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(Gentleman's Agreement) 1897 Knud†ge Riisager, Port Kunda Estonia, Danish composer (Quaarrtsiluni) 1898 Jay C Flippen, Little Rock Ark, actor (Ensign O'Toole) 1898 Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago) 1898 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, soprano (Matth„us Passion) 19-- Martin Kove, Bkln NY, actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey) 1900 J H P Pafford, librarian (University of London) 1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner) 1901 Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother) 1903 Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1928) 1906 Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) 1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83) 1911 Charles Frank, physicist 1912 Madge Adam, astronomer 1914 Kirill Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981) 1916 Rochelle Hudson, Okla City OK, actress (That's My Boy) 1917 J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP) 1920 George E Brown, (Rep-D-California) 1920 Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice) 1920 Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles) 1921 Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957) 1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US) 1922 Alain Resnais, French director (Hiroshima My Love) 1922 Frankie Howerd, British actor/comedian (A Funny Thing Happened) 1923 Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search) 1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford) 1924 Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff) 1924 William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA 1926 Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor 1926 Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- ) 1927 Andrzej Wajda, Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna) 1927 John Fairchild, Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing) 1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Okla, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5) 1927 Norman Treigle, New Orleans Louisiana, bass-baritone 1927 William J Bell, Chicago Ill, soap opera creator (Young & Restless) 1928 Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Col, novelist (Europa Y America, Nobel 1982) 1929 David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool, England) 1929 Gnter Kunert, German poet/writer (Kaiser von Hondu) 1929 Hal Miller, British MP 1929 Ho Dam, Dutch foreign minister to North Korea (1970-83) 1929 Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965- ), majority whip/speaker of house 1931 David Haddon Whitaker, publisher (Almanac) 1931 John Smith, LA Calif, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men) 1933 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run) 1934 John Noakes, British TV presenter 1935 Ronnie Delaney, Ireland, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1956) 1936 Bram A Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA) 1936 Jean Boht, actress (Arthur's Hallowed Ground) 1936 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90), drug indictment 1937 Ivan Boesky, Detroit, stockbroker inside trading 1937 Merle Haggard, country singer (Okie from Muskogee) 1937 Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6) 1939 Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri) 1939 David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice) 1940 Joanna Miles, Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA) 1940 Willie Stargell, outfielder (Pirates) (1971 NL HR leader) 1941 Ann Winterton, British MP 1941 Ben Murphy, Jonesboro Ark, acotr (Name of the Game, Winds of War) 1941 Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show) 1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano 1944 Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go) 1945 Anna Maria Horsford, NYC, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen) 1945 Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There) 1945 Rob Reiner, NYC, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me) 1947 David Gilmour, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pink Floyd-The Wall) 1947 Dick Fosbury, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1968) 1947 Judy Loe, actress 1947 Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart) 1949 Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na) 1951 Stedman Graham, Oprah Winfreys fiance 1953 Jackie Zeman, Englewood NJ, actress (Bobbie-General Hospital) 1956 Peter Roebuck, cricketeer 1959 Tom Arnold, Iowa, comedian (Tom Arnold Show), Mr Roseanne Barr 1964 Cher Butler, Garland Tx, playmate (August, 1985) 1969 Andrea Elson, NYC, actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids) Back to GREGSITE Passings for March 061616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) 1836 Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), dies 1900 Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65 1932 John Philip Sosa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies 1941 Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore), dies at 73 1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, February strike leader, executed 1950 Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54 1954 John Kalf, literature/art historian, dies at 80 1963 Kornelis ter Lan, 1st socialist mayor (Zandam), dies at 91 1964 King Paul I, of Greece (1947-64), dies 1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75 1967 Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65 1967 Zolt n Kod ly, Hungarian composer (H ry Janos), dies at 84 1968 Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House, dies at 83 1970 William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55 1971 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Forget Not to Leave), dies 1973 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80 1976 "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, lt-hvywgt box champ (1932-34), dies at 72 1979 Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83 1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent 1982 Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in NY at 77 1982 Jan Lemaire, actor/writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at 97 1983 Thelma Pelish, actress, dies at 55 1984 Henry Wilcoxon, producer, dies of congessive heart failure at 78 1985 Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at 80 1986 Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), dies at 98 1992 Emmy Huf, writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies 1992 Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portugese painter (Mirror Palace), dies 1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 1993 Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for March 06[Ghana] Independence Day (1957) [Guam] Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521) [US] Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day [Guam] Discovery Day (1st Monday in March) Back to GREGSITE Interest events for March 06203 [old RC] Feast of Ss Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (now 3/7) 307 [Panam ] Jesus Nazarene of Atalaya 1995 [Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable) 1998 [Ang, RC] Ember Day Back to GREGSITE Special events for March 06 Save Your Vision Week, begins [Vermont] Town Meeting Day 1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli replaces Pope Eugene IV as Nicolaas V 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa 1521 Magellan discovers Guam 1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing 1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston 1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard 1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US 1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany 1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy 1831 The opera "La Sonnambula" is produced (Milan) 1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight 1853 Opera "La Traviata" is produced (Venice) 1857 Dred Scott decision holds blacks cannot be citizens 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida 1885 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #246 Asporina 1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA 1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC 1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage" 1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands 1906 Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to Am Soc of Civil Engineers 1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle 1924 British Labour govt cuts military budget 1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malm‚dy & Sankt 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council 1929 Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty 1930 Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food 1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1935 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA 1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact 1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC 1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin 1945 Assassination attempt on H”here, SS Police fhrer Rauter 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation 1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months 1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK 1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) 1960 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3363 1960 president Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament 1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74% 1961 P Wild discovers asteroid #1657 Roemera 1961 Queen Juliana celebrates 12« year govt jubilee 1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression 1964 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece 1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali 1964 Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher) 1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, J.R. Willford 1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) 1967 Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted 1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks politics asylum in US 1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK 1973 C Kowal discovers asteroid #1981 Midas 1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo 1975 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2273 Yarilo 1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2832 Lada, #3466, #3470 & #3348 1976 Dorothy Hamill wins world figure skating chamiponship 1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga 1979 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #3250 1980 Marguerite Yourcenar becomes 1st female member of Acad‚mie Fran‡aise 1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3235 1981 S J Bus discovers asteroid #3269 1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth 1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News" 1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) 1983 New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table 1984 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3356 Resnik & #3697 Guyhurst 1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight 1985 M‚xican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar 1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km 1987 Belgium Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes & sinks; 189 die 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985) 1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17 Back to GREGSITE Facts for March 0665th day of the year with 300 days left (Numerology = 9) 1872 5øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1935 68øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on March 0603/06/42 --- Blues In The Night --- Calloway, Cab 03/06/42 --- Deep In The Heart Of Texas --- Heidt, Horace 03/06/61 --- Asia Minor --- Kokomo 03/06/65 --- Red Roses For A Blue Lady --- Dana, Vic 03/06/65 --- Shotgun --- Walker, Jr. & The All Stars 03/06/65 --- Stop! In The Name Of Love --- Supremes 03/06/71 --- What Is Life --- Harrison, George 03/06/71 --- What's Going On --- Gaye, Marvin 03/06/76 --- Let Your Love Flow --- Bellamy Brothers 03/06/76 --- Disco Lady --- Taylor, Johnnie 03/06/82 --- Freeze-Frame --- Geils, J. 03/06/93 --- I Have Nothing --- Houston, Whitney 03/06/93 --- I'm So Into You --- SWV 03/06/93 --- Love Is --- Williams, Vanessa 03/06/93 --- Cat's In The Cradle --- Ugly Kid Joe |
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