viernes, 25 de marzo de 2011

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.

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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.

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On This Date

1634	Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807	Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894	Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1911	A 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.
1913	The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1957	The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1975	King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988	Robert 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."
1992	Cosmonaut 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.
1994	American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996	An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
1996	The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998	President 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.
2002	A 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.

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Auto racer Danica Patrick turns 29 years old today.

AP Photo/Isaac Brekken

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

Historic Birthdays

Bela Bartok3/25/1881 - 9/26/1945Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher.Go to obituary »

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