March 16th - Today is the 75th day of the year, with only 290 days remaining in 2006.
Mars' Month - March was the original beginning of the year, and the time for
the resumption of war.
March Flowers: Daffodil or Jonquil [Yellow] - Affection, Cheerfulness,
Desire, Grants Wishes, New Beginnings, Respect, and Sympathy
March Birthstone: Aquamarine, Bloodstone - Courage
Country
Music Broadcast Day
In 1922, WSB Radio became the first station to feature country music.
"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred
to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FULL MOON - Mar 14 11:35 p.m.
LAST QUARTER - Mar 22 7:10 p.m.
NEW MOON - Mar 29 10:16 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Apr 5 12:01 p.m.
JEWISH COUNTRY-WESTERN SONGS
1. Achy Breaky Hip
2. I Got the Guilt, You Got the Gelt (I Went and Cut Another Notch in My
Belt)
3. Take This, "Job," and Shove It
4. I'm Cryin' in My Manischewitz ('Cause I Lost Rebecca Levitz)
5. Ever Since My Circumcision, My Baby's Been Short With Me
6. All My Exes Made an Exodus
7. The Shiksa's Gonna Hit the Fan
8. This Bris! This Bris!! Unchoppable!!!
9. Four Thousand Years of Sufferin', and I Had to Marry You
10. My Woman Gave Me Crabs, and That Ain't Kosher
11. I've Starved and I've Suffered and I've Parted the Sea Just to Find That
Your Bush Wasn't Burnin' For Me
12. Homeland on the Range
13. Alright, Already, Enough With The Infidelity!
ACTING -
1920 Leo McKern, Sydney Australia, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that
Roared) [D: 07/23/2002]
1926 Jerry Lewis [Joseph Levitch], Newark NJ, entertainer/fund raiser (MDA)
1941 Chuck Woolery, Ashland KY, TV game show host (Wheel of Fortune, Lingo)
1946 (Henry Enrique) Erik Estrada, NY NY, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade,
Lightblast)
1949 Victor Garber, London Ontario, actor (Jack Bristow-Alias, Sleepless in
Seattle)
1954 Jimmy Nail, Newcastle-upon-Tyne England, singer/actor (Evita, Spender,
Howling II)
1967 Lauren Graham, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Lorelai-Gilmore Girls, The
Pacifier)
1971 Alan Tudyk, El Paso TX, actor ("Wash"-Firefly, Patch Adams, A Knight's
Tale)
ARTISTIC -
1839 René François Armand Prudhomme, Paris France, poet, 1st Nobel for
literature (1901) [D: 09/06/07]
1906 Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please) [D:
02/24/98]
HISTORIC -
1739 George Clymer, Philadelphia PA, merchant (signed Declaration of
Independence, Constitution) [D: 01/23/1813]
1751 James Madison, Port Conway VA, (D-R), 4th US President (1809-17) [D:
06/28/1836]
1774 Matthew Flinders, Donington England, navigator (explored coasts of
Australia) [D: 07/19/1814]
1903 Mike Mansfield, NYC, (Sen-D-MT), majority whip [D: 10/05/2001]
1912 Patricia Nixon (Thelma Catherine Ryan), Ely NV, 1st lady (1969-74) [D:
06/22/93]
1933 Sandy Weill, Brooklyn NY, financier/philanthropist/chairman of Citigroup
MUSIC -
1920 John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Academy Award) [D:
12/07/98]
1936 Fred Neil, Cleveland OH, singer/songwriter (Everybody's Talkin'/Midnight
Cowboy) [D: 07/07/2001]
1951 Ray Benson, Philadelphia PA, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1954 Nancy Wilson, SF CA, rocker (Heart-These Dreams, What about Love)
SCIENCE -
1787 Georg Simon Ohm, Erlangen Germany, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law) [D:
07/06/1854]
1905 Marlin Perkins, Carthage MO, zoologist/TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild
Kingdom) [D: 10/05/86]
1925 Luis E. Cárdenas, Tepic Nayarit, co-inventor oral contraceptive
1932 Walter Cunningham, Creston IA, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1959 Michael J Bloomfield, Flint MI, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and
greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1802 The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
1830 London's re-organized police force (Scotland Yard) forms.
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross.
1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington
DC.
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes.
1945 The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese
resistance persist.
1968 Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign.
1974 First performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in
Nashville.
1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in
Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
1988 Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and
Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair.
1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are
18-21-32-33-35-38).
MORE EVENTS
SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Black Press Day - United States of America
Freedom of Information Day - United States of America
Liberty Day - United States of America
Loco Davi (manger du bois rituel) - Haiti
St. Urho's Day - Finland
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Loco Davi (manger du bois rituel) - Voudon
ACHY BREAKY HEART
Two music lovers were being held hostage and both were going to be shot. One
of them was a country music lover and the other enjoyed all kinds of music.
Before they were shot they were asked for one last request before they died.
The country music lover said, "I would like to listen to 'Achy Breaky Heart'
fifty times in a row."
The other music lover says, "Please, shoot me first."
Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard
COUNTRY-WESTERN GEM: Minnie Pearl. (WordFoolery)* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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