News & Events On this day in history

[Tulip]

that beatles song was in my head (almost humming it) when i opened this thread

 

[Asgardian]

You've got Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on both March 3 and March 5.

Sorry about that, I try to recheck everything, but missed that one

 

[Asgardian]

9th March

141 BC - Liu Che assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.

1009 - First known mention of Lithuania

1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.

1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name) was born

1496 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria

1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation

1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to the Indies, discovers Brazil

1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered

1617 - Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa

1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena

1791 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether & originator of the "flap-splitting" operation for the repair of vesico-vaginal fistula, was born

1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries Joséphine de Beauharnais

1801 - Lt. John Murray, RN, in HMC brig Lady Nelson, explored and took possession of Port Phillip. He named the bay in honour of the first Governor of NSW, Capt. Arthur Phillip, RN.

1822 - Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth

1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded.

1839 - Prussian govt limits work week for children to 51 hours

1841 - US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)

1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco

1858 - Albert Potts was awarded a patent for the letter box.

1869 - The clipper Blue Jacket caught fire some distance from the Falkland Islands and had to be abandoned, 32 people were lost. The figure head of the Blue Jacket drifted ashore on Rottnest Island, West Australia, on December 8th, 1871.

1873 - Royal Northwest Mounted Police founded

1890 - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister was born

1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs

1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer was born

1905 - In Egypt, U.S. archeologist Davies discovered the royal tombs of Tua and Yua.

1907 - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana

1908 - Inter Milan is founded.

1916 - General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa invades US

1916 - Germany declares war against Portugal

1918 - Mickey Spillane was born

1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda

1918 - George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party was born

1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, was born

1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.

1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.

1942 - John Cale, musician (The Velvet Underground) was born

1942 - Coastwatcher P. Good was executed by the Japanese at Kessa on Buka Island. Good was betrayed by an Australian news broadcast reporting enemy shipping movements.

1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began

1943 - Oskar Hêks, Czech antifascist, dies in Auschwitz

1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps

1943 - Bobby Fischer, US world chess champion was born

1944 - American Destroyer escort USS Leopold was hit by a torpedo and sank the next day

1945 – Margot Frank, (Anne's sister) Jewish holocaust victim died

1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs

1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer was born

1945 - HMAS Warrego, (sloop), and the motor survey launches Alert & Blowfly, surveyed Santa Cruz beaches in the Philippines under intense fire from shore guns. Alert, (SBLT D.L. Cole, RANR) was struck by enemy shore fire. The boat was holed and two crew members wounded. SBLT Cole was awarded the DSC for this action.

1947 - Stanley Jackson, cricketer, died

1950 - At tenAM a disc-shaped object was sighted by witnesses on the ground as well as by passengers and crew of an airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla, Cuba.

1954 - McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy"

1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA member was born

1954 - A whaler carrying 28 RAN personnel from Frankston Pier, to the aircraft carrier HMAS Vengance, was hit and sunk by two freak waves. Two of the sailors onboard were swept away and drowned. Neither body was ever recovered.

1955 - At 5:50 p.m. a witness in Paris, Illinois reported seeing a bell-shaped UFO "swallow" an airplane. No aircraft were reported missing at the time.

1955 - Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer was born

1957 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.

1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus

1959 - Barbie doll (Mattel) first appeared

1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit

1961 - Rick Steiner, US professional wrestler was born

1963 - Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez

1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced

1965 - Three white Unitarian ministers were attacked with clubs on the streets of Selma, Alabama, while participating in a civil rights demonstration.

1966 - Tony Lockett was born

1967 - At 1:30 p.m. an Illinois police officer filmed 8mm motion pictures of a luminous oval or disc shaped daylight UFO flying near the Mississippi River.

1971 - "One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds was number 1 in America

1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after WWII ended

1975 - Juan Sebastián Verón was born

1976 - Keith Moon collapsed onstage at the start of a Who concert in the Boston Garden.

1978 - Lucas Neill was born

1979 - Melina Perez, WWE Diva was born

1980 - Trent Croad was born

1983 - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana

1985 - "Gone With The Wind" went on sale in video stores across the U.S. for the first time.

1987 Pi is recited from memory to 40,000 places, by Hideaki Tomoyori (Japan)

1987 - U2 released the album "The Joshua Tree".

1989 - In Malaysia, 30 Asian nations conferred on the issue of "boat people".

1990 - The first RAN Seahawk helicopter landing on a guided missile frigate was made on HMAS Adelaide, in Sydney Harbour.

1991 - Shortly after midnight a UFO pursued a couple in their car on a highway south of Fortaleza, Brazil. The domed disc emitted heat and made a humming sound. It left, returned, left again, then returned a second time and dropped a transparent two-meter wide ball that blew up in front of their car, only six feet away. They believe the UFO intended to harm them.

1992 - Menachem W Begin, PM Israel died

1992 - At ten p.m. two women in Hamar, Norway, heard a low frequency rumbling sound. Then a bright light hurt their eyes. Fifteen meters away was a domed craft with a triangular bottom. Inside were two figures. They had long hair, large slanted eyes, and penetrating stares.

1996 - George Burns, actor, died

1997 - Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper was murdered

1999 - "Believe" by Cher was number 1 in America

2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.

2006 - Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, where hackers overload networks with data in an effort to disable them, have risen 50%

2006 - John Profumo, British politician (The "Profumo Affair") died

 

[Seriously]

R.I.P Biggie

 

[Asgardian]

10th March

515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.

241 BC - Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

298 - Roman Emperor Maximian makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

1535 - Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands

1536 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, was born

1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion

1624 - England declares war on Spain

1629 - King Charles I dissolved Parliament

1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier

1762 - French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform

1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published

1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy

1801 - First census in Great Britain

1804 - Louisiana Purchase: ownership of the Louisiana Territory changed from France to the US

1814 – Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

1835 - Charles Darwin in a letter to Carolyn Darwin described a massive earthquake in Concepcion, Chile.

1845 - Alexander III, Russian tsar was born

1860 - CDRE F. B. P. Seymour, CB, RN, was appointed Commodore Commanding the Australia Station

1862 - US issues 1st paper money

1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins

1872 - 33 tom schooner Flying Foam was on voyage from Champion Bay to Fremantle with 3 passengers, when she was lost off Abrolhos Area. All died.

1888 - HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds

1891 - 2282 grt Bay of Panama was one of the largest steel sailing ships of her day. 111 days out of Calcutta, she was approaching the Lizard in one of the worst snowstorms ever known on the coast of Cornwall. The sea was rough and it was bitterly cold. The vessel rounded the Lizard safely but was off course, and shortly afterwards drove ashore at Nare Point slightly W. of the mouth of Helford River, where she lay exposed to the full fury of the seas. Capt. Wright, his wife and 16 others were lost from the 40 on board. Six men who took refuge in the rigging were frozen to death though close to the shore, it being impossible for the lifeboats to reach them.

1893 - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before

1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake

1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician was born

1905 - Japanese Army captures Mukden

1910 - China ends slavery

1910 - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna died

1915 - U-12 was patrolling off the East coast of Scotland. She was spotted by the trawler Duster and trawlers of the Auxiliary Patrol and the 1st Destroyer Flotilla was dispatched to intercept her. At 10:10 on the 10th March HMS Attack spotted her and opened fire. 2 minutes later HMS Ariel also saw her starting to dive and turned towards the periscope, ramming her on the port side. Badly damaged the U 12 surfaced and immediately came under fire from the destroyers (now joined by HMS Acheron), her crew tried to escape. The captain was killed in the gunfire and, with a conning tower hatch only able to be opened half way, only 2 officers and 8 crew managed to make it out before she sank rapidly - taking the rest of her crew with her.

1917 - Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII was born (Band of Brothers)

1918 - G*nther Rall, German ace fighter pilot was born

1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India & tried for sedition

1926 - Run on Belgian banks

1926 - Italian steamship Sirena SS, on a voyage from Genoa to Rotterdam in ballast, had her steering gear disabled in heavy weather and was wrecked at South Pier, Hook of Holland.

1927 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches

1928 - James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr) was born

1931 - British Labour party removes fascist Oswald Mosley

1935 - Graham "Polly" Farmer was born

1936 - Sepp Blatter, FIFA President was born

1939 - German steamer S/S Egeran disappeared at sea after passing the Elbe LH on the 10th February 1938 when on route from Hamburg for Rotterdam with a cargo of grain

1940 - Chuck Norris was born

1942 - Flotilla of 7 corvettes, HMA Ships Maryborough, Goulburn, Burnie, Ballarat, Toowoomba, Wollongong, and Bendigo, reached Fremantle, WA, from Tjilatjap

1943 - U-633 was rammed by British merchant SS Scorton in the North Atlantic, 43 dead (all hands lost).

1944 - British Corvette HMS Asphodel was sunk by torpedo from U-575 west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. Only five survivors were picked up

1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops

1945 - HMA ML 825 shot down a Japanese fighter off Cape Orford, New Guinea.

1946 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator was born

1951 - FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner

1957 - Osama bin Laden was born

1957 - Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy

1958 - Sharon Stone was born

1961 - Near Bowna, New South Wales an object was observed on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 9:30 p.m. it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight that same evening.

1964 - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

1965 - Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" premiered on Broadway

1965 - Rod Woodson, NFL cornerback was born

1966 - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley

1967 - Two men were driving in a remote part of Piggott, Arkansas when their truck's engine failed. Before they could get out of the vehicle to investigate they saw a 50-foot wide saucer shaped object descend to the ground in front of them. Two bizarre looking "aliens" emerged from the object and walked over to their truck. The humanoids were described as of average human height, but with large heads that were flat in the back, and gray in color. They had normal eyes, noses, and mouths. They also wore tight-fitting gray diver's suits. The men felt like they were being bombarded with vibrations and had the uncanny feeling that the aliens knew what they were thinking. Rolling down the truck windows, the men spoke to one of the aliens, who reportedly told them that they meant them no harm and they could continue on their journey if they promised to keep this meeting a secret.

1968 - "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding was number 1 in America

1970 - HMAS Perth, (guided missile destroyer), operated on the destroyer screen of the USS Kitty Hawk, (aircraft carrier), during air strikes against North Vietnamese troops in Laos

1971 - Timbaland was born

1972 - In Decatur County, Indiana west-northwest of Milhausen a farm couple reported seeing a huge delta-shaped UFO at 4:10 a.m. A heavy, reddish-orange stone was found on the ground that later vanished. According to reports the woman suffered chest pains at the time of the UFO encounter, and there was some unusual interference with the investigation by a mystery person.

1975 - "Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC

1975 - A surgically mutilated dead cow was found in a 30-foot wide crop circle, six miles south of Whiteface, Texas.

1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England

1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO

1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding the American hostages in Tehran.

1981 - Samuel Eto'o was born

1982 - Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun

1983 - Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian Singer was born

1985 - Lassana Diarra was born

1986 - Ray Milland died

1987 - Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer

1988 - Andy Gibb died

1993 - David Gunn, abortion doctor murdered

1994 - "The Sign" by Ace of Base was number 1 in America

1997 - In Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, a man was walking home alone at around 3:00 a.m. when he suddenly felt very cold. He next saw a purple light drop from the sky, and at the same time he heard a high-pitched screeching sound and he felt dizzy. He fell to his knees, sweating profusely despite the sensation of cold. An orange beam of light then appeared beside him. Several odd looking, medium-sized creatures then emerged from the beam. They appeared to have only one eye and each had a large antenna that radiated an odd blue light. They had a strange orifice where their mouths should have been. The creatures emitted intermittent screeches of varying frequencies. He could apparently understand them, because he was receiving mental messages. The beings then formed a circle around him, and one of them approached and touched his forehead. He then got a mental message in perfect Spanish, telling him to guard the planet against pollution, because their own world was almost totally ruined, and now there were only 50 of them left. Soon after this they flew back into the purple light via the orange beam of light. Before leaving, the leader showed him a strange communication device.

1997 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on the WB Television Network.

1998 - Lloyd Bridges died

2003 - Barry Sheene died

2004 - U.S. Internet providers sue hundreds of people over 'spam' e-mails

2005 - Dave Allen died

2005 - Hydrogen car in Army test

2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives on Mars

2006 - The EU and the US signed a new wine deal that allows the US to export wines made using practices many European vintners shun. The bilateral accord resolved most elements of a 2-decade-long dispute over wine making methods and names.

2007 - Ernie Ladd died

2008 - Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer died

2010 - Corey Haim died

 

[Seriously]

1967 - Two men were driving in a remote part of Piggott, Arkansas when their truck's engine failed. Before they could get out of the vehicle to investigate they saw a 50-foot wide saucer shaped object descend to the ground in front of them. Two bizarre looking "aliens" emerged from the object and walked over to their truck. The humanoids were described as of average human height, but with large heads that were flat in the back, and gray in color. They had normal eyes, noses, and mouths. They also wore tight-fitting gray diver's suits. The men felt like they were being bombarded with vibrations and had the uncanny feeling that the aliens knew what they were thinking. Rolling down the truck windows, the men spoke to one of the aliens, who reportedly told them that they meant them no harm and they could continue on their journey if they promised to keep this meeting a secret.

Looks like those 2 guys are screwed

 

[Asgardian]

11th March

1425 BC - Thutmose III, Egyptian pharaoh died

222 - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (Elagabalus) Roman Emperor was murdered by the Praetorian Guard

537 - Goths lay siege to Rome

843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople

1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

1669 - Volcano Mt. Etna erupts killing 15,000

1702 - 1st English national daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes

1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation

1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain was born

1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens

1801 - Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar was assassinated

1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, mathematician & co-discoverer of Neptune was born

1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews

1845 - The Flagstaff War in New Zealand

1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution

1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption

1885 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver was born

1887 - Raoul Walsh, film director was born

1888 - Great blizzard strikes killing more than 400

1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer was born

1892 - 1st public basketball game

1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over West Virginia

1901 - U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steel Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world's richest man

1901 - Nor SS (Norwegian cargo steamer of 2,129grt) sailed from Norfolk, Virginia for Portland, UK with a cargo of phosphates, was posted missing, never seen again

1903 - Lawrence Welk was born

1915 - J. C. R. Licklider, internet pioneer was born

1916 - Harold Wilson, British PM was born

1917 - WWI: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces

1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1919 - HMAS Kurumba was commissioned as an oiler for the flotilla of "J" class submarines presented to the RAN as a gift by the British Admiralty

1919 - Lobelia SS (Swedish cargo steamer of 1,672grt) sailed from Gothenburg for Sunderland in ballast. She was posted missing & never seen again

1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, 4 time Wimbledon champ was born

1927 - The Flatheads Gang stole $104,250 in the 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US

1931 - Rupert Murdoch was born

1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director died

1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill

1942 - British Light cruiser HMS Naiad was hit by one torpedo from U-565 and sank north of Sidi Barrani, Egypt

1942 - General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor

1943 - British Destroyer HMS Harvester rammed U-444, their own damage was substantial, was hit by 2 torpedos from U-432 then sinking in the North Atlantic

1944 - HMAS Arunta, (destroyer), along with US destroyers, closed to 4000 yards to bombard Japanese positions at Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island

1944 - UIT-22 (ex Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini) was sunk south of the Cape of Good Hope by depth charges from a South African aircraft

1945 - Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2

1946 - Pravda denounced Winston Churchill as anti-Soviet and a warmonger

1947 - Geoff Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player was born

1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

1950 - Jerry Zucker was born

1952 - Douglas Adams, (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was born

1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

1956 - HMAS Melbourne embarked Nos. 808, 816, and 817 Squadrons off Scotland on her maiden voyage to Australia

1957 - Richard E Byrd, Antarctica explorer died

1957 - The tug HMAS Emu rescued six survivors of the merchant ship Gold Seeker from Bowen Bay, Bathurst Island

1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Lego died

1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus

1960 - On television, "Walt Disney Presents" "This Is Your Life, Donald Duck."

1963 - At 8:00 p.m. two military witnesses in the Air National Guard, were flying over the Pacific Ocean near Oahu Island, Hawaii when they spotted a very bright, crescent-shaped UFO flying at high altitude. The object flew off to the west

1963 - "Walk Like a Man" by The Four Seasons was number 1 in America

1965 - The American navy began inspecting Vietnamese junks in an effort to end arms smuggling to the South

1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out

1969 - John Wyndham, author died

1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author died

1971 - Johnny Knoxville was born

1974 - Jon Dalton, the infamous "Jonny Fairplay" from the 7th and 16th season of Survivor was born

1974 - Mount Etna erupts

1974 - Bobby Abreu, baseballer was born

1977 - Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington

1978 - Didier Drogba was born

1978 - Sometime around 11 p.m. three people were camping on the site of a Maori burial ground in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand when one of them awoke suddenly and saw a being looking at them. Her memory went blank at this point, but she does recall that at 4:00 a.m. the next morning all three of them woke up and left the area. Under hypnosis, she recalled that she and one of her companions were drawn onboard a luminous domed disc-shaped craft by a beam of light. A humanoid being of medium built, who wore a pair of silvery calf-length boots, met them inside. He communicated with her by telepathy and warned them to keep silent about the experience

1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game

1980 - John Hinckley, Jr. watches the movie Taxi Driver

1982 - Hasan Raza, (Test cricketer at the age of 14) was born (disputed)

1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher died

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader

1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km

1988 - "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley was number 1 in America

1990 - Lithuania declares it's independence

1990 - Jennifer Capriati, aged 13, became the youngest-ever finalist in a professional contest

1992 - At 6:30 p.m. a woman in Bellomonte, Puerto Rico was sitting alone in her rocking chair on the rear patio of her home, when suddenly she felt a strong presence nearby. She saw two very tall, muscular men with light skin standing close beside her. They wore tight-fitting black uniforms that covered their entire bodies except for their faces. They were accompanied by two short humanoids with large egg-shaped heads and yellowish skin, wide lipless mouths, and large dark slit-shaped eyes. These creatures wore brown, loose-fitting outfits. The two short beings appeared to be in charge of the situation and were intent on inspecting the terrain and plants, constantly murmuring between themselves in a strange language. The tall beings communicated with her using telepathy, informing her that the short beings wanted her to plant certain different kinds of flowers and trees in her garden. She said that she had felt more comfortable with the presence of the two beings who looked human than with the odd looking short creatures, but that there appeared to be a definite collaboration occurring between the two types of beings

1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler was murdered

1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection

1996 - The EU Database Directive is passed

1997 - Paul McCartney knighted

1997 - Gorah Lass MFV fishing netter, capsized in a SE force 5/6 steep seas with moderate visibility. All three crew lost their lives

1997 - Scientists from observatories in Chile and Australia were to announce the discovery of a star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Dorado that measured some 370 times the size of the Sun. Stars of this size are believed to be doomed to collapse and explode as supernovas

1998 - In Los Angeles Efren Saldivar, a respiratory care therapist, claimed to have killed as many as 50 terminally ill patients

2000 - At 8:10 p.m. a man from Traralgon, Victoria saw a bright star-like object that was moving through the sky very fast. It made a 45-degree turn and then faded out. Later he remembered being in a round room with a high ceiling. There were several pillars coming down the sides of the walls. The "room" seemed to be dirty. In the middle of the room there was a sort of table, resembling a half cylinder, made out of what appeared to be corrugate iron. He recalls that he encountered two types of creatures: some were short with bluish black skin, perfectly round eyes, and they wore coveralls with hoods. The others were the classic Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. He later found a triangle-shaped scar on his upper arm

2002 - Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks

2004 - Locally built robot set to become Hong Kong's latest cop

2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia died in custody

2007 - NASA confirmed that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February

2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany

2010 - In Mexico gunmen burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened fire, killing 5 young men and wounding 5 others, during a wake being held for a young man shot to death in his car earlier in the week

 

[Hard Ball Get]

^ You could add the events in Japan to that list...

 

[Asgardian]

12th March

417 - Pope Innocent I died

538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna

604 - Pope Gregory I (The Great) died

1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome

1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples

1365 - University of Vienna founded

1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan died

1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria

1507 - Cesare Borgia died

1594 - Company of Distant Countries established for business on East-Indies

1628 - John Bull, English composer (God Save The King) died (disputed)

1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand

1652 - Virginia surrenders to Commonwealth of England

1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence

1865 - The Confederacy authorizes the use of slaves in the army

1879 - The British Zulu War began

1881 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain

1883 - Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny] 1868 Aboriginal touring cricket team, died

1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time

1895 - Royal Welsh SS (a British cargo steamer of 1,498grt) foundered in the Atlantic when on route from Antwerp for Rio de Janeiro

1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)

1904 - After 30 years of drilling, the tunnel under the Hudson River was completed

1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid

1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3

1923 - Wally Schirra, original Mercury astronaut was born

1923 - Mae Young, wrestler was born

1925 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president died

1928 - St. Francis Dam in Santa Paula, California collapses, killing 450 people

1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

1939 - Artie Shaw and his band recorded "Deep Purple"

1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, cedes Karelische Isthmus

1943 - U-130 was sunk west of the Azores, by depth charges from the US destroyer USS Champlin (all hands lost)

1944 - Britain barred all travel to Ireland

1945 - Anne Frank died (approximate)

1946 - Liza Minnelli was born

1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician - Nazi, was executed

1947 - Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism

1951 - Cartoonist Hank Ketchum debuted his "Dennis the Menace" comic strip

1953 - Ron Jeremy, porno actor was born

1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, jazz musician died

1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "Maybe Baby"

1959 - On this night a 6-year-old of Purnong Landing, South Australia was preparing for bed when he saw a five foot tall man with a crimson face, wearing a red jacket and trousers with white trimmings. He was visible for a minute and a half. Kim's dog did not react. A few hours later, a multi-colored luminous UFO was seen close to the Marks property

1962 - Darryl Strawberry, baseballer was born

1967 - "Penny Lane" by The Beatles was number 1 in America

1967 - A woman and her daughter driving home from church at 11:30 p.m. in Letart Falls, Ohio rounded a corner in a wooded area and saw a huge white figure appear suddenly in front of their car. The creature appeared to have very long hair and was in sight for several seconds before it shot upward into the sky and disappeared. The witnesses assumed they had seen an "angel"

1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman

1971 - Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias

1974 - Ted Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears

1974 - Keith McDonald and his family were watching at least three UFOs from the window of their living room in Grayslake, Illinois when everyone but Keith became extremely tired and went off to bed. Keith next experienced a time lapse of several hours. Under hypnosis he recalled that three small entities with large eyes, long arms, and pointed ears entered the house and made mumbling sounds.

1974 - "Wonder Woman" debuted on ABC-TV

1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, was assassinated.

1977 - Roman Polanski is arrested for drugging and raping a 13-year-old model at Jack Nicholson's home. He entered a partial guilty plea and then fled the country while awaiting trial

1978 - John Cazale, actor died

1980 - Canadian ship Maurice Desgagnes; 1498 tons, was lost at sea

1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33

1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships

1985 - "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon was number 1 in America

1992 - Guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin, commenced boarding and searching operations in the Red Sea. She operated with the United Nations force policing trade with Iraq

1993 - Several bombs were set of in Bombay, India. About 300 were killed and hundreds more were injured

1993 - North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites

1994 - The famous 1934 Loch Ness Monster "Surgeon's photo" reportedly taken by Col. Robert Wilson is exposed as a hoax in a deathbed confession by Chris Spurling who claimed to help create the photo

1996 - Weird Al released "Amish Paradise," his musical spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise."

1998 - Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles

1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO

2000 - In the early evening around 6 p.m. three employees of the San Miguel Corporation, a large beer and beverage maker in Manila, the Philippines were walking across the company parking lot to their car when they noticed a strange glow emanating from a large tree on their left. It was a pale blue color. Thinking that it was some sort of decorative lighting, they ignored it and kept walking. Then they heard a low rumbling noise that sounded like: "Anong balita, anong balita." Looking back they caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a naked, human like creature with white hair and glowing rings imbedded in its wrists like shiny cufflinks. It leapt away with incredible speed. With a blur it vanished into some bushes.

2001 - Morton Downey, Jr. died

2001 - Robert Ludlum, author died

2004 - 100 metre nanotube thread pulled from furnace

2005 - In Brookfield, Wisconsin, Terry Ratzmann (44) opened fire with a handgun during an evangelical church service at a suburban Milwaukee hotel, killing 7 people before taking his own life.

2005 - Frigate HMAS Anzac, departed Australia on a six month world cruise, (Operation Northern Trident). During the cruise the ship was destined to take part in the Gallipoli 90th Anniversary commemorations at ANZAC Cove, and also the Battle of Trafalgar 200th Anniversary celebrations in the United Kingdom

2007 - R.E.M. and Van Halen were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2008 - Australian police said a quarter-ton of cocaine with a street value of more than 80 million US dollars has been seized after being shipped in from Southeast Asia

2008 - Lazare Ponticelli, French foot soldier of WWI died

2010 - In Mexico gunmen burst into a party and killed 8 youths and left another person wounded in the Pacific coast township of Navolato

 

[Asgardian]

13th March

607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV

1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli

1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots

1591 - Battle of Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

1615 - Pope Innocent XII was born

1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1733 - Joseph Priestly, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen) (disputed) was born

1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1770 - Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death) was born

1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)

1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing

1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor died

1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly

1855 - Percival Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) was born

1865 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers in the Confederate army

1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

1881 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, was assassinated

1884 - Siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins

1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate

1894 - Belgian ship SS De Ruyter went missing at sea with the loss of her crew

1898 - Henry Hathaway, American film director was born

1900 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State

1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author & founder of Scientology was born

1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law

1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures

1921 - Mongolia declares independence from China

1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution

1933 - Josef Goebbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda

1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain

1935 - Three thousand year old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history

1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney died

1939 - Neil Sedaka was born

1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends

1943 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

1943 - U-163 was sunk in the North Atlantic by depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Prescott (all hands lost)

1943 - German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków

1948 - "Mañana" by Peggy Lee was number 1 in America

1950 - Joe Bugner, boxer was born

1950 - A 9 meter in diameter object, described as a spaceship with a propeller, landed in Penon de Los Banos, Mexico. The pilot of the craft conversed with the witness. His message was that "they" will colonize after we destroy ourselves. There was a reported odor of sulphur accompanying the presence of the UFOnaut

1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232

1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

1953 - The Liberian motortanker MV Angy caught fire and broke in two after she exploded about 1000 miles E. of New York. The aft part of the vessel was taken in tow but sank the next day

1954 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French

1957 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista

1959 - Dirk Wellham was born

1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

1961 - Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

1962 - Frank Drake, American astronomer, formulated a calculation, the Drake equation, for the likelihood of establishing contact with aliens

1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska

1964 - Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on

1964 - At 6:17 p.m. a UFO paced a vehicle being driven along Salt Creek, Tilley, South Australia. The object was estimated to be 200 feet long, silver in color, and made a whining noise as it chased the car

1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds

1967 - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, died

1968 - An Army nerve gas test kills 6,000 sheep in the US

1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK

1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth

1969: Walt Disney Productions' original Herbie adventure, "The Love Bug," opened in theatres across the U.S.

1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

1972 - "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young was number 1 in America

1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty

1977 - Two teenagers near Mandurah, Western Australia observed a globe of light moving in a straight line in the sky at 8:30 p.m. Their car's engine died during the sighting, which lasted only a few seconds, but their car headlights remained on. The object was bluish-white in color and vanished in the distance, still moving at a steady speed

1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out for 95 in Centenary Test

1980 - AB J. Stewart was lost overboard from HMAS Brisbane, 120 miles north-west of Honolulu, and was picked up 12 hours later by USS Joseph Strauss. He stayed afloat by inflating a discarded plastic garbage bag. A large shark swam around him for the last two hours of his ordeal

1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering

1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

1988 - John Holmes, American pr0n star died

1988 - The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan

1989 - Harry Melling, British actor (Dudley Dursley) was born

1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill

1992 - Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit

1995 - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, was arrested by the Taliban and was thrown out from a helicopter while in flight near Ghazni which killed him.

1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine died

1996 - Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide

1996 - Lucio Fulci, film director

1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television

2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy

2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself

2006 - Robert C. Baker, inventor of the chicken nugget died

2006 - The Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Black Sabboth, Blondie, Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols

2007 - Arnold Skaaland, professional wrestler died

2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time

2010 - He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk died

 

[Asgardian]

14th March

313 - Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor is excuted

1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China died

1471 - Thomas Malory, author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, died

1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice

1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1704 - HMS Seahorse, 6th Rate 24 cannon frigate was wrecked off Jamaica.

1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War

1804 - Johann Strauss, Sr., composer was born

1829 - Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at age 7 of old age) was born

1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin leaves Australia

1863 - American packet ship Manhattan broke out Liverpool en route to New York and disappeared

1864 - Casey Jones, American railroad engineer was born

1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist was born

1879 - Albert Einstein was born

1883 - Karl Marx, (Communist Manifesto) died

1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado," premieres in London

1900 - US currency goes on gold standard

1905 - The steamer Dollie left Garston for Dublin with a cargo of coal. During a severe gale she went missing, only wreckage was ever found.

1906 - The island of Ustica was devastated by an earthquake.

1907 - Acapulco, Mexico, was hit by an earthquake.

1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars.

1915 - SS Bavaria left Oxelosund on March 14th, 1915, for Stettin with a cargo of ore. She was assumed to have been lost with all hands during a violent snowstorm or mined NW Stolpe Bank.

1915 - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile

1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge

1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched

1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) was born

1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP

1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, died

1932 – George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, died by suicide

1933 - Michael Caine was born

1933 - Balto, Siberian Husky (1925 serum run to Nome) died

1933 - Quincy Jones Jr (record producer - Thriller) was born

1938 - SS Anglo Australian left Cardiff in ballast bound for British Columbia to load a cargo of lumber. "Passed Fayal this afternoon 9 knots 26 tons bunker consumption. Rough weather all well." This message was despatched from the vessel at 6 to 6.30 p.m. ship´s time. No further sign of the ship has ever been found since, lost at sea.

1938 - Johnny Gleeson, Australian mystery spinner was born

1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia

1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, director was born

1941 - Nazi occupiers in Holland forbid Jewish ownership of companies

1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.

1944 - HMAS Shepparton landed troops at Talasea, New Britain.

1944 - HMAS Benalla surveyed Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island, while under enemy gunfire.

1945 - U-714 was sunk in the North Sea by depth charges from the South African frigate HMSAS Natal and the British destroyer HMS Vivern, all hands lost.

1946 - Jasper Carrott, English comedian was born

1946 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (critic of Hitler) died

1947 - Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the U.S.S.R.

1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet was born

1947 - The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.

1947 - Billy Crystal was born

1950 - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party

1956 - The movie "Rock Around the Clock" made its premier in Washington

1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC

1963 - Bruce Reid, cricketer was born

1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald

1968 - After only two seasons the campy "Batman" TV series aired its final episode.

1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga, Sth Aust

1969 - The flight surgeon and two other crew members of an Air Force KC-135 flying over Thailand saw a huge black cylinder hovering in the vertical position during a daytime flight. When a fighter aircraft was sent to investigate the object disappeared.

1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes

1971 - Two young men were in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, Arizona to gather snakes. During that night, at 9:06 p.m., they saw a light coming towards them over the mountains. As it approached they had a missing time memory loss, and their next recollection was that they were hastily leaving the campsite two hours later. During a hypnosis session five years later one of them described how the object approached and hovered over them. It was emitting a purplish light from underneath, and he felt a "pulsating, pulling feeling" as the two men were lifted up into the craft. They were separated once they were inside, and he was led by a 7 foot tall entity down a corridor to a door which "shattered" when they entered through it. On the other side was a small room filled with mist, where he encountered 4 or 5 similar beings, 7 foot tall and with grayish skin similar to that of a crocodile, and with 3 fingered hands. The room was cold and the mist emanated from vents in the floor. He was stripped and placed against a very brightly lit wall panel. A machine directly in front of him appeared to "scan" him, and a new 9-foot-tall entity communicated with him telepathically and asked why he was afraid. His mind was briefly transported to some other worldly environment, presumably the being's home planet. The beings that examined him had huge ears, no hair, and slit-like mouths. Their feet were elephant like, with three broad toes. When the examination was completed, Scott was reunited with his friend and they were both returned to the ground with no conscious memory of what had taken place. However, they both felt an unspecified terror to such a degree that they immediately packed their gear and returned to town.

1973 - Chic Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), died

1975 - Susan Hayward, actress died

1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1976 - Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/director died

1976 - A married couple driving between Liria and Olocau, Valencia, Spain saw a dark figure float across the road ahead of them. at 9:45 p.m. Depite being dark it was luminous and shaped like the "Michelin man." Their car headlights died as they approached.

1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer was born

1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French soccer player was born

1981 - Ken Barrington, cricketer died

1983 - First time ever OPEC agrees to cut prices of crude oil.

1989 - "Lost in Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson was number 1 in America

1993 - An independent U.N. sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador's civil war on the country's military

1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 - Prince released the single "Purple Medley."

1995 - Charles Little and his fiancée were driving in Joshua Tree National Monument, California at 11:30 a.m. when they noticed two objects hovering in the sky: one in front of the car and the other behind it. They apparently lost consciousness and came to two hours later. Later under hypnosis, Little remembered being inside a round object with several rooms, including a main control room with large windows and an examination room with a small table. They encountered three types of humanoids, short Greys with huge black oval-shaped eyes, some tall reptilian creatures, and short hooded humanoids. After their abduction Little found a mark on his upper thigh, and nodules behind his ears. Four years later his fiancée died of esophageal cancer, and Little believes the cancer was somehow related to the incident.

1997 - Fred Zinnemann, director, died

1997 - At 1:03 a.m. a couple were in a park in Cote-St.-Luc, Quebec, Canada when they heard a loud whirring sound overhead and were engulfed in a white beam. They were unable to move. Overhead they saw, less than 50 feet above them, a silver disc-shaped UFO with multi-colored lights around the rim. They experienced an episode of missing time, their clothes were singed and they had skin burns. The woman also had a round scar on her head.

2000 - "Say My Name" by Destiny's Child was number 1 in America

2005 - U2, The Pretenders, The O'Jays, Percy Sledge and blues legend Buddy Guy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2006 - Amazon offers hosted storage for developers

2007 - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed legislation authorizing “civil confinement” of certain sex offenders who have finished their prison terms, but were still considered a threat.

2010 - Peter Graves, actor died

 

[Asgardian]

15th March

44 BC - Julius Caesar was murdered (the Ides of March)

351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar

493 - Odoacer, King of Italy was murdered

933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren

1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast

1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews

1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage

1536 - Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent was executed

1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.

1564 - Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax)

1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China was born

1672 - King Charles II enacts Royal Declaration of Indulgence

1843 - Schooner USS Grampus presumably foundered in a gale off Charleston, South Carolina, never found.

1877 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket match, Australia v England at MCG

1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa during a typhoon

1904 - Three hundred Russians were killed as the Japanese shelled Port Arthur in Korea

1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, (brother of Claus) involved in the attempt to assassinate Hitler, was born

1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

1906 - SS Khersones, a Passenger/cargo steamer of 1,121 grt, went missing when on route from Antwerp for Pillau, never found

1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote

1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico

1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate

1921 - "Margie" by Eddie Cantor was number 1 in America

1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)

1931 - SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland

1935 - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda banned four Berlin newspapers

1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, evangelist, was born

1937 - First U.S. blood bank opens.

1937 - H. P. Lovecraft died

1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia

1940 - Phil Lesh, rock bassist (Grateful Dead), was born

1941 - Mike Love, musician (The Beach Boys), was born

1942 - American Lighthouse Tender, USCGC Acacia, was shelled by U-161, caught fire & sank south of Haiti. Survivors were rescued after being located by PBY aircraft by USS Overton

1942 - U-503 was sunk in the North Atlantic by depth charges from a US Hudson aircraft

1943 - David Cronenberg was born

1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov

1944 - Sly Stone, musician was born

1947 - Ry Cooder, guitarist was born

1952 - Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean

1953 - Colin Croft, cricketer was born

1956 - Colonel Tom Parker became Elvis Presley's manager

1959 - Renny Harlin, Finnish film director was born

1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth

1962 - Terrence Trent D'Arby was born

1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty

1965 - A 45-year-old man, was out in a boat with his hunting dogs in the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida when he encountered a metallic cone-shaped UFO at around one o'clock in the morning. The UFO had three rows of square windows and a yellow light. It made a generator like sound, then emitted a jet like sound followed by a blast of air. His dogs howled. Then a beam of light shot out from underneath the object, striking the witness in the forehead. He fell unconscious, and awoke with blindness in his right eye. Damaged foliage was found at the site, he was admitted to hospital for a five day stay.

1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder of Harlem Globetrotters died

1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1971 - "Me and Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin was number 1 in America

1974 - At 1:45 a.m. a man and his fiancé were in a parked car on a road near the shore in Erbalunga, Corsica, France when he looked up and saw on the roadside bank, only 10 feet from their car, the silhouettes of three persons with long arms, bending forward. They appeared "smooth" and no clothing was seen. The witness at once backed up and got out of the road; then his fiancé called his attention to a pyramid-shaped luminous object which was just taking off from a spot about 400 feet away. It had a brilliant yellow base separated by a black band from an orange point area; the point was directed diagonally downwards. Once the object was in the air it suddenly disappeared. The car's radio went out as the object took off. A search the next day found no traces.

1974 - Patty Hearst participates in San Francisco bank robbery with Symbionese Liberation Army who had abducted her a month earlier

1974 - A man was sleeping in his van in Metairie, Louisiana after visiting a friend when he awoke at six o'clock in the morning to see a silver disc-shaped object hovering above a house across the street. It made no noise at all. His next memory was of getting out of the van. Later he had vague memories of sitting in some type of cold silvery metallic chair and having several "people" standing around him. He remembered that the "aliens" told him not to be afraid, and that someday they would be back. He could not recall anything else.

1975 - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate died

1975 - The group T. Rex disbanded.

1976 - "Destroyer" was released by KISS

1977 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler died

1981 - René Clair, French film director died

1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, actor (in Harry Potter movies) was born

1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)

1989 - Bryce Gibbs was born

1990 - In Iraq, British journalist Farzad Bazoft was hanged for spying

1994 - The guided missile frigate HMAS Sydney, rescued the crew of the disabled yacht Pacific Breeze, some 285 miles southeast of Jervis Bay

1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer died

1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet (now known as a dwarf planet)

1999 - Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed

2004 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Prince, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne & George Harrison along with ZZ Top, Traffic and the Dells

2006 - Queen Elizabeth II was greeted with protests, as well as pomp, when she arrived in Melbourne to open the Commonwealth Games.

2009 - Miami, Florida, a man shot four people to death at a family gathering, then went home and killed himself

 

[Asgardian]

16th March

597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor was murdered

37 - Caligula becomes Roman Emperor

455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor was assassinated

1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York, England

1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the Despenser Wars.

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines

1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing

1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan indian, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset"

1660 - English Long Parliament disbands

1774 - Matthew Flinders was born

1801 - HMS Invincible, 3rd rate ship of the line, 74 cannons, was on voyage from Yarmouth for the Sound to join the fleet, when she struck on Harborough Sands, Yarmouth. Out of 500 souls, only 70 or 80 were saved

1802 - West Point Military Academy established by Congress, opens 4th July

1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger, was born

1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough begins

1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton

1876 - Canadian barque, Live Oak, was on voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Liverpool. She was lost in a storm off Seal Island light

1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus' become one

1884 - HMVS Childers, en route to Australia, was diverted to the port of Suakin to participate in the Sudan War

1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor & chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was born

1897 - Australian Barge "Monarch", 191.2 tons was on voyage from Adelaide to Fremantle when she was lost off the Great Australian Bight

1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist (judge) died

1906 - Henny Youngman, comedian was born

1907 - The world's largest cruiser, the British Invincible was completed at Glasgow.

1908 - China released the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru

1908 - Robert Rossen director was born

1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal & SS officer was born

1920 - Leo McKern, actor (Rumpole of the Bailey) was born

1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary was born

1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal was born

1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill was born

1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated WWI dog died

1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184'

1926 - Jerry Lewis was born

1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty

1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, director was born

1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow

1942 - American Motor tanker "Australia" was sunk by a torpedo from U-332 NE of Jacksonville

1942 - The first V-2 rocket test launch. It explodes at lift-off.

1945 - U-367 was sunk in the Baltic Sea after hitting a mine (all hands lost)

1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima

1946 - Marius "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist was executed

1949 - Erik Estrada was born

1953 - "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page was number 1 in America

1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war

1957 - Art Clokey's Claymation cartoon series, "The Gumby Show," premiered on NBC with his pal, Pokey

1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty

1961 - Brett Kenny, rugby league player was born

1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket

1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, all 107 missing presumed dead

1963 - "Puff The Magic Dragon" was released by Peter, Paul & Mary

1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing 11,000

1964 - Gore Verbinski, director was born

1964 - The Beatles release "Can't Buy Me Love"

1966 - A revolving domed disc with lights around its rim circled Great Lake in Portland, Connecticut three times before flying off to the east toward Cobalt.

1968 - In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops

1971 - Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer died

1972 - A truck driver saw a sparkling mist appear over the fields in Granadero, Argentina around dawn. He stopped his truck and saw the mist replaced by a blindingly vivid light. When he opened his eyes again he saw "a large oblong machine with a rim on the upper part and wide projections in the under part" about 100 yards away. Three men with very broad shoulders emerged, walking with difficulty. They "looked like Chinese, but with sharper features." They came up to the witness and one of them touched him, gripping his elbow. They spoke to him in a strange language, but he understood that he should not be afraid of them. Then one of them took out "a plaque with two shining symbols on it," and showed it to him.

1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers

1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist died

1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury

1977 - Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War

1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty

1979 - "China Syndrome" is released, about a nuclear plant disaster.

1980 - "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd was number 1 in America

1986 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel was born

1988 - The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 & injuring about 10000

1989 - Theo Walcott, soccer player was born

1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade

1993 - In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption

1995 - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment

1996 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to win Heavyweight title

1998 - Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust

2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier died

2002 - HMAS Hobart was scuttled in Yankalilla Bay, South Australia. She took 2 minutes and 17 seconds to sink

2004 - Amiga, Inc. sells the Amiga Operating System, to focus on AmigaDE and the Mobile

2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control

2005 - Cassini probe finds a significant atmosphere on Saturn's moon Enceladus

2005 - Tropical Cyclone Ingrid flattened Faraway Resort

2006 - New Trojan ransoms files, demands $300

2008 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer died

 

[Asgardian]

17th March

45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda

180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, died

460 - St Patrick, patron Saint of Ireland, died

624 - Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr

1231 - Emperor Shijō of Japan was born

1272 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan died

1473 - James IV, king of Scotland was born

1768 - A failed slave uprising took place in Montserrat

1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1800 - English warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire, explodes & turns over, 673 die

1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, co-designed 1st internal combustion motorcycle, was born

1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour

1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1853 - Christian Doppler, physicist, died

1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized

1874 - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race, was born

1876 - Gen. Crook destroyed Cheyenne and Ogallala-Sioux Indian camps

1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed

1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

1899 - The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistance for a merchant ship off the coast of England

1903 - A father & daughter observed a glowing 100 foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the west.

1919 - Nat "King" Cole, singer, was born

1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics

1926 - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1927 - US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi headquarters

1935 - "Lovely to Look At" by Eddy Duchin was number 1 in America

1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, was born

1939 - Walt Disney's Goofy made his first film appearance in the cartoon "Goofy and Wilbur"

1941 - U-100 was sunk SE of Iceland after being rammed and depth charged by the British destroyers HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc, 6 survivors

1941 - Paul Kantner, musician (Jefferson Airplane), was born

1942 - The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp

1942 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (33 teenage boys and young men), was born

1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1944 - Patti Boyd, tarnished past with rock legends, was born

1945 - The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.

1945 - Michael Hayden, former CIA director, was born

1946 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster died

1949 - Patrick Duffy was born

1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced

1951 - Kurt Russell was born

1951 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham

1952 - A US ban on the word “tornado” was lifted. The ban had started in 1886 when the US Army, which handled weather forecasting, determined that the harm done by predicting a tornado would be greater than that done by the tornado itself.

1954 - Lesley-Anne Down was born

1955 - Gary Sinise was born

1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted

1958 - The Coasters recorded "Yakety Yak"

1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations

1962 - Moscow asked the U.S. to pull out of South Vietnam.

1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese

1964 - Rob Lowe was born

1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean

1967 - Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine

1968 - The Bee Gees make their American TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show

1969 - At 2:45 a.m. a retired army general had become stranded along a dirt road near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil after his car engine had quit. Moments later he saw a light rising above a nearby hill and felt a strong compulsion to walk towards it. After a short walk he came upon an object with translucent walls that gave off a dazzling light. Despite the translucent appearance the object seemed to be made of some metallic substance. Part of the surface of the object flung itself back, and three human-like figures stood in the opening, one a woman. The witness was invited inside by one of the men, who informed him that the other two were also humans. After a short ride in the craft he was told that time, as we conceive of it, doesn't exist. He was eventually released back to his vehicle, which could quickly be started again without any difficulty.

1969 - Guided missile destroyer HMAS Perth acted as naval gunfire support ship for II Corps in support of an operation by the US 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam

1969 - Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge

1974 - Mark Dolan (Balls of Steel) was born

1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried

1977 - Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877

1977 - Marin County pharmacist Fred Mayer started the first Condom Day at UC Berkeley.

1979 - Samoa Joe, professional wrestler, was born

1980 - A publicity hoax claiming the discovery of a missing Japanese midget submarine in Port Jackson brought complaints from Australian and Japanese authorities

1981 - Aaron Baddeley, Australian golfer, was born

1982 - "I Love Rock 'n Roll" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts was number 1 in America

1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.

1986 - Edin Džeko, soccer player, was born

1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3

1987 - Rob Kardashian was born

1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

1988 - Apple filed suit against Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement in the Windows GUI.

1989 - A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada

1989 - Oldest known mummy is discovered. It was buried about 2600 B.C.

1990 - Capucine, French actress died

1993 - Helen Hayes died

1995 - Ronnie Kray, English gangster died

1996 - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup

1999 - Rod Hull, British comedian died

2000 - The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide

2004 - ChatNannies program scans for paedophiles

2007 - John Backus, computer scientist died

2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 800 million applications downloaded

 

[Asgardian]

18th March

37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula empero

235 - Marcus Aurelius Alexander Severus, Roman emperor, was murdered

978 - King Edward the Martyr of England, murdered at 15

1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England

1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols

1314 - Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Knights Templar is burned at the stake.

1325 - According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded

1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, was born

1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome

1584 - Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar died

1662 - The first public bus service began operating, in Paris.

1766 - British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

1781 - Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92

1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union

1835 - Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass

1845 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist died

1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express

1869 - Neville Chamberlain, British PM sucked in by Hitler, was born

1876 - Root Hog Or Die, 24 ton cutter, was lost off Sharrard Island, Cape York.

1877 - Clem Hill, cricketer, was born

1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic, was born

1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by telephone

1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering

1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record

1911 - North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law

1913 - Rene Clement, director, was born

1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated

1915 - Failed British attack in Dardanelles

1916 - HMAS Pioneer intercepted and sank the German supply ship Tabora off Dar Es Salaam, East Africa

1922 - Gandhi is sentenced to 6 years prison for disobedience

1926 - Peter Graves, actor, was born

1931 - Schick marketed the first electric razor in US

1938 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders

1939 - Ron Atkinson, soccer manager, was born

1940 - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain

1941 - Wilson Pickett, R&B singer, was born

1942 - President Roosevelt telegraphed Prime Minister Churchill:- "There is no use giving a single further thought to Singapore or the Dutch East Indies. They are gone. Australia must be held and we are willing to undertake that

1942 - War Relocation Authority is established in the US to take Japanese Americans into custody

1944 - Dick Smith was born

1944 - Mount Vesuvius erupts

1944 - 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store

1945 - U-866 was sunk in the North Atlantic by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Lowe, USS Menges, USS Pride and USS Mosley (all hands lost).

1945 - 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin

1949 - Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player, was born

1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified

1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver, was born

1950 - At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia six airline pilots on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored disc that flew silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000 feet altitude. It then made an "impossible climb."

1958 - "Tequila" by The Champs was number 1 in America

1962 - Irene Cara, actress/singer, was born

1963 - Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants rights to a lawyer

1963 - Vanessa L Williams, 1st black Miss America, was born

1965 - Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination

1965 - Farouk I, penultimate King of Egypt died

1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space

1969 - President Nixon authorized Operation Menu, the 'secret' bombing of Cambodia

1970 - Queen Latifah was born

1972 - Flying between Krems and Linz, Austria an Austrian DC-9 airliner had a near collision with a huge funnel of white light, which changed color to red. The aircraft's electronic instruments all went haywire during this close approach.

1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US

1978 - An auto mechanic observing a UFO through binoculars in North Charleston, South Carolina was rendered unconscious and levitated by a tubular, aquamarine beam of light. Amnesia followed and he found himself alone in a field miles away from where he had encountered the disc-shaped UFO. Through hypnosis he recalled an abduction sequence by four-and-a-half-foot tall beings with spongy white skin, big eyes and head, that wore rust colored jump suits. Among the features of the abduction included a physical exam on a table inside the UFO, being given messages and an artifact.

1984 - HMAS Cessnock provided relief aid and communications when Cyclone Kathy devastated communities on the Gulf of Carpentaria

1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops

1991 - "One More Try" by Timmy T. was number 1 in America

1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy

1998 - Michael Jackson and his son went shopping at a toy store in Munich, Germany. Jackson was dressed as an Arab woman

2001 - John Phillips, (The Mamas and the Papas) died

2002 - George Michael's single "Freeek!" was released in Britain

2003 - John Howard commits Australian forces to support any action taken by the US led Coalition against Iraq

2004 - Aussies pull Broadband out of air

2004 - A 100 feet asteroid passed closer to Earth than ever recorded: just 26,500 miles away

2007 - Bob Woolmer, cricketer and coach died suspiciously

2009 - Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger died in Evin Prison in Tehran

2010 - Fess Parker, American actor, (Davy Crockett & Daniel Boone) died

 

[Asgardian]

19th March

721 BC - The first ever recorded solar eclipse was seen from Babylon

1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila

1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer, was murdered

1742 - Tupac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary, was born

1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US

1813 - David Livingstone, explorer (Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), was born

1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)

1848 - Wyatt Earp was born

1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German WWI Admiral, was born

1856 - The Blake, a 800 ton barque, on voyage from Ship Island Harbour, Michigan to Cork, Ireland, was lost in a storm in the Atlantic

1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.

1863 - The SS Georgiana, Confederate cruiser, was scuttled on her

maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.

1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi architect/minister of Armament, was born

1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi Gestapo officer, was born

1908 - The state of Maryland barred Christian Scientists from practicing without medical diplomas

1911 - "Mother Machree" by Will Oakland was number 1 in America

1915 - Pluto photographed for 1st time but is not recognized as a planet

1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant

1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin

1928 - "Amos 'n' Andy" premiered on the NBC radio network.

1928 - Patrick McGoohan, actor (#6-Prisoner), was born

1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling

1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.

1936 - Ursula Andress was born

1941 - HMAS Parramatta blockaded the Perim area to intercept enemy shipping attempting to escape from the ports of Massawa & Assab

1941 - 99th Pursuit Squadron (the Tuskegee Airmen) is activated.

1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver, was born

1943 - U-384 was sunk south-west of Iceland by depth charges from a British B-17 Fortress aircraft (all hands lost)

1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster, committed suicide

1944 - Nazi forces occupy Hungary.

1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin, was born

1945 - A Kamikaze attack on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin killed 724 of her crew.

1945 - Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.

1947 - Glenn Close, actress, was born

1949 - USSR declared that the North Atlantic Treaty was merely a war weapon

1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs died

1950 - Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30 a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski heard a whistling sound that drew him outside. He then watched a UFO land in a meadow. When he approached to within 50 meters he suddenly felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds and cows in the vicinity were also unable to move. He stood motionless as four handsome men with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits and translucent helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair activities.

1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published

1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo

1954 - Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings v England

1955 - Bruce Willis was born

1957 - Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.

1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's

1958 - A large, disc-shaped object was seen on the ground near Moscow, Russia. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost from sight.

1962 - Bob Dylan released his self-titled debut album.

1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana was found (see above)

1969 - Near Gladstone, Queensland, a saucer-shaped object approached two cars, hovered near one car, and began pulsating. As it got brighter, the cars' headlights spread wider than usual; as it dimmed, the headlights went back to normal. The two cars kept driving together, but the craft again came to hover over one of the cars. The drivers stopped again, but this time nothing happened to the headlights. The object rocked gently while keeping its position. After a few minutes of hovering it flew quickly into the distance.

1972 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty

1975 - Matthew Richardson was born

1975 - The 3rd album from KISS, "Dressed to Kill," was released.

1976 - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25

1980 - The autopsy of Elvis Presley was subpoenaed in the "Dr. Nick" drug case.

1981 - Kolo Touré, soccer player, was born

1982 - Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the UK.

1982 - Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist, died on an air crash at 25

1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal

1988 - 2 British soldiers were murdered in Belfast

1992 - The RAN officially adopted the Slouch Hat

1993 - A huge flying saucer loomed over a water tank in the state forest near Guanica, Puerto Rico at 9:40 p.m. It was silent and lit up the area.

1993 - 200ft. Hondurian freighter, MV Fantastico, was lost in the "Storm of the Century" in the Atlantic

1994 - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-Camorra (Mafia) priest, was murdered

1994 - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde

1995 - 5 die from a poison gas attack, by members of Aum Shinrikyo religious group, in a Japanese subway

2000 - Vector Data Systems conducted a simulation of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, TX. The simulation showed that the government had not fired first

2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society died

2002 - Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses & electoral fraud

2004 - Paul Allen funds next stage of SETI project ($13.5 million)

2005 - John DeLorean, American automobile engineer died

2007 - Prince Abdullah bin Ali of Jordan was born

2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke died

2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed

2010 - "Break Your Heart" by Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris was number 1 in America

 

[Asgardian]

20th March

43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet, was born

141 - 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, died

1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"

1600 - Linköping Bloodbath, the public beheading of five Swedish nobles

1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years

1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan, was born

1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1780 - Benjamin Truman, brewer (advertising motto “There’s more hops in Ben Truman”) died

1809 - Mary Bateman, known as the "Yorkshire Witch", was hanged

1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1841 - "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", by Edgar Allen Poe, is published

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published

1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000

1874 - Börries von M*nchhausen, German poet & Nazi, was born

1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"

1897 - First comic book, The Yellow Kid, by Richard Felton Outcault, is released. (disputed, what is actually a comic book)

1899 - Martha M Place, 1st woman to be executed in an electric chair

1906 - In Russia army officers mutiny

1906 - George B Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London

1907 - Typhoid Mary, Mary Mallon, is apprehended in New York. She was suspected of causing 53 cases of the disease while working as a cook

1908 - Michael Redgrave, actor, was born

1912 - 2182 ton sailing ship, Roomaana, was lost with all hands off Bedout Island

1916 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy, featured in a controversial human zoo exhibit at New York City's Bronx Zoo in 1906, committed suicide

1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity

1917 - Vera Lynn, singer, was born

1922 - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier

1922 - Carl Reiner, director, was born

1923 - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA

1925 - John Ehrlichman, American political figure (Watergate), was born

1931 - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin

1933 - Giuseppe Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR

1933 - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed

1940 - Alfred Ploetz, Nazi eugenicist died

1940 - SS Agnes Ellen, British Steam Coaster of 293 tons, left Holyhead for Workington with a cargo of bricks and was never seen again

1941 - Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn

1942 - British Destroyer HMS Heythrop was hit by a torpedoe from U-652 northeast of Bardia, foundered five hours later

1942 - Australian Coastwatcher PO W. L. Tupling, RANVR, was reported executed by the Japanese in New Britain

1942 - At Terowie, South Australia, Gen MacArthur vows, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return"

1943 - Tex Avery's Droopy made his first appearance in "Dumb-Hounded," an MGM cartoon

1945 - British Sloop HMS Lapwing was torpedoed by U-968 and sunk in the Barents Sea

1947 - 180-metric ton blue whale caught in South Atlantic

1950 - William Hurt, actor, was born

1952 - Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan

1957 - Spike Lee, director, was born

1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist, was born

1959 - Sting, professional wrestler, was born

1961 - Ricky Nelson recorded "Hello Mary Lou"

1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)

1963 - David Thewlis, (Harry Potter actor) was born

1965 - In Welshpool, Victoria, a yellow zig-zagging light was seen maneuvering in the sky; it stopped for 2-3 minutes intermittently, then rose vertically and vanished

1965 - At Margaret Brock Lighthouse in South Australia a disc-shaped, brightly lit object moved slowly about the clouds.

1967 - "Happy Together" by The Turtles was number 1 in America

1969 - John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

1970 - David Bowie and Angela Barnett were married

1972 - "A Horse with No Name" by America was number 1 in America

1974 - A 14 year old girl heard "voices" in her head several times beginning on March 9th. On this afternoon she compulsively walked out into the center of her school football field in Lewisburg, Tennessee instead of taking the school bus home. Although she recalls seeing nothing in the field, she next remembers finding herself inside a brightly lit room as a ramped door closed behind her. She was confronted by two small humanoid entities, shorter than her. They had blond, short cropped hair and later identified themselves as "Alton" and "Tombo." Becky was instructed to lie on a hospital-like bed where she was examined by a gloved implement that was passed over her. She was taken for an hour's trip "to Australia" and then returned. She felt weak and sleepy, and for several weeks after this incident she was extremely fatigued and suffered from headaches and other physical symptoms. She had two more experiences over the next four months.

1982 - U.S. scientists' return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there

1984 - Fernando Torres, soccer player, was born

1985 - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

1987 - Jô, soccer player, was born

1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)

1990 - In Rumania, tanks were sent to the town of Tirgu Mures to quell ethnic riots

1991 - US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland

1991 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, fell out of 53rd floor window at age 5

1991 - Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records

1995 - Big John Studd, professional wrestler died

1995 - "Baby It's You," by the Beatles, was released

1996 - Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first men to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon

1999 - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California

2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins

2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall destroying most of our banana crop

2007 - A federal judge has ordered a parenting Web site (KinderStart) to compensate Google for certain legal fees resulting from a lawsuit that accused the search giant of discriminating in its search rankings.

2007 - Oops! Computer tech wipes out info on $38B fund

 

[Seriously]

1984 - Fernando Torres, soccer player, was born

Happy Birthday Nando

 

[Asgardian]

21st March

717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.

1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany

1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at the stake

1617 - Pocahontas died

1656 - James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), died

1788 - A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.

1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British & French forces

1839 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer (opera Boris Gudunov), was born

1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.

1851 - Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam ordered that Christian priests be put to death.

1854 - Alick "Barn Door" Bannerman, cricketer, was born

1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die

1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies), was born

1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.

1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins expedition to Africa

1880 - 531 ton barque, Ophir, on voyage from Philadelphia to Newry, UK, was lost at sea in a storm

1884 - 159 ton brigantine, Albert M., on voyage from Nova Scotia to Puerto Rico was lost at sea in a storm

1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia

1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., candymaker (Mars Bar), was born

1907 - US invades Honduras

1917 - Frank Hardy, Australian author (The Unlucky Australians), was born

1918 - WWI Germany launches Somme offensive

1919 - HM Ships Anzac, Tattoo, Swordsman, Success, Tasmania, & Stalwart were transferred to the RAN. The S class destroyers were replacements for the six torpedo boat destroyers used during WWI.

1922 - Russ Meyer, director & producer (sexploitation films), was born

1924 - Daily reading of the Bible becomes mandatory in Kentucky public schools.

1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

1934 - Lilyan Tashman, actress, died

1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

1935 - Brian Clough, soccer manager, was born

1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran

1939 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland

1943 - An assassination attempt on Hitler fails

1945 - Artur Nebe, SS officer, executed by hanging with piano wire from a meat hook

1946 - Timothy Dalton was born

1947 - "Heartaches" by Ted Weems was number 1 in America

1948 - Scott Fahlman, computer scientist (credited with originating the first smiley emoticon), was born

1949 - Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer, was born

1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea

1952 - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, was executed

1955 - Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"

1958 - Gary Oldman was born

1960 - Sharpeville Massacre, police kill 69 in South Africa & outlaws ANC

1960 - Ayrton Senna was born

1961 - Ships Jimmy & Sisters, Marjorie Byrl and Muriel Eileen, were all lost at sea, position unknown

1961 - Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club

1962 - Matthew Broderick was born

1962 - A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds

1962 - Rosie O'Donnell was born

1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed

1965 - US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact

1965 - In Malvern, Victoria, a sphere with a red dome on top with three illuminated tails was sighted. It flew off to the south.

1970 - Faces, with new lead singer Rod Stewart, released their first LP, "First Step."

1971 - Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons

1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler, was born

1973 - Pres. Nixon & his council, John Dean, discuss offering clemency & hush money as part of the Watergate cover-up.

1978 - Kevin Federline was born

1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist died

1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics

1980 - Ronaldinho was born

1980 - Two 19-year-old teenage boys, one the son of the circus owner, had burns on their bodies after a 1:15 a.m. UFO close encounter in Gioia del Colle, Italy. One had burn marks on his wrist under his wristwatch, and the other had scalding burns on his waist where his waist band had two iron studs.

1980 - "Who shot J.R.?"

1982 - Harry Corbett died

1984 - Part of Central Park in New York was renamed Strawberry Fields in honor of John Lennon.

1984 - A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.

1985 - Sir Michael Redgrave died

1987 - U2 released the album "The Joshua Tree".

1989 - Madonna's album "Like A Prayer" was released.

1990 - At Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, Russia a fighter aircraft was scrambled at 10:05 p.m. to intercept a UFO that was being tracked on military radar. The pilot reported the appearance of a black body with two white flashing lights. Their was the suggestion of a silhouetted saucer-shaped craft behind the lights. The UFO changed altitude and direction at a range of 1,000 meters. It illuminated a cloud, hovered, made S-turns, and moved many times faster than an aircraft. There was also a red light moving parallel to the ground in a horizontal flightpath.

1990 - Alan Bond sold Van Gogh's "Irises" to the Gerry Museum.

1991 - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), died

1994 - Bill Gates of Microsoft & Craig McCaw of McCaw Cellular Communications announced a $9 billion plan that would send 840 satellites into orbit to relay information around the globe.

1994 - Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend

1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian, died

2001 - Nintendo released Game Boy Advance.

2005 - A number puzzle originating in the work of self-taught maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan nearly a century ago has been solved by Karl Mahlburg, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin

2006 - "So Sick" by Ne-Yo was number 1 in America

2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom, died

 

[Asgardian]

22nd March

238 - Gordian I & his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.

1212 - Go-Horikawa Emperor of Japan was born

1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews

1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book

1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter, was born

1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia

1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, & gaming tables.

1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan died

1765 - The UK Parliament passes the Stamp Act a tax to be levied on its American colonies

1774 - A collection of English nursery rhymes is published including Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.

1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved to Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor, was born

1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia, was born

1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.

1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, died

1859 - The 1st political party dedicated to the working class in Australia, the Political Labour League of Victoria, is founded in Melbourne.

1870 - At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes.

1871 - Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (aboriginal tourist 1868), died

1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico

1882 - Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons

1883 - 537 ton barque, Brothers, was lost at sea in a snow storm off Cape Sable.

1887 - Chico Marx was born

1888 - The Football League is formed.

1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1902 - The 3,427 ton steamship SS Athena was wrecked off Campana Island, Patagonia

1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought

1904 - First color newspaper pictures in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1908 - Louis D L'Amour, author, was born

1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, author (The Cruel Sea), was born

1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Steptoe & Son), was born

1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

1920 - Werner Klemperer, actor (Hogan's Heroes), was born

1923 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist, was born

1926 - "Sleepy Time Gal" by Ben Bernie was number 1 in America

1929 - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico

1930 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, was born

1931 - William Shatner was born

1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan

1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases

1936 - Roger Whittaker, singer, was born

1940 - Bing Crosby & Bob Hope's "Road to Singapore" opened in theatres

1942 - Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, was born

1943 - Crematorium II at Birkenau is ready for use.

1943 - The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

1943 - U-665 was sunk in the North Atlantic west of Ireland by depth charges from a British Whitley aircraft (all hands lost).

1943 - George Benson, singer, was born

1944 - HMA Ships Australia & Arunta, with the USS Mullany, carried out a sweep of the New Guinea coast east of Tanahmerah Bay and destroyed a number of Japanese barges.

1947 - Harry Vanda, guitarist (Easybeats), was born

1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber was born

1949 - "Cruising Down the River" by Russ Morgan was number 1 in America

1949 - Fanny Ardant, actress, was born

1950 - At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed.

1952 - Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles entitled Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

1953 - At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga Canyon, California, two young women in their early twenties remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed windows. They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly left them with some information about future events.

1958 - Michael Todd, producer, died

1959 - Matthew Modine was born

1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"

1965 - Bob Dylan's first electric album "Bring it All Back Home" was released.

1972 - The Supreme Court Eisenstadt vs. Baird decision struck down a law that banned the distribution of birth control devices to unmarried people

1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.

1976 - Reese Witherspoon was born

1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq

1992 - Patrol boats participating in Exercise Kangaroo 92 arrested three Indonesian trawlers in the Australian Fishing Zone.

1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS

1994 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), died

1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)

2001 - William Hanna, animator and studio founder, died

2006 - Dell Snaps Up Alienware

2006 - Canadian passenger ship, MV Queen of the North, ran aground and sank in the Inside Passage. A missing couple whose bodies have not been found are considered lost.

2006 - Addwaita, the 250-year-old giant tortoise, died.

2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

2009 - Warring bikers brawled through the Sidney airport, beating one suspected gang member to death

2233 - James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek), will be born

 

[Righteo]

22nd March

238 - Gordian I & his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.

1212 - Go-Horikawa Emperor of Japan was born

1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews

1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book

1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter, was born

1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia

1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, & gaming tables.

1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan died

1765 - The UK Parliament passes the Stamp Act a tax to be levied on its American colonies

1774 - A collection of English nursery rhymes is published including Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.

1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved to Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor, was born

1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia, was born

1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.

1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, died

1859 - The 1st political party dedicated to the working class in Australia, the Political Labour League of Victoria, is founded in Melbourne.

1870 - At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes.

1871 - Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (aboriginal tourist 1868), died

1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico

1882 - Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons

1883 - 537 ton barque, Brothers, was lost at sea in a snow storm off Cape Sable.

1887 - Chico Marx was born

1888 - The Football League is formed.

1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1902 - The 3,427 ton steamship SS Athena was wrecked off Campana Island, Patagonia

1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought

1904 - First color newspaper pictures in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1908 - Louis D L'Amour, author, was born

1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, author (The Cruel Sea), was born

1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Steptoe & Son), was born

1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

1920 - Werner Klemperer, actor (Hogan's Heroes), was born

1923 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist, was born

1926 - "Sleepy Time Gal" by Ben Bernie was number 1 in America

1929 - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico

1930 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, was born

1931 - William Shatner was born

1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan

1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases

1936 - Roger Whittaker, singer, was born

1940 - Bing Crosby & Bob Hope's "Road to Singapore" opened in theatres

1942 - Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, was born

1943 - Crematorium II at Birkenau is ready for use.

1943 - The entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

1943 - U-665 was sunk in the North Atlantic west of Ireland by depth charges from a British Whitley aircraft (all hands lost).

1943 - George Benson, singer, was born

1944 - HMA Ships Australia & Arunta, with the USS Mullany, carried out a sweep of the New Guinea coast east of Tanahmerah Bay and destroyed a number of Japanese barges.

1947 - Harry Vanda, guitarist (Easybeats), was born

1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber was born

1949 - "Cruising Down the River" by Russ Morgan was number 1 in America

1949 - Fanny Ardant, actress, was born

1950 - At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed.

1952 - Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles entitled Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

1953 - At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga Canyon, California, two young women in their early twenties remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed windows. They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly left them with some information about future events.

1958 - Michael Todd, producer, died

1959 - Matthew Modine was born

1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"

1965 - Bob Dylan's first electric album "Bring it All Back Home" was released.

1972 - The Supreme Court Eisenstadt vs. Baird decision struck down a law that banned the distribution of birth control devices to unmarried people

1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.

1976 - Reese Witherspoon was born

1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq

1992 - Patrol boats participating in Exercise Kangaroo 92 arrested three Indonesian trawlers in the Australian Fishing Zone.

1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS

1994 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), died

1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)

2001 - William Hanna, animator and studio founder, died

2006 - Dell Snaps Up Alienware

2006 - Canadian passenger ship, MV Queen of the North, ran aground and sank in the Inside Passage. A missing couple whose bodies have not been found are considered lost.

2006 - Addwaita, the 250-year-old giant tortoise, died.

2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

2009 - Warring bikers brawled through the Sidney airport, beating one suspected gang member to death

2233 - James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek), will be born

I'm not a Star Trek fan, but is this deliberate?

 

[Asgardian]

You'd probably have to dig up Gene Roddenberry and ask the question

The year I stated is a bit wonky depending on what source you use

IMDB uses the same date that I did

see here

Born in Riverside, Iowa, Earth on March 22, 2233

see here

 

[Asgardian]

23rd March

1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published

1645 - William Kidd, pirate legend from Scotland, was born

1775 - Patrick Henry delivers his speech "Give me liberty or give me death"

1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death

1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes

1839 - 1st known use of term OK (Boston's Morning Post)

1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)

1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed

1866 - Passenger ship, PSS Arran Castle, was seen off Dublin but never arrived at her destination.

1868 - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Nazi Party, was born

1868 - University of California founded

1874 - J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator, was born

1880 - Flour rolling mill patented

1882 - The Report of a Royal Commission into Colonial Defence ordered by the British Prime Minister, Disraeli, was published in part. Sections dealing with the un-preparedness of Australian colonies to defend themselves were suppressed.

1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin, was born

1900 - Erich Fromm, psychologist psychoanalyst, was born

1903 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1903 - SS S. V. Luckenbach, 2,674 ton steamship tanker, went missing after clearing Sabine pass on voyage from Port Arthur for Marcus Hook

1905 - Joan Crawford was born

1905 - A small red sphere of light accompanied by two white lights, which danced about it, was seen by a man & woman in Egyryn, Wales.

1909 - An unidentified object with a very strong searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m.

1910 - Akira Kurosawa was born

1912 - Werner von Braun, rocket expert, was born

1913 - "Sympathy" by Walter Van Brunt & Helen Clark was number 1 in America

1915 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet WWII sniper (movie "Enemy at the Gates"), was born

1919 - Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy

1921 - Donald Campbell, car & motorboat speed record breaker, was born

1922 - "My Man" by Fanny Brice was number 1 in America

1922 - Ugo Tognazzi, director, was born

1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"

1929 - Roger Bannister, 1st to run a 4 minute mile, was born

1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House

1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers

1937 - Craig Breedlove, land speed record breaker, was born

1941 - U-551 was sunk in the North Atlantic, south-east of Iceland, by depth charges from the British ASW trawler HMS Visenda. (all hands lost).

1942 - 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported

1944 - USS DACE, (submarine), landed a coastwatcher reconnaissance party on Cape Tanahmerah, Dutch New Guinea, to gather intelligence for the proposed landing at Hollandia.

1944 - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives

1945 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Commander of the Japanese garrison during Battle of Iwo Jima, KIA (probably)

1953 - Chaka Khan was born

1954 - A disc at very high altitude was seen hovering over Norwich, England, at 4:00 p.m. The edges glowed while the center of the object was dark. It flew off to the west at 6:30 p.m.

1955 - Moses Malone, basketballer, was born

1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.

1957 - At 12:22 a.m. Civil Aviation Agency radar tracked a UFO over Oxnard Air Force Base, California. Visual reports of the object were made by a GOC observer, police, and Oxnard AFB personnel.

1959 - Two men saw a strange domed disc-shaped object apparently on or near to the ground, then later in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It was in view for 10 minutes.

1961 - Elvis Presley recorded "Can't Help Falling in Love."

1963 - The Beach Boys released "Surfin' U.S.A."

1964 - Peter Lorre died

1965 - Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed

1968 - Mike Atherton was born

1969 - HMAS Vendetta, (destroyer), carried out naval gunfire support duties in operations off the coast of Vietman.

1972 - Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars

1978 - The Police signed with A&M Records.

1979 - Misty Hyman, swimmer, was born

1982 - Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, died

1983 - US president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" plan

1989 - Scientists announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.

1990 - "Pretty Woman" opened in US & Canadian theatres

1990 - Dan Quayle speech to the Phoenix Republican Forum "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."

1991 - Andiah (small vessel), registered at Port Adelaide, was lost.

1998 - Gerald Stano, serial killer (offically murdered 41 women), was executed

1998 - Germany's largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting

2000 - A factory worker driving in County Antrim, West Belfast Northern Ireland, saw an egg-shaped light in the sky that started pacing his car. Panicked, he sped along the road, but then was inexplicably overcome by the urge to stop the car. His last feeling before blacking out was of he and his car being lifted. He awoke six hours later & drove home.

2001 - Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific near Fiji

2004 - Over 400 robots rolled, walked, climbed and strutted their stuff at the first Robolympics

2005 - Dark energy does not exist, claim cosmologists

2006 - Australian air force sank a North Korean cargo ship for target practice. It had been seized in 2003 after being used to smuggle heroin into Australia.

2007 - Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne

2010 - Google led criticism of Australia's plan to filter the Internet

2011 - Elizabeth Taylor died

 

[MarcMaverick]

24th March

1874-The Great Escapologist and Magician Harry Houdini was born Erich Wiess in Budapest in the then Austria-Hungary

 

[Asgardian]

24th March

1603 - Queen Elizabeth I died

1627 - 800 ton Dutch sailing ship "Bantam" was lost in a fire when she was docked at Bantam. She was loaded with silver coins

1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith Jr.

1837 - Canada gives blacks the right to vote

1874 - Harry Houdini was born

1878 - British frigate, HMS Eurydice, was engulfed by a heavy squall accompanying a blinding snow storm, It turned the vessel´s bows to the east causing it to capsize to the starboard. The final death toll was 364 officers and men

1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died

1887 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actor, was born

1896 - A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history

1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, writer, was born

1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur

1905 - Jules Verne died

1909 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (Bonnie & Clyde), was born

1911 - Penal code reform abolished corporal punishment in Denmark

1911 - Joseph Barbera, animator, was born

1915 - Gorgeous George, professional wrestler, was born

1922 - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish

1927 - Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China

1930 - Steve McQueen was born

1933 - "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" by Bing Crosby was number 1 in America

1936 - David Suzuki, scientist & environmentalist, was born

1942 - U-655 was sunk in the Barents Sea after being rammed by the British minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter (all hands lost)

1942 - "Harris's Navy", an unusual flotilla of small vessels led by Burns Philp's 300 ton steamer Lakatoi, evacuated hundreds of troops and civilians from New Britain under the nose of the Japanese

1944 - Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italians in Rome

1944 - R. Lee Ermey, actor, was born

1944 - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (movie The Great Escape)

1947 - Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire, was born

1947 - US Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency

1949 - Nick Lowe, musician, was born

1951 - Tommy Hilfiger was born

1953 - The first rescue operation by a helicopter of the RAN was effected when an injured lighthouse keeper was rescued from Point Perpendicular Lighthouse, NSW

1954 - Robert Carradine, actor, was born

1954 - A U.S. Marine Corps pilot, flying a military transport, pursued a silver flying disc-shaped object with extreme maneuverability over Fresno, California

1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1960 - Kelly LeBrock, actress, was born

1960 - Nena, pop singer ("99 Red Balloons"), was born

1961 - Dean Jones, cricketer, was born

1965 - Spacecraft Ranger 9 sends images of the Moon to TV's before crash landing

1965 - The Undertaker, professional wrestler, was born

1965 - "Stop! In the Name of Love" by The Supremes was number 1 in America

1972 - England imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland

1973 - Lou Reed was bitten on his rear end by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, NY.

1976 - Peyton Manning, grid iron player, was born

1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal, died

1977 - Darren Lockyer was born

1978 - Michael Braun was born

1979 - Graeme Swann was born

1980 - Iron Maiden released the album "The Number of the Beast"

1980 - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks

1982 - In Mexico a fire burned down the National Film Archive.

1982 - Jack Swagger, professional wrestler, was born

1982 - Cult cannibal comedy "Eating Raoul" opened in theatres.

1983 - After a UFO sighting that occurred in Mount Storm, New York a man, a 16-year-old youth, and his 13-year-old sister had recurrent dreams of being abducted aboard a UFO by Grey aliens, which included a physical exam in a chair with a scan by some type of scanning equipment.

1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic

1989 - MV Exxon Valdez hit Prince William Sound´s Bligh Reef & spilled an estimated 40.9 million liters of crude oil, one of the largest ecological disasters on record

1990 - An Wang, computer manufacturer, died

1991 - Sir John Kerr, Governor-General & drunk, died

1993 - Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law

2000 - A 40-year-old woman reported that she was abducted from her bedroom in Grimsby, Humberside, England in the predawn hours and taken to watch a surgical operation on a man. She was later returned to her home safely. All of her experiences were based on completely conscious recollections, with no hypnosis.

2001 - Apple Inc. releases the first version of the Mac OS X operating system

2004 - Physicists at the Australian National University create fifth form of carbon, a spongy solid

2004 - Australian parliament passed law making the Great Barrier Reef the most protected reef system on earth

2005 - Spitzer orbiting telescope detects light from planets outside our Solar System

2008 - Richard Widmark died

2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election

2010 - Robert Culp, actor, died