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Gravdigr · 03-25-2017, 03:13 PM

March 25

Today is the International Day Of The Unborn Child.

Also, today is marked as an International Day Of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Today is observed as International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members by the United Nations General Assembly.

This date also marks Maryland Day, in the U.S. state of Maryland, while Tolkien fans can celebrate Tolkien Reading Day, and Sweden celebrates Waffle Day.

There are 281 days remaining in the year, and 274 days until Christmas. Don't want it to sneak up on ya, dontcha know.

Events

1199 – Richard I (Richard The Lion Heart) is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.

1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.

1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.

1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.

1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

1999 - 73-year-old country music singer Ray Price was arrested in his Texas home for possession of marijuana. He was fined $200 after pleading no contest to the charges. According to Price in a 2008 interview, old friend Willie Nelson - no stranger to marijuana arrests - phoned and told him he'd just earned $5 million in free publicity with the drug bust.

2000 - Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir was given 300 hours community service after being caught with a hoard of child pornography including 150 videos and 73 floppy disks.

2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Births

1840 – Myles Keogh, 1867 – Gutzon Borglum (designed Mount Rushmore), 1867 – Arturo Toscanini♪ ♫, 1881 – Béla Bartók

, 1901 – Ed Begley, 1903 – Binnie Barnes, 1908 – David Lean, 1918 – Howard Cosell, 1921 – Simone Signoret, 1922 – Eileen Ford (co-founded Ford Models), 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, 1928 – Jim Lovell, 1934 – Gloria Steinem, 1937 – Tom Monaghan (founded Domino's Pizza), 1938 – Hoyt Axton♪ ♫, 1942 – Aretha Franklin♪ ♫, 1947 – Elton John♪ ♫, 1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, 1950 – Ronnie McDowell♪ ♫, 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker

, 1966 – Jeff Healey

, 1967 – Doug Stanhope

, 1967 – Debi Thomas, 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko

, 1981 – Danica Patrick

, 1984 – Katharine McPhee

Deaths

1918 – Claude Debussy♪ ♫, 1969 – Max Eastman, 1982 – Goodman Ace, 1988 – Robert Joffrey (co-founded the Joffrey Ballet), 1992 – Nancy Walker, 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., 2005 – Paul Henning (developed several "rural" comedies for CBS including The Beverly Hillbillies), 2006 - Buck Owens♪ ♫, 2008 – Herb Peterson (created the McMuffin), 2009 – Dan Seals♪ ♫(England Dan & John Ford Coley), 2012 – John Crosfield (founded Crosfield Electronics), 2014 – Ralph Wilson (founded the Buffalo Bills)

03-25-2017, 03:13 PM	#649
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	March 25 Today is the International Day Of The Unborn Child. Also, today is marked as an International Day Of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Today is observed as International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members by the United Nations General Assembly. This date also marks Maryland Day, in the U.S. state of Maryland, while Tolkien fans can celebrate Tolkien Reading Day, and Sweden celebrates Waffle Day. There are 281 days remaining in the year, and 274 days until Christmas. Don't want it to sneak up on ya, dontcha know. Events 1199 – Richard I (Richard The Lion Heart) is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6. 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland). 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. 1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. 1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. 1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia. 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). 1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. 1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. 1999 - 73-year-old country music singer Ray Price was arrested in his Texas home for possession of marijuana. He was fined $200 after pleading no contest to the charges. According to Price in a 2008 interview, old friend Willie Nelson - no stranger to marijuana arrests - phoned and told him he'd just earned $5 million in free publicity with the drug bust. 2000 - Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek Longmuir was given 300 hours community service after being caught with a hoard of child pornography including 150 videos and 73 floppy disks. 2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Births 1840 – Myles Keogh, 1867 – Gutzon Borglum (designed Mount Rushmore), 1867 – Arturo Toscanini♪ ♫, 1881 – Béla Bartók, 1901 – Ed Begley, 1903 – Binnie Barnes, 1908 – David Lean, 1918 – Howard Cosell, 1921 – Simone Signoret, 1922 – Eileen Ford (co-founded Ford Models), 1925 – Flannery O'Connor, 1928 – Jim Lovell, 1934 – Gloria Steinem, 1937 – Tom Monaghan (founded Domino's Pizza), 1938 – Hoyt Axton♪ ♫, 1942 – Aretha Franklin♪ ♫, 1947 – Elton John♪ ♫, 1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, 1950 – Ronnie McDowell♪ ♫, 1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, 1966 – Jeff Healey, 1967 – Doug Stanhope, 1967 – Debi Thomas, 1976 – Wladimir Klitschko, 1981 – Danica Patrick, 1984 – Katharine McPhee Deaths 1918 – Claude Debussy♪ ♫, 1969 – Max Eastman, 1982 – Goodman Ace, 1988 – Robert Joffrey (co-founded the Joffrey Ballet), 1992 – Nancy Walker, 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., 2005 – Paul Henning (developed several "rural" comedies for CBS including The Beverly Hillbillies), 2006 - Buck Owens♪ ♫, 2008 – Herb Peterson (created the McMuffin), 2009 – Dan Seals♪ ♫(England Dan & John Ford Coley), 2012 – John Crosfield (founded Crosfield Electronics), 2014 – Ralph Wilson (founded the Buffalo Bills) __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.