MARCH 12 = Anschluss, The Sound of Music “Well, now you have seen what the Fuehrer can be like at times. But the next time I am sure that it will be different. You know the Fuehrer can be absolutely charming!”- Franz von Papen to Kurt von Schuschnigg following his F… Read More
MARCH 13 = Kitty Genovese is Murdered"For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens."- Martin Gansburg, New York Times, March 27, 1964"(The case) caught … Read More
MARCH 15 = Julius Caesar is Assassinated Caesar:Who is it in the press that calls on me?I hear a tongue shriller than all the musicCry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.Soothsayer:Beware the ides of March.Caesar:What man is that?Brutus:A soothsayer bids you … Read More
MARCH 11 = The Blizzard of 1888"When the people began to stir to go about their daily tasks and vocations, they found that a blizzard, just like those they have been accustomed to read about as occurring in the far West had struck this city and its environ… Read More_-_hi_res.jpg)
MARCH 14 = Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton GinOn today's date, March 14, 221 years ago in 1794 a Massachusetts-born, Yale-educated engineer named Eli Whitney was granted a patent on a new machine called the "Cotton Gin" ("Gin" being short for "engine"). Whitney app… Read More
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