-------BIRTHDAYS-------

1394 03/04 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery
1596 03/31 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
1619 03/06 Cyrano de Bergerac
1678 03/04 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
1681 03/14 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
1685 03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
1719 03/30 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
1732 03/31 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
1751 03/16 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
1756 03/06 Aaron Burr, dualist
1767 03/15 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
1768 03/21 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
1782 03/18 John C. Calhoun, statesman
1787 03/08 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
1790 03/29 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
1804 03/17 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
1809 03/31 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
1810 03/01 Frederic Chopin
1812 03/06 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
1813 03/27 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
1819 03/29 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
1824 03/05 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
1824 03/09 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
1831 03/12 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
1832 03/12 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
1834 03/17 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
1836 03/16 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
1837 03/18 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
1848 03/01 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
1849 03/07 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
1853 03/30 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
1854 03/31 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
1856 03/20 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
1858 03/18 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
1859 03/08 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
1860 03/19 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
1863 03/27 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
1864 03/14 Casey Jones
1867 03/29 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
1869 03/21 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
1874 03/26 Robert Frost, poet
1875 03/07 Maurice Ravel
1879 03/08 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
1879 03/14 Albert Einstein, relative
1904 03/20 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
1911 03/26 Tennessee Williams
1912 03/23 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
1919 03/17 Nat King Cole
1925 03/26 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
1931 03/26 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
1932 03/18 John Updike, poet and novelist.
1934 03/09 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space
1937 03/06 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut


        -------SPECIAL EVENTS-------

Yrly 03/03 Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), celebrated in Japan.
Yrly 03/03 Independence Day, celebrated in Morocco.
1665 03/06 published, and is still published today.
1665 03/06 "The Philosophical Transactions of the the society" was 1st
1770 03/05 Boston Massacre
1781 03/01 the Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
1789 03/04 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
1791 03/03 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
1792 03/04 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
1812 03/03 Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill.
1826 03/04 1st railroad in US chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1836 03/06 Alamo falls.  Remember it!
1845 03/05 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
1848 03/07 in Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
1849 03/03 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
1851 03/03 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
1859 03/01 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (2nd seal for city).
1861 03/02 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
1862 03/08 the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack was launched.
1864 03/01 patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis
1864 03/01 Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
1867 03/01 Nebraska becomes a state.
1875 03/03 a 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It only lasted 3 years).
1879 03/01 Library of Hawaii founded.
1885 03/03 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
1901 03/02 first telegraph company in Hawaii opens.
1923 03/03 Time magazine publishes their 1st issue.
1927 03/01 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank.
1929 03/02 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
1933 03/04 Roosevelt inaugurated, said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1933 03/08 the game "Monopoly was invented.
1934 03/04 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
1936 03/12 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
1956 03/03 Morocco gains it's independence.
1972 03/03 Pioneer 10 launched.
1974 03/02 First Class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents.
1979 03/05 Voyager I flies past Jupiter.