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1336 Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern 1685 George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne 1710 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) 1788 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor 1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57) 1816 David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868 1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897 1821 John Abbott, Qubec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92) 1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern 1823 William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 1824 Gustave Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (Gesammelte Ashandlongen) 1827 John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 1827 William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 1830 William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer 1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts 1835 Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer 1838 William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye) 1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher, founded Red Cross 1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curaaos poet 1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder) 1874 Edmund Eysler, Austria composer 1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia 1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee) 1881 Kemal Atatrk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey 1881 Vin A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27) 1889 Johannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89) 1889 Philip Guedalla, historian 1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer 1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet master (NS) 1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist 1900 David Croll, QC senator 1910 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant) 1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico 1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh 1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven) 1912 Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour) 1917 Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing) 1917 Tom Normanton, British MP 1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer 1921 Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers) 1921 Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) 1921 Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals) 1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business) 1922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico blues) 1922 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO) 1923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952) 1923 Norbert Brainin, violinist 1923 Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7) 1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy) 1925 Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973) 1925 Louison Bobet, French bicyclist, won 3x Tour de France 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 1926 Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth) 1926 John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn) 1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery) 1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist/conductor (3/27 NS) 1927 Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina) 1928 Edward Albee, US playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story) 1928 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music) 1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority) 1929 Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956) 1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to US 1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda) 1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection) 1932 Andrew Young, US Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta) 1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields) 1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu) 1935 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century) 1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co) 1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight) 1936 Patrick Procktor, painter 1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano 1938 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael 1938 Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall) 1938 Norman Hogg, British MP 1939 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart) 1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director 1940 Al Jarreau, jazz singer (Moonlighting) 1940 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting) 1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's) 1942 Paul Kanter, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit) 1942 Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti) 1945 Hans van Emden, guitarist (Les Baroques) 1946 Liza Minnelli, LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret) 1947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!) 1948 James Taylor, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof) 1948 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota) 1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 1949 Bill Payne, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero) 1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury 1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV) 1949 Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian) 1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player 1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties) 1953 Joanna Kerns, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains) 1956 Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP) 1957 Marlon Jackson, singer (Jackson 5) 1957 Steve Harris, rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast) 1958 Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978) 1962 Darryl Strawberry, Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers) 1963 Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984) 1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984) 1963 Paul Way, British golfer 1966 Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92) Back to GREGSITE Passings for March 12417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies 604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies 1209 Djamal al-din Aboe Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies 1471 Dionysius de Kartuizer/van Rijkel, scholastic theologist, dies 1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philospher, dies 1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed 1570 Jacob van den Eynden, land advocate of Holland, dies 1628 John Bull, organist/composer, dies 1734 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], lawyer, dies 1753 George Berkeley, English/Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne, dies 1834 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33 1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76 1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petroesjka), dies 1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp.), dies 1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies 1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, dies 1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide 1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Zwischen the Racial), dies 1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC 1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79 1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74 1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies 1974 Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated 1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies 1982 Elisabeth Zernike, writer (Barrel of Things), dies at 90 1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies 1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarians/Us conductor, dies at 85 1992 Charles Poons, of Paul Deen, dies 1992 Hans G Kresse, cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies 1992 Ida Oosterbaan, founder (Women Action Committee), dies 1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Danish, dies 1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/parliament leader (chr-dem), murdered 1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, mayor (Ship bell), dies at 62 1993 Cheek Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China Back to GREGSITE Holidays for March 12[British Commonwealth] Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day) [Gabon] Renovation Day (Gabonese Democratic Party established) (1968) [Lesotho] Moshoeshoe's Day [Libya] King's Birthday [Mauritius] Independence Day (1968) [Venezuala] Flag Day [World] Girl Scouts Day (1912) [World] World Culture Day (non Leap year) [Gibralter] Commonwealth Day (2nd Monday in March) [Memphis, Tenn] Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) [New Mexico] Arbor Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for March 12[Christian] Feast of Ss Peters Gorgonius & Dorothheus [Christian] Feast of St Alphege of Winchester [Christian] Feast of St Bernard of Capua [Christian] Feast of St Maximilian of Theveste [Christian] Feast of St Paul Aurelian of Leon [Christian] Feast of St Seraphina/Fina & St Theophanes the Chronicler 604 [RC, Luth, Ang] Comm of St Gregory I the Great, pope (590-604) 1998 [Jewish] Purim (feast of Lot) (Adar 14, 5758 AM) Back to GREGSITE Special events for March 12 417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1000 Odo van Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III 1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected as Pope Lucius II, as Callistus II 1350 Orvieto city government beheads Jewish-Christian relatives 1496 Jews are expelled from Syria 1609 Bermudas becomes an English colony 1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand 1664 1st 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 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago 1789 US Post Office established 1848 2nd republic established in France 1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif 1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued 1857 Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" 1st preformed (Venice Italy) 1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists 1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri 1867 Last French troops leave Mexico 1868 British create Basutoland in Africa 1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax 1871 R Luther discovers asteroid #113 Amalthea 1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa 1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women 1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die) 1888 Blizzard hits NY; about 800 die 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #362 Havnia 1896 1st movie in Netherland (Kalverstr 220) 1903 AL offically approves NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport) 1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund 1908 Mont Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908) 1910 Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup 1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low 1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid 1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1925 British cabinet of Baldwin ratifies Genevea agreement 1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament 1926 Pope Pius XI named archbishop of Mechelen 1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax 1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) 1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1308 Halleria 1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1221 Amor 1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat" 1934 Pres Constantine Pts sees coup in Tallinn Estonia 1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages 1936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2331 Parvulesco 1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) 1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus 1940 G Kulin discovers asteroid #2738 1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands 1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3446 1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma 1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment 1945 The British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day 1945 USSR gives Transylvania to Romania 1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1947 Belgian cabinet-Huysmans resigns 1947 Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism 1950 Belgium agrees (58%) for return of king Leopold III 1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" 1951 Communistic troops driven out of Seoul 1954 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1970 1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins Second-Parliamentary election 1959 House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay has secret talks with Indonesia 1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance 1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentence to 8 years 1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam 1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record 1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) 1966 Love's 1st album released "Love" 1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?] 1967 Austrtia's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet 1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home 1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London 1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18 1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Prez Morena de Macias 1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons 1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash 1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2577 Litva 1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3319 Kibi 1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab terrority from Israel 1978 T Urata discovers asteroid #2090 Mizuho 1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago 1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin 1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA 1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points 1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley 1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game 1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) 1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland 1993 317 killed by bomb attack in Bombay 1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show 1993 Inkhata leider Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech Back to GREGSITE Facts for March 12ųF highest temperature for this date in NYC ųF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 71st day of the year with 294 days left (Numerology = 6) Back to GREGSITE Songs released on March 1203/12/55 --- Ballad Of Davy Crockett --- Parker, Fess 03/12/66 --- Daydream --- Lovin' Spoonful 03/12/66 --- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry --- Thomas, B.J. 03/12/77 --- Tryin' To Love Two --- Bell, William 03/12/77 --- Hotel California --- Eagles 03/12/88 --- Prove Your Love --- Dayne, Taylor 03/12/88 --- I Saw Him Standing There --- Tiffany |
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