viernes, 25 de marzo de 2011

En este día...


ON THIS DAY

March 25

On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
On March 25, 1881, Bela Bartok, the Hungarian pianist who was one of the most important composers of the 20th century , was born. Following his death on Sept. 26, 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1634Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1911A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York City killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. The tragedy galvanized America's labor movement.
1913The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1957The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1975King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case."
1992Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
1996The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.

Current Birthdays

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress (“Sex and the City”)
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker ("Sex and the City") turns 46 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
Danica Patrick, Auto racer
Auto racer Danica Patrick turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Isaac Brekken
1928Jim Lovell, Astronaut, turns 83
1934Gloria Steinem, Feminist author, turns 77
1940Anita Bryant, Singer, turns 71
1942Aretha Franklin, R&B singer, turns 69
1943Paul Michael Glaser, Actor ("Starsky and Hutch"), turns 68
1947Elton John, Rock singer, musician, turns 64
1948Bonnie Bedelia, Actress ("Parenthood"), turns 63
1953Mary Gross, Actress, comedian, turns 58
1958John Ensign, U.S. senator, R-Nev., turns 53
1958James McDaniel, Actor ("NYPD Blue"), turns 53
1960Brenda Strong, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 51
1962Marcia Cross, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 49
1964Lisa Gay Hamilton, Actress, turns 47
1966Tom Glavine, Baseball player, turns 45
1971Sheryl Swoopes, Basketball player, turns 40
1979Lee Pace, Actor ("Pushing Daisies"), turns 32
1984Katherine McPhee, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 27
1987Jason Castro, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 24
1989Aly Michalka, Actress, singer ("Aly and AJ"), turns 22

Historic Birthdays

33Saint Catherine of Siena 3/25/1347 - 4/29/1380
Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic and patron Saint of Italy
71Matilda Gage 3/25/1826 - 3/18/1898
American women's rights advocate
90Stephen Luce 3/25/1827 - 7/28/1917
American founder and first president of the Naval War College
89Arturo Toscanini 3/25/1867 - 1/16/1957
Italian conductor
69William Knudsen 3/25/1879 - 4/27/1948
Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940)
76Gerald Murphy 3/25/1888 - 10/17/1964
American expatriate; befriended, with wife, writers and artists in Paris in the 1920's
83Sir David Lean 3/25/1908 - 4/16/1991
English film director
64Simone Signoret 3/25/1921 - 9/30/1985
French stage and motion picture actress
39Flannery O'Connor 3/25/1925 - 8/3/1964
American writer
61Penelope Gilliatt 3/25/1932 - 5/9/1993
English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels

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