Today in History

March 22nd

1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

Gandhi was a central figure of the Indian National Congress party and became the 4th Prime Minister of India.
She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977
- and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.


Indira Gandhi - Wikipedia

 

March 22nd
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1984 Teachers accussed



Virginia McMartin, Peggy McMartin Buckey,(in Particular) Ray Buckey, Ray's sister Peggy Ann Buckey and teachers Mary Ann Jackson, Betty Raidor, and Babette Spitler were charged with 115 counts of child abuse, later expanded to 321 counts of child abuse involving 48 children at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school.
The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

• Ray Buckey was retried later on 6 of the 13 counts of which he was not acquitted in the first trial.

The second trial opened on May 7, 1990, and resulted in another hung jury on July 27, 1990.
The prosecution then gave up trying to obtain a conviction, and the case was closed with all charges against Ray Buckey dismissed.

• He had been jailed for five years without ever being convicted of committing any crime.

McMartin preschool trial - Wikipedia

 

March 21, 1861
Alexander Stevens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America.

"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization...The prevailing ideas entertained by him (Thomas Jefferson) and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil...Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races...Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

Just something to remember when someone wearing a Confederate flag insists that their reverence represents "heritage not hate". The Confederacy's sole raison d'être was White supremacy. The Confederates themselves unequivocally said so.

 

On This Day - 22nd March
871 The Battle of Marton, took place at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset. King Æthelred of Wessex (who reigned from 865 - 871) and Prince Alfred fought against the Danes. After 'much slaughter' the Danes remained masters of the field. It was the last of the battles known to be fought by Æthelred against the Danes that year, and the defeated King is reported to have died in April 871.


1774Mary Cooper published the first book of English nursery rhymes. Called Tommy Thumb's Song Book, it included Baa Baa Black Sheep, whose 'three bags full' is thought to refer to a tax imposed on the wool trade in 1275.


1785 The birth, in the village of Dent (now in Cumbria, but sti ll in the Yorkshire Dales National Park!) of Adam Sedgwick, a British geologist and one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology but was an opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution. This commemorative stone is in Dent village. The Sedgwick Club (University of Cambridge) is the oldest student-run geological society in the world and was set up in honour of him in 1880.


1824The British parliament purchased 38 paintings (cost £57,000) to establish a national collection now at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.
1896 The death of Thomas Hughes, English lawyer, and author of the novel Tom Brown's School Days, a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, where Hughes had been a pupil.


1906The first rugby international between France and England in Paris ended with a 35-0 victory to England.


1910The birth of Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer and British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951), regarded as his finest work.


1912The birth of Wilfrid Brambell, Irish film and television actor best known for his role as Albert Steptoe in the television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their film A Hard Day's Night, playing Paul McCartney's fictional grandfather and played Ebenezer Scrooge in a musical version of A Christmas Carol.



1888The English Football League was founded when 12 clubs met at a hotel in Fleet Street, London.

 

1926The first directional road markings were introduced onto British roads (Hyde Park Corner, London). They caused confusion and led to seven accidents on the first day.


1942The BBC began broadcasting in Morse code to the French Resistance.


1948Andrew Lloyd Webber, an English composer of musicals, was born. Several of his 13 musicals have run for more than a decade, both in the West End and on Broadway. He was awarded a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government.


1954Closed since 1939, the London bullion market, a market for trading gold and silver, reopened.


1963John Profumo (Secretary of State for War) denied any impropriety with the model Christine Keeler, or that he was in any way connected to her disappearance when she had been due to appear as a witness in a trial at the Old Bailey. On 5th June 1963, he resigned after admitting that he had lied about his relationship.


1997Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.


2000D.C. Cook became the first major dealership to sell imported vehicles on the Internet and car buyers were offered price reductions of up to 40%

 

March 22nd

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - CAPTAIN KIRK:



Born: 22 March 1931 (age 91 'Earth' years), - Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Québec, Canada



William Shatner - Wikipedia

 

March 23rd
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1931 Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hung



After conducting an assassination and a bombing.
Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
Bhagat Singh - Wikipedia
Shivaram Rajguru - Wikipedia
Sukhdev Thapar - Wikipedia

 

March 23rd
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1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed



1965 Moroccan riots - Wikipedia

 

March 24th

1603 King James VI and James I



Son of Mary Queen of Scots,- Scottish King James VI becomes King James I of England, succeeding to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns

James VI and I - Wikipedia

 

March 24th

1976 . Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón = deposed in a military coup -


Headed by Jorge Rafael Videla, the 1976 Argentine coup d'état was a right-wing coup that overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24th March 1976.
A military junta was installed to replace her; this was headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera and Brigadier-General Orlando Ramón Agosti.

1976 Argentine coup d'état - Wikipedia

 

March 25th

• 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the World

(A year zero does not exist in the Anno Domini (AD) calendar year system commonly used to number years in the Gregorian calendar (nor in its predecessor, the Julian calendar); in this system, the year 1 BC is followed directly by year AD 1.)

 

March 25th

• 31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

March 25, 31 in History. 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus — Steemit

 

March 25th:

• 1199 King Richard I of England,

Aka Richard the Lionheart(1157 – 1199) was mortally wounded with a poisoned crossbow bolt, or arrow, fired from the Castle of Chalus by Bertram de Gourdon 25 March 1199, while fighting France, leads to his death on April 6th
Appearing before Richard, De Gourdon accused him of killing his father and two brothers and Richard freed the prisoner.

 

March 25th:
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1306 Robert the Bruce
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- is crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

Robert the Bruce - Wikipedia

 

March 25th:

• 1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade

... across the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries Parliament significantly shaped the progress and development of the transatlantic slave system. The Act of Parliament to abolish the British slave trade, passed on 25 March 1807, was the culmination of one of the first and most successful public campaigns in history.

Britain Abolishes the Slave Trade - On This Day

 

March 25th:

• 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery,

Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Selma to Montgomery March | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute (stanford.edu)

 

today in History March 26th

39 Members of Heaven's gate cult committed suicide

 

As unlikely as it may seem, If there was a UFO hiding in the shadow of Comet Hale-Bopp the cultists may have had the last laugh, nah! ..lol..

 

March 27th:

• 1977 Aviation's Disaster

583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain

Tenerife airport disaster - Wikipedia