March 2
1778 Lafayette was recalled from commanding an aborted invasion of
Canada.
1807 Congress passed an act prohibiting the importation of slaves.
1836 Texans declared their independence from Mexico.
1904 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), author of children's books, was born
in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1909 Baseball great, and frequent crossword puzzle answer, Mel Ott
was born in Gretna, Louisiana.
1923 Bluegrass musician Doc Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
1926 Murray Rothbard, "Mr. Libertarian," was born in the Bronx, New York.
1931 Journalist and social critic Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond,
Virginia.
1950 Singer Karen Carpenter was born.
1962 Singer Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi) was born
in Sayreville, New Jersey.
1962 Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points against
the New York Knicks.
March 3
1756 Anarchist philosopher William Godwin was born in England.
1819 Gustave de Molinari, the first economist to write in defense of
anarcho-capitalism, was born.
1831 George Pullman, railroad sleeping car designer, was born
in Brocton, New York.
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
1863 Economist Frank A. Fetter was born.
1955 Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance.
1962 Track star Jackie Joyner-Kersee
was born in East St. Louis, Illinois.
March 4
1678 Composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi
was born in Venice, Italy.
1747 Revolutionary War leader Casimir Paluski was born in
Winiary, Poland. He organized the Pulaski Legion to wage
guerrilla warfare against the British.
1888 Football coach Knute Rockne was born in Voss, Norway.
1901 Bridge expert and columnist Charles Goren was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1932 Singer Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1962 The Laissez Faire bookstore opened in New York City.
March 5
1512 Map maker Gerhardus Mercator was born in Rumpelmonde, Belgium.
1770 Lord North moved to end the Townsend taxes except for the tea tax.
1824 Lithographer James Merrit Ives was born.
1887 Musician and composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
1893 Emmett Culligan, Jr. was born in Yankton, South Dakota. He founded the world's
largest water treatment organization.
1908 Actor Reginald Carey (Rex Harrison) was born in Huyton, England.
1953 Soviet communist tyrant Joseph Stalin died.
1962 The Great Explosion, an anarchistic science-fiction
novel by Eric Frank Russell, was published.
March 6
1475 Painter and sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
was born in Caprese, Italy.
1844 Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born in Russia.
1885 Short-story writer Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan.
1900 Pitching star Lefty Grove was born in Maryland.
1906 Comedian Lou Costello was born in Patterson, New Jersey.
1941 Baseball star Willie Stargell was born.
1945 Actor and film maker Rob Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York.
1970 The Market for Liberty by Morris and
Linda Tannehill was published.
1972 Basketball giant Shaquille O'Neal was born.
March 7
1849 Botanist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
1875 Composer Maurice Ravel was born in France.
1917 The first jazz record, "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," was made
by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
1940 Actor Daniel Travanti (Captain Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues)
was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
1946 Leonard Read started The Foundation for Economic Education.
1960 Tennis champion Ivan Lendl was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia.
March 8
1859 Author Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1930 Yankee pitcher Bob Grim was born in New York City.
1938 Country singer Charlie Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi.
1939 Yankee pitcher and author Jim Bouton was born in New Jersey.
1939 Georgia ratified the Bill of Rights.
1953 Baseball star Jim Rice was born in Anderson, South Carolina.
March 9
1451 Amerigo Vespucci, merchant, map maker, and explorer, was born
in Florence, Italy. Martin Waldseemuller, a German map maker
who had not heard about Christopher Columbus' discoveries decided
to honor Amerigo Vespucci by placing his name on a map of the world
published in 1507. At first "America" applied only to the southern
continent, but soon it was used for both North and South America.
1793 Imprisonment for debt was abolished in France.
1841 Slaves who mutinied and took over the Spanish slave
ship Amistad, and were subsequently captured by the US
warship Washington, were declared free men by the
Supreme Court.
1918 Detective story writer Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison)
was born in Brooklyn.
1932 Singer Keely Smith was born.
1940 Actor Raul Julia was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1943 Chess champion Bobby Fischer was born in Chicago.
March 10
1628 Marcello Malpighi, physician, physiologist, author,
teacher, and the "father of
microscopic anatomy," was born near Bologna, Italy.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first complete intelligible
sentence by telephone to his assistant in the next room in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1880 Commissioner George Scott Railton
and seven women officers arrived in New York
to begin the work of the Salvation Army in the United States.
1882 "State Socialism and Anarchism," by Benjamin Tucker
was published in Liberty.
1910 Slavery was abolished in China.
1956 Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins
was the first record to appear on the
Billboard pop, rhythm and blues, and country and western charts simultaneously.
1979 Fifteen thousand Iranian women protested Islamic rule.
March 11
1702 The Daily Courant, the first daily newspaper in
England, appeared.
1950 Singer Bobby McFerrin (Don't Worry, Be Happy)
was born in New York City.
1952 Science-fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams was
born in England.
March 12
1755 The first steam engine in the US was installed to pump water out of a mine.
1773 The Virginia House of Burgesses established a committee for
intercolonial correspondence.
1835 Astronomer Simon Newcomb was born in
Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1930 Mohandas Gandhi led a 200-mile march to the coast of India
to extract salt from the sea in protest against the government's
salt tax.
1948 Singer/song writer James Taylor was born.
March 13
1733 Scientist Joseph Priestley was born in Fieldhead, England.
1776 The Continental Congress authorized privateering.
1791 The Rights of Man (Part 1) by Thomas Paine was
published.
1855 Astronomer Percival Lowell was born in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1865 The Confederate Congress authorized the use of slaves in the
army. Slaves were given their freedom by enlisting.
1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, journalist and social philosopher,
was born in Germany.
1939 Singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka was born in Brooklyn.
1992 The FCC partially liberated radio frequencies.
March 14
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin.
1871 The Individualist and the Personal Rights Association
were founded.
1879 Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
1883 Communist theorist Karl Marx died in London.
1885 The Mikado opened.
1919 Writer Max Shulman was born in Minnesota.
1933 Movie star Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite)
was born in London.
1933 Composer and arranger Quincy Jones was born in Chicago.
1947 Comedian and actor Billy Crystal
was born in Long Beach, New York.
1961 Baseball star Kirby Puckett was born in Chicago.
March 15
44BC Julius Ceasar was assassinated.
37 Roman emperor Nero died.
1858 Horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey was born.
March 16
1787 Physicist George Simon Ohm was born.
1861 Arizona territory seceded from the Union.
1916 Comedian Jerry Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey.
March 17
1766 The Stamp Act was repealed by Parliament.
1776 British troops evacuated Boston.
1902 Golf champion Bobby Jones was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1919 Singer and pianist Nat "King" Cole
was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
1920 Albert Jay Nock's Freeman began.
1944 Singer and songwriter John Sebastian
was born in New York City.
1951 Actor Kurt Russell was born in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
1959 Major league baseball and basketball player and coach
Danny Ainge was born in Eugene, Oregon.
March 18
1584 Tsar of Russia Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) died.
1777 New Jersey's Committee of Safety was organized.
1858 Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine,
was born in Paris.
1959 Singer and actress Irene Cara
was born in the Bronx, New York.
1963 Singer and actress Vanessa Williams
was born in New York City.
March 19
1813 African explorer, missionary, and doctor David Livingston
was born in Blantyre, Scotland.
1864 Cowboy and Western artist Charlest Russell was born in
St. Louis, Missouri.
1936 Movie star Ursula Andress was born in Berne, Switzerland.
1947 Actress Glenn Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1955 Actor Bruce Willis was born in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
1955 The film
Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford
and Sidney Poitier, opened;
Rock Around the Clock played over its opening credits.
March 20
1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.
1873 Composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninov was born in Russia.
1911 Gilbert Halliday
was born in the Bronx, New York.
1922 Comedian, writer, and director Carl Reiner
was born in the Bronx, New York.
1931 Actor Hal Lindon (Harold Lipshitz)
was born in the Bronx, New York.
1948 Ice-hockey star Bobby Orr was born at Perry Sound, Canada.
1950 Actor William Hurt was born in Washington DC.
1958 Actress Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia.
March 21
1685 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1869 Theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld was born in Chicago.
1910 American vintner Julio Gallo was born in Oakland, California.
March 22
1457 The Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.
1621 Plymouth colonists made a treaty with the neighboring Indians
that was kept on both sides for 50 years.
1621 Natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius escaped from prison.
1719 The serfs on Prussian royal land were freed.
1794 Slave trade with foreign countries was prohibited by an act of
Congress.
1812 Anarchist social philosopher Stephen Pearl Andrews was born.
1837 The slaves in Puerto Rico were freed.
1891 Comedian Chico Marx was born in New York City.
1908 Western novelist Louis LaMoore (L'Amour) was born in
Jamestown, North Dakota.
1931 Comic actor William Shatner was born in Montreal, Canada.
1933 The Beer and Wine Revenue Act legalized beer
and wine with alcohol content of 3.2% by weight.
1976 Actress Reese Witherspoon was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
March 23
1775 Patrick Henry delivered his "Liberty or Death" speech to the
Virginia convention in favor of arming the Virginia militia.
1910 Movie director Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo.
1929 Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under
4 minutes, was born in Harrow, Middlesex, England.
1953 Singer Chaka Khan (Yvette Maria Stevens) was born in Chicago.
1954 Basketball star Moses Malone was born in Petersburg, Virginia.
March 24
1788 Rhode Island had a referendum in which the proposed
Constitution of the United States of America
was rejected by a vote of 2,708 to 237.
1874 Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was born in
Budapest, Hungary.
1882 Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of
tuberculoses bacillus.
1930 Actor Steve McQueen was born in Beech Grove, Indiana.
March 25
1807 The English Parliament abolished the slave trade.
1825 The University of Virginia was opened.
1908 Movie director David Lean was born in London.
1913 The Palace Theater opened in New York City as a vaudeville showplace.
1942 Soul singer Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1946 Actress Bonnie Bedelia was born in New York City.
1945 Singer and songwriter Elton John was born.
March 26
1838 Historian William E. H. Lecky was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1874 Poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California.
1934 Actor Alan Arkin was born in New York City.
1937 Spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of
Popeye.
1944 Singer and actress Diana Ross was born in Detroit.
1950 Comedian Martin Short was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1953 Jonas Salk announced his polio vaccine.
March 27
1790 Shoelaces were invented.
1813 Lithographer Nathaniel Currier was born in Massachusetts.
1845 William Roentgen, discoverer of the X-ray,
was born in Lennep, Prussia.
1892 Thorne Smith, "master of the pointless conversation" and
author of humorous fantasy novels such as
Topper and The Stray Lamb, was born on Annapolis, Maryland.
1942 Actor Michael York was born in Fulmer, England.
1970 Singer Mariah Carey was born on Long Island, New York.
March 28
1483 Painter Raphael was born in Italy.
1797 The first washing machine was patented by Nathaniel Briggs.
1872 Individualist anarchist Emile Armand was born in France.
1919 Yankee pitcher Vic Raschi
was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
March 29
1867 Pitching star Cy Young was born in Ohio.
1885 The first batch of Coca-Cola was brewed.
1918 Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart,
was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
1932 Jack Benny made his radio debut.
1943 Comedian Eric Idle was born in Durham, England.
1955 Football Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell
was born in Tyler, Texas.
March 30
1191 Hyacinth Bobo became Pope Celestine III.
1746 Painter Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
was born in Aragon, Spain.
1842 Dr. Crawford Long, having seen its effects
at "laughing gas" parties, used ether as
a general anesthetic in an operation for the first time to remove
a tumor from a man's neck.
1853 Painter Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, Holland.
1864 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist who described the
state as "the organization of the political means" for acquiring
wealth, was born.
1913 Singer Frankie Lane was born in Chicago.
1938 Actor Warren Beatty was born in Richmond, Virginia.
1945 Rock guitarist, composer, and singer Eric Clapton
was born in Ripley, England.
1964 Jeopardy premiered on TV.
March 31
1732 Composer and "father of the symphony" Joseph Haydn was born
in Rohrau, Austria-Hungary.
1814 President James Madison recommended repeal of
the Non-Importation
and Embargo Acts, thereby allowing trade with the British.
1915 Television personality Henry Morgan (Henry von Ost, Jr.)
was born in New York City.
1928 Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Gordie (Gordon) Howe was born
in Floral, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1934 Singer and actress Shirley Jones
was born in Smithton, Pennsylvania.
1935 Musician Herb Alpert was born in Los Angeles, California.
1935 Actor Richard Chamberlain
was born in Los Angeles, California.
1948 Actress Rhea Perlman was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1968 Lyndon B. Johnson announced he will nor run for reelection
as President of the United States.
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