March 23rd

1743: George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1743: English premiere of Handel's "Messiah"
1775: Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1806: Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast
1832: British Parliament passes reform bill
1836: Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1840: Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1857: Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, New York City)
1858: Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1861: London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating
1867: Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto
1868: University of California founded (Oakland California)
1873: Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico
1880: Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
1881: Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889: President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1903: Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1917: Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest U.S.
1922: 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1923: Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925: Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1929: 1st telephone installed in White House
1934: U.S. Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1945: Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1957: U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons
1960: Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962: William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000
1962: John F. Kennedy visits SF
1965: Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)
1968: Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
1976: International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1991: 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1994: F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
1994: Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
2011: In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants
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March 22nd

1457: Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1733: Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765: Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1790: Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State
1794: Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1861: 1st U.S. nursing school chartered
1871: William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1873: Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1888: English Football League established
1903: Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1903: New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1914: World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1934: Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935: Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)
1944: 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1946: 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1947: President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1954: 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan
1964: Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section
1968: Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1975: Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1981: 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
1982: 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1988: Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1993: Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1994: Dutch Ambassador to U.S. christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1998: 18th Golden Raspberry Awards
2010: The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives
2011: In South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard signs an abortion bill that requires women to undertake counseling and wait 72 hours, the longest period in the U.S.
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March 21st

1421: Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1788: Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1790: Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1826: Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1851: Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857: Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1866: Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1891: A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 20 years
1907: U.S. invades Honduras
1913: Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1917: 1st female U.S. Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1934: Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1945: During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1947: President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1951: 2,900,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea
1952: 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central U.S.
1952: Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths
1963: Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
1972: U.S. Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
1991: 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide
2011:The first full face transplant is performed by surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
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Craftiness

Now I'm not like my sister, Jenny, and does all these crafty things. I'm the kind of person that sees a craft and thinks 'oh how fun and easy would that be', but then I never do it. Well I finally found a project that was fun, easy, and I actually did it. I found it on Pinterest. I believe I have become addicted to that site!

Now it's not perfect, but atleast I finished the project! :)

Merry Christmas To Me!

My old car, Lucy, had finally decided she wanted to show her age so she started being stuburn. Some mornings she wouldn't start so I could get to work or church. So I decided I had enough and broke down and bought me an early Christmas gift. Did all my research, bugged my poor sister Debbie to tears, searched differents places online, talked to a couple of dealers, talked to Wesley, searched again at differents places online, went to the dealers several times, and it finally payed off. Meet the new addition to my family. He doesn't have a name yet so for now he's 'The Cube'...names suggestions excepted!

Sickling

You know it's one thing when you are at work wishing you were sick so you would't have to be at work, but it's another when you really are at home sick. It is not fun at all! Sick all day yesterday and in bed for 90% of the day. I'd still be there right now if I didn't have to come to work. Sitting here being miserable is very enjoyable. HAHA...Oh well haven't done much all morning so I'm getting paid to sit here lol I'm making this day 'Blah Thursday'...anyone have any complaints today is the day to share them...Today and today only lol :)

Bet You Didn't Know Some of These!

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.


2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.


3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.


4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.


5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.


6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.


7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.


8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.


9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!


10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.


12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.


13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.


14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.


15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.


16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.


17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.


18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".


19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.


20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.


21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.


22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.


23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.


24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.


25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.


26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.


27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".


28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.


29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.


30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.


31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space....


32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!