Robert Frost (American poet) is born in San Francisco, CA (1874) - Mar. 26
Bangladesh declares its independence from Pakistan (1971) - 3/26
Ludwig von Beethoven (German composer who was deaf for most of his career) falls into a decline from lead poisoning and dies in Vienna, Austria (1827) - Mar. 26
Roy Halston Frowick (American clothing designer of the 1970s) dies of lung cancer from complications of AIDS in San Francisco, CA (1990) - Mar. 26
Sarah Bernhardt (French stage actress) dies from complications of uremia (kidney failure) in Paris France at age 78 (1923) - 3/26
Walt Whitman (American poet, essayist, journalist and humanist) dies from complications of tuberculosis (1892) - Mar. 26
Legal Assistant's Day - Mar. 26
Mount Redoubt continues to erupt with 6 eruptions since Mar. 23 causing a mud flow down the Drift River Valley and flooding due to the melting glacier (2009) - 3/26
Purple Day (supporting Epilepsy around the world) - Mar. 26
Mothering Sunday (held the 4th Sunday in Lent) is observed in Europe as a day when children give presents and flowers to their mothers (2017) - 3/26
March 27, 2017
Charles I (son of James I of England) becomes King when his father dies at Theobalds House in Hertfordshire during a violent attach of dysentery (1625) - 3/27
Dudley Moore (Enlish actor, comedian and musician) dies at age 66 of pneumonia secondary to immobility caused by the palsy he was diagnosed with in 1999 (2002) - Mar. 27
Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) the first person in the USA identified as a healthy carrier of the typhoid fever pathogen is placed in quarantine on North Brother Island (1915) - 3/27
Great Alaska earthquake occurs and lasts for nearly five minutes making it the most powerful recorded earthquake in North America registering 8.4 on Richter scale (1964) - 3/27
Alexander Kielland (Norwegian oil rig platform in the North Sea) collapses during a March gale storm, killing 123 workers aboard it (1980) - Mar. 27
Louis XVII of France (son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) is born at Versailles (1785) - Mar. 27
Milton Berle (Emmy-winning American comedian and actor) dies from colon cancer at age 93 (2002) - 3/27
Photography Day - 3/27
Tenerife airport disaster occurs when two Boeing 747 airliners collide on the runway of the Tenerife Airport killing 583 people (1977) - Mar. 27
Situ Gintung Dam disaster (Indonesia) occurs when two days of heavy rain causes a wide breach in the dam resulting in a flood that causes at least 77 deaths (2009) - Mar. 27
World Theatre Day is created by the International Theatre Institute as an annual celebration (1961) - Mar. 27
Yuri Gagarin (Soviet cosmonaut) dies in a crash of a routine training flight out of Chkalovsky Air Base (1968) - Mar. 27
Clean Monday (aka Orthodox Monday observed the first Monday after Lent on the Orthodox calendar) 2017 - Mar. 27
March 28, 2017
Three Mile Island accident occurs in Pennsylvania when a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 results in the release of 43,000 curies (1979) - Mar. 28
Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President of the U.S.) dies of congestive heart failure at age 78 in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. (1969) - Mar. 28
June Havoc (American actress and sister of Gypsy Rose Lee) dies at her Stamford, CT home at the age of 97 (2010) - Mar. 28
Emmett Kelly (American circus performer known for his clown figure "Weary Willie") dies at age 80 from a heart attack at his home in Sarasota, FL (1979) - Mar. 28
Hot Tub day - Mar. 28
Maria von Trapp (immortalized in The Sound of Music) dies from heart failure at age 82 three days afer surgery (1987) - Mar. 3/28
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak occurs when at least 38 significant tornadoes struck the Midwest and Deep South U.S. states with over 380 deaths (1920) - Mar. 28
Sumatra or Nias earthquake occurs when the Indo-Austrian and Eurasian plates shift creating a shock with a magnitude of 8.7 killing about 1,300 people (2005) - Mar. 28
Virginia Woolf (English novelist and essayist) commits suicide at age 59 by drowning herself. Her body was not found until 21 days later (Apr. 18, 1941) - Mar. 3/28
Khordad Sal (birthday of Zarathustra - founder of Zoroastrianism) date varies (2017) - Mar. 28
Ramayana Festival Week (Hindu) begins nine days before Ram Navami, or the birth of Rama (2017) - Mar. 28-Apr. 5
Vasant Navratri (Hindu worship of the Goddess Durga,Lakshmi,Saraswati in the Chaitra month) date varies (2017) - Mar. 28-Apr. 5
March 29, 2017
Charles Manson (American criminal best known for his part in the Tate/La Bianca murders) is sentenced to death along with 3 of his followers (1971) - Mar. 29
Pearl Bailey (American singer and actress) is born in Southampton County, VA (1918) - Mar. 29
Pitchers Day - Mar. 29
Barthelemy Boganda (leading nationalist politician of the Central African Republic) is killed when his plane explodes mid-air (1959) - Mar. 29
Festival of Smoke and Mirrors Day - Mar. 29
March 30, 2017
Seward's Folly occurs with Secretary of State William Seward purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million (1867) - Mar. 30
Doctor's Day - Mar. 30
Elizabeth-Bowes-Lyon (Queen Mother to Elizabeth II) dies in her sleep at age 101 (2002) - Mar. 30
George I of Greece is elected King following the deposition of King Otto (1863) - Mar. 30 (N.S.)
Hymen Lipman is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser (1858) - Mar. 30
Juliana of the Netherlands is interred beside her mother, Wilhelmina, in the royal vaults under the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft (2004) - Mar. 30
Queensboro Bridge (aka 59th St. Bridge - a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City) opens after 6 years of construction $18 million and 50 lives (1909) - 3/30
Ronald Reagan is subject to an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr, suffering a punctured lung (1981) - Mar. 30
Secretariat (American thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1973 Triple Crown) is born at Meadow Farm in Caroline County, VA (1970) - Mar. 30
Treaty of Paris is signed putting an end to the Crimean War (1856) - Mar. 30
Five (UK TV Channel) begins broadcasting (1997) - 3/30
Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Post Impressionist artist) is born in Groot-Zundert in southern Netherlands (1853) - Mar. 30
Land Day - annual day of commemoration for Palestinians of the 1976 events - Mar. 30
STS-3 (3rd space shuttle mission) is completed when the Space Shuttle Columbia successfully lands at the White Sands Space Harbor near Las Cruces, NM (1982) - Mar. 30
March 31, 2017
Anne Frank (young Jewish girl born in Frankfurt Germany) dies at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp possibly from typhus (1945) - Mar. 31
Anne Hyde (Duchess of York-consort to future King James II) age 33 dies at St. James's Palace, shortly after the birth of her 8th child, from breast cancer (1671) - Mar. 31
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (German Chemist who developed the Bunsen Burner) is born in Hanover, Germany (1811) - Mar. 31
Cesar Chavez (Mexican-American farm worker and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association) is born and his birthday is a holiday in 8 US States (1927) - Mar. 31
Charlotte Bronte (British novelist best known for her novel Jane Eyre) dies along with her unborn child at age 38 possibly from typhus (1855) - Mar. 31
Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) has its inauguration, it doesn't officially open to the public until 6 weeks later on May 6 (1889) - Mar. 31
Freedom Day (Malta) celebrates the day when the British troups and Royal Navy withdrew from Malta (1979) - Mar. 31
Isaac Newton (English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer) dies in London at age 84 (1727) - Mar. 31
John C. Calhoun (7th President of the U.S.A.) dies from tuberculosis at age 68 in Washington, DC (1850) - Mar. 31
John Constable (English romantic painter) dies suddenly in his sleep at age 60 from apparent indigestion (1837) - Mar. 31
Joseph Haydn (Austrian composer) is born in Rohrau, Austria (1732) - Mar. 31
Managua, Nicaragua earthquake occurs (magnitude of 6.0) and kills approx. 2,000 people (1931) - Mar. 31
Mary of Teck (Consort to George V - Elizabeth II's grandfather) is laid to rest in St. George's Chapel Windsor, England (1953) - Mar. 31
Poll Tax Riots (London) occur when violence erupts following a peaceful march to protest the new Poll Taxes - 113 injured along with 20 horses (1990) - Mar. 31
Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot by the President of her fan club (Yoland Saldivar) who was embezzling money, and dies from loss of blood (1995) - Mar. 31
Aloha Airlines ceases to operate due to their bankruptcy situation (2003) - Mar. 31
Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, which orders her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion (1492) - Mar. 31
Phra Nangklao Chao Yu Hua (Rama III-King of Siam under the House of Chakri) is born to Prince Isarasundhron and one of his concumbines (1787) - Mar. 31
April 1, 2017
Aleutian Islands earthquake (registering 7.4) occurs and is followed by a Pacific-wide tsunami resulting in 165 casualties (1946) - Apr. 01
Apple Computer, Inc. is established in Cupertino, CA (1976) - Apr. 01
April Fool's Day (a day marked by hoaxes and other practical jokes) - Apr. 01
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Queen consort of France and England) dies at Fontevraud Abbey (1204) - Apr. 01
General Hospital (American soap opera broadcast on ABC Television) debuts (1963) - Apr. 01
Helena Rubenstein (Polish-American cosmetics industrialist and founder) dies (1965) - Apr. 01
Firefighter's Day - Apr. 01
Martha Graham (American dancer and choreographer) dies from complications of pneumonia (1991) - Apr. 01
Project Tiger (wildlife conservation project to protect the Bengal Tigers) is initiated in India (1973) - Apr. 01
RMS Atlantic (a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line) runs onto rocks and sinks off the coast of Nova Scotia killing 562 (1873) - Apr. 01
Scott Joplin (African-American composer and pianist) dies in Manhattan State Hospital at age 48 due to what some believe to be terminal syphilis (1917) - Apr. 01
Wm. Wrigley Co. is founded in Chicago, IL selling chewing gum and baking powder (1891) - Apr. 01
Google launches their IMAP webmail service Gmail (officially called Google Mail) is launched as an invitation-only beta release (2004) - Apr. 01
Edible Book Day (occurs on April 1st in honor of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's birthday in 1755) - Apr. 01
Sizdah Be-dar (Iranian festival of Joy and Solidarity) is the 13th and last day of Nowruz (New Year) sometimes celebrated by releasing goldfish into a pond or river (2011)- 4/1
San Serriffe (April Fool's joke published by the London Guardian) boasted of semi-colon shaped islands with their capital called Bodoni (1977) - Apr. 01San Serriffe (April Fool's joke published by the London Guardian) boasted of semi-colon shaped islands with their capital called Bodoni (1977) - Apr. 01
BBC - Announces that spaghetti Crops are being grown on trees in Switzerland for April Fools Day (1957) - Apr. 01BBC - Announces that spaghetti Crops are being grown on trees in Switzerland for April Fools Day (1957) - Apr. 01
Southwest Airlines Flight 812 is forced to make an emergency landing in Yuma, AZ after a six foot hole appeared in the airplane's fuselage above the cabin (2011) - 4/1
Lazarus Saturday (Eastern Orthodox Church) feast celebrates the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany and is held the Saturday before Palm Sunday (2017) - Apr. 1
April 2, 2017
Prince Arthur (elder brother of Henry VIII and 1st husband to Catherine of Aragon) dies suddenly at age 15, possibly from consumption (1502) - Apr. 02
CN Tower (communications and observation tower in Canada) is completed reaching 1,815.4 ft in height, making it the world's tallest free-standing structure (1975) - Apr. 02
Hans Christian Andersen (Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales) is born in Odense Denmark (1805) - 4/2
International Children's Book Day - Apr. 02
Rita Johnson becomes the 29th Premiere of British Columbia and the first female to hold the position (1991) - Apr. 02
Samuel Morse (American painter of portraits and the creator of the single wire telegraph system and the Morse Code) dies at home at the age of 81 (1872) - Apr. 02
As the World Turns (American TV soap opera) premieres along with The Edge of Night as the first half-hour serials (1956) - Apr. 02
LexisNexis (computerized legal research service) is launched (1973) - 4/2
The first panda crossing officially opens on York Road opposite Waterloo Station in London and causes confusion (1962) - Apr. 02
Pope John Paul II died in his private apartment of heart failure from hypotension and circulatory collapse from septic shock at age 84 (2005) - Apr. 02
World Autism Awareness Day - 4/2
Pope Fire is a picture taken from a bonfire during a service on the 2nd anniversay of Pope John Paul II's death (2007) - Apr. 02
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day - 4/2
Reconciliation Day (a day to patch relationships and make amends) - Apr. 02
Great Lovers Day - 4/2
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