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Feast
day of Ishtar, Babylon
Also Astarte, Aphrodite and Venus, Syrian and Graeco-Roman
"Ishtar and Tammuz; Venus and Adonis; Love and Loyalty; Perfect
Marriage. Success in Union."
Fellowship of Isis Source
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Festival of the god Mars, ancient Rome
(Mar 1 - 19)
Feast day of St Alexander
Feast day of St Anastasia
the Patrician
"Christian Byzantine noble.
Lady-in-waiting to the Empress
Theodora in Constantinople.
To escape the unwanted attentions of the Emperor Justinian, she fled
the court to a convent in Alexandria.
On the death of Theodora, Justinian lauched a search for Anastasia.
To escape, she assumed a male identity and costume, and lived her
remaining 28 years as a hermit
in the desert of Scete." Source
Feast day of St Andrew of
Strumi
Feast day of St Anectus
Feast day of St Attalas of
Bobbio
Feast day of St Codratus of Corinth
Codratus and his mother fled to the forests of Greece to escape the persecutions of
the Roman emperor Decius.
After his mother died, Codratus grew up in the forest alone. He was
beheaded in Corinth during the reign of Valerian.
Feast day of St Crescens
Feast day of St Cyprian
Feast day of St Dionysius
Feast day of St Dominic
Savio
Patron of boys, children's choirs,
choir boys,
choirs,
falsely accused people,
juvenile delinquents
and Pueri Cantors.
Feast day of St Droctoveus
(Upright chickweed, Veronica triphyllos, is
today's plant,
dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Elias
Nieves
Feast day of the Forty Armenian
Martyrs
They are still highly venerated in the East on March 9.
"When persuasion, promises, and torture failed to sway these 40 men of various nationality and one faith, Agricolaus worked out a plan he considered certain to make them recant. Outside the city walls of Sebaste (Sivas, Turkey) was a frozen lake. He ordered the forty Christians to strip and lie on the ice. At the edge of the lake a huge bathful of water was placed over a fire, continually tempting the Christians to abandon their torment on the ice.
"One of the soldiers broke, and jumped into the water. The intense contrast between the cold he had endured and the heat of the bath killed him. Another soldier, seeing the faith of the other 39 and having experienced a dream of an angel, stripped himself and joined them, accepting the 40th place."
Source
Feast day of St Gaius
Feast day of St Himelin
While he was dying, a young woman gave him a pitcher of water, which he turned into wine.
 Feast day of St John
Ogilvie
The Roman Catholic Church's only officially recorded Scottish
martyr, Ogilvie (b. 1579)
was the son of a Scottish Calvinist (Presbyterian), but converted to
the Church of Rome. Ordained as Jesuit priest at Paris in 1610, he travelled back to Scotland in
1613 disguised as a soldier, John Watson.
The followers of John Calvin
and John
Knox tortured him and he was executed on March 10, 1615. "Your threats cheer me," he said to his interrogators, who wanted to know the names of other underground Catholics,
"I mind them no more than the cackling of geese."
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Feast day of St John of
Vallumbrosa
Interestingly, this saint of Florence who
was also known as John of the Holy Trinity, was a monk who started
to dabble in the occult, collecting and reading arcane texts.
Discovered, John was summoned before the abbot-general of the
Vallumbrosans, to whom he denied this sin, and later confessed. The
abbot-general had John imprisoned, and the monk in jail turned away
from esoteric studies and to orthodox Catholic doctrines. He lived
the rest of his long life as a hermit, writing, and receiving visions of
St Catherine of
Siena, and died about 1380.
Feast day of St Kessog
Feast day of St Macarius of Jerusalem
According to legend, he was with St Helena when she found three
crosses (one of which was the True Cross).
He was one of the signers of the decrees of the Council of Nicaea
(325).
Feast day of St Peter de
Geremia (1381 - 1452)
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy,
Peter performed countless miracles on that island, including raising
the dead to life and healing the lame and the blind. Once while he
preached at Catania, as Mt Etna erupted and lava flowed down on the
townspeople, who begged him for help, he came up with a novel solution. First,
he preached a brief sermon on repentance, then entered the nearby shrine of
St Agatha
(who has close associations with that volcano), where he removed the
revered veil (supposedly an actual relic of the saint) from her
statue. Peter held the veil towards the approaching lava; the eruption
stopped and Catania was saved.
It is said that his preaching was so
popular he always preached al fresco, because there no church
on the island could contain the crowds that flocked to hear him.
"Peter was consulted one day when there was no food for the community. He went down to the shore and asked a fisherman for a donation. He was rudely refused. Getting into a boat, he rowed out from the shore and made a sign to the fish; they broke the nets and followed him. Repenting of his bad manners, the fisherman apologized, whereupon Peter made another sign to the fish, sending them back into the nets again. The records say that the monastery was ever afterwards supplied with fish."
Source
Feast day of St Simplicius
Feast day of St Victor
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Todai-ji
Shunie, Tōdai-ji
temple, Nara,
Japan, (Mar 1 -
14)
Shimabara Hatsuichi,
Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10)
Uprising Day,
Tibet (1959)
Harriet Tubman Day, USA
Dedicated to those who are willing to be of service to humanity and
recognize all individuals who struggled to end tyranny and
oppression. Harriet Tubman died on this day in
1913 (see below).
Girl Scout Sunday, USA, approximate date
Doctors' Day, Venezuela
1452 Ferdinand
II of Aragon (d. June 23, 1516),
king of Aragon,
Castile,
Sicily,
Naples
and Navarre
and Count of
Barcelona, husband of Isabella I of
Castile
1503 Ferdinand
I, Holy Roman
Emperor
1606 Edmund Waller
(d. 1687),
English poet 1709 Georg Steller
(d. 1746),
German naturalist 1772 Friedrich
von Schlegel (d. 1829), aesthetician, poet, and publicist
"German
writer, critic and philosopher, contemporary of
Goethe, Schiller and Novalis, a
pioneer in comparative Indo-European linguistics and comparative
philology. Schlegel influenced deeply early German Romantic
Movement – he is generally held the person who first established
the term romantisch in literary context. Romantic
Movement." Source
1776 Louise
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1810), Queen of Prussia1788 Joseph
von Eichendorff (d. 1857), lyricist and narrator 1842 Mykola Lysenko,
composer 1844 Pablo de
Sarasate (d. 1908), violinist 1845
Alexander
III of Russia, Russian emperor
1847 Kate Sheppard,
leader of New Zealand
female suffrage movement;
New Zealand was the first country to achieve female suffrage A world chronology of women's electoral rights
1848
Albert
Fraenkel (d. July 6, 1916),
German physician
1849
Hallie Quinn Brown, women's rights activist
1875 Eleanor May
Moores, Australian pacifist activist (more info requested from
Almaniacs)
1880 Broncho
Billy Anderson (d. 1971), actor1888 Barry
Fitzgerald (d. 1966), actor 1891 Sam Jaffe
(d. 1984),
actor 1892 Arthur Honegger
(d. 1955),
composer 1892 Gregory La Cava
(d. 1952),
director, producer, writer  1903
Bix Beiderbecke (d. 1931),
American jazz jazz
cornet player and composer
"Bix Beiderbecke was one of the great
jazz musicians of the 1920's; he was also a child of the Jazz Age
who drank himself to an early grave with illegal Prohibition
liquor. His hard drinking and beautiful tone on the cornet made
him a legend among musicians during his life. The legend of Bix
grew even larger after he died. Bix never learned to read music
very well, but he had an amazing ear even as a child …
"In 1926 he
spent some time with Frankie
Trumbauer's Orchestra where he recorded his solo piano
masterpiece 'In a
Mist'." Source
Bix Beiderbecke Resources: A
Bixography
1915 Harry Bertoia
(d. 1978),
Italian artist and designer 1927
Paul
Wunderlich, painter, graphic artist, sculptor 1928
James Earl
Ray, convicted assassin of Dr Martin Luther King,
Jr;
Ray protested his
innocence until his death on April 23, 1998
"In 1997
King's son Dexter met with Ray and publicly supported him, and the
next year Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a
full review of the case. That review ended in 2000 with a finding
that 'no credible evidence' existed to support the claims of
Jowers or the various other conspiracy theories." Source
Theories Behind
MLK's Assassination
One
theory
King Conspiracy Theories
Martin Luther
King's Son Says: James Earl Ray Didn't Kill MLK!
Triumphant in Death
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in the Book of Days
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1940 Dean Torrence,
musician (Jan and Dean,
with Jan
Berry)1940 Chuck Norris,
actor, martial arts
practitioner 1947 Kim Campbell,
nineteenth Prime
Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office 1957 (or July
30, 1957) Osama
bin Laden (Usamah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Ladin; (Arabic:
أسامة بن
محمد بن عود
ب),
CIA-trained and -backed
Islamist rebel leader, head of al-Qaeda
Fatty
bin Laden September
11 Prior Knowledge Archive
Top Bin Laden Expert:
Confession Fake Taliban
offered to extradite bin Laden
1958 Sharon Stone,
American actress1963 Jeff
Ament, musician, bass player of
Pearl Jam 1963 Neneh Cherry,
musician 1964 Edward,
Earl of Wessex 1966 Edie Brickell,
singer 1971 Ugonna Wachuku,
poet,
creative writer, author
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241 BCE First
Punic War: Battle of the
Aegates Islands – The Romans sank the Carthaginian
fleet; end of First Punic War.
1496 Christopher Columbus
left Hispaniola
for Spain, ending
his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
 1582 Two of Britain's best-known magicians, the
astrologer/mathematician Dr
John Dee and necromancer Edward Kelley, met
for the first time. Dee, when spying abroad for Queen Elizabeth I, signed his
letters '007' -
perhaps a prototype for Ian Fleming's James Bond?
"From A True and Faithful Relation of What
Passed For Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (London:
1659)
As J.
and E. K. sate discoursing of the Noble Polonian Albertus Lasci his great
honor here with us obtained, his great good liking of all States of the
people, of them that either see him or hear of him, and again how much I was
beholding to God that his heart should so fervently favor me, and that he doth
so much strive to suppress and confound the malice and envie of my Country-men
against me, for my better credit winning or recovering to do God better
service hereafter thereby, andc. Suddenly, there seemed to come out of my
Oratory a Spiritual creature, like a pretty girl of 7 or 9 years of age,
attired on her head with her hair rowled up before, and hanging down very long
behind, with a gown of Sey, ... changeable green and red, and with a train she
seemed to play up and down ..., like, and seemed to go in and out behind my
books, lying on heaps, the biggest ...and as she should ever go between them,
the books seemed to give place sufficiently, dis.... One heap from the other,
while she passed between them: And so I considered, and ... the diverse
reports which E. K. made unto me of this pretty maiden, and ...
I said
... Whose maiden are you?
She
said ... Whose man are you?
I am
the servant of the God both by my bound duty, and also ( I hope) by his
Adoption.
A voice
... You shall be beaten if you tell
… Am
not I a fine Maiden? Give me leave to play in your house, my mother told me
she would come and dwell here.
She
went up and down with most lively gestures of a young girl playing by her self
and diverse time another spoke to her from the corner of my study by a great
Perspective glass, but none was seen beside her self.
...
Shall I? I will (Now she seemed to answer one in the fore-said Corner of the
Study)
... I
pray you let me tarry a little [speaking to on in the fore-said Corner]
Tell me
who you are?
... I
pray you let me play with you a little, and I will tell you who I am.
In the
name of Jesus then tell me.
... I
rejoice in the name of Jesus, and I am a poor little Maiden, Madini, I am the
last but one of my Mothers children, I have little Baby-children at home.
Where
is your home?
Ma ...
I dare not tell you where I dwell, I shall be beaten.
You
shall not be beaten for telling the truth to them that love the truth, to the
eternal truth all Creatures must be obedient.
Ma ...
I warned you I will be obedient. My sisters say they must all come and dwell
with you.
I
desire that they who live God should dwell with me, and I with them.
Ma ...
I love you now you talk of God.
Your eldest sister her name
is Esemeli."
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Dee's friendship with the mapmaker Mercator
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Agrippa Roger
Bacon Count
Cagliostro Robert
Fludd Isaac
Newton Paracelsus
James Price
Tycho Brahe
1629 Charles I of England
dissolved Parliament,
starting the 'Eleven Years Tyranny'
in which there was no parliament.
1693
Salem Witch Trials: Lydia Dustin died in
jail.
1787 Botany Bay, Australia, was discovered by Europeans.
1788 French captain Jean François
De La Pérouse vanished after departing
Botany Bay, Australia. In
a not-very-fast rescue mission, French admiral Joseph-Antoine
Raymond de Bruny d'Entrecasteaux was sent to find him in
1792 - '93. See also April 23, 1792 (On
this day in history, BoD).
 1794 Rev. Samuel Marsden (1764 - 1838) arrived at
Sydneytown
in the British convict colony of New South
Wales, on the continent that was
later called Australia.
The chaplain, missionary and farmer
came to Australia and was a well-known figure throughout the
colony in the early days, where he is remembered as 'the Flogging Parson'.
He was especially intolerant of Irish convicts, many of whom were political
prisoners transported to the colony following the 1798 rebellion in Ireland.
The ghost of Marsden
1804 USA:
Louisiana Purchase:
In St Louis, a formal
ceremony was conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United
States.
1814 Napoleon I of France
was defeated at the
Battle
of Laon in France.
1817 The march of the Blanketeers
Impoverished and hungry handloom weavers and spinners assembled in St Peter's
Field, Manchester, England, each equipped with a blanket for
their march to London to present a petition to the Prince Regent. After
intimidation from the authorities, only a few reached Macclesfield, and no
organised marchers got past Derby.
(On August 16, 1819, a peaceful demonstration for political
reform and universal suffrage in St Peter's Fields, Manchester, was attacked by
citizens and military personnel, with the loss of eleven lives; it became known
as the Massacre of 'Peterloo'. The
name was founded on the Battle of
Waterloo, still fresh in the public mind.)
1848 The Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified by the United States Senate,
ending the Mexican-American War.
California, New Mexico and parts of Texas were added to the United States as spoils of the war. 1849 Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device for
"buoying vessels over shoals".
1864 American Civil War:
The
Red
River Campaign began as Union troops reached Alexandria, Louisiana. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell
made the world's first known successful telephone call by saying to
his assistant, Thomas
Watson, "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you" (sources vary as to
precise wording). 1880 Members
of the Salvation Army landed in
the United
States and began operations. 1883 The
foundation of the Women's Co-operative Guild, England.
1883
The Bloody Benders: (Approximately March 10) A public meeting
was held at Harmony Grove,
Labette County,
Kansas,
USA schoolhouse to discuss a
cattle herd law, when the matter of many local people having gone missing, and
that suspicion rested upon the people of
Osage township, were discussed. The
townspeople's concerns led finally to the discovery of the murderous deeds of
the Bender
family of Osage who robbed and killed about 12 people in their family home.
"The Bender family home had a large
room that was divided by a curtain. If a guest appeared to be
wealthy, they would give him a seat of honor, with his back to
the curtain. Kate would distract the guest, while John Bender or
his son would come from behind the curtain and strike the guest
on the skull with a hammer. The victim's throat was then cut to
ensure his death. The body was moved behind the curtain and
thrown through a trap door that led down into a cellar. Once in
the cellar, the body would be stripped and later buried
somewhere on the property, often in the orchard."
Wikipedia
The current historical marker at the site of the Bender family home
reads, in part:
"Located on a main road, the Benders sold meals and
supplies to
travelers. Their murders were carried out by use of a canvas curtain that
divided the house into two rooms. When a traveler was seated at the table, his
head was outlined against the curtain. The victim was then dispatched from
behind with a hammer, and the body was dropped into a basement pit, later to
be buried in an orchard.
"As more and more travelers disappeared, suspicion began to
center on the Benders. They disappeared in the spring of 1873,
shortly before inquisitive neighbors discovered the victims'
bodies. The Benders are believed to have killed about a dozen
people, including one child."
Source
"Where the house once stood nothing now remains to mark the spot
except the half-filled vacuity that once answered the purpose of
a cellar. Curious relic-seekers have carried away the last
remnant of the building and all its appurtenances, even to the
last stone that helped to compose the cellar wall. One
circumstance that serves to maintain an interest in this event
so long passed is the fact that few, if any, know whether the
Bender family escaped and are living to-day in some distant
country, or whether they were captured by a small mob who
quietly put them to death and forever after held their peace."
Topeka Daily Capital,
13 Jan 1886, page 5
The Bloody Benders
of Labette County
Kate Bender
Deadly hosts
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1891
Almon
Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, USA, patented the strowger
switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. 1893
Côte
d'Ivoire became a French colony (now the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire). 1893
New Mexico State University, NM, USA, cancelled its first graduation ceremony – its only graduate, Sam Steele, was robbed and killed the night before. 1895 Death
of Charles Frederick Worth
(b. 1826), couturier. 1902
Boer War: South
African Boers
won their last battle over British forces, with the
capture of a British general and 200 of his men. 1902 A United States
Court of Appeals ruled that Thomas Edison did not
invent the movie camera (Edison
v. American Mutoscope).
 1906 France: Catastrophe de Courrières
(Pas-de-Calais). A coal dust explosion killed
at least 1,060 workers in
Courrières.
They died in one of the worst mining disasters of the 20th century. Forty-five thousand miners went on strike for 55 days against the disastrous working
conditions and the army was called in to suppress the disturbances.
Source: The Daily Bleed
1910 American film director
DW Griffith (1875 - 1948) started making his film,
In Old California, at a new location for film-making: Hollywood, California.
Griffith had discovered the village on his trips to California and decided to shoot there because of the beautiful scenery and friendly people.
Mack Sennett played
a part as a soldier in this first Hollywood film. Sennett (1880 - 1960) was the Canadian-born Hollywood film director, creator of the
Keystone Kops, and 'discoverer' of
Charlie Chaplin and
Fatty Arbuckle.
 1913 Death of Harriet Tubman (b. 1820), also known as 'Black Moses',
African-American
freedom
fighter.
An escaped slave, she worked as a guerrilla, farmhand, lumberjack,
laundress and cook,
refugee organizer, raid leader and intelligence commander, nurse and healer, revival speaker,
feminist
and fundraiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from slavery and racism.
John Brown was to refer to her as
"General Tubman" and called her "one of the bravest persons on this
continent". Frederick Douglass said of her, "Excepting John
Brown ... I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and
hardships to serve our enslaved people".
"August 12, 2005 · Two great
grand-nieces of Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman are heading to
Ghana, where their ancestor will be honored with a festival, statue dedication
and street re-naming in the capital." Source
(with audio): NPR
List
of African-American abolitionists
1914 Suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Velasquez's painting
Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery.
1919 The Australian Government announced a £10,000 prize for the person who could fly any British-made aircraft from the UK to Australia in less than 30 days before
December 31, 1919.
1922
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent
of civil disobedience, was arrested for sedition at Sabarmati and sentenced
(March 18) to six years' imprisonment. On
March 21 sent to Yeravada Jail.
1933
An earthquake in Long Beach,
California killed 120 people.
WWII WMDs
 1945 World War
II: Less than a month after British
Air Force and
US Air Force
bombed Dresden, Germany (February 13, 1945,
killing between 35,000 and 200,000 civilians), the Americans did much the same to Tokyo, Japan.
On this day, 334 American B-29 bombers fire-bombed Tokyo including non-military
targets, with nearly 2,000 tons
of incendiaries, setting fire to the city and killing
about 100,000 innocent men, women and children, also leaving about 1.5 million
people without homes. An area of seventeen square miles of Tokyo was destroyed in a day.
Death by burning, suffocation, boiling
alive, trampling
"Early in the morning, the B-29s dropped their bombs of napalm
and magnesium incendiaries over the packed residential districts along the
Sumida River in eastern Tokyo. The conflagration quickly engulfed Tokyo's
wooden residential structures, and the subsequent firestorm replaced oxygen
with lethal gases, superheated the atmosphere, and caused hurricane-like
winds that blew a wall of fire across the city. The majority of the 100,000
dead perished from carbon monoxide poisoning and the sudden lack of oxygen,
but others died horrible deaths within the firestorm, such as those who
attempted to find protection in the Sumida River, and were boiled alive, or
those who were trampled to death in the rush to escape the burning city."
Source: The Daily Bleed
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
1948 USA:
Zelda Fitzgerald and eight other women were killed in a sanatorium fire in Asheville, North Carolina. Trapped on the third story, she died at 48.
Zelda's marriage to novelist
F Scott Fitzgerald was successful only while she subordinated her considerable artistic talents to Scott's. When Zelda demanded time and space to develop her dancing and writing, he accused her of egotism and insanity.
After Scott put her in the hospital, Zelda's male psychiatrists declared her ambitions self-deceptions and the good doctors tried to re-educate her as a wife. However, Zelda said she saw no difference between institutionalisation and marriage, so her husband and doctors effectively imprisoned her.
Source: The Daily Bleed
Another viewpoint: How
Crazy Was Zelda?
1951
Henri
Queuille became Prime Minister of France.
1951 USA: President Dwight Eisenhower stated his willingness to launch a first-strike nuclear attack.
1952
Fulgencio
Batista led a successful coup in Cuba.
1958 A B-47 accidentally
dropped a nuclear bomb on the town of Mars Bluffs, South Carolina, USA. A
50-foot wide crater was dug, and six injured by conventional explosives
incorporated in the weapon, but there was no atomic blast.
1959 The
Tibetan
Uprising, or 1959 Tibetan Rebellion began, when an anti-Chinese
and anti-Communist popular revolt erupted in
Lhasa, the capital
of Tibet, which had
been under the repressive rule of the
Communist Party of China since the invasion of 1951.
International Campaign for Tibet
2008
Tibetan unrest
Dalai Lama
1966
Queen
Beatrix of the Netherlands married Claus von Amsberg. 1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James
Earl Ray, on his 41st birthday, pleaded guilty to assassinating
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ray later retracted his guilty plea.
1971 William McMahon became the
20th Prime
Minister of Australia.
1974 A Japanese soldier was found hiding out on the island of Lubang
in the Philippines, believing that World War II was still being fought.
1975
Vietnam War:
North
Vietnamese troops attacked
Ban
Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their
way to capturing Saigon.
1977
Rings
of Uranus: Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus.
1980 The inventor of the
Scarsdale Diet, Dr Herman
Tarnower, was
murdered by his lover, Jean Harris, the headmistress of the Madeira Girls'
School, a fashionable boarding school.
1982
Syzygy:
all 9 planets
aligned on the same side of the Sun.
The Jupiter Effect
"According to those promoting it, the Jupiter Effect was an alignment
of the planets on March 10, 1982, that would cause a chain of events ending
with a massive earthquake in California. Of course, March 10, 1982, came and
went and nothing happened." Source
1982 The United
States placed an embargo on Libyan oil imports because of their support
of terrorist groups.
1987
Reproductive rights:
The Holy See
condemned the practice of surrogate motherhood,
along with test-tube babies and artificial
insemination.
1988 In Lhasa, Tibet, demonstrations against the Communist regime
were put down by Chinese troops.
1988 Thirty-year-old singer Andy Gibb died of a drug overdose.
1988 Prince Charles narrowly avoided death when a member of his
party was killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.
1990 In Haiti, Prosper
Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1991
Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo
– 540,000 American troops began to leave the Persian Gulf.
1998 American
troops stationed in the Persian Gulf began to
receive the first vaccinations
against anthrax.
2000 The Nasdaq stock
market index
peaked at 5048.62, signalling the beginning of the end of the short-lived dot-com boom. 2004
Six Flags
sold eight of its theme parks to private investors.
2008 Tibetan
unrest began with demonstrations on March 10, 2008 (Tibetan Uprising
Day), the 49th anniversary of the failed
1959
Tibetan Uprising against the
Chinese Communist Party's rule.
International Campaign for Tibet
2008
Tibetan unrest
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Festival of the
Farohars (cf
guardian
angels and
manes);
a
Zoroastrian festival.
