Friday! History, Remembrance, Life Appreciation, Courage and Hope

On This Date In 1766 The Declaratory Act of 1766, allowing British Parliament to make laws and changes to the colonial government of what would become The United States of America, was passed..

On This Date In 1782 John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850), the 7th Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century, was born. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery, states' rights, limited government, and nullification.

On This Date In 1837 Grover Cleveland, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in the office, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey. Cleveland served as the 22nd president from 1885 to 1889 and as the 24th president from 1893 to 1897.

On This Date In 1852 In New York City, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo joined with several other investors to launch their namesake business, and provided the country with its first nationwide express shipping company.

On This Date In 1869 Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913), an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War, married Civil War Veteran Nelson Davis..

On This Date In 1910 After attending a flying exhibition in Hamburg, Germany in December of 1909, Harry Houdini bought a Voisin airplane. Then, in March of 1910, at the controls of his recent acquisition, Houdini gained acclaim as the first person to achieve aerial flight over Australia.

On This Date In 1911 Alexander's Ragtime Band, Irving Berlin’s multimillion-selling smash hit that helped turn American popular music into a major international phenomenon, both culturally and economically, was copyrighted.

On This Date In 1915 British and French forces launch an ill-fated naval attack on Turkish forces in the Dardanelles, the narrow, strategically vital strait in northwestern Turkey separating Europe from Asia. Evacuation by the Allies took place by the end of January 1916, after suffering severe casualties on both sides.

On This Date In 1925 The Tri-State Tornado, a record 3.5 hour duration tornado sweeping Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killed at least 695 people and injured 2027, mostly in southern Illinois. Three states, thirteen counties, and more than nineteen communities felt the destruction of this major disaster.

On This Date In 1931 The Schick Company marketed the first electric razor.

On This Date In 1933 American automaker Studebaker, then heavily in debt, went into receivership. The company's president, Albert Erskine, resigned and later that year committed suicide. Studebaker eventually rebounded from its financial troubles, only to close its doors for the final time in 1966.

On This Date In 1939 Frank Sinatra made a demo recording of a song called "Our Love", with the Frank Mane band. In June, Harry James hired Sinatra on a one year contract of $75 a week. It was with the James band that Sinatra released his first commercial record "From the Bottom of My Heart" in July, 1939.

On This Date In 1942 The Battle of Tachiao (March 18 - 19, 1942) was the first clash in the Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road in the Burma Campaign of World War II and Second Sino-Japanese War.

On This Date In 1942 The War Relocation Authority was created to "Take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war."

On This Date In 1959 The Diary of Anne Frank, a 1959 motion picture based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank, was released. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and won three Oscars.

On This Date In 1965 Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov took the first walk in space, a 22 minute duration event, while tethered to his capsule.

On This Date In 1968 The Producers, a 1968 comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks, telling the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who attempt to cheat their investors by deliberately producing a flop show on Broadway, was released. The film starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder and featured Dick Shawn.

On This Date In 1969 Operation Menu, the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War, failed in its objective of preventing North Vietnamese offensives.

On This Date In 1970 After returning to Cambodia from visits to Moscow and Peking, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted as Cambodian chief of state in a bloodless coup by pro-western Lt. Gen. Lon Nol, premier and defense minister, and First Deputy Premier Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, who proclaim the establishment of the Khmer Republic.

On This Date In 1997 Nine Lives, the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, was released. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band's first studio album released by Columbia Records since 1982's Rock in a Hard Place.

On This Date In 2002 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil died, two days after being struck in the head by a puck at a Columbus Blue Jackets ice hockey game. Cecil’s death forced the National Hockey League to take new precautions regarding fan safety.

On This Date In 2008 Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella died at the age of 54 in a London hospital, one week after undergoing surgery to treat tonsil cancer.

On This Date In 2009 Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) died after sustaining a head injury when she fell while taking a beginner skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec. She was an English stage and screen actress. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson, and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

On This Date In 2009 After pre-releasing their new single “Here Comes Goodbye” to iTunes in the prior week, Rascal Flatts broke the record for the largest first week digital scans for a country debut single, at 126,000 copies.

On This Date In 2010 South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young made the following assessment: In a sign that it will not give up its atomic ambitions, North Korea is believed to have some 1,000 missiles, including intermediate-range and Scud missiles, and is continuing to produce the highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear weapons. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2917983

 

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Happy Birthday Irene Cara (1959), Mike Rowe (1962), Queen Latifah (1970), Giovanna Antonelli (1976), Tawny Roberts (1979), Danneel Harris (1979), Sophia Myles (1980), and Madeline Carroll (1996).

 

RIP Stephen Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913), Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940), Edward Everett Horton (1886 - 1970), Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918), Peter Graves (1926 - 2010), and John Updike (1932 - 2009).

 

 

Quotes:

 

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. Alex Karras

 

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Thucydides

 

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle

 

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert Francis Kennedy

 

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

 

 

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