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History
March 30...
1858, Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents his idea of attaching an eraser to the top of a lead pencil.
1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia, purchasing Alaska for $7,200,000; critics dub the deal "Seward's Folly."
1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.
1999, A jury in Portland, Oregon orders Phillip Morris to pay $81,000,000 to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
Born,
1746, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, painter
1880, Sean O'Casey, playwright
1853, Vincent van Gogh, painter
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/
1937, Warren Beatty, film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1937)
Secretariat, racehorse (1970)
Missing in Action
1968 CICHON WALTER A. FARMINGDALE NJ 11/02/73 POSS CAPTURED
1969 LATIMER CLARENCE A. DUE WEST SC
1972 CROSBY BRUCE A. JR. SPRINGVILLE NY
1972 FINCH MELVIN W. FORT BELVIOR VA DIED QUANG BINH SEP 72 REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1972 WESTCOTT GARY P. POMONA CA
1975 HOSKINS THOMAS B. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 JUDSON LORENZO D. 05/76 LEFT SAIGON
1975 KOWLES ALEXANDER G. 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
1975 TABOR JOHN 10/75 LEFT SAIGON
March 31, 2005
Born,
1732, Joseph Haydn, composer
1848, Al Gore, politician
1927, César Chávez, labor leader
1774, British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870, Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
1889, The Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris World's Fair, opens in France.
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
1949, Newfoundland becomes the 10th province in Canada.
1976, The New Jersey Supreme Court sets a precedent, ruling that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan can be taken off life support so she can "die with dignity."
Missing in Action
1965 MC KINLEY GERALD W. DANBURY CT CRASH ON TARGET SITE
1969 CARPENTER RAMEY LEO NORMAN OK REMAINS ID'D 06/24/98
1969 WHITE DANFORTH E. STATE COLLEGE PA REMAINS ID'D 06/24/98
1971 SALLEY JAMES JR. COLUMBIA SC "07/71 DIED LAOS, WITH ALLWINE"
1971 TERRILL PHILIP B. HARTFORD NY 04/71 DIED TRI BORDER AREA
April 1, 2005
HOAXES AND URBAN LEGENDS
How to Hoax-Proof Yourself
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/legends/legends.html
1578, William Harvey, physician
1815, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Prusso-German statesman and chancellor of the German Empire
1868, Edmond Rostand, playwright
1973, Sergey Rachmaninoff, composer, pianist, and conductor
1875, Edgar Wallace, writer
1621, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, and John Carver, governor of Plymouth Colony, sign the first peace treaty between Native Americans and Pilgrims.
1789, The newly established U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting.
1972, The first major league baseball players strike in the U.S. begins.
1979, Following a referendum, Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by the Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
1984, R&B singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in Los Angeles.
1999: Nunavut becomes the third independent territory in Canada; it is the homeland of Canada's Inuit, who comprise the vast majority of the population of Nunavut.
Missing in Action
1965 DAWSON DONALD 08/24/65 RELEASED CAPTURED SEARCHING FOR BROTHER-SIGHTED WRECKAG
1966 GRAYSON WILLIAM R. RIVERSIDE CA
1966 KRECH MELVIN T. MARINE ON ST CROIX MN
1967 GOVAN ROBERT A. WASHINGTON DC NEGAT SAR CONTACT
1967 JOURDENAIS GEORGE HENRY CENTRAL FALLS RI
1967 STANLEY ROBERT W. PORTLAND OR
1967 WILLIAMS DAVID R. MEMPHIS TN NEAGT SAR CONTACT
1972 WORTH JAMES F. HILLSIDE MD
1973 FITZGERALD FRANCES 04/73 RELEASED (HELD 3 DAYS)
1973 SOUTHERLAND DANIEL 07/73 RELEASED (HELD 3 DAYS)
March 2...
1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, searching for the mythical fountain of youth, discovers Florida.
1792, Congress passes the Coinage Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.
1932, In New York, aviator Charles Lindbergh pays a ransom to secure the return of his kidnapped infant son; the baby is later found murdered.
1982, Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, a British dependency; Britain responds by sending in its armed forces to retake the islands.
2003, Special operations forces rescue U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the early days fighting in Iraq.
1914, Sir Alec Guinness, actor
1725, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, adventurer
1939, Marvin Gaye, singer
Missing in Action
1965 EVANS JAMES J. VALLEY FALLS KS 10/71 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'D 4/22/77
1966 DOUGHTY DANIEL J. LADYSMITH WI 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 DRAMESI JOHN A. GRENLOCK NJ 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 1996
1969 POWERS LOWELL S. SCOTTSDALE AZ
1972 ASTORGA JOSE M. OAKLAND CA 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 96
1972 BOLTE WAYNE L. CLAREMORE OK
1972 FRINK JOHN W. ALBUQUERQUE NM CHOPPER EXPLODED W/SUBJ ABOARD REMAINS RETURNED 04/94
1972 GATWOOD ROBIN F. JR. HICKORY NC
1972 GIANNANGELI ANTHONY R. LANSFORD PA
1972 KULLAND BYRON K. NEW TOWN ND CHOPPER EXPLODED W/ SUBJ ABOARD REMAINS ID'D 4/02/94
1972 LEVIS CHARLES A. FORT WORTH TX
1972 PASCHALL RONALD P. ALDERWOOD MANOR WA CHOPPER EXPLODED W/ SUBJ ABOARD REMAINS ID'D 4/02/94
1972 SEREX HENRY M. NEW ORLEANS LA
March 3...
1860, The legendary Pony Express begins mail service between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html
1882, Jesse James, notorious U.S. bank and train robber, is shot in the back by a member of his own gang seeking to claim reward money.
1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, is executed by electrocution.
1991, The U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.
1996, Theodore Kaczynski is arrested on charges that he is the Unabomber, an anarchist whose homemade bombs killed three and wounded many others over 17 years.
Missing in Action
1965 MORGAN HERSCHEL S. CANDLER NC 02/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV / INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1965 SMITH GEORGE C. ST LOUIS MO NO RADIO CONTACT SEARCH NEGAT
1965 VOHDEN RAYMOND A. SPRINGFIELD NJ 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV / INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1966 LAWS RICHARD LEE SACRAMENTO CA
1968 HARDY JOHN CHARLES TROY MO 04/12/68 REMAINS RECOVERED CACCF/CRASH/NOT AT SEA/AIRCREW/8 YRS USAF
1968 REXROAD RONALD REUEL RANKIN IL
1968 THOMAS JAMES C. SAFFORD AZ
1969 ECKLUND ARTHUR G. PHOENIX AZ
1969 JEFFERSON PERRY H. DENVER CO
1972 CHRISTENSEN ALLEN D. FRANDREAU SD
1972 HENDERSON WILLIAM J. MILWAUKEE WI 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1972 MUREN THOMAS RICHARD LAKEWOOD CA
1972 O'NEIL DOUGLAS L. BAYONNE NJ SOME RECORDS SHOW O'NEILL
1972 WILLIAMS EDWARD W. CLEARWATER FL
1972 ZICH LARRY A. LINCOLN NE
March 4...
1818, Congress approves the U.S. flag with 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars; a star is to be added for each new state.
1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.
1850, Los Angeles is incorporated as a city the same year that California is admitted to the United States.
1945, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi prison camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1949, NATO is formed by 12 western democratic nations, including the United States and Great Britain, to safeguard against Soviet aggression.
1964, The Beatles hold the top five spots on Billboard's Hot 100, setting an all-time record.
1968, American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; in 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the shooting.
1802, Dorothea Lynde Dix, philanthropist and reformer
1821, Linus Yale, locksmith
1932, Anthony Perkins, actor
1975, more than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed shortly after take-off from Saigon.
1983, the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage.
1985, Gary Dotson, who served six years of a prison sentence for rape, was freed on bail from the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois after his accuser, Cathleen Crowell Webb, testified that the attack had never occurred.
Missing in Action
1965 DRAEGER WALTER F. JR. DEERFIELD WI CRASH FLAMES / NO PARA SEEN
1965 HARRIS CARLYLE S. PRESTON MD 02/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL IN 1998
1965 MAGNUSSON JAMES A. JR. NAHANT MA CRASH OW SEARCH NEGAT
1967 MARTIN DAVID EARL ORLANDO FL
1967 SZEYLLER EDWARD PHILIP ALTOONA PA
1968 TRIVELPIECE STEVE M. STOCKTON CA "KIA GUNFIRE, REMAINS LEFT BEHIND"
1970 DUFFY JOHN E. PORTLAND ME REMAINS RETURNED MAY 1993 IDENTIFIED MARCH 1996
1970 YOUNG JEFFREY J. INDIANAPOLIS IN
1971 SMITH JOSEPH S. ASSUMPTION IL
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