March 7
NATIONAL Alexander Graham Bell Day
NATIONAL Cereal Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1933 The board game Monopoly is invented.
1965 The Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, begins
1979 Voyager 1 reached Jupiter.
March 6
NATIONAL Frozen Foods Day
NATIONAL Dentist's Day
NATIONAL Oreo Cookie Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1820 The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1831 Edgar Allan Poe failed out of West Point for “gross neglect of duty.” His parade uniform was supposedly incorrect.
1836 After fighting for 13 days, the Alamo falls
1857 The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision holds that slaves cannot be citizens
1930 Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts
1967 Selective Service System orders induction of Muhammad Ali
1981 Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather
2008 A bomb causes minor damage to the door of a US military recruiting center in Times Square, New York City
March 5
NATIONAL Learn What Your Name Means Day
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NATIONAL Cheese Doodle Day
NATIONAL Multiple Personality Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1942 Navy “Seabees” and insignia officially authorized.
1956 The US Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools in Brown vs. Board of Education.
1984 The US Supreme Court rules that cities have the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
March 4
NATIONAL Holy Experiment Day
NATIONAL March Forth and Do Something Day
NATIONAL Grammar Day
NATIONAL Hug a GI Day
NATIONAL Pound Cake Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1789 The first Congress of the United States meets in New York and declares that the Constitution is in effect.
1791 Vermont is admitted as the 14th state. It is the first addition to the original 13 colonies.
1849 The US had no President. Polk’s term ended on a Sunday and Taylor couldn’t be sworn in until Monday; Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term had ended March 3rd.
1908 The New York board of education bans the act of whipping students in school.
1955 First radio facsimile transmission (fax) was sent across the continent.
1999 In North Carolina a military jury acquitted Captain Richard J. Ashby of all charges in the 1998 death of 20 people who died when his jet cut the cable of their ski gondola in the Italian Alps. Italian authorities were outraged.
March 3
NATIONAL I Want You to be Happy Day
NATIONAL Anthem Day
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NATIONAL Day of Unplugging [first Friday in March]
NATIONAL Employee Appreciation Day [first Friday in March]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1791 Congress established the US Mint.
1803 The first impeachment trial of a US Judge, John Pickering, begins.
1845 Florida admitted as the 27th US state.
1845 For the first time, the US Congress passed legislation on this day overriding a President’s veto. President John Tyler was in office at the time.
1871 Congress passed the Indian Appropriation Act, which revoked the sovereignty of Indian nations and made Native Americans wards of the American government.
1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1931 President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
1952 The US Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan testifies in a court in Los Angeles that he killed Robert Kennedy.
1991 Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape.
March 2
NATIONAL Old Stuff Day
NATIONAL Banana Cream Pie Day
NATIONAL Read Across America [Doctor Seuss] Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1799 Congress standardized US weights and measures.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender.
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before the inauguration.
1917 Congress passes the Jones Act making Puerto Rico a territory of the United States and makes the inhabitants US citizens.
1923 The first issue of TIME magazine appeared on newsstands.
1933 "King Kong" opens in New York
1949 Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around the world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours, 1 minute.
1950 Silly Putty was introduced as a toy.
1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in a basketball game.
1973 Women begin pilot training in the US Navy.
1974 A grand jury in Washington, DC concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
March 1
WORLD Compliment Day
NATIONAL Plan a Solo Vacation Day
NATIONAL Pig Day
NATIONAL Horse Protection Day
NATIONAL Peanut Butter Lover's Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1780 Pennsylvania becomes the first US state to abolish slavery.
1790 Congress authorized the first US census.
1803 Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th state to join the Union.
1875 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1913 Federal income tax takes effect, as per 16th Amendment
1941 “Captain America” first appeared in a comic book.
1954 US detonates 15 megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll
1961 The Peace Corps is established
1864 Rebecca Lee was the first black woman awarded a medical degree.
1872 Yellowstone became the world's first National Park.
1977 US extended territorial waters to 200 miles.
1985 The Pentagon accepted the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter”.
2002 NASA scientists said that vast ice fields had been detected under the surface of Mars with a gamma ray spectrometer on the Odyssey orbiter.
2003 Administrative control of the Coast Guard, Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service transferred to the newly created Department of Homeland Security.
2008 USS 'New York' (LPD-21), incorporating steel from the World Trade Center, is christened at New Orleans
