On
This Date In 1776
During the American Revolution, and in advance of the Continental
Army's occupation of Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts, General
George Washington ordered American artillery forces to begin
bombarding Boston from their positions at Lechmere Point, northwest
of the city center.
On
This Date In 1776
The Battle of the Rice Boats was a battle of the American
Revolutionary War that took place in the Savannah River on the border
between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina.
The battle, which pitted colonial militia successfully against the
Royal Navy, took place on March 2 and 3, 1776. It is sometimes
referred to as the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff.
On
This Date In 1780
The Battle of Fort Charlotte was a two-week siege from March 2 –
March 14, 1780 conducted by Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez
against the British fortifications guarding the port of Mobile (which
was then in the British province of West Florida, and now in Alabama)
during the American Revolutionary War. Fort Charlotte was the last
remaining British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in
Spanish Louisiana. Its fall drove the British from the western
reaches of West Florida and reduced the British military presence in
West Florida to its capital, Pensacola.
On
This Date In 1793
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863), nineteenth-century
American statesman, politician, and soldier, was born in Timber Ridge
in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston
became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the
first and third President of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator for
Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as a governor of
the state.
On
This Date In 1807
The U.S. Congress passes an act to “prohibit the importation of
slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United
States...from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.” In
abolishing the African slave trade, note that the widespread trade of
slaves within the South was not prohibited, however, and children of
slaves automatically became slave themselves, thus ensuring a
self-sustaining slave population in the South.
On
This Date In 1836
The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of
independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas
Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at
Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and formally signed the
following day after errors were noted in the text.
On
This Date In 1865
During the American Civil War, and at the Battle of Waynesboro,
Virginia, Union General George Custer's troops routed Confederate
General Jubal Early's force, bringing an end to fighting in the
Shenandoah Valley.
On
This Date In 1899
President William McKinley signed legislation creating Mount Rainier
National Park in central Washington. The nearly 365-square-mile area
of pristine forests and spectacular alpine scenery was the fifth
national park designated by Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar02.html
On
This Date In 1904
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904– September 24, 1991) was born
in Springfield, Massachusetts to Henrietta Seuss and Theodor Robert
Geisel. His father, the son of German immigrants, inherited the
family brewery one month before the start of Prohibition and later
supervised Springfield's public park system and zoo. Geisel was
raised in the Lutheran faith and remained a member of the
denomination his entire life. Suess was an American writer, poet, and
cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under
the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.
On
This Date In 1917
Barely a month before the United States entered World War I,
President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth act, under which
Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans were granted
statutory citizenship, meaning that citizenship was granted by an act
of Congress and not by the Constitution (thus it was not guaranteed
by the Constitution). The act also created a bill of rights for the
territory, separated its government into executive, legislative and
judicial branches, and declared Puerto Rico's official language to be
English. As citizens, Puerto Ricans could now join the U.S. Army, but
few chose to do so. After Wilson signed a compulsory military service
act two months later, however, 20,000 Puerto Ricans were eventually
drafted to serve during World War I.
On
This Date In 1929
The Jones Act, the last gasp of the Prohibition, was passed by the
U.S. Congress. Since 1920 when the Eighteenth Amendment went into
effect, the United States had banned the production, importation and
sale of alcoholic beverages. But the laws were ineffective at
actually stopping the consumption of alcohol. The Jones Act
strengthened the federal penalties for bootlegging. Of course, within
five years the country ended up rejecting Prohibition and repealing
the Eighteenth Amendment.
On
This Date In 1933
“King Kong,” a landmark black-and-white monster film about a
gigantic gorilla named “Kong” and how he is captured from a
remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against
his will, premiered in New York City at Radio City Music Hall. The
film was made by RKO and originally written for the screen by Ruth
Rose and James Ashmore Creelman, based on a concept by Merian C.
Cooper. The film was directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B.
Schoedsack, starred Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and
is notable for Willis O'Brien's ground-breaking stop-motion
animation, Max Steiner's musical score and Fay Wray's performance as
the ape's love interest.
On
This Date In 1937
“Lost Horizon,” an American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank
Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe, was released.
It tells the story of a group of travelers who find a utopian society
in the Himalaya Mountains. The film is based upon the James Hilton
novel of the same name and was adapted by Sidney Buchman (uncredited)
and Robert Riskin. The Streamline Moderne sets were designed by
Stephen Goosson.
On
This Date In 1939
The Venerable Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni
Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th
Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City
State, from March 2, 1939 until his death in 1958.
On
This Date In 1943
During World War II, the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 2 - 4,
1943) took place in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA). In the course
of the battle, aircraft of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and the Royal
Australian Air Force (RAAF) attacked a Japanese convoy that was
carrying troops to Lae, New Guinea. Most of the task force was
destroyed, and Japanese troop losses were heavy.
On
This Date In 1944
The 16th Academy Awards was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large
public venue, Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform. The more
theatrical approach makes it a forerunner of the contemporary Oscar
telecast. For the first time, supporting actors and actresses took
home full-size statuettes, instead of smaller-sized awards mounted on
a plaque. This was the last year until 2009 to have 10 nominations
for best picture. Also, The
Ox-Bow Incident
was the last film to be nominated for best picture and nothing else.
On
This Date In 1944
In the Balvano train disaster of March 2-3, 1944, some 520 of
approximately 650 people riding a steam-hauled freight train died of
carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient
in the Armi tunnel. The accident occurred in southern Italy, near
Balvano (Basilicata).
On
This Date In 1962
Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, named by the National Basketball
Association as one of its greatest games, took place between the
Philadelphia Warriors and the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962 at
Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. With 46 seconds left,
Chamberlin had 98 pointts. Chamberlain got free from the five Knicks,
jumped high and stuffed the ball through the hoop for an alley-oop
slam dunk to hit the century mark. The arena exploded in a frenzy.
Over 200 spectators stormed the floor, wanting to touch the hero of
the night. Some confusion remains about whether the game’s last 46
seconds were played. According to the NBA, play was halted and never
resumed.
http://listverse.com/2008/11/15/top-15-greatest-sports-moments-of-all-time/
On
This Date In 1965
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained
U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and
Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign
conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
from March 2, 1965 until November 1, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
After one of the longest aerial campaigns ever conducted by any
nation, Rolling Thunder was terminated as a strategic failure in late
1968 having achieved none of its objectives.
On
This Date In 1965
Rodgers and Hammerstein's “The Sound of Music,” a musical film
directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role,
was released. The film is based on the Broadway musical The
Sound of Music,
with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and
with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay
and Russel Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay. The movie
version was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria; Bavaria in
Southern Germany; and at the 20th Century Fox Studios in California.
It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and
displaced Gone
with the Wind
as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was also
nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the
United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation
in the National Film Registry as it was deemed “culturally,
historically, or aesthetically significant”.
On
This Date In 1966
In
Dearborn, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company celebrated the production
of its 1 millionth Mustang, a white convertible. The sporty,
affordable vehicle was officially launched two years earlier, on
April 17, 1964, at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York.
That same day, the new car debuted in Ford showrooms across America;
almost immediately, buyers snapped up nearly 22,000 of them. More
than 400,000 Mustangs were sold within that first year, exceeding
sales expectations.
On
This Date In 1967
Senator Robert Kennedy (D-New York) proposed a three-point plan to
help end the Vietnam War. The plan included suspension of the U.S.
bombing of North Vietnam and the gradual withdrawal of U.S. and North
Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam with replacement by an
international force. Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejected Kennedy's
proposal because he believed that the North Vietnamese would never
agree to withdraw their troops.
On
This Date In 1969
In a dramatic confirmation of the growing rift between the two most
powerful communist nations in the world, troops from the Soviet Union
and the People's Republic of China fired on each other at a border
outpost on the Ussuri River in the eastern region of the USSR, north
of Vladivostok. In the years following this incident, the United
States used the Soviet-Chinese schism to its advantage in its Cold
War diplomacy.
On
This Date In 1972
Pioneer 10, the world's first outer-planetary probe, was launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Jupiter, the solar
system's largest planet. In December 1973, after successfully
negotiating the asteroid belt and a distance of 620 million miles,
Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter and sent back to Earth the first close-up
images of the spectacular gas giant. In June 1983, the NASA
spacecraft left the solar system and the next day radioed back the
first scientific data on interstellar space. NASA officially ended
the Pioneer 10 project on March 31, 1997, with the spacecraft having
traveled a distance of some six billion miles.
On
This Date In 1979
“Norma Rae,” a drama film which tells the story of a factory
worker from a small town in the Southern United States who becomes
involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where
she works, was released. It stars Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron
Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland and Noble
Willingham. The movie was written by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving
Ravetch, and was directed by Martin Ritt. It is based on the true
story of Crystal Lee Sutton which was told in a 1975 book Crystal
Lee, a woman of inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P
Leifermann. It won Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role
(Sally Field) and Best Original Song (for David Shire and Norman
Gimbel for “It Goes Like It Goes”). It was also nominated for
Best Picture and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from
Another Medium.
On
This Date In 1984
“This Is Spinal Tap,” an American rock musical mockumentary
directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal band Spinal
Tap, was released. Reiner and the three main stars played by American
actors Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, and English-American actor
Christopher Guest, respectively, are credited as the writers of the
film, based on the fact that much of the dialogue was ad libbed by
them. In 2002, This
Is Spinal Tap
was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”
by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the
United States National Film Registry.
On
This Date In 1985
The controversial Prince-penned song “Sugar Walls” reached #9 on
Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart, and made Sheena Easton
the first and still only recording artist to score top-10 singles on
all five major Billboard singles charts: Pop, Country, Dance, Adult
Contemporary and R&B.
On
This Date In 1999
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (April 16, 1939 – March 2,
1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, died from breast
cancer. Dubbed The White Queen of Soul, she was a British pop singer
whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her
distinctive sensual sound, she was an important white soul singer,
and at her peak was one of the most successful British female
performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to
1970. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the U.K.
Music Hall of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among
the best female rock artists of all time.
On
This Date In 2004
The Ashura massacre in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist
explosions that killed at least 178 and injured at least 500 Iraqi
Shi'a Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura. The bombings brought
one of the deadliest days in the Iraq occupation after the Iraq War
to topple Saddam Hussein.
On
This Date In 2005
At a White House ceremony, President George W. Bush congratulated the
2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox baseball team for winning their
first World Series since 1918. Massachusetts Senators Edward Kennedy
and John Kerry, and former Red Sox players were among those on hand
for the event. Before saluting the Red Sox, Bush also paid tribute to
one of baseball's greatest African-American players, Jackie Robinson.
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/03/images/20050302-17_w8n5418-515h.html
On
This Date In 2006
“The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II,”
abbreviated BFME2 is a real-time strategy video game developed and
published by Electronic Arts. It is based on the fantasy novel The
Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien and its live-action film trilogy adaptation. The
game is the sequel to Electronic Art's 2004 title The
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth.
The Windows version of the game was released on March 2, 2006 and the
Xbox 360 version was released on July 5, 2006. Along with the
standard edition, a Collector's Edition of the game was released,
containing bonus material and a documentary about the game's
development.
On
This Date In 2010
“Never Let You Go” is a song performed by Canadian recording
artist Justin Bieber. The track was written by Bieber and also
co-written and produced by production duo Johnta Austin and
Bryan-Michael Cox. It was originally released as the first
digital-only single from latter half of Bieber's debut album, My
World 2.0
on March 2, 2010. The accompanying music video features Bieber and
Paige Hurd at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas, including scenes at
the resort, an aquarium, and on the coast. Bieber performed the song
a number of times, including on BET's SOS:
Saving Ourselves - Help for Haiti Telethon,
which benefited victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
On
This Date In 2010
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McDonald v. City of
Chicago, the case challenging Chicago's handgun bans in Chicago and
Oak Park. The Question Presented by the Court asked if the bans
should be considered unconstitutional under the Fourteenth
Amendment’s Due Process clause, or under the Privileges or
Immunities clause. As expected, the arguments focused on application
of the Second Amendment to the states (“incorporation”) and
avoided the meaning of the Second Amendment (or any related
unenumerated right), except insofar as the meaning drives the
incorporation analysis.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2010/03/oral-arguments-in-mcdonald.html
On
This Date In 2011
Ferocious street fighting, air strikes in a heavily populated city
and a siege with terrified families held hostage: these were the
violent and chaotic scenes yesterday (March 2, 2011) as Colonel
Gaddafi's regime began its offensive to claw back the land lost to
Libya's revolution. ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/colonel-gaddafi-to-the-last-man-2230647.html
On
This Date In 2011
The movement to restrict the power of public sector unions chalked up
a legislative win today (March 2, 2011) in Ohio. A measure that would
ban strikes and greatly restrict collective bargaining rights cleared
the state Senate by a 17-16 vote, report(ed) the Columbus Dispatch.
It now goes to the House, where Republicans have a sizable majority.
If it passes there—figure on a vote in about two weeks—Gov. John
Kasich has promised to sign it into law. Unlike their counterparts in
Wisconsin, Ohio Republicans could call a vote because they have
enough members to make a quorum. …
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/03/02/02-senate-yank-seitz.html
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(1876 – 1958), Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950), Dr. Seuss (1904 –
1991), Desi Arnaz (1917 – 1986), Jennifer Jones (1919 – 2009),
Walter Chiari (1924 – 1991), Al Waxman (1935 – 2001), and Rory
Gallagher (1948 – 1995).
Quotes
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the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell
Hope has two beautiful
daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things
are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
Augustine of Hippo
The experienced mountain
climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The
persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged
by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are
designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better
to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. William
Arthur Ward
It is from numberless
diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each
time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope. Robert Francis Kennedy
One isn't necessarily born
with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we
cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind,
true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
When we least expect it,
life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to
change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that
nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The
challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than
enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Paulo Coelho
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