Today in History

"Today in History" - What happened on this date in history? Author Brian T. Bolten presents something interesting, strange, amusing or tragic. Whatever it is, it happened TODAY.........

Monday, March 17, 2014

MARCH 17 = St. Patrick's Day

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"I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His name was Victoricus, and he carried many letters, and he gave me one of them. I rea...

Sunday, March 16, 2014

MARCH 16 = James Madison is Born

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"At five feet six and less than 140 pounds 'little Jimmy Madison' (left) had the frail and discernibly fragile appearance o...

Saturday, March 15, 2014

MARCH 15 = Julius Caesar is Assassinated

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Caesar : Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is tu...

Friday, March 14, 2014

MARCH 14 = Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin

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On today's date, March 14, 221 years ago in 1794 a Massachusetts-born, Yale-educated engineer named Eli Whitney was granted a patent ...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

MARCH 13 = Kitty Genovese is Murdered

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"For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separa...

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

MARCH 12 = Anschluss, The Sound of Music

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“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 Fuehr...

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

MARCH 11 = The Blizzard of 1888

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"When the people began to stir to go about their daily tasks and vocations, they found that a blizzard, just like those they have bee...

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