Today in History

[zoechs]

This Day in History!

What happend today in history?
Think, search and post.

Example:
Today, 19. March
1916 First U.S. air combat mission begins
or
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge, New South Wales, Australia, was opened; it was the world's longest single-span arch bridge
or
Corina Taylor was born Wednesday, March 19, 1980

 

[fcklol]

1854 Republican Party founded


In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the "tyranny" of President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery

 

[zoechs]

20 March

:frenchman
1815 - Napoleon returned to Paris from banishment on the island of Elba to begin his last 100 days of power that ended with defeat and exile.

 

[RKO!!!05]

20th March

1751 - On this day, Prince Frederick of Wales died.He was the eldest son of King George II and father of King George III.

 

[TheRedShark]

20th March

1995 - Tokyo subways are attacked with Sarin gas

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

March 20
Humphrey Bogart receives his first and only Oscar, for Best Actor in The African Queen.

 

[Dick Hardly]

March 20, 1994 - Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X.

 

[Jiggah33]

March 21 1906 - Ohio passes a law that prohibits hazing by fraternities.

 

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1963 Alcatraz closes its doors


Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closes down and transfers its last prisoners. At it's peak period of use in 1950s, "The Rock, or ""America's Devil Island" housed over 200 inmates at the maximum-security facility. Alcatraz remains an icon of American prisons for its harsh conditions and record for being inescapable.

 

[jdb67]

on the 21st March...
In 1851, Yosemite Valley is dicovered in California....
In 1918, Germany launches the Somme Offensive (WW1)

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

March 21, 1980.

President Jimmy Carter informs a group of U.S. athletes that, in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the United States will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It marked the first and only time that the United States has boycotted the Olympics.

 

[member5726]

The great Ayrton Senna was born on this day 45years ago.

 

[zoechs]

22nd of March

1980 "Another Brick in the Wall" tops the charts
Pink Floyd's single "Another Brick in the Wall," from the album of the same title, hits No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard pop charts. The song was the band's only No. 1 single in the United States. The band set records with its 1973 breakthrough album Dark Side of the Moon, which stayed on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart for 741 weeks, longer than any other album in history.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

March 22, 1958.

South Carolina police pulled over Alabama boat and car racer J. Wilson Morris for exceeding the speed limit, as Morris attempted to race across the state in record time. The police held the 19-year-old Morris in jail for two days, scaring him so badly that he finished his trip on the bus.

 

[member5726]

Wolf Blitzer of CNN turn 57 today !
Sorry i don't know what to say !

 

[fcklol]

Wolf Blitzer of CNN turn 57 today !
Sorry i don't know what to say !

Brings a tear to my eye.(Notice the eye is singular) :rofl:


NAVAL HERO KILLED IN DUEL:
March 22, 1820


U.S. Navy officer Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary Wars, is mortally wounded in a duel with disgraced Navy Commodore James Barron at Bladensburg, Maryland. Although once friends, Decatur sat on the court-martial that suspended Barron from the Navy for five years in 1808 and later opposed his reinstatement, leading to a fatal quarrel between the two men.

 

[Dick Hardly]

March 22, 1967 - Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title... Ali was "The Greatest of All Time!"

 

[JJzangel]

march 23, 1775

Patrick Henry declared "Give me liberty, or give me death."

 

[zoechs]

March 23
1861 London's first trams began operating, in Bayswater.
1891 Goal nets, invented by Liverpudlian J A Brodie, were used for the first time in an FA Cup Final.
1919 The Italian Fascist Party was formed by Benito Mussolini.
1956 Pakistan was declared an Islamic republic within the Commonwealth
National Day of Pakistan. Feast day of St Gwinear, St Turibius, St Benedict the Hermit, St Victorian, St Ethelwald the Hermit, and St Joseph Oriol.

 

[fcklol]

March 23

1999 Thomas Harris delivers Hannibal manuscript


Bestselling author Thomas Harris delivers his 600-page manuscript for his new novel, Hannibal, to Delacorte press. He had promised the book more than 10 years earlier as part of a two-book contract that paid him a $5.2 million advance. The book was the third novel featuring serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter, who first appeared in Harris' 1981 book Red Dragon as a minor character. He played a larger role in The Silence of the Lambs (1988), which sold some 10 million copies and was made into an Academy Award-winning movie in 1991