On
This Date In 1775
Hoping to keep the New England colonies dependent on the British,
King George III formally endorsed the New
England Restraining Act,
which required New England colonies to trade exclusively with Great
Britain as of July 1. An additional rule would come into effect on
July 20, banning colonists from fishing in the North Atlantic.
On
This Date In 1814
The Battle of Paris was fought March 30 - 31 during the Napoleonic
Wars in 1814. European forces allied against Napoleonic France
marched triumphantly into Paris, formally ending a decade of French
domination on the Continent. The French defeat led directly to the
abdication of Napoleon I.
On
This Date In 1820
Anna Sewell was born in Norfolk, England. The daughter of a
successful children's book writer, she helped edit her mother's
manuscripts from an early age but was not published herself until she
was 57. Black
Beauty,
the first significant children's story in the English language to
focus on animal characters, established the precedent for countless
other works.
On
This Date In 1855
In territorial Kansas' first election, some 5,000 so-called “Border
Ruffians” invaded the territory from western Missouri and forced
the election of a pro-slavery legislature. Although the number of
votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters in the territory,
Kansas Governor Andrew Reeder reluctantly approved the election to
prevent further bloodshed.
On
This Date In 1867
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska
from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, or about 2 cents per acre for
the 586,412 square miles gained by the United States. Critics
attacked Seward for the secrecy surrounding the deal, which came to
be known as “Seward's folly.” The press mocked his willingness to
spend so much on “Seward's icebox” and Andrew Johnson's “polar
bear garden.” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar30.html
On
This Date In 1916
The 1916 Stanley Cup Final was played between the National Hockey
Association (NHA) champion Montreal Canadiens and the Pacific Coast
Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Portland Rosebuds. This was the
first time that a best-of-five Cup championship went the distance.
Also, the Rosebuds were the first team based in the United States to
play for the Cup. The Canadiens defeated the Rosebuds three games to
two in the best-of-five game series.
On
This Date In 1918
During World War I, The Battle of Moreuil Wood took place on the
banks of the Arve River in France, where Allied forces attacked and
forced the German 23rd Saxon Division to withdraw from Moreuil Wood,
a commanding position on the river bank. This defeat contributed to
the halt of the German Spring Offensive of 1918.
On
This Date In 1918
The 1918 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the National Hockey
League (NHL) champion Toronto and the Pacific Coast Hockey
Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver Millionaires. In a series held
entirely in Toronto, the Toronto team won the series by three games
to two in the best-of-five game series to win the Stanley Cup. It was
the first series contested by the new NHL and subsequently the first
Stanley Cup win by the Toronto NHL franchise team.
On
This Date In 1925
The 1925 Stanley Cup Final saw the Western Canada Hockey League
(WCHL) champion Victoria Cougars defeat the National Hockey League
(NHL) champion Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1 in a best-of-five game
series. The Cougars were the last non-NHL team to win the Cup as the
WCHL (renamed the Western Hockey League for the 1925–26 season)
folded after the 1926 Cup Finals, leaving the trophy entirely to the
NHL.
On
This Date In 1940
During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Japan established
its own government in conquered Nanking, the former capital of
Nationalist China. Nanking was declared by the Japanese to be the
center of a new Chinese government, a regime controlled by Wang
Ching-wei, a defector from the Nationalist cause and now a Japanese
puppet.
On
This Date In 1940
The 1940 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8
schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the
participating champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball.
It began on March 20, 1940, and ended with the championship game on
March 30 in Kansas City, Missouri. A total of 8 games were played,
including a single third place game in the West region. Indiana,
coached by Branch McCracken, won the tournament title with a 60-42
victory in the final game over Kansas, coached by Phog Allen. Marvin
Huffman of Indiana was named the tournament's Most Outstanding
Player. At the time of this tournament, the National Invitation
Tournament was the premier college basketball tournament, thus not
being officially recognized as one of Indiana's three national
titles.
On
This Date In 1943
The 1943 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8
schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national
champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on
March 24, 1943, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in
New York City. A total of 9 games were played, including a third
place game in each region. Wyoming, coached by Everett Shelton, won
the national title with a 46-34 victory in the final game over
Georgetown, coached by Elmer Ripley. Ken Sailors of Wyoming was named
the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
On
This Date In 1948
Henry Wallace, former vice-president and then Progressive Party
presidential candidate, lashed out at the Cold War policies of
President Harry S. Truman. Wallace and his supporters were among the
few Americans who actively voiced criticisms of America's Cold War
mindset during the late-1940s and 1950s.
On
This Date In 1955
The 27th Academy Awards, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, honored the best films produced
in 1954. The Best Picture winner, On
the Waterfront,
was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Elia Kazan. It had twelve
nominations and eight wins, matching two other films, Gone
with the Wind
(1939) and From
Here to Eternity
(1953), even though those two each had thirteen nominations.
On
This Date In 1965
During the Vietnam War, a bomb exploded in a car parked in front of
the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, virtually destroying the building and
killing 19 Vietnamese, 2 Americans, and 1 Filipino; 183 others were
injured. Congress quickly appropriated $1 million to reconstruct the
embassy. Although some U.S. military leaders advocated special
retaliatory raids on North Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson
refused.
On
This Date In 1965
Princeton forward Bill Bradley set an NCAA men's basketball record
with 58 points in a game against Wichita State. Bradley, who went on
to serve three terms in the U.S. Senate (1979-1997), was the dominant
player in college basketball that year and won the tournament's Most
Outstanding Player award.
On
This Date In 1972
During the Vietnam War, the Easter Offensive, officially, the Nguyen
Hue Offensive, was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army
of (North) Vietnam against the Army of the Republic of (South)
Vietnam and the United States between March 30 - October 22, 1972.
This conventional invasion (the largest offensive operation since
300,000 Chinese volunteers had crossed the Yalu River into North
Korea during the Korean War) was a radical departure from previous
North Vietnamese offensives. Although not designed to win the war
outright, North Vietnam hoped to gain as much territory and destroy
as many units of South Vietnam as possible.
On
This Date In 1974
Of his many enormous hits in the 1970s, none captured the essence of
John Denver better than his first #1 song, “Sunshine On My
Shoulders,” which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on
this day in 1974. It was originally released as an album track on
1971's Poems,
Prayers & Promises
and later, as a single in 1973.
On
This Date In 1981
The 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48
schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national
champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on
March 12, 1981, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A total of 48 games were played,
including a national third place game (the last in the NCAA
tournament). Indiana, coached by Bob Knight, won the national title
with a 63-50 victory in the final game over North Carolina, coached
by Dean Smith. Isiah Thomas of Indiana was named the tournament's
Most Outstanding Player.
On
This Date In 1981
The Reagan assassination attempt occurred just 69 days into the
presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at
the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and
three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan
suffered a punctured lung, but prompt medical attention allowed him
to recover quickly. No formal invocation of presidential succession
took place, although Secretary of State Alexander Haig
controversially stated that he was “in control here” while Vice
President George H. W. Bush returned to Washington. Hinckley was
found not guilty by reason of insanity and remains confined to a
psychiatric facility. Hinckley fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue
steel revolver six times in 1.7 seconds, missing the president with
all six shots. The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James
Brady in the head. The second hit District of Columbia police officer
Thomas Delahanty in the back of his neck as he turned to protect
Reagan. Hinckley now had a clear shot at the president, but the third
overshot him and hit the window of a building across the street. As
Special Agent In Charge Jerry Parr quickly pushed Reagan into the
limousine, the fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in
the abdomen as he spread his body over Reagan to make himself a
target. The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the
open side door of the limousine. The sixth and final bullet
ricocheted off the armored side of the limousine and hit the
president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his
lung, stopping nearly an inch from his heart. Had Parr hesitated for
a moment, the president would likely have been hit in the head.
On
This Date In 1987
The 59th Academy Awards were presented at the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy
Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan. This ceremony was notable for
being the last in 23 years to have multiple hosts, until the 82nd
Academy Awards were hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Also in
this year Hannah
and Her Sisters
won both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, remaining
as the last film to win both supporting acting categories until 2011
when The
Fighter
achieved this. The film also won Best Writing - Original Screenplay.
An interesting thing to note is that Best Actress winner Marlee
Matlin became the first (and only as of 2011) deaf Oscar winner. As
of 2012 Platoon
is the last film to have 2 supporting actor nominations.
On
This Date In 1987
The 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64
schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national
champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on
March 12, 1987, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in
New Orleans, Louisiana. A total of 63 games were played. Indiana,
coached by Bob Knight, won the national title with a 74-73 victory in
the final game over Syracuse, coached by Jim Boeheim. Keith Smart of
Indiana, who hit the game-winner in the final seconds, was named the
tournament's Most Outstanding Player. This was also the last
tournament in which teams were allowed to have home court advantage:
Syracuse (2E) and Arizona (10W) both opened the tournament playing on
their home courts.
On
This Date In 1988
“Beetlejuice,” an American comedy horror film directed by Tim
Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner
Bros, was released. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona
Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Sylvia Sidney, and Michael
Keaton as the titular Betelgeuse (the film's title being a phonetic
spelling of the character's name). Beetlejuice
was a financial and critical success, grossing $73.7 million from a
budget of $13 million. The film spawned an animated television series
that Burton produced. A sequel, Beetlejuice
Goes Hawaiian,
was scripted but never produced.
On
This Date In 1992
The 64th Academy Awards were presented at the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be
hosted by Billy Crystal. When Jack Palance won Best Supporting Actor
for his performance as Curly in City
Slickers
(which also starred Crystal), Palance's acceptance speech began with
the joke “I crap bigger than him (Crystal)” - a reference to a
similar line in the film. Palance also used some of his speech time
to prove his virility by performing one-handed push-ups. The
Silence of the Lambs
won the five major awards out of seven nominations, becoming only the
third film to accomplish the feat of winning the “Top Five”,
after It
Happened One Night
(1934) and One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975). As of 2009, it is also the only horror movie to ever win Best
Picture. This year's ceremony made Academy Award History as Beauty
and the Beast
was nominated for Best Picture, the first time an Animated Feature
Film was bestowed with such honor. The Picture garnered a total of
six nominations in four different categories, eventually collecting
two awards for its Music (Best Original Score and Original Song, for
“Beauty and the Beast”).
On
This Date In 1994
“The Division Bell,” the final studio album by Pink Floyd, was
released on March 30 on EMI in the United Kingdom and April 5 on
Columbia in the United States. It was their second album without
Roger Waters. It went to #1 in the UK and debuted at the top of the
U.S. Billboard 200 album charts in April 1994, spending four weeks as
the top album in the country. By contrast, Pink Floyd's previous
album, A
Momentary Lapse of Reason,
had peaked at #3. The
Division Bell
was certified Gold, Platinum, and Double Platinum in the U.S. in June
1994 and Triple Platinum in January 1999. Its release was accompanied
by an extremely successful tour documented in the P•U•L•S•E
album released the following year.
On
This Date In 1998
The 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64
schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national
champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on
March 12, 1998, and ended with the championship game on March 30 at
the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. A total of 63 games were played.
Kentucky, coached by Tubby Smith, won the national title with a 78–69
victory in the final game over Utah, coached by Rick Majerus. Jeff
Sheppard of Kentucky was named the tournament's Most Outstanding
Player. This was Kentucky's third straight championship game
appearance.
On
This Date In 2004
“Honkin' on Bobo,” the fourteenth studio album by American hard
rock band Aerosmith, was released. The album includes eleven covers
and one original track titled “The Grind”. The sound reflects
Aerosmith's blues-based influences and showcases a rawer sound
(reminiscent of their 1970s heyday) compared to their recent
commercial efforts, and was also produced by Jack Douglas, who was
Aerosmith's producer on a vast majority of their 1970s' output. In
keeping with much of the sexual slang and innuendo Steven Tyler
incorporates into his lyrics, the term 'honking on bobo' is a
euphemism for oral sex. Reaching #5 on The Billboard 200, Honkin'
on Bobo
was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
on May 11, 2004, and has sold 590,000 units in the U.S. as of October
2006.
On
This Date In 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama issued an ultimatum to struggling
American automakers General Motors (GM) and Chrysler: In order to
receive additional bailout loans from the government, he said, the
companies needed to make dramatic changes in the way they run their
businesses. Obama also announced a set of initiatives intended to
assist the struggling U.S. auto industry and boost consumer
confidence, including government backing of GM and Chrysler
warranties, even if both automakers went out of business. In December
2008, GM (the world's largest automaker from the early 1930s to 2008)
and Chrysler (then America's third-biggest car company) accepted
$17.4 billion in federal aid in order to stay afloat. At that time,
the two companies had been hit hard by the global economic crisis and
slumping auto sales; however, critics charged that their problems had
begun several decades earlier and included failures to innovate in
the face of foreign competition and issues with labor unions, among
other factors.
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RIP
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(1746 – 1828), Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896), Vincent van Gogh
(1863 – 1890), Brooke Astor (1902 – 2007), Countee Cullen (1903 –
1946), Frankie Laine (1913 – 2007), Randy Warmer (1955 – 2004),
Secretariat (1970 – 1989), and Adam Goldstein (1973 – 2009).
Quotes
What
is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to
your own. Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't
worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your
character. Integrity is its own reward. Laura
Schlessinger
Blessed
is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and
useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed
is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is
by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not,
in love, say before his face. St.
Francis of Assisi
A
brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart
chose for you. Proverb
To
the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We
share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets,
family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. Clara
Ortega
Our
dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death /
of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of
Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again,
and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies
of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring,
hope, and will. Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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Philippians
3:13-14 (New Living Translation)
13
No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I
am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past
and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I strain to reach the end
of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ
Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.
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