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St Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick, who died on this date in 461, is the patron saint of Ireland. This is a day to wear green or orange to show your Irish heart.


"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.


IRISH PROVERBS
- A friend's eye is a good mirror.
- A good beginning is half the work.
- A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
- Every dog is brave on his own doorstep.
- If you don't know the way, walk slowly.
- If you lie down with dogs, you'll rise with fleas.
- It's often a man's mouth broke his nose.
- The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.
- Time and patience would bring the snail to Jerusalem.
- You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
- What butter and whiskey will not cure, there's no cure for.
- When your hand is in the dog's mouth, withdraw it gently.


ACTING -
1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
1949 Patrick Duffy, Townsend MT, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1951 Kurt Russell, Springfield MA, actor (Overboard, Mean Seasons, Dreamer)
1954 Lesley-Anne Down, London England, actress (The Bold and the Beautiful, Moonraker)
1955 Gary Sinise, Blue Island IL, actor (Mac Taylor-CSI: New York, Forrest Gump, Truman)
1961 Casey (Kazimierz) Siemaszko, Chicago IL, actor (3d-Back to the Future, NYPD Blues)
1964 Rob Lowe, Charlottesville VA, actor (St Elmo's Fire, West Wing, Wayne's World)

HISTORIC -
1777 Roger Taney, Calvert Co MD, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) [D: 10/12/1864]
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, Schorndorf Germany, engineer/inventor/auto pioneer-designed first motorcycle [D: 03/06/1900]
1942 John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Chicago IL, serial killer [D: 05/10/94]

MUSIC -
1919 Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery AL, singer/actor (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa) [D: 02/15/65]
1941 Clarence Collins, Brooklyn NY, singer (Imperials-Tears on my Pillow)
1942 Paul Kantner, SF CA, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit) Rock and Roll HoF '96
1944 John Sebastian, NY NY, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter) Rock and Roll HoF 2000
1955 Paul Overstreet, Newton MS, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)

SCIENCE -
1930 James Irwin, Pittsburgh PA, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15) [D: 08/08/91]
1936 Thomas K Mattingly II, Chicago IL, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)

SPORTS -
1914 Sammy Baugh, Temple TX, NFL HoF QB '63 (Redskins)
1919 Hank Sauer, Pittsburgh PA, NL outfielder (MVP '52, All-Star x2, ) [D: 08/28/2001]
1972 Mariel "Mia" Hamm, Selma AL, soccer player (FIFA World Player of the Year 2001/2002) Olympic gold '96/2000


389 AD St. Patrick (Maewyn) is born in Roman Britain in the village of Bannaven Taberniae. He is the son of a deacon named Calpurnius.
461 AD St. Patrick dies. It is unknown where he is buried but a shrine in County Down, Ireland is said to have his jawbone which is believed to drive off the "evil eye," help with childbirth, and cure epileptic fits.
1937 That was the first year St. Patrick's Day was publicly celebrated in this country, in Boston.
1756 St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1762 The first St. Patrick's Day parade took place not in Ireland, but in the United States by Irish soldiers serving in the English military. .
1824 St. Patrick's Day parade in Canada takes place in Montreal.
1926 The St. Patrick's Day Massacre takes place in Chicago.
1948 President Truman attends the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade and many Irish Americans consider this a symbolic sign that they are finally accepted.
1970 Up until this point, pubs are not allowed to be open on St. Patrick's Day. The ban is lifted.
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade.
1996 In Ireland the first St. Patrick's Festival is held.
2006 Canadians are still lobbying for St. Patrick's Day to be a national holiday, not just in Newfoundland and Labrador.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Birthday of Bangabnadhu - Bangladesh
Camp Fire Boys and Girls Founders Day - United States of America
Evacuation Day (Boston only) - United States of America
St. Patrick's Day - Canada, Ireland, Montserrat, Switzerland, United
Kingdom of Great - Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of
America
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St. Patrick's Day - Christianity


DUSTY
The mistress of a big English house called her Irish maid and pointed out the dust still on top of the piano.

"Mary," she said, "I could write my name in this dust."

Mary responded, "Aye, isn't education a grand thing, ma'm!"
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ENGAGEMENT RING
A young man proposed to his girl on St. Patrick's Day. He gave her a ring with a synthetic diamond. The excited young lady showed it to her father, a jeweler. He took one look at it and saw it wasn't real.

The young lady, on learning it wasn't real, returned to her boyfriend. She protested vehemently about his cheapness.

"But it was in honor of St. Patrick's Day," he smiled. "I gave you a sham rock.
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IRISH GENIE
An Irishman is walking along the beach one day, and he sees a bottle laying in the sand. He picks it up and starts to brush it off, and out pops a genie. The genie says, "Since you have freed me from the bottle, I will grant you three wishes."

The Irishman thinks for a moment and says, "I'm feeling a might thirsty, I think I'll be wishing for a pint of stout."

POOF! There is a pint of stout in his hand. He drinks it down, and starts to throw the bottle, when the genie says, "I'd look at that bottle again before I threw it if I were you."

So he looks at the bottle, and it is magically filling back up with stout. The genie tells him, "That is a magic bottle, and it will always fill back up after you finish it."

The genie then asked, "What other two wishes can I grant for you?"

The Irishman looks at the bottle in his hand and says, "I'll be taking two more of these."
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OLD IRISH TOAST
May those that love us, love us;
And those that don't love us, may God turn their hearts;
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.


"St. Patrick ... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish." - Charles M. Madigan


BLARNEY: Irish dinosaur. (WordFoolery)

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