalities. This is the deadliest accident in aviation history.]
1980 - Mt. St. Helens erupts after 123-year dormancy, starting a series of events that led to a cataclysmic eruption on May 18th.
[Incorrect. The major eruption of Mount St. Helens occurred on May 18, 1980. There was increased seismic activity and small steam eruptions starting in March, but the large eruption was in May.]
1980 - The oil rig Alexander L. Kielland in the North Sea capsizes in high winds, killing 123 of the 212 people on board.
1998 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Viagra, the first oral treatment for male impotence.
2004 - X-43A Scramjet flys at Mach 7.
2010 - 25-pound 2-ounce burbot is caught in Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan.
2017 - 50-pound carp is caught in MacArthur Park Lake in Los Angeles, California.
2019 - Almost 800 students of the Pike County Elementary School in Zebulon, Georgia, wish janitor Haze Mabry a happy '80th' birthday.
2022 - At the Academy Awards ceremony, Will Smith slaps Chris Rock on stage after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith later won the award for Best Actor.
2023 - A mass shooting occurs at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, resulting in the deaths of three nine-year-old children and three adults.

Other Observances:

National Scribble Day
National Spanish Paella Day
National Joe Day

Born:

Nathaniel Currier (lithographer) – 1813
Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist who discovered X-rays and won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1901. – 1845
Henry Royce (automobile manufacturer) – 1863
Patty Smith Hill (educator) – 1868
Gloria Swanson (actress) – 1899
Snooky Lanson (singer) – 1914
Sarah Vaughan (American jazz singer) – 1924
David Janssen (actor) – 1930
Michael York (actor) – 1942
Quentin Tarantino (American film director, screenwriter, and producer) – 1963
Mariah Carey (American singer, songwriter, and actress) – 1970
Stacy 'Fergie' Ferguson (singer) – 1975
Brenda Song (actress) – 1988

Died:

Pope Gregory XI – 1378
Wilhelm Beer (astronomer) – 1850
Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) – 1968
Easley Blackwood (bridge game expert) – 1992
Ferry Porsche (automobile manufacturer) – 1998
Dudley Moore (actor) – 2002
Billy Wilder (Oscar-winning filmmaker) – 2002
Milton Berle (comedian) – 2002
Edward J. Piszek (once made too many crab cakes for a local bar and threw the extras in a freezer, an accident that led to a frozen seafood empire, Mrs. Paul’s Kitchens) – 2004

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Notable Events for March 26th:

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March 26th is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years), with 280 days remaining until the end of the year.

1790 - Congress passed the Naturalization Act, requiring a two year residency in the country before applying for citizenship.
[The Naturalization Act of 1790 did require a two-year residency.]

1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana.
[Inaccurate. While the concept of Indian removal was developing, the major legislative push and implementation happened later. The Louisiana Purchase did open up land west of the Mississippi, but a specific congressional order for removal to Louisiana in 1804 is not accurate.]
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase.
[The Territory of Orleans was established in 1804 as part of the Louisiana Purchase.]
1812 - The term "gerrymander" is used for the first time in a political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette.
[The term originated from a political cartoon published in the Boston Gazette in March 1812.]
1821 - North West Company merges with Hudson’s Bay Company.
[The North West Company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.]
1830 - The Book of Mormon is first published in Palmyra, New York.
1845 - Joseph Francis patents a sheet-iron lifeboat apparatus.
[Joseph Francis received a patent for his corrugated iron lifeboat in 1845.]
1872 - Thomas Martin receives a patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system.
[Thomas Martin received a patent for a fire extinguisher in 1872.]
1872 - An estimated 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs in Owens Valley, California.
[A significant earthquake occurred in Owens Valley in 1872.]
1878 - The Sabi Game Reserve, the first official game reserve in the world, opens in South Africa.
[It later became part of Kruger National Park.]
1885 - The Eastman Film Company manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.
1926 - The first lip-reading tournament is held in the U.S.
[The first national lip-reading tournament was held in the U.S. in 1926.]
1931 - Swissair, the national airline of Switzerland, is founded.
1937 - Popeye statue unveiled during spinach festival, Crystal City, Texas.
[A statue of Popeye was unveiled in Crystal City, Texas, during their spinach festival in 1937.]
1942 - A deadly dynamite explosion occurs in quarry, in Sandts Eddy, Pennsylvania.
[A deadly dynamite explosion occurred at a quarry in Sandts Eddy, Pennsylvania, in 1942.]
1943 - Elsie S. Ott becomes the first woman to be awarded the U.S. Air Force Medal.
[Inaccurate. Elsie S. Ott was the first woman to receive an Air Medal, but the U.S. Air Force was not yet an independent branch in 1943 (it was part of the Army Air Forces).]
1945 - The Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II officially ends with the island secured by American forces.
1945 - Allies led by the Marine Corps raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
[U.S. Marines raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in 1945.]
1946 - The U.N. Security Council meet for the first time in New York.
[Inaccurate. The first meeting of the UN Security Council was in London on January 17, 1946. They later moved to New York.]
1951 - The Air Force flag is officially adopted by President Truman.
[President Truman approves the design for the United States Air Force flag.]
1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announces the development of a polio vaccine.
[Dr. Jonas Salk announced the development of his polio vaccine in 1953.]
1956 - The Medic Alert Foundation is formed.
[The Medic Alert Foundation was established in 1956.]
1958 - The U.S. Army launches Explorer III, its third successful satellite.
1964 - Perpetrators of the Great Train Robbery are convicted in London.
[Several individuals were convicted in London in 1964 for their involvement in the Great Train Robbery.]
1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan, becoming Bangladesh. This marked the beginning of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1975 - North Vietnamese take Hue (Vietnam War).
[North Vietnamese forces captured Hue in 1975.]
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention come into force, prohibiting the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons.
1979 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C., ending 30 years of war between the two countries.
1982 - Groundbreaking ceremonies take place in Washington, D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a memorial dedicated to honor American armed forces members killed in the Vietnam War, which was completed and dedicated on November 13, 1982.

1987 - The U.S. government sells its 85% ownership of Conrail, one of the nation’s largest rail systems, and earned $1.6 billion in one of the largest stock offerings in history.
[The Conrail privatization was a significant event in 1987.]
1989 - The post-perestroika Soviet Union holds its first nationwide multiparty, multicandidate elections.
[The Soviet Union held its first contested elections in 1989.]
1991 - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the Southern Common Market.
1991 - A 2-pound 5-ounce yellow hybrid bass is caught in the Kiamichi River of Oklahoma.
[This fish catch is recorded.]
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies are discovered in the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicides in San Diego, California.
1999 - Melissa macro computer virus [or the 'Melissa worm,' a mass-mailing computer virus], is released, begins to spread, affecting/disrupting Microsoft Word and email systems worldwide.
[The Melissa virus caused significant disruption in 1999.]
1999 - A 12-pound walleye is caught with fly tackle in Manistee River, Michigan.
[This fishing record is documented.]
2000 - Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
2024 - The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapses after being struck by a container ship.

Other Observances:

National Nougat Day
National Spinach Day
Epilepsy Awareness Day  (Purple Day)
National Little Red Wagon Day  (Last Wednesday in March)
Manatee Appreciation Day  (Last Wednesday in March)

Notable Birthdays for March 26th:

William Blount (1749-1800) - Founding father of the U.S. and signer of the Constitution.
Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814) - Inventor of the kitchen stove.
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) - Considered the founder of modern maritime navigation.
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) - Utopian visionary and author.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) - Considered one of the best poets of all time.
H. Radclyffe Roberts (1906-1982) - Entomologist who studied grasshopper taxonomy.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) - Considered one of the best playwright in the 20th Century.
Christian B. Anfinsen (1916-1995) - Biochemist and academic who made significant advancements in the study of ribonuclease.
Edwin Turney (1929-2008) - Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices.
Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) - Famous for playing the character Spock in Star Trek.
James Caan (1940-2022) - Actor known for his ruthless character Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.
Nancy Pelosi (1940-Still Living) - American politician, Speaker of the House
Diana Ross (1944-Still Living) - Lead singer for the Supremes.
Steven Tyler (1948-Still Living) - Lead singer for Aerosmith.
Vicki Lawrence (1949-Still Living) - Actress and comedian known for working side-by-side to Carol Burnett.
Fran Sheehan (1949-Still Living) - Bass player for the rock band Boston.
Teddy Pendergrass (1950-Still Living) - R&B singer.
Gary Ruvkun (1952-Still Living) - Molecular biologist who discovered microRNA.
Curtis Sliwa (1954-Still Living) - Founder of the crime prevention organization Guardian Angels.
Charly McClain (1956-Still Living) - Country music singer best known for her hit song Sleepin' with the Radio On.
Chris Hansen (1959-Still Living) - Reporter and correspondent for Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator.
Jennifer Grey (1960-Still Living) - Actress who played Baby in Dirty Dancing.
Kenny Chesney (1968-Still Living) - Country music singer and guitarist.
Larry Page (1973-Still Living) - Co-founder of Google.
Jonathan Groff (1985-Still Living) - Voice of Sven in the animation Frozen.

Deaths:

1827: Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1892: Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1973: Noël Coward, English playwright, actor, and composer (b. 1899)
1995: Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (b. 1963)

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Notable Events for March 25th:

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March 25th is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

421 - The city of Venice is traditionally founded with the dedication of the first church, San Giacomo di Rialto.
1306 - Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland.
1524 - Italian explores Giovanni da Verrazano arrived off Outer Banks of North Carolina.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
[Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a colony in Virginia.]
1634 - The first settlers found the Maryland colony.
[The Maryland colony was founded in 1634.]
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
1775 - George Washington plants pecans at Mount Vernon.
1776 - Congress authorizes first U.S. medal for Gen. George Washington, for forcing British army to evacuate Boston.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act is passed in the United Kingdom, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1863 - The first Army Medal of Honor award is given to six soldiers.
[The first Medals of Honor were awarded in 1863 to six soldiers.]
1882 - The first pancake making demonstration takes place in a New York City department store.
[Likely inaccurate. While department stores did demonstrations, it's difficult to verify if this was the first pancake making demonstration. It's possible, but hard to confirm definitively.]
1900 - Socialist Party of the United States organizes at Indianapolis, Indiana.
1902 - Irving Colburn patents the first sheet glass drawing machine.
[Irving Colburn did patent a sheet glass drawing machine in 1902.]
1911 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, leading to significant labor reforms.
1919 - The League of Nations begins.
[The League of Nations was formally established in 1919. The Covenant of the League of Nations is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference, though the organization itself would officially begin in 1920.]
1937 - Washington D.C.’s Daily News is the first U.S. newspaper to have a perfume ad.
1943 - The Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore Show premieres on the radio. The duo replaced the popular Abbott and Costello.
1949 - The Soviet Union begins a mass deportation of over 90,000 people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Siberia.
1954 - The first color television set is manufactured by RCA, featuring a 12.5-inch screen to be sold for $1,000.
[RCA's first color TV, the CT-100, was released in 1954 with a 12.5-inch screen and a price around $1000.]
1957 - The European Economic Community (EEC) is established by six European nations, a precursor to the European Union.
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson wins world’s middleweight boxing championship by defeating Carmen Basilio, in Chicago.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists complete their march march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
[The Selma to Montgomery marches culminated in the final march ending on March 25, 1965.]
1966 - The Supreme Court rules a "poll tax" (tax per "head" in a household) is unconstitutional.
[The Supreme Court case Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966 declared poll taxes unconstitutional in state elections.]
1972 - Multinational agreement to coordinate efforts to control trade in narcotic drugs is signed in Geneva.
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew.
1987 - The Supreme Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination.
[The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an employer may voluntarily act to redress imbalances in the workforce through affirmative action programs for women. It was the first time that the court specifically addressed such programs for women.]
1995 - WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, is launched by Ward Cunningham.
1996 - The U.S. issues a newly-redesigned $100 bill.
[A redesigned $100 bill was issued in 1996.]
2017 - Residents of Innisfail, Australia, set a new Guinness record for longest banana split - 26,377 feet 11.4 inches long and included 40,000 bananas, more than 2,000 gallons of ice cream and 528 gallons of toppings.
2019 - Apple introduces Apple TV+, Apple News+ and an Apple credit card.
2019 - NASA has to cancel an all-female spacewalk because it didn't have enough space suits to fit the women astronauts.
[A planned all-female spacewalk in March 2019 was canceled due to a lack of properly sized spacesuits.]

Other Observances:

Maryland Day: A state holiday in Maryland commemorating the arrival of the first European settlers.
Tolkien Reading Day: A day for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien to read and celebrate his works.
International Waffle Day is a glorious occasion that hails from Sweden. It started as 'Våffeldagen,' which, thanks to linguistic quirks, sounds suspiciously like 'Värfrudagen [the Feast of the Annunciation].

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Notable Events for March 24th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 24 | Birthdays & Events]

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March 24th is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, marking the end of the Tudor dynasty.
1644 - Roger Williams grants charter for colony Rhode Island.
1868 - The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
1874 - The magician Harry Houdini is born.
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. This day is now observed as World Tuberculosis Day.
1896 - Clement Hardy is issued a patent for a rotary disk plow.
1900 - Ground is broken for the new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad," linking Manhattan and Brooklyn.
[Construction on the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), which would connect Manhattan and Brooklyn, began in 1900.]
1942 - The U.S. government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres (Executive Order 9066) in order to prevent acts of espionage during the war.
[President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, leading to the internment of Japanese Americans.]
1944 - Nicholas Alkemade survives an 18,000-foot fall from a plane.
1944 - A total of 76 allied prisoners of war break out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
[This event, known as 'The Great Escape,' involved 76 prisoners.]
1945 - British, US & Canadian paratroopers participate in the largest one-day airborne operation of all time to land in Northern Germany.
[This refers to Operation Varsity, the largest single airborne operation in history.]
1947 - Congress proposes a two-term limit for the Presidency.
[The 22nd Amendment, which formalized the two-term limit, was proposed by Congress in 1947 and ratified in 1951.]
1955 - The Tennessee Williams play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' opens on Broadway, with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazarra as Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy.
1958 - Elvis Presley joins the Army.
[Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1958.]
1965 - Senator Robert Kennedy is the first to reach the summit of Mt. Kennedy in Yukon Territory.
1965 - U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-lands precisely on target in the Alphonsus crater of the moon after transmitting to Earth 5,814 photographs of the crater region.
1966 - Selective Service gives college deferments based on academic performance.
[The Selective Service began using academic performance as a factor in granting deferments in 1966.]
1975 - The beaver becomes a symbol of Canadian sovereignty.
1977 - Lily Tomlin becomes the first woman to sing a solo on Broadway.
[Incorrect. While Lily Tomlin is a celebrated actress and comedian, she is not known for being the first woman to sing a solo on Broadway. Broadway musicals have featured female soloists since their inception.]
1987 - French premier Jacques Chirac signs a contract to build the first Disneyland-type amusement park in Europe, on the outskirts of Paris.
1989 - Exxon tanker 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound (AK).
[The Exxon Valdez oil spill, which released approximately 10.8 million gallons of crude oil, occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska.]
1999 - NATO begins air strikes against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.
2002 - Halle Berry and Denzel Washington both win Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively.
[Denzel Washington was the second African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, following Sidney Poitier for 1963's 'Lilies of the Field.' Halle Berry became the first, and only [as of 2023], African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. Denzel Washington won for Best Actor for 'Training Day,' and Halle Berry won for Best Actress for her role in 'Monster's Ball.']
2003 - An 18.7-inch-long goldfish sets a world record.
2018 - U.S. military use drones for the first time to bomb Al-Qaeda.
[Incorrect. The U.S. military has been using drones for targeted strikes against Al-Qaeda and other militant groups for many years prior to 2018. Drone warfare became a significant aspect of U.S. military operations in the early 2000s.]

Other Observances:

National Cocktail Day
National Cheesesteak Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day

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Notable Events for March 23rd:

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March 23rd is the 82nd day of the year 2025 and there are 283 days remaining until the end of the year.

1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in his speech showing support for Virginian troops to join the Revolutionary War.
[Patrick Henry delivered this famous speech at the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, advocating for the arming of militias in Virginia, which was a precursor to the Revolutionary War.]
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is assassinated in his bedroom.
1806 - After reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark begin their journey home.
1839 - The use of "OK" (oll korrect) is used for the first time by Boston's Morning Post.
[The term 'OK' is widely believed to have originated as an abbreviation of 'oll korrect,' a humorous misspelling of 'all correct,' and its first documented use was in the Boston Morning Post in March 1839.]
1840 - John Draper takes the first successful photo of the Moon in the U.S.
[John W. Draper took what is generally considered the first successful daguerreotype of the moon in the United States on March 23, 1840.]
1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives in New Zealand carrying the first Scottish settlers to Dunedin, marking the founding of the Otago province.
1857 - The first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
[Mostly Accurate. While elevators existed before this, Elisha Otis installed his safety elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City in 1857. The key here is the safety feature, which prevented the elevator from falling if the cable broke, making them much more practical and widely adopted.]
1858 - The streetcar is patented by E.A. Gardner.
[Inaccurate. While there were patents related to streetcars around this time, E.A. Gardner doesn't appear to be credited with a foundational patent in 1858. The development of the streetcar was a gradual process with contributions from many inventors. You might be thinking of a specific improvement or patent, but the general concept of the streetcar predates this.]
1862 - The First Battle of Kernstown, the opening battle of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign, is fought during the American Civil War.
1888 - The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time in England.
1903 - The Wright brothers file their first patent for a flying machine.
[The Wright brothers filed their patent application for their flying machine on March 23, 1903.]
1909 - Former President Roosevelt leaves for an African safari.
[Theodore Roosevelt left for his famous Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition in March 1909, shortly after leaving office.]
1919 - Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
1933 - The German Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.
1957 - The Army sell the last last homing pigeons.
[The U.S. Army officially disbanded its Pigeon Service and sold off its last homing pigeons in March 1957, as their role in communication had been superseded by technology.]
1965 - NASA launches Gemini 3, the first crewed mission in the Gemini program, carrying Gus Grissom and John Young.
1977 - Elvis Presley begins his final concert tour.
[Elvis Presley began his final concert tour on March 23, 1977, in Tempe, Arizona.]
1998 - The film Titanic wins 11 Academy Awards, tying the record set by Ben-Hur.
2001 - The Russian space station Mir re-enters Earth's atmosphere and crashes into the Pacific Ocean.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act into law.
2021 - The container ship Ever Given becomes stuck in the Suez Canal, causing a major disruption to global shipping.
2023 - Utah becomes the first state to limit social media for minors.
[In March 2023, Utah passed legislation requiring parental consent for minors to use social media and imposing other restrictions, making it the first state to enact such comprehensive regulations.]

Other Observances:

National Near Miss Day

National Chip And Dip Day
National Melba Toast Day
National Puppy Day
National Chia Day

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 22nd:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 22 | Birthdays & Events]

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1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoag tribe.
1622 - The Jamestown Massacre occurs, where Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia.
1631 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of gambling paraphernalia (cards, dice, and gaming tables).
1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for causing conflict on her differing religious view of the times.
1765 - The Stamp Act is passed on American colonies.
[The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, which imposes a tax on printed materials in the American colonies. ]
1778 - Captain James Cook sees WA state for the first time.
[Inaccurate. Captain James Cook made his third and final voyage to the Pacific in 1778, exploring the coast of what is now the state of Oregon, not Washington. He did explore the Pacific Northwest coast during this voyage.]
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the first Secretary of State.
1794 - The Slave Trade Act of 1794 is passed to ban the export of slaves and import of slaves into the U.S.
[Partially Accurate. The Slave Trade Act of 1794 specifically prohibited the carrying of slaves from the United States to any foreign country. It did not ban the import of slaves into the U.S. That happened later with the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807.]
1822 - The NY Horticultural Society is founded.
1841 - Orlando Jones receives a patent for his method for alkali starch extraction , which was later applied to corn to make cornstarch.
1861 - The first nursing school is chartered in the U.S.
[This refers to the Boston Training School for Nurses.]
1874 - The Young Men's Hebrew Association is organized in NY City.
1894 - The first playoff game for hockey's Stanley Cup is held in Montreal, Canada. The Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Montreal Victorias 3-2.
1933 - President Roosevelt signs the Cullen–Harrison Act (Amendment to the Volstead Act) to legalize the manufacture and sale of of beer containing 3.2% alcohol (by volume) and light wines.
1941 - James Stewart becomes the first major movie star to be inducted into the Army.
1944 - James Stewart flies leads the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin, making the flight his 12the combat mission.
1945 - The Arab League is founded in Cairo, Egypt.
1960 - Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1963 - The Beatles release their first album, 'Please Please Me,' in the United Kingdom.
1972 - The U.S. Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) but sends it to the states for ratification.
1993 - Intel releases the first Pentium microprocessor.  
1997 - Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest female figure skating world champion at the age of 14.

Other Observances:

National Health Care Rights Day
National Goof Off Day
National Bavarian Crepes Day
National West Virginia Day

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 21st:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 21 | Birthdays & Events]

[+ Generic AI Search Results & WIKI]

1642 - Georgeana (York) in Maine becomes the first incorporated city in America.
[This is incorrect. St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565, is widely considered the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement and often referred to as the 'Nation's Oldest City.' While York, Maine, is one of the oldest towns in the U.S., it wasn't the first incorporated city.]
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the most famous and influential composers of the Baroque period, is born on 31 March [O.S. 21 March], in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany.
[Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, died on July 28th, 1750. He is a cornerstone of Western classical music, his legacy encompassing his profound influence on subsequent composers and his mastery of Baroque musical forms, particularly the fugue.] 
1692 - The Salem Witch Trials begin after Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates.
[The Salem Witch Trials officially began in March 1692 with the examination of these three women.]
1768 - [Jean-Baptiste] Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist, is born on March 21st, 1768, in Auxerre, France.
[Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist, died on May 16th, 1830. He is remembered as a brilliant mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to both science and society.]
1785 - The Promotion of Agriculture is organized.
[This is incorrect. The US Department of Agriculture was established much later, in 1862. It's possible you're thinking of an earlier agricultural society, but 'The Promotion of Agriculture' as a specific organization in 1785 needs verification.]
1788 - A devastating fire begins in New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Destroying most of the city's buildings.]
1790 - The first U.S. census is authorized.
1803 - Ohio becomes 17th state to join the Union.
[This is incorrect. Ohio officially became the 17th state on March 1st, 1803.]
1804 - The Napoleonic Code is approved in France.
[This was a new legal framework enacted by Napoleon Bonaparte, which provided post-revolutionary France with its first coherent set of laws regarding property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.]
1806 - Benito Pablo Juárez García, Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer, is born on March 21st, 1806, in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, located in the mountain range since named for him, the Sierra Juárez.
[Benito Pablo Juárez García was a Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. He died on July 18th, 1872.] 
1857 - A massive earthquake strikes Tokyo, Japan, resulting in the deaths of approximately 100,000 people.
1864 - Rebecca Lee becomes the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
[Rebecca Lee Crumpler earned her medical degree in 1864.]
1867 - Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr., American Broadway impresario, is born on March 21st, 1867, in Chicago, Illinois. 
[Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also produced the musical Show Boat. He was known as the 'glorifier of the American girl.' Ziegfeld is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. He died on July 22nd, 1932.]
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous expedition into Africa to find the missing British explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone.
1872 - Yellowstone National Park becomes the world's first national park.
[Yellowstone was established as the first national park in the United States and the world on March 1st, 1872.]
1879 - The Library of Hawaii is founded.
[This is incorrect. While the roots of the Library of Hawaii go back to the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association founded in 1879, the Library of Hawaii itself was officially established in 1909.]
1909 - The first university school of nursing is established in Minnesota.
[The University of Minnesota School of Nursing was established in 1909 and is considered the first university-affiliated nursing program.]
1918 - During World War I, the German army launch a major offensive on the Western Front, known as the Second Battle of the Somme or the 'Michael Offensive.'
[This was their first large-scale attack in two years, aiming to break through Allied lines.]
1925 - The Butler Act is enacted in Tennessee, prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in public schools.
1935 - The Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, formally requested that the international community refer to Persia by its native name, Iran.
1937 - The first permanent license plates for an automobile are issued in Connecticut.
[This is incorrect. While states started issuing license plates earlier, the move towards permanent plates happened later and wasn't specifically in Connecticut in 1937.]
1940 - Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke, American singer-songwriter, is born [James Solomon McDonald] on March 21st, 1940 [sometimes listed as 1936 or 1939. On his headstone, his birth year is 1940); in the upper floor of his grandmother Eleanor Moore's home, a row house in West Philadelphia.
[Solomon Burke died on October 10th, 2010. He was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. He's been called 'a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul,' and was known for his 'prodigious output.']
1943 - A plot by German Army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler using a suicide bomb fails.
1945 - Towards the end of World War II, British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1946 - Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett, British actor, is born on March 21st, 1946, in Colwyn Bay, Wales.
[Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett is a British actor who became internationally famous for his portrayal of James Bond in the 1987 and 1989 films 'The Living Daylights' and 'Licence to Kill.' He also voiced Mr. Pricklepants in Toy Story 3.] 
1958 - Gary Leonard Oldman, English-British actor, is born on March 21st, 1958, in New Cross, London.
[Gary Oldman, English actor and filmmaker, is known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three British Academy Film Awards, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.] 
1960 - The Sharpeville massacre occurs in South Africa. Police opens fire on a group of unarmed Black South African demonstrators protesting against apartheid pass laws, killing 69 people.
1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor, is born on March 21st, 1962, in Manhattan/New York City, New York.
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, and television personality, was born on March 21st, 1962, in Commack, New York.
1963 - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a notorious prison located on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes its doors after nearly three decades of housing some of America's most dangerous criminals.
1965 - Civil rights demonstrators, led by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., begin their third and ultimately successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the protection of U.S. Army and National Guard troops.
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, the Mayor of San Francisco.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow to protest the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.  
1990 - Namibia gains independence from South Africa after 75 years of rule.
1998 - The Titanic film grosses over $1 billion worldwide.
[Titanic was released in 1997 and became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide in 1998.]
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first people to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2006 - Jack Dorsey sends the first public message on a new social media platform called Twitter, writing 'just setting up my twttr.'

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 19th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 19 | Birthdays & Events]

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1649 - The Long Parliament of England abolishes the House of Lords.  
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping exile on Elba, beginning his 'Hundred Days' rule.
1918 - Congress approves daylight saving time.
[The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time; The Standard Time Act of 1918 introduced daylight saving time to the United States.]
1920 - The U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.
[The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles in November 1919, with the final vote failing to reach the necessary two-thirds majority in March 1920.]
1931 - Nevada makes gambling legal.
[Nevada legalized wide-open gambling in 1931.]
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia is officially opened.
1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues the "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of all German infrastructure as Allied forces advance.
1942 - President FDR orders all men between ages 45 and 64 to register for non-military duty.
[Inaccurate. President Roosevelt issued an executive order in 1942 requiring men aged 20 to 44 to register for potential non-military service.]
1942 - The Thoroughbred Racing Association is formed in the U.S.
[The Thoroughbred Racing Association of America was formed in 1942.]
2003 - President George W. Bush announces the invasion of Iraq.
[The United States and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq.]
2011 - The United Nations Security Council authorizes military intervention in Libya to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

Other Observances:

National Let's Laugh Day
National Backyard Day

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 18th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 18 | Birthdays & Events]

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1813 - David Melville patents an apparatus for making coal gas.
[This is generally considered accurate. David Melville did innovate in gas lighting, and while his patents were spread over time, he was indeed working on and patenting apparatuses related to coal gas around this period.]
1818 - Congress approves the first pensions for government service.
[Congress did pass legislation in 1818 providing pensions for Revolutionary War veterans.]
1834 - The first railroad tunnel is completed in Pennsylvania.
[The Allegheny Portage Railroad, which included tunnels, was completed around this time. The Staple Bend Tunnel is often cited as the first railroad tunnel in the U.S.]
1850 - American Express is founded.
1870 - California opens the first National Wildlife Preserve.
[This is generally accurate. Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge in Oakland, California, established in 1870, is considered one of the earliest, if not the first, wildlife refuges in the United States.]
1892 - Lord Stanley of Preston pledges to donate a challenge cup [the Stanley Cup] for the best ice hockey team in Canada.
1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law.
[North Dakota was indeed a pioneer in hail insurance legislation.]
1938 - New York becomes the first state to require serological blood tests of pregnant women.
[New York State did enact legislation in 1938 mandating blood tests for syphilis in pregnant women.]
1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the U.S. to take Japanese Americans into custody.
[President Roosevelt established the War Relocation Authority (WRA) by Executive Order 9102, which was responsible for the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans.]
1952 - The first plastic lens for cataract treatment is fitted in patients.
[Sir Harold Ridley is credited with pioneering intraocular lens implants, and by 1952, he was implanting plastic lenses in cataract patients.]
1959 - The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law to allow Hawaii to join the Union.
[President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959, and Hawaii officially became a state on August 21, 1959.]
1962 - The Évian Accords are signed, ending the Algerian War.
1965 - Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to perform a spacewalk.

1990 - East Germany holds its first and only free parliamentary elections.

Other Observances:

National Biodiesel Day
National Sloppy Joe Day
National Awkward Moments Day
National Agriculture Day  [changes annually]
National Supreme Sacrifice Day

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 16th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 16 | Birthdays & Events]

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44 BC - While March 15th is famously known as the 'Ides of March,' and the date of Julius Caesar's assassination, it's worth noting the immediate aftermath and the political turmoil that followed would have been significant on March 16th.
37 AD - Death of the Roman Emperor Tiberius; Caligula is proclaimed emperor.  
455 - Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated in the Campus Martius in Rome.
597 - Pope Gregory I (the Great) begins his pontificate.
1190 - Massacre of Jews in York, England.  
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1527 - The Emperor Babur defeats the Rajputs at the Battle of Khanwa, establishing Mughal dominance in Northern India.
1660 - The Long Parliament is dissolved in England, paving the way for the Restoration.  
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot and mortally wounded at a masked ball in Stockholm.
1802 - The United States Military Academy (West Point) is established by an Act of Congress, signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson.
1802 - The Library of Congress is formally established.
1815 - Prince Willem Frederick of Orange proclaims himself Sovereign Prince of the United Netherlands.
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, is published.
1861 - Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston who refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.
1915 - The First Battle of Champagne begins during World War I.
1916 - The U.S. launches punitive expeditions into Mexico against Pancho Villa.
1918 - Estonia declares independence from Russia.
1924 - The Rome Treaty annexes Fiume to Italy.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, a significant step in rocketry and space exploration.
1926 - The film 'Ben-Hur' premieres in New York City.
1931 - The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film 'Trader Horn' is released.
1933 - The first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Dachau, opens.
1935: Adolf Hitler breaks the military terms of the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany and resuming military conscription.  
1939 - Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945 - The Battle of Iwo Jima ends with an American victory.
1950 - The Soviet Union announces that it has the atomic bomb.
1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's iconic suspense film, 'Psycho,' premieres in the United States.
1961 - The British Commonwealth of Nations admits Cyprus as a member.
1968: The My Lai Massacre occurs in Vietnam.  
[The My Lai Massacre occurred during the Vietnam War, where U.S. Army soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians.]
1978 - Super Tuesday in the United States sees Jimmy Carter win several key primaries.
1978 - Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy, is kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, is kidnapped by Hezbollah militants.
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, where he would be held hostage for nearly seven years.
1988 - A poison gas attack kills thousands of civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabja, Iraq, likely ordered by Saddam Hussein.
2003 - Rachel Corrie, an American activist, is killed by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza Strip.
2005 - The World Health Organization confirms the first human cases of bird flu in Vietnam.
2014 - The Crimean status referendum takes place.
2016 - President Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court following the death of Antonin Scalia.

In addition:

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[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 15th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 15 | Birthdays & Events]

[+ Generic AI Search Results]/[Other sources: WIKI, and Days of the Year.]

44 BC - Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, is assassinated by a group of senators on the Ides of March.
933 - Henry the Fowler, the German King, defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
1820 - Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
1892 - New York unveils the automatic voting machine.
[While there were earlier patents, the voting machine widely attributed as the first successful automatic one was used in Lockport, New York, in 1892.]
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne, marking the end of the Romanov dynasty.
[This event is a pivotal moment in history as it marked the end of the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled Russia for over 300 years, and paved the way for the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union.]
1937 - The first blood bank opens in Chicago.
[The first blood bank in the United States opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in March 1937.]
1939 - Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
1965 - T.G.I. Friday's opens their first restaurant in N.Y.
[The first T.G.I. Friday's restaurant opened in Manhattan, New York City, in 1965.]
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress, calling for legislation to guarantee voting rights, which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1972 - Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Godfather" premieres.
1985 - The first Internet domain (symbolics.com) is registered.
[Symbolics.com was the first domain name registered on March 15, 1985.]
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.  
2011 - The Syrian Civil War began.
2012 - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich begins serving his prison sentence for corruption.
2018 - A pedestrian bridge under construction in Miami collapses, killing six people.
2019 - A gunman kills 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Here are some other events, holidays, and observances associated with March 15th:

National Quilting Day (Third Saturday in March)
National Shoe The World Day
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
National Pears Helene Day

National Kansas Day

Brutus Day
Buzzards Day
Dumbstruck Day
Ides of March
International Day Against Police Brutality  
International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
International Day to Combat Islamophobia  
International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
International Sports Car Racing Day (Third Saturday in March)  
Maple Syrup Saturday (Third Saturday of March)
National Corndog Day (Third Saturday of March)
National Peanut Lovers Day
National VO Day
Play the Recorder Day (Third Saturday of March)
Save the Panther Day (Third Saturday in March)
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
World Contact Day
World Essential Workers Day  
World Speech Day
Worldwide Quilting Day (Third Saturday in March)
  
Weekly Holidays that include March 15th:

Brain Awareness Week (March 10-16, 2025)
Campfire USA Birthday Week (March 9-15, 2025)
Down's Syndrome Awareness Week (March 15-21, 2025)
Endometriosis Awareness Week (March 4-19, 2025)
Fairtrade Fortnight (March 3-16, 2025)
Girl Scout Week (March 9-15, 2025)
International Brain Awareness Week (March 10-16, 2025)  
Lent (Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 5 - April 17, 2025)
Make Mine Chocolate (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 20, 2025)
MS Awareness Week (March 9-15, 2025)  
National Bubble Gum Week (March 9-15, 2025)
National Green Week (February 4 - April 30, 2025)
National Older Workers Employment Week (March 9-15, 2025)
National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week (March 9-15, 2025)
National Sleep Awareness Week (March 9-15, 2025)
Nutrition and Hydration Week (United Kingdom) (March 10-16, 2025)
Orthodox Lent (Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 3, 2025 - April 19, 2025)
Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 9-15, 2025)
Ramadan (Evening of February 28, 2025 - Evening of March 30, 2025)

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 14th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 14 | Birthdays & Events]

1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1900 - The Gold Standard Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 - President Roosevelt establishes the first wildlife refuge.

[Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.]
1923 - President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file and pay income taxes.
1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope Pius XII.
1942 - The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is established.
1942 - Anne Miller becomes the first patient to be treated with penicillin in the U.S.
[Incorrect. Stating Anne Miller was the first patient is not definitively accurate and often sources point to earlier uses on men. However, on March 14, 1942, doctors in Connecticut administered penicillin (antibiotic) to a woman named Anne Miller, who was deathly ill with streptococcal septicemia. She made a full recovery, and became the first patient cured with penicillin.]
1950 - The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list is created.
2019 - Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, breaks the world record for calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits using Google Cloud on Pi Day.

Other [Recurring] Observances:

✨   National Learn About Butterflies Day

✨   National Write Your Story Day

✨   National Potato Chip Day

✨   National Children's Craft Day

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 13th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 13 | Birthdays & Events]

1781 - Discovery of Uranus: Astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
[This is a major event in the history of astronomy.]
1862 - The Prohibiting the Return of Slaves Act is passed by Congress, setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
[The 'Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves' was indeed passed in 1862. It was a significant step towards the Emancipation Proclamation, as it prevented Union forces from returning escaped slaves to their owners.]
1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
[San Diego State University was founded in 1897 as the San Diego Normal School.]
1942 - Julia Flikke becomes first woman colonel in U.S. army.
[Julia C. Flikke was the first woman to be a colonel in the U.S. Army.]
1970 - The Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
[The PDP-11 was a very influential minicomputer.]
2013 - Election of Pope Francis: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected Pope, taking the name Francis.
[This was a historically significant election, as he's the first pope from the Americas.]
2023 - Vinyl records outsell CDs for the first time since 1987 in the U.S.
[Vinyl record sales have seen a resurgence, and in 2023, they did indeed outsell CDs in the U.S.]

[KellytheBelly]

Notable Events for March 12th:

[source: National Day Calendar - March 12 | Birthdays & Events]

1664 - New Jersey becomes an English colony.
[In 1664, the English took control of the area that is now New Jersey from the Dutch.]
1755 - The first steam engine is installed to pump water from a mine.
[This is generally accurate. Steam engines were indeed used for this purpose in that era. However pinpointing "the first" is very difficult. Early steam engines development was a progressing process. But it is true that in the middle 1700's they were being used to pump water from mines.]
1884 - Mississippi establishes the first state college for women.
[Mississippi established the Industrial Institute and College (now Mississippi University for Women) in 1884. It is recognized as the first state-supported college for women in the United States.]
1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
[1894 was the year Coca-Cola began to be bottled and sold.]
1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.
[The Carnegie Hero Fund was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1904.]
1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) is founded.
[Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts (originally Girl Guides) in the United States in 1912.]
1945 - New York becomes the first state to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment.
[New York did pass legislation in 1945 prohibiting discrimination in employment.]
1970 - The voting age in the U.S. is lowered from 21 to 18.
[The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age to 18. However, congress did pass legislation in 1970 that lowered the voting age in federal elections. So 1970 is the start of the change.]

Other Notable Occurrences:

✨   National Girl Scout Day