Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Big Brother is watching--all one million of you.
The watch list of terrorism suspects recently passed 1 million names--which translates into about 400,000 people, according to NewsMax.
Are there really nearly a half-million terrorists among us?
The number of times we've agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union can be counted on one hand, but this appears to be one of those rare occasions: the list is too big to be effective.
The list is one of the "most effective tools" implemented after 9-11. The Bush administration disagreed. The Department of Homeland Security is like any other government bureaucracy: more interested in job security than effectiveness.
Prior to September 11, the no-fly list had just 16 people on it.
Either the DHS is so effective and have discovered 1 million (minus 16) new terrorist names in the last 7 years. Or, more likely, the list has a lot of people on it "just to be on the safe side".
Which is fine--unless your name is on the list by mistake. Which happens more frequently than is publicized.
Otherwise, how to go about checking out the 1 million? Are terrorists sprouting like weeds? Is the DHS lazy about checking out these thousands of potential terrorists? Does anyone care?
"America's new million-record watch list is a perfect symbol for what's wrong with this administration's approach to security: it's unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources (and) treats the rights of the innocent as an afterthought," ACLU technology director Barry Steinhardt said in a release.
President George W. Bush ordered in the current list in September 2003 as a way to wrap several growing terrorism watchlists into a single government database compiled and overseen by the FBI, through a Terrorist Screening Center.
Suspected terrorists or people believed to have links to terrorism are included on the list, which can be used by a wide range of government agencies in security screening. About 50,000 individuals are included on the Transportation Security Administration "no-fly" or "selectee" lists that subject them to travel bans, arrest or additional screening.
Ted Kennedy, civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis and Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) have all had their troubles with their names being on watch lists. One can understand Senator Kennedy having problems if the watch list contained names of members of Congress spouting nonsense--but Senator Kennedy a terrorist?
He's not that ambitious.
[Terrorism Screening Center spokeman, Chad Kolton], cited a report last year by the Government Accountability Office that said there was general agreement within the federal government that the watch list had helped to combat terrorism.
"The list is very effective. In fact it's one of the most effective counterterrorism tools that our country has," he said.
About 400,000 individuals are included on the list, about 95 percent of whom are not U.S. citizens or residents, Kolton said. The watch list also includes separate entries with aliases, fake passports and fake birth dates, bringing the total number of records to more than 1 million, he said.
TSA spokeman Christopher White said Kennedy and Lewis were never on the list, and that problems they reported were due to their misidentification with names properly on it.
One of the least effective ways of identifying ineffective government programs would be to survey government bureaucrats; yet, "general agreement within the federal government" that the list is effective seems to indicate the use of that benchmark.
When new government agencies or programs or regulations or laws are proposed, critics rightly point out the bad things that can happen with nearly all things government. Proponents pooh-pooh the critics' claims, many times calling them preposterous.
It's not that poorly-constructed government programs, agencies, regulations or laws start out as being malicious--it's that they become that way due to the very inefficiencies of large government.
The watch list is a perfect example of this.
The watch list is "very effective"--unless your name mistakenly winds up on it.
1 million names on the watch list and the refusal to profile targeted groups of air travelers--while there are thousands of unknown persons passing through a still-unsecured southern border--makes no sense.
Except to those running government bureaucracies.
by Mondoreb
image: propaganda posters
Source:
* Terror Watch List: Over 1 Million Names and Growing
* U.S. Terrorism Watch List Tops 1 Million
Once potential voters get beyond the Barack Obama's fuzzy rhetorical mantra of "Change!", the picture of what an Obama "change" might look like begins to materialize.
Red Planet Cartoons latest is one such picture. It deals with Obama's plan--or rather, non-plan--for dealing with al Qaida, terrorists and Iraq.
RPC has an excerpt from the Washington Time's Donald Lambro's Exposing a Blind Spot:
Sen. John McCain had one goal in mind when his turn came to question Gen. David Petraeus about the Iraq war: to show Sen. Barack Obama didn’t understand the dire threat al Qaeda posed to that country’s survival…
Though he never mentioned the Democratic presidential front-runner by name, Mr. McCain wanted to dismantle one of Mr. Obama’s chief contentions regarding the war: that there is no serious al Qaeda threat in Iraq in terms of a military infrastructure with command centers, bases, etc., and it is time to begin a full withdrawal of all combat forces there.
Mr. Obama has from the beginning maintained that al Qaeda was not in Iraq before the U.S. invasion and only entered the country after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled. The Illinois senator’s argument essentially maintains that the U.S. presence in Iraq is the sole cause of the presence of al Qaeda in the country.
RPC reliably dishes up lots of info-rich links to supporting articles.
There are those abroad who would only be too happy to pass Barack Obama a can of gasoline for putting out the fires of terrorism.
by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Sources:
* Gasoline on a Fire
* Exposing a Blind Spot
* Obama: Putting out the fires of Jihad with Gasoline
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Jimmy Carter's presidency was many things to many people.
To Democrats, he was a winner. Out of the White House for eight years, the Democrats took advantage of the anti-Washington mood stirred up by Watergate and nominated the obscure Georgia governor.
He squeaked out a win over Gerald Ford, winning 23 states.
Election day was November 2, and it took most of that night and the following morning to determine the winner. Carter defeated Ford by two percentage points in the popular vote. The electoral vote was the closest since 1916; Carter took 23 states with 297 electoral votes, while Ford won 27 states and 240 electoral votes (one elector from Washington state, pledged to Ford, voted for Reagan). Carter's victory came primarily from his near-sweep of the South (he lost only Virginia), and his close victories in large Northern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Ford did well in the West, carrying every state except Hawaii.
Jimmy Carter campaigned in 1976 as a "Washington Outsider", someone different from the Washington power brokers. He also was not shy about broadcasting that he was a "born again Christian".
Close observers would notice the beginning of the Mainstream Media's disdain for Christianity during the Carter campaign and ensuing presidency.
Jimmy Carter has become the quintessential simple-minded, John Lennon Democrat: all he is saying is "give peace a chance". Carter has never let love of his country stand in the way of an almost desperate avoidance of the tag of "worst U.S. president. Whether it's his country, his countrymen or his country's interests, Carter is ready to throw any and all of them under his merry prankster peace parade.
Except Carter's never brought peace--with the lone exception of the bringing together of Begin and Sadat in a marriage of reality and convenience at Camp David.
Jimmy is remembered by many for the string of American sell-outs and giveaways he was responsible for during his term. Others remember the 21% interest and raging inflation rising so fast that soup cans sometimes had 5 different price stickers on them, the prices went up so fast.
During Carter's term, the "Misery Index" became well-known: that's the percentage of inflation plus the unemployment rate. When Carter left office in 1980, the Misery Index was at an all-time high of 21.98%.
When people grumbled about the Misery Index, Carter told them that the American people suffered from "malaise". This is a "sense of depression or discomfort". It wasn't long before a lot of people attributed their "malaise" or depression to Jimmy.
Jimmy coulda been a contender. Carter's first inclination in any test of wills is to grin and holler "Uncle!". The Iran Hostage Crisis was no different, just the most famous example of Carter's diplomacy at it's finest.
No hot spot in the world is immune to the "Jimmy Carter Touch".
No interest is so vital to the U.S. that it can't be high-jacked by Down-home Jimmy.
No enemy of America is off-limits to the Peanut Prostitute and his "paid by the Saudis" checkbook approach to solving the world's problems--if the problems of the world or the United States were defined as "whatever is in the interests of the people paying Jimmy's bills".
Foreign policy during the Jimmy Carter years usually consisted of three reliable Carter methods for dealing with International problems. If the first two didn't work--which happened the majority of the time during Jimmy's forgettable one term--then the former Georgia governor could always be counted on to turn to the one thing he knew would break any impasse.
This Carter "world withdrawal" strategy is the one gift he left the Democrat Party. It may very well be the legacy he has struggled so mightily to bequeath to history.
Carter was swamped in the 1980 election. He had a record to run on and Americans voters judged Carter with their votes.
By any measure, the election was a crushing rebuke of Carter and his policies.
The election was held on November 4, 1980. Ronald Reagan with running mate George Bush beat Carter by almost ten percentage points in the popular vote. Republicans also gained control of the Senate for the first time in twenty-five years on Reagan's coattails. The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 votes for Carter (representing 6 states and the District of Columbia).
Carter has spent the 28 years since his electoral rejection by the American people in a variety of ways. Writing books, building houses, refereeing elections and trying to craft a legacy other than the one he left with the end of his presidency.
He has insisted on butting into American foreign policy, whether he was invited or not. Mostly he has a string of photo credits with various dictators to show for his trouble.
As well as a failed agreement with North Korea's dictator Kim, over nuclear materials and production.
His books mostly reflect Carter's viewpoint, as told by the largest benefactors of his Carter Center: mostly Sunni Arabs from the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter has taken a decided anti-Israel tone since the Carter Center funding as relied heavily on Middle Eastern sources.
His pronouncement of President George W. Bush as "the worst president" was amusing. Some thought that Jimmy was the victim of his wishful thinking's growing steroid habit.
Jimmy's anti-Israel stance increased this past week with his meeting with terrorist group, Hamas.
But regardless of his many fruitless efforts, Jimmy Carter is likely to be remembered in only one way.
At least by the people who had to live through the four long years of the Carter presidency.
by Mondoreb
images:
* Cox and Forkum
* Worth 1000
* Mrs. Satan
* UofTexas
* Time
* matthewwyglesia
* Angry Conservative
* flapsblog
* flickr
Sources:
* United States Presidential Election 1976
* United States Presidential Election 1980
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SMELLS LIKE SUICIDE
1994 Kurt Cobain grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27.
WAR!
1862 Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1945 During World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.
2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi ruler.
TERRORISM
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis.
DISASTER
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA).
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma.
OUCH!
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose.
OOOPS!
1966 The U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.
UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party.
WOW!
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 seconds.
PRO WRESTLING
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in Los Angeles CA, actually performed 03/24.
NANNY STATE
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment.
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years.
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
WIMPS
1978 President Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.
INVENTIONS
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches.
BIG OIL
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
ROCKETS
2007 A Russian rocket carrying American billionaire Charles Simonyi roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan, sending its three occupants on a trip to the international space station.
JEWS
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil.
1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service.
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time.
TV
1927 An audience in New York watched as the image as well as voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
TROLLEYS
1957 Shortly after midnight, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
I GOT YOU
1998 Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.
BORN
1860 W K Kellogg - the original corn flake.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor R.G. Armstrong is 91. Sitar player Ravi Shankar is 88. Actor James Garner is 80. Country singer Cal Smith is 76. Actor Wayne Rogers is 75. Media commentator Hodding Carter III is 73. Country singer Bobby Bare is 73. Rhythm-and-blues singer Charlie Thomas (The Drifters) is 71. Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard is 70. California Attorney General Jerry Brown is 70. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 69. TV personality David Frost is 69. Singer Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons) is 61. Singer John Oates is 59. Singer Janis Ian is 57. Country musician John Dittrich is 57. Actor Jackie Chan is 54. Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 54. Actor Russell Crowe is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Mark Kibble (Take 6) is 44. Actor Bill Bellamy is 43. Rock musician Dave "Yorkie" Palmer (Space) is 43. Former football player-turned-analyst Tiki Barber is 33. Actress Heather Burns is 33. Actor Conner Rayburn is 9.
DEATH
30 Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate, according to astronomer Schaefer).
1891 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 80.
2007 "B.C." comic strip creator Johnny Hart died in Nineveh, N.Y., at age 76.
2007 Actor Barry Nelson died in Bucks County, Pa., at age 89.
April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* DBKP Today in Weird History: April 7 2008
* Today in Weird History: April 7 2008
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ASSASSINATION
1968 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.; the killing sparked a wave of riots across the U.S. (James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence and attempting to withdraw his guilty plea; he died in prison in 1998.)
WAR!
1945 During World War II, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered the first significant resistance from Japanese forces at the Machinato Line.
2003 U.S. forces seized Saddam International Airport outside Baghdad.
TERRORISM
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors and marines.
DISASTER
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000.
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die.
1971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Québec).
1975 More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed.
1998 Sixty-three people were killed in an explosion inside a Ukrainian coal mine.
PATENTS
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam).
REVENGE
1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes.
1984
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary.
JEWS
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem.
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement.
WILE E. PELOSI
2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad despite White House objections.
FLAGS
1818 Congress decided the United States flag would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state.
PC VICTIM
2007 Radio host Don Imus made offensive on-air remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. (Despite a subsequent apology, Imus was fired by CBS Radio and cable network MSNBC; he was hired elsewhere by year's end.)
IMPEACHED!
1988 The Arizona Senate convicted Gov. Evan Mecham of two charges of official misconduct, and removed him from office. (Mecham was the first governor to be impeached and removed from office in nearly six decades.)
BORN
1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock).
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen).
1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man).
BIRTHDAYS
Author-poet Maya Angelou is 80. Sen. Richard Lugar, R.-Ind., is 76. Recording executive Clive Davis is 76. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 69. Author Kitty Kelley is 66. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 64. Actor Walter Charles is 63. Actress Caroline McWilliams is 63. Actress Christine Lahti is 58. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 57. Writer-producer David E. Kelley is 52. Actor Phil Morris is 49. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 48. Actor Hugo Weaving is 48. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 46. Actor David Cross is 44. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 43. Actress Nancy McKeon is 42. Actor Barry Pepper is 38. Country singer Clay Davidson is 37. Rock singer Josh Todd (Buckcherry) is 37. Singer Jill Scott is 36. Rock musician Magnus Sveningsson (The Cardigans) is 36. Magician David Blaine is 35. Singer Kelly Price is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Andre Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 34. Actor James Roday is 32. Actress Natasha Lyonne is 29. Actress Jamie Lynn Spears is 17.
DEATH
1841 President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77.
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51.
April 4, the 95th day of 2008. There are 271 days left in the year.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* DBKP Today in Weird History: April 4 2008
* Today in Weird History: April 4 2008
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LANDMARKS
1889 French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
WAR!
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326.
2003 American forces battled Iraqi defenders in fierce street fighting 50 miles south of Baghdad, pointing toward a drive on the capital. Seven Iraqi women and children were killed at an Army checkpoint when their van refused orders to stop.
TERRORISM
2007 President Bush called for the release of 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, calling their capture by Tehran "inexcusable behavior." (The crew members were released on April 4.)
DISASTER
1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall.
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people.
1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes.
VRROOOM!
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
ZIP!
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper).
TRANSVESTITES
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ
FIRE!
1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar.
DANCE!
1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours.
AWARDS
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins.
POPULATION
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)).
PRO WRESTLING
1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf.
1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title.
SURPRISE!
1968 At the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on efforts to bring a peaceful end to the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked listeners by announcing he would not seek another term of office.
JEWS
1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews.
1808 French-created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names.
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.
LIT UP
1880 Wabash, Ind., became the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting.
LEVIATHAN
1933 Congress approved, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.
OFFERS
1954 USSR offers to join NATO.
WELCOME!
1949 Newfoundland (now called Newfoundland and Labrador) entered confederation as Canada's 10th province.
PLAYING GOD
1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)
2005 Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.
STALKING
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra.
CLINTONS
1998 In an unprecedented move, the Clinton administration released a detailed financial statement for the federal government showing its assets and liabilities.
BORN
1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner).
1878 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915).
1929 Liz Claiborne Brussels Belgium, fashion designer.
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Peggy Rea is 87. Actor William Daniels is 81. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Gordie Howe is 80. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 74. Actress Shirley Jones is 74. Country singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk is 74. Musician Herb Alpert is 73. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is 68. Actor Christopher Walken is 65. Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 63. Former Vice President Al Gore is 60. David Eisenhower is 60. Actress Rhea Perlman is 60. Actor Ed Marinaro is 58. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 53. Actor Marc McClure is 51. Actor William McNamara is 43. Actor Ewan McGregor is 37. Rapper Tony Yayo is 30. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 25.
DEATH
1931 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43.
1998 Former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug died at age 77.
March 31, the 91st day of 2008. There are 275 days left in the year.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
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BAGGED
1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down.
WAR!
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear).
2003 American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah. President Bush warned of "further sacrifice" ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting.
TERRORISM
1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India.
2007 Iran aired a video of 15 captured British sailors and marines; the lone female captive, shown in a white tunic and a black head scarf, said the British boats had "trespassed." (The crew members were released April 4, 2007.)
DISASTER
1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland).
1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey).
TRIAL LAWYERS
1866 1st ambulance goes into service.
PATENTS
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.
NUKES
1979 America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.
HOSTAGES
2007 In the Philippines, dozens of children were taken hostage on a bus by a day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns; the crisis ended peacefully 10 hours later with the hostage-taker's surrender.
SUICIDE
1941 Filling her pockets with stones, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf walked into a river near her home and died in Lewes, England.
IMMIGRATION
1898 The Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
SWAP
1930 The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
JEWS
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities.
ZULUS
1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed.
BIRTHDAYS
Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is 80. Country musician Charlie McCoy is 67. Movie director Mike Newell is 66. Actress Conchata Ferrell is 65. Actor Ken Howard is 64. Actress Dianne Wiest is 60. Country singer Reba McEntire is 53. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Bart Conner is 50. Actress Tracey Needham is 41. Actor Max Perlich is 40. Movie director Brett Ratner is 39. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 39. Actor Vince Vaughn is 38. Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 37. Actor Ken L. is 35. Rock musician Dave Keuning is 32. Actress Julia Stiles is 27.
DEATH
1953 Athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, Calif.
1958 W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.
1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.
March 28, the 88th day of 2008. There are 278 days left in the year.
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
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WAR!
1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return".
2003 A subdued Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television after the initial U.S. air strike on Baghdad, accusing the United States of a "shameful crime" and urging his people to "draw your sword" against the invaders. American combat units rumbled across the desert into Iraq from the south and U.S. and British forces bombed limited targets in Baghdad. The start of war in Iraq triggered one of the heaviest days of anti-government protesting in years, leading to thousands of arrests across the United States and prompting pro-war counter-demonstrations.
TERRORISM
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England.
1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.
DISASTER
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche.
1998 A tornado in rural northeast Georgia killed at least 13 people and injured 100.
WOW!
1988 8-year-old DeAndra Anrig found herself airborne when the string of her kite was snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, Calif. (DeAndra was lifted 10 feet off the ground and carried some 100 feet until she let go; she was not seriously hurt.)
MUPPETS
??? Big Bird muppet was born today on in an unknown year.(Sesame Street)
DICTATORS
1992 Manuel Noriega's (Panama) wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses.
PRO WRESTLING
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret "The Hitman" Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship.
PATENTS
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania).
MURDER
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents.
ESCAPES
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
CLINTONS
1998 President Clinton's lawyer, appearing before a federal court in Little Rock, Ark., declared that Paula Jones' evidence of sexual harassment was "garbage" unworthy of a trial.
CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT
1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.
JEWS
1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania.
BEATLES
1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
HANGED
2007 Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged in Baghdad, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites.
GODLESS
1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.
RESCUED
2007 Rescuers found Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.
BORN
1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction).
1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet).
1908 American broadcasting pioneer Frank Stanton, the president of CBS for 26 years, was born in Muskegon, Mich.
BIRTHDAYS
Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 86. Actor Hal Linden is 77. Singer Jerry Reed is 71. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney is 69. Country singer Don Edwards is 69. TV producer Paul Junger Witt is 65. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 62. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 60. Blues singer-musician Marcia Ball is 59. Actor William Hurt is 58. Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 58. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 57. Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah) is 54. Movie director Spike Lee is 51. Actress Theresa Russell is 51. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 51. Actress Holly Hunter is 50. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 47. Actress-model Kathy Ireland is 45. Actor David Thewlis is 45. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 43. Actress Liza Snyder is 40. Actor Michael Rapaport is 38. Actor Alexander Chaplin is 37. Rock singer Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) is 32. Actor Michael Genadry is 30. Actress Bianca Lawson is 29.
DEATH
1727 Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84.
1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 4.
March 20, the 80th day of 2008. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring's arrival: 1:48 a.m. Eastern time.
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Murdered Norwegian Socialite Martine Vik Magnussen
A young Norwegian woman's unsolved murder in London has authorities looking to question the son of one of the most wealthy men in Yemen and also once again raises the issue of extradition between the two countries.
The last time Martine's friends saw the 23-year-old Norwegian she was leaving the ultra-hip club, Maddox, "with a man of Arabic appearance aged in his twenties" around 3 a.m. last Friday. Police are now interested in talking to Farooq Abdulhak, 26, son of Yemen billionaire, Shaher Abdulhak. Magnussen's body was found Sunday under a pile of rubble "in the basement of the Seaford Court apartment block in Fitzrovia, Central London".
Ms. Magnussen suffered "significant injuries" to her neck, further tests will determine the exact cause of death. Police are searching a flat on the Seaford Court that rented for 600 Pounds a week.
Times Online reported anonymous sources reported to NTB, a Norwegian News Agency, that Magnussen and her friends "went out with rich Arab men in London". Magnussen had moved to London last February from Norway. The Times also reported that Magnussen was "friends" with Norway's richest individual, John Fredrikson. Magnussen had joined the London party scene and when she disappeared a close friend issued an appeal on Facebook after she failed to return home Friday night:
What struggles between Yeman, the United States and the United Kingdom have ensued?
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ACADEMIES
1802 President Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
WAR!
1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima.
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.
2003 Five years ago: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq were attacked, it would take the war anywhere in the world "wherever there is sky, land or water." President Bush gave the United Nations one more day to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff.
TERRORISM
1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland.
1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas, who later murdered him.
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.
1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed.
DISASTER
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60.
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155.
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash.
DRAMA
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
QUIET
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded).
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London.
WOMEN
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York).
BOBBIES
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms.
ROCKETS
1926 rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.
BYE
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union.
NAZIS
1935 Adolf Hitler decided to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany.
ST. PANCAKE
2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
NANNY STATE
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted.
SCANDALS
1988 A federal grand jury indicted former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North were later convicted, but had their convictions overturned; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count.)
ASSASSINATION
1978 Aldo Moro 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists.
JEWS
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism.
1998 In a long-awaited document that Jewish leaders immediately criticized, the Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.
SURE
2007 Former CIA operative Valerie Plame told a House committee that White House and State Department officials had "carelessly and recklessly" blown her cover in a politically motivated smear of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disputing President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear bomb.
BORN
1751 James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.
1849 James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 82. Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci is 67. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 67. Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 66. Country singer Robin Williams is 61. Actor Erik Estrada is 59. Actor Victor Garber is 59. Actress Kate Nelligan is 57. Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) is 57. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 54. Golfer Hollis Stacy is 54. Actress Isabelle Huppert is 53. Actor Clifton Powell is 52. Rapper Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 49. Rock musician Jimmy DeGrasso is 45. Folk singer Patty Griffin is 44. Actress Lauren Graham is 41. Actor Alan Tudyk is 37. Actress Brooke Burns is 30. Rock musician Wolfgang Van Halen is 17.
DEATH
37 Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula.
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TOP TEN
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
WAR!
1951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
TERRORISM
1991 a British court overturned the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.
2007 The Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."
DISASTER
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX.
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA.
1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80.
1998 An earthquake killed at least five people and left some 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.
NICE GUYS
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA.
PATENTS
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.
NOT GUILTY
2003 Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted at trial.)
IMMIGRATION
1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.
CLINTONS
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery.
LEVIATHAN
1923 President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return.
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.
JEWS
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
GUILTY
1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.
POLITICS
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
SPIES
2003 Christopher Boyce, whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after a quarter-century in prison.
BORN
1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921).
BIRTHDAYS
Former astronaut Frank Borman is 80. Singer Phil Phillips is 77. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 75. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 74. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 69. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 63. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 63. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 60. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Actor Adrian Zmed is 54. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 47. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 43. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 40. Rock musician Michael Bland is 39. Country singer Kristian Bush is 38. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 29. Actor Chris Klein is 29. Actress Kate Maberly is 26. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 25. Actor Jamie Bell is 22.
DEATH
1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.
1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77.
1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78.
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PROGRESS
1876 the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you." (The words were recounted by Bell in his lab notebook.)
WAR!
1848 The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
2003 Facing almost certain defeat, the United States and Britain delayed a vote in the U.N. Security Council to give Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm.
2007 President Bush, in Uruguay as part of his Latin America tour, asked Congress for $3.2 billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he had announced in January 2007.
TERRORISM
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed.
2007 In their first direct talks since the Iraq war began, U.S. and Iranian envoys traded harsh words and blamed each other for Iraq's crisis at a one-day international conference.
DISASTER
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri.
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France.
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India.
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil.
CANCEL
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
PATENTS
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so.
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.
WHAT IF?
1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner.
NANNY STATE
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show.
FUNERALS
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral.
CHIX R DIX
2003 Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, told a London audience: "Just so you know ... we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
BOWLING
1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64.
DIPLOMACY
1785 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
ARMY
1880 the Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
TREASON
1949 Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)
MURDER
1948 The body of the anti-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague. Authorities said that his death was a suicide, but others continue to claim that he was murdered.
1980 "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Tarnower's former lover, Jean Harris, was convicted of murder; she served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.)
JEWS
418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire.
BORN
1888 Barry Fitzgerald Dublin Ireland, actor (Academy Award-Going My Way).
1918 Heywood Hale Broun journalist.
1920 Jethro Burns country singer (Homer & Jethro).
1923 Ara Parseghian football coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame).
BIRTHDAYS
Talk show host Ralph Emery is 75. Bluegrass/country singer-musician Norman Blake is 70. Actor Chuck Norris is 68. Playwright David Rabe is 68. Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 68. Actress Katharine Houghton is 63. Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston) is 61. Producer-director-writer Paul Haggis is 55. Actress Shannon Tweed is 51. Actress Sharon Stone is 50. Rock musician Gail Greenwood is 48. Magician Lance Burton is 48. Actress Jasmine Guy is 46. Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) is 45. Music producer Rick Rubin is 45. Britain's Prince Edward is 44. Singer Edie Brickell is 42. Actor Stephen Mailer is 42. Actress Paget Brewster is 39. Country singer Daryle Singletary is 37. Rapper-producer Timbaland is 36. Actor Cristian de la Fuente is 34. Singer Robin Thicke is 31. Actress Bree Turner is 31. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Shannon Miller is 31. Country singer Carrie Underwood is 25. Actress Emily Osment is 16.
DEATH
1985 Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union's leader for just 13 months, died at age 73.
1988 Pop singer Andy Gibb died in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation.
1998 Actor Lloyd Bridges died in Westwood, Calif., at age 85.
2007 Standup comedian Richard Jeni, 49, died at a Los Angeles hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year.
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GAMES
1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented.
WAR!
1945 during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait.
TERRORISM
1981 anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
2007 A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of Baghdad, killing 30 people.
DISASTER
2007 Ten people were killed in the Bronx, N.Y., when fire tore through their home.
CIVIL RIGHTS
1965 A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
PRONOUNCEMENTS
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles".
SPORTS
1955 Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of the spitter.
PRO WRESTLING
1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champion.
HEALTH NAZIS
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life.
OH NO
1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant.
JAZZ
1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step", recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ.
LABOR
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4.
1967 Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence at Lewisburg Federal Prison for defrauding the union & jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971).
KILLERS
2007 Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.
POLITICS
1850 In a 3-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1975 The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
PATENTS
1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
PROGRESS
1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.
JEWS
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter.
COMING WAR
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce.
1936 Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1998 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, speaking in Rome, said the U.S. wouldn't tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
ASSASSINATION
1951 Ali Razmara Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated.
BORN
1849 horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Mass.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian Alan Sues is 82. Photographer Lord Snowdon is 78. TV personality Willard Scott is 74. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 70. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 68. Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner is 66. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 65. Actor John Heard is 62. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 62. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 62. Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 58. Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 56. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 56. Actor Bryan Cranston is 52. Actress Donna Murphy is 49. Actor Nick Searcy is 49. Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 48. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 45. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 44. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 44. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 43. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 41. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 37. Actress Rachel Weisz is 37. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 35. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 34. Actress Jenna Fischer is 34. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 33. Actress Laura Prepon is 28.
DEATH
322 -BC- Aristotle dies.
1959 Hinsdale Smith developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88.
1985 Victor W Farris inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies.
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead] transvestite actor (Hairspray, Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies in Los Angeles at 42.
1999 movie director Stanley Kubrick died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70.
March 7, the 67th day of 2008. There are 299 days left in the year.
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HEADACHES
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann of Bayer. It soon replaces the company's best-selling drug, heroin. From 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver, and as such, "heroin" was basically only a quicker acting form of morphine.
WAR!
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1944 U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
2003 A somber President Bush readied the nation for war against Saddam Hussein, hurling some of his harshest invectives yet at the Iraqi leader during a prime-time news conference.
TERRORISM
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia.
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers.
2007 Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Hillah, Iraq, killing at least 120 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims.
DISASTER
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100. Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die.
2007 More than 70 people died in an earthquake on Sumatra island, Indonesia.
NANNY STATE
1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
LOSER
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo.
BOOTED
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy.
SPOOKY
1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
LOUD
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB).
MUSIC
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks).
SUPREME COURT
1857 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
PREMATURE
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over".
CITIES
In 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
LAST STAND
In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
LOTTO
1998 A Connecticut state lottery accountant shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
POLITICS
2003 Democrats blocked President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.
2007 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
FREE
1957 the former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
COMMIES
1967 The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and declared her intention to defect to the West.
SENSATIONAL CRIME
1983 In a case that drew much notoriety, a young woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Mass., called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
1988 the board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president. (Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.)
JEWS
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany.
BORN
1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta).
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon).
BIRTHDAYS
Orchestra conductor Julius Rudel is 87. TV personality Ed McMahon is 85. Former FBI and CIA director William Webster is 84. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 82. Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 81. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is 71. Country singer Doug Dillard is 71. Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., is 69. Actress-writer Joanna Miles is 68. Actor Ben Murphy is 66. Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is 64. Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is 64. Rock musician Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 63. Rock singer-musician David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) is 62. Actor-director Rob Reiner is 61. Singer Kiki Dee is 61. Rock singer-musician Phil Alvin (The Blasters) is 55. Actor Tom Arnold is 49. Actor D.L. Hughley is 44. Country songwriter Skip Ewing is 44. Actress Yvette Wilson is 44. Actor Shuler Hensley is 41. Actress Connie Britton is 40. Actress Moira Kelly is 40. Actress Amy Pietz is 39. Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal is 36. Country singer Trent Willmon is 35. Country musician Shan Farmer (Ricochet) is 34. Rapper Beanie Sigel is 34. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 31. Actor Eli Marienthal is 22. Actor Jimmy Galeota is 22. Actor Dillon Freasier (Film: "There Will Be Blood") is 12. Actress Savannah Stehlin is 12.
DEATH
1935 Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73.
1982 Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77.
1998 Adem Jasari Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed.
2007 Ernest Gallo, who built one of the world's largest winemaking empires, died in Modesto, Calif., at age 97.
March 6, the 66th day of 2008. There are 300 days left in the year.
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