miércoles, 2 de marzo de 2011

En este día..


ON THIS DAY

March 2

On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
On March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote and illustrated the popular 'Dr. Seuss' children's books, was born. Following his death on Sept. 24, 1991, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1793Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, was born near Lexington, Va.
1807Congress outlawed the importation of slaves to the United States, effective the following year.
1836Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1899Congress established Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state.
1917Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship.
1923Time magazine debuted.
1933The movie "King Kong" had its world premiere in New York.
1939Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope and took the name Pius XII.
1959Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis held the first of two recording sessions that yielded the album "Kind of Blue."
1962Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scored an NBA record 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
1965The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere in New York.
1985The federal government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1997It was revealed that Vice President Al Gore had made fund-raising calls for the 1996 election on phones installed in government buildings for that purpose.
2004A series of coordinated blasts in Iraq killed 181 people at shrines in Karbala and Baghdad as thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gathered for a religious festival.
2008Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential election.

Current Birthdays

Lou Reed, Rock musician
Rock musician Lou Reed turns 69 years old today.
AP Photo/John Smierciak
Jon Bon Jovi, Rock singer
Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi turns 49 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
1923Doc Watson, Bluegrass singer, musician, turns 88
1930John Cullum, Actor ("Northern Exposure"), turns 81
1930Tom Wolfe, Author, turns 81
1931Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Soviet president, turns 80
1942John Irving, Author, turns 69
1952Laraine Newman, Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 59
1953Russ Feingold, U.S. senator, D-Wis., turns 58
1955Jay Osmond, Singer, turns 56
1955Ken Salazar, Secretary of the interior, turns 56
1956John Cowsill, Pop musician (The Cowsills), turns 55
1968Daniel Craig, Actor, turns 43
1977Chris Martin, Rock singer (Coldplay), turns 34
1977Heather McComb, Actress ("Party of Five"), turns 34
1981Bryce Dallas Howard, Actress, turns 30
1982Ben Roethlisberger, Football player, turns 29
1985Reggie Bush, Football player, turns 26
1985Robert Iler, Actor ("The Sopranos"), turns 26

Historic Birthdays

64Adrian VI 3/2/1459 - 9/14/1523
Dutch - Elected Pope in 1522
58DeWitt Clinton 3/2/1769 - 2/11/1828
American who presided over construction of the Erie Canal
70Sam Houston 3/2/1793 - 7/26/1863
American lawyer and politician
60Bedrich Smetana 3/2/1824 - 5/12/1884
Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems
71John Jay Chapman 3/2/1862 - 11/4/1933
American poet, dramatist, and critic
82Pius XII 3/2/1876 - 10/9/1958
Italian Pope (1939-58)
50Kurt Weill 3/2/1900 - 4/3/1950
German-bn. American composer
72Edward Condon 3/2/1902 - 3/26/1974
American physicist
80Geoffrey Grigson 3/2/1905 - 11/25/1985
English poet, editor, and literary critic
65Ernst Haas 3/2/1921 - 9/12/1986
Austrian-bn. photojournalist

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