In memory of Henrik Ibsen. Happy birthday, Hal Linden and Big Bird. Past March 20s: 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is published in Boston. 1864: Some 800 Navajos, mostly women, children and old men, begin the 300 mile march to Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Reservation, in east-central New Mexico. 1900: Nikola Tesla receives a patent for the wireless transmission of electric power (No. 645,576). 1916: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is published as an academic paper in Annalen der Physik 49, 769, titled “Die Grundlagen der allgemeinen Relativitästheorie.” 1934: Mildrid “Babe” Didrikson pitches one inning of exhibition baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics in a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. She starts the first inning and allows just one walk and no hits. 1985: Libby Riddles becomes first woman to win Alaska’s Iditarod dog sled race. 1988: Eight-year-old DeAndra Anrig becomes airborne when the string of her kite is snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California. (She is lifted ten feet off the ground and carried 100 feet until she lets go; she is not seriously hurt.) 1997: Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive. 2003: United States, Britain, Australia, and Poland invade Iraq without United Nations sanction.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:18:12 +0000
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