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On this day...
1496
Jews are expelled from Syria
1609 Bermudas becomes an English colony
1664 First naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1789 US Post Office established
1848 Second republic established in France
1850 First US $20 gold piece issued
1868 Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1884 Mississippi establishes first US state college for women
1888 Second day of the Great Blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1903 AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
1904 First main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1912 Capt Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up
Soviets
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt
tax
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 FDR conducts his first "fireside chat"
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, giving up territory
1945 NY is first to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in
employment
1945 The British Empire celebrates it's first British Empire Day
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1967 Austrtia's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
Birthdays which occurred on March 12th:
1685
George Berkeley,
Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, first lady
1821 Sir John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) third Canadian PM (1891-92)
1824 Gustave Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen)
1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
1835 Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1838 William Perkin, inventor (first artificial dye)
1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross
1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (The Intruder)
1889 Philip Guedalla, historian
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet master (NS)
1910 Roger L. Stevens, producer (Giant)
1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, President of Mexico
1912 James McKay, Lord Provost of Edinburgh
1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist
1912 Paul Weston, Springfield MA, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1917 Tom Normanton, British MP
1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 Lane Kirkland, union
president (AFL-CIO)
1925 William G. Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 George R. Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926 Gudrun Ure actress
1927 Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina
1928 Edward Albee, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1930 Antony Acland, British ambassador to US
1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park,
Rhoda)
1932 Andrew Young, (Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News VA, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 Patrick Procktor painter
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan opera soprano
1939 Barbara Feldon, Pittsburgh, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1940 Al Jarreau, jazz singer
1940 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5,
Shooting)
1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player
1942 Paul Kanter, guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
1946 Liza Minnelli, Los Angeles, singer/actress
1948 James Taylor, vocalist
1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
1956 Dale Murphy, Portland, baseball player
1957 Marlon Jackson, singer (Jackson 5)
1957 Steve Harris, rock bassist (Iron Maiden)
1962 Darryl Strawberry Los Angeles, baseball player
Deaths which occurred on March
12th:
1507 Cesare Borgia,
Cardinal/soldier/politician
1628 John Bull, organist/composer
1888 Henry Bergh, founder of ASPCA, dies at 76
1914 George Westinghouse, inventor
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader
1932 Ivar Kreuger, industrialist
1955 Charlie Parker, jazz musician, dies at 34 in NYC
1958 Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden, dies at 79
1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at
74
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor
1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor
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