To my Father

THIS IS THE DATE THAT WAS

March 25, 1923monDay’s CHIlD Is FaIr oF FaCE

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FrIDay’s CHIlD Is lovInG anD GIvInGsaturDay’s CHIlD works For a lIvInG

But tHE CHIlD tHat’s Born on tHE saBBatH DayIs fair and kind and good and gay.

In The News –

Sunday, March 25 , 1923

On this date, the government of Great Britain acknowledged the autonomy of

the newly-created Emirate of Transjordan, which by 1946 would become the

Kingdom of Jordan.

In The News – March 1923

March 1 – Allied troops occupy the Ruhr, the most

industrialized region in Germany, as punishment for

Germany’s failure to pay war reparations from World

War I.

March 3 – Time Magazine hits the

newsstands for the first time.

March 4 – Lenin publishes his last

article in Pravda.

In The News – March 1923

March 6 – The St. Louis Cardinals announce they

will begin wearing numbers on their uniforms.

March 9 – Elmer Rice’s controversial play

about the automation of man opens

in New York.

March 13 – Lee de Forest demonstrates his

process of putting sound directly onto film.

In The News – March 1923

March 14 – The German Supreme Court rules to

prohibit the formation of the National Socialist

German Workers Party – The Nazis.

March 14 – Warren G. Harding becomes

the first sitting President to pay taxes.

March 16 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play ‘Der

Unbestechliche’ (‘The Incorruptible’) opens in Vienna.

In The News – March 1923

March 20 – The Interior Minister of Bavaria refuses to cede

to the Supreme Court ruling and allows the Nazis to meet.

March 21 – U.S. Secretary of State Charles

Evans Hughes refuses to officially

recognize the Soviet Union.

March 23 – ‘Yes! We Have No Bananas’ is

released on popular recordings and sheet

music.

In The News – March 1923

March/date unk. – Jean Cocteau’s ‘Antigone’ open in Paris

with set design by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur

Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel.

March 31 – One of the first dance marathons

is held in New York City with Alma Cummings

setting the first record with 27 straight hours

on her feet.

Also Born March 25, 1923

U.S. Country/Pop singer Bonnie Guitar

Dutch cyclist Wim van Est

German astrophysicist Reimar Lüst

Also Born In March, 1923

March 3 – U.S. folk singer

Doc Watson

March 4 – English astronomer

Sir Patrick Moore

March 6 – U.S. spokesman

Ed McMahon

March 6 – U.S. jazz guitarist

Wes Montgomery

Also Born In March, 1923

March 7 – U.S. musician

Mahlon Clark

March 8 – Dutch criminologist

Louk Hulsman

March 9 – Austrian Nobel physicist

Walter Kohn

March 12 – U.S. astronaut

Wally Schirra

Also Born In March, 1923

March 14 – U.S. photographer

Diane Arbus

March 21 – U.S. GPBL player

Merle ‘Pat’ Keagle

March 22 – French Mime

Marcel Marceau

March 24 – U.S. actor

Murray Hamilton

Also Born In March, 1923

March 26 – U.S. comedian

Bob Elliot (Bob and Ray)

March 28 – U.S. jazz

musician Thad Jones

March 31 – Canadian author

Milton Acorn

Born March 25 th

1867 – Italian conductor

Arturo Toscanini

1881 – Hungarian composer

Bela Bartok

1901 – U.S. actor Ed Begley

(‘12 Angry Men’)

1905 – German general and ‘July 20th’

plotter Albrect Mertz von Quirnheim

Born March 25 th

1908 – English director

David Lean

(‘Lawrence of Arabia’)1911 – U.S. murderer

Jack Ruby

1918 – U.S. sportscaster

Howard Cosell

1920 – English actor

(and 2nd Doctor Who)

Patrick Troughton

Born March 25 th

1921 – German/French actress

Simone Signoret

1924 – U.S. actor

Roberts Blossom

(‘Home Alone’)

1924 – Japanese actress

Machiko Kyō

1925 – U.S. author

Flannery O’Connor

Born March 25 th

1928 – U.S. astronaut

Jim Lovell

1932 – U.S. critic

Gene Shalit

1934 – U.S. singer/guitarist

Johnny Burnette

1934 – U.S. author/activist

Gloria Steinem

Born March 25 th

1938 – U.S. singer/songwriter

Hoyt Axton

1940 – U.S. singer

Anita Bryant

1942 – U.S. singer

Aretha Franklin

1942 – English actor/director

Richard O’Brien

(‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’)

Born March 25 th

1943 – U.S.

Attorney

William H.

Ginsburg

1943 – U.S. actor

Paul Michael

Glaser

1947 – English

singer/songwriter

Sir Elton John

1948 – U.S.

actress Bonnie

Bedelia

1951 – Japanese

pro wrestler

Jumbo Tsuruta

Born March 25 th

1960 – U.S. actor

Haywood Nelson

1961 – Japanese

pro wrestler

Hiro Saito

1962 – U.S.

actress

Marcia Cross

1965 – U.S. actress

Sarah Jessica

Parker

Born March 25 th

1966 – U.S.

blues singer

Jeff Healey

1967 – U.S.

figure skater

Debi Thomas

1971 – U.S.

WNBA star

Sheryl

Swoopes

1974 – U.S.

actress

Lark Voorhies

1982 – U.S.

NASCAR driver

Danica Patrick

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

421 – At precisely noon, the

city of Venice was founded.

1199 – King Richard the

Lionheart is struck by a bolt from a

crossbow. The wound will get infected

and Richard will die from his injuries April 6. 1306 – Robert the Bruce

becomes King of the Scots.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh

is granted a contract to

colonize Virginia.

1634 – The first Catholic

settlers arrive in the new

colony of Maryland.

1655 – Dutch astronomer

Christiaan Huygens

discovers Titan, largest

moon of Saturn.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1811 – Percy

Bysshe Shelly

is expelled from

Oxford for publishing

The Necessity of Atheism.

1851 – Yosemite Valley

is discovered in California.

1857 – 1st photograph of a

solar eclipse by Fredrick

Laggenheim.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1894 – Jacob Coxey’s ‘Army’ departs Ohio for

Washington DC to protest unemployment

during the Panic of 1893, now entering its

second year.

1911 – A fire in the upper floors of the Triangle

Shirtwaist Company sends garment workers (mostly

girls) to panic and hide from the fire or try to jump

to safety. 145 die in the disaster.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1913 – The Great Dayton Flood kills 360 and

makes 65,000 homeless, the worst natural disaster in

Ohio history.

1931 – Nine black teens called the Scottsboro

Boys are arrested and charged with raping two

white women. Despite evidence to the contrary,

all are found guilty and all but one sentenced to

death. Appeals will be filed, but the mess will

carry over until 1976, when the last is pardoned.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1934 – Horton Smith wins the first Masters Golf Tournament.

1944 – RAF Sgt. Nickolas Alkemade jumped

18,000 feet from a Lancaster bomber without a

parachute…and survived. His fall was broken by

pine trees and soft snow.

1945 – World War II: The Allies break through the

Nazi defenses and capture the Ludendorff bridge at

Remagen, the only intact bridge that crosses the

Rhine River into Germany.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia,

IL kills 111 miners.

1948 – Two Air Force officers successfully forecast a

tornado before it strikes Tinker AFB in Oklahoma.

The forecasters noted conditions were the same as

five days before, when another tornado struck the same base.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1957 – U.S. customs officials seize copies of

Allen Ginsberg’s book on charges of obscenity.

1957 – The Treaty of Rome establishes

the European Economic Community (EEC).

1961 – Korabl Sputnik 5 is launched with

a test dummy named ‘Ivan Ivanovitch’ and a live

dog named Zvezdochka (‘Starlet’ or ‘Little

Star’). It is the last before the start of the manned

space program.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. succeeds in leading

a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL

1969 – John Lennon and new

wife Yoko Ono stage the first

of two ‘Bed-Ins For Peace’ at

the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam.

1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by

a nephew later judged insane, but was still executed.

March 25 th – T his Day In His tor y

1990 – A fire in an illegal

New York social club

called ‘Happy Land’ kills

87 patrons.

1996- The comet called

Hyakutake lights up the

night skies worldwide.

1996 – The Veterinary

Committee of the

European Union bans the

sale of British beef over

concerns of ‘mad cow’

disease.

1923 – The Year In Sports

Stanley Cup-

Ottawa

Senators

World Series-

New York

Yankees

NFL champions-

Canton Bulldogs

NCAA Football – Cornell, Michigan, California and Illinois

1923 – The Year In Sports

Heavyweight Boxing Champ –

Jack Dempsey

Indy 500 –

Tommy Milton

Kentucky Derby – Zev

Preakness – Vigil

Belmont Stakes – Zev

Your Patron Saint For March 25 t h

St. DismasThe Penitent Thief

What is known about him is that he had a part in one of the greatest stories of the New Testament…the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.As our Savior hung on the cross, there were two others, thieves, who hung on either side of Him. While one mocked Jesus, the other chastised him and asked Jesus to remember him when he goes to His Father. Jesus replied, ‘I say to you this day you shall be with me in Paradise. For this, the penitent thief, called Dismas by some, isremembered on March 25th.

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR MARCH 25TH

You were born under

the sign of Aries

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and that's pretty much how those born under this sign see themselves: first. Aries are the leaders of the pack, first in line to get things going. The symbol of Aries is the Ram, and that's both good

and bad news. Impulsive Aries might be tempted to ram their ideas down everyone's throats without even bothering to ask if they want to know. It's these times when you may wish Aries' symbol were a more subdued creature, more lamb than ram perhaps. You're not likely to convince the Ram to soften

up; these folks are blunt and to the point.

Your Chinese Horoscope1923

This is the Year of the Pig Your Element is Water

Pig people are friends for life. Their relationships are very deep, devoted, and rich beyond measure. The Pig people are noble and give and receive lots of hugs. They are gallant and extend old-fashioned chivalries towards people they meet.

Some days Water Pigs throw caution to the wind, playing life "by ear" going wherever tumbleweeds go, hither, thither, never resting.Other times, Water Pigs exert every energetic atom of their being into Big Causes, making life beautiful for others with lots of delightful surprises.

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DU BIOU S ACHIEVEM ENT OF 1 9 2 3

"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch

it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."

- TV inventor Philo Farnsworth

Visionary of 1923

THE END

Famed Art Nouveau

artist Alphonse Mucha

depicts his favorite

subject, noted French

actress Sarah Bernhardt,

who died March 26,

1923.

Finally…