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Today in History ~ March 12
Events1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola (founded Jesuits) declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James, the Duke of York.
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable settles what is now known as Chicago
1789 - US Post Office established
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1912 - Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m march protesting British salt tax [H]
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats--informal radio addresses from the White House--to the American people.
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1938 - Nazi Germany marches into enthusiastic Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII was formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1947 - President Truman introduces Truman Doctrine to speed recovery of Mediterranean countries calling for U.S. aid to countries threatened by communist revolution. [H]
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1951 - "Dennis the Menace," created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers.
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian armed divisions
1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1963 - US House grants former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill honorary U.S. citizenship.
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1969 - Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London.
1969 - London police conduct drug raid on George Harrison’s house [H]
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen, SC
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1990 - Exxon pleads guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay $100 million fine in a $1.1 billion settlement of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1990 - The Food and Drug Administration approved a nation-wide test of a post-exposure AIDS vaccine developed by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk.
1990 - Kuwait City reopened its port for the first time since the Persian Gulf War
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation to revise land tenure laws and end racial discrimination in land ownership.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council stood firm in its demand that Iraq comply totally with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions, rebuffing an appeal for leniency from Saddam Hussein's special envoy, deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz.
1992 - Jim and Tammy Bakker, who ran a multimillion-dollar television evangelism empire before he went to prison for fleecing his flock, announced they were divorcing
1993 - 317 killed when a wave of bombings rocked Bombay, India, the country's business capital.
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1997 - Authorities in Los Angeles arrested Mikhail Markhasev as a suspect in the shooting death of Bill Cosby's son, Ennis. (Markhasev, who later admitted his guilt, is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.)
1999 - The former Soviet allies--the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland--joined NATO.
2000 - Pope John Pail II apologized for the errors of his church during the past 2,000 years.
2001 - A U.S. Navy jet mistakenly dropped a bomb on a group of military personnel at a bombing range in Kuwait, killing five Americans and one New Zealander.
Birthdays Today
1806 - Jane Pierce (Appleton) (First Lady, wife of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the U.S.)
1824 - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 - Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 - Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1862 - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1910 - Roger Stevens (producer)
1912 - Paul Weston (Wetstein) (orchestra leader, arranger: Nevertheless [I'm in Love with You], Theme from Shane; songwriter: I Should Care, Shrimp Boats for wife: Jo Stafford)
1917 - Googie (Georgette) Withers (actress: Northanger Abbey, Devil on Horseback, Accused, Dead of Night)
1921 - Gordon MacRae (actor: Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Desert Song; singer: I Still Get Jealous, It's Magic, Hair of Gold Eyes of Blue, C'est Magnifique, The Secret [with Jo Stafford])
1923 - Walter 'Wally' Shirra, Jr. (astronaut)
1925 - Hildy Parks (actress)
1925 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1926 - John Waihee (former governor of Hawaii)
1928 - Edward Albee (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: A Delicate Balance [1967], Seascape [1974], Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1930 - Bronco Horvath (hockey)
1930 - Vernon Law (baseball: Cy Young Award-winner [1960]: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher)
1932 - Andrew Young (former mayor of Atlanta, GA)
1938 - Johnny Rutherford (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner: [1974, 1976, 1980])
1939 - Johnny Callison (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies RF)
1940 - Al Jarreau (singer: Breakin' Away, We're in this Love Together)
1941 - Barbara Feldon (Hall) (actress: Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
1942 - Jim Wynn (baseball)
1942 - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1946 - Liza Minnelli (Academy Award-winning actress: Cabaret; The Sterile Cuckoo, Arthur, Liza with a 'Z'!; daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli)
1948 - "Sweet Baby" James Taylor (singer: You've Got a Friend, Handy Man, Fire & Rain, How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved By You]; formerly married to Carly Simon)
1948 - Mark Moseley (football: NFL record for scoring 163 points [1983]: kicking 62 extra points and 33 field goals for Washington Redskins; fifth all-time scorer)
1959 - Marlon Jackson (singer: group: The Jackson Five; Michael's brother)
1962 - Darryl Strawberry (baseball player: Rookie of the Year: NY Mets [1983]; NL MVP: 26 HR, 74 RBIs in 122 games [1983]; LA Dodgers; through 1993: 290 HR, 205 stolen bases)
Famous deaths
0604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1507 - Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1914 - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1925 - Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died.
1932 - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), murdered in Bergen-Belsen Concenrtration Camp
1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
2001 - Abrasive, chain-smoking talk show host Morton Downey Jr. died at age 68.
2001 - Spy adventure novelist Robert Ludlum died in Naples, Fla., at age 73.
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