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1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) popularizes the term and draws attention to division of Europe.

1836 - Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of fighting during Texas Revolution between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexicans overwhelmed the Texians at the Alamo. Between 182 and 257 Texians died, including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church.

1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.

1917 - Russia's "February Revolution" began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the "February Revolution" due to Russia's use of the Old Style calendar.

1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.

1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 - Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.

2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.

1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.

1894 A dog license law is enacted in New York State. It’s the first animal control law in the United States.

1910 Baroness de Laroche of France becomes the first woman to obtain a pilot’s license.

1930 Babe Ruth signs a contract worth $80,000 with the New York Yankees.

1945 Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.

1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.

1962 The Beatles perform for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain.

ACHTUNG! THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN ATTACKED

1916: It begins in earnest. At about 4:00 am on March 9, 1916, Villa's troops attacked Columbus, New Mexico, and Camp Furlong, the U.S. Army post there, where four troops of the 13th Cavalry Regiment had been stationed since September 1912. Ten civilians and eight soldiers were killed in the attack, and two civilians and six soldiers wounded. The raiders burned the town, stole horses and mules, and seized machine guns, ammunition and merchandise, before fleeing back to Mexico.However, Villa's troops had suffered considerable losses, with at least sixty-seven dead and dozens more wounded. Many of the casualties were inflicted when the machine gun platoon of the 13th Cavalry led by 2nd Lt.John P. Lucas set up its guns under fire on the town square. About thirteen of Villa's wounded later died of their wounds, and five Villistas taken prisoner by the Americans were summarily executed. [WIKI] A clear violation of the rules of war IMHO. When one considers that the Reconquista ie the present day peaceful unremitting flow of Hispanics northward into the United State From the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, has resulted in their legalization: issuance of driver licenses, Consular IDs, social services and general acceptance of the Fait accompli of illegal immigration in California in particular and the Southwest in general ...ol' Pancho just kicked things off with a bang... Viva Villa! I can hardly complain: without 'em, my house wouldn't be clean and the world-famous wine grapes of Napa would rot in the fields. Proof positive; the City of San José, CA... world capitol of Silicon Valley, legally put the accent back on 'José'!:huh: Good thing mom made me study Spanish in school!:up: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...olier_crop.jpg http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2010/05/25/illegal-immigration-and-the-reconquest-of-americas-southwest/ ...Still valid required reading. "The territory lost in the 19th century by … Mexico … seems to be restoring itself through a humble people who go on settling various zones that once were ours on the old maps. Land, under any concept of possession, ends up in the hands of those who deserve it. …[The result of this migration is to return the land] to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot." :huh:

1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.

Come on guys - how did you all miss this one:har:

Today in 1959 the Barbie doll first appeared at the American International Toy Fair. Barbie's debut outfit was a black and white zebra striped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail. This is still worn by some of the world's more daring male hipsters.

And boy-oh-boy how we have grown from there :oops:

1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson).

1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

1917 - A German submarine sinks an unamred US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.

Tea party politics and the salt of the earth

1930: "Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He implored his thousands of followers to likewise begin making salt along the seashore, "wherever it is convenient" and to instruct villagers in making illegal, but necessary, salt. Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax...talk about a peaceful march for freedom here! NOT! "You must not use any violence under any circumstances. You will be beaten, but you must not resist: you must not even raise a hand to ward off blows." Soldiers began clubbing the Marchers with steel tipped lathis in an incident that attracted international attention. This was a brilliantly simple protest, which could involve men, women and children of all ages, castes and creeds. With the aging Gandhi in humble garb, walking with a staff and leading his people to freedom, its symbolism was exquisitely pitched for a Western audience as well as for the Indian masses. To protest a small tax on a substance nature gives for FREE...salt! United Press correspondent Webb Miller reported that:

Not one of the marchers even raised an arm to fend off the blows. They went down like ten-pins. From where I stood I heard the sickening whacks of the clubs on unprotected skulls. The waiting crowd of watchers groaned and sucked in their breaths in sympathetic pain at every blow. Those struck down fell sprawling, unconscious or writhing in pain with fractured skulls or broken shoulders. In two or three minutes the ground was quilted with bodies. Great patches of blood widened on their white clothes. The survivors without breaking ranks silently and doggedly marched on until struck down....Finally the police became enraged by the non-resistance....They commenced savagely kicking the seated men in the abdomen and testicles. The injured men writhed and squealed in agony, which seemed to inflame the fury of the police....The police then began dragging the sitting men by the arms or feet, sometimes for a hundred yards, and throwing them into ditches. Vithalbhai Patel, former Speaker of the Assembly, watched the beatings and remarked, "All hope of reconciling India with the British Empire is lost forever." Miller's first attempts at telegraphing the story to his publisher in England were censored by the British telegraph operators in India. Only after threatening to expose British censorship was his story allowed to pass. The story appeared in 1,350 newspapers throughout the world and was read into the official record of the United States Senate... " [Wiki] Who knows what leads to what...we had a little 1770's 'unreconciled' Tea Party in Boston...:hmmm:The Salt March to Dandi, and the beating by British police of hundreds of nonviolent protesters in Dharasana, which received worldwide news coverage, demonstrated the effective use of passive civil disobedience as a technique for fighting social and political injustice. "The teachings of Gandhi and the March to Dandi had a significant influence on American activist Martin Luther King Jr. in the Movement

that culminated in massive equality legislation and Civil Rights for blacks and other minority groups in the 1960s...Selma and Bloody Sunday... not a lot of police tactical improvement here in 35 years IMHO-3/7/1965>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nstrators.jpeg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ce_attack.jpeg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Salt_March.jpgGandhi: the 'March to the Sea' 1930

This day in 1951:

To Mr and Mrs Aktung,

http://i.imgur.com/q1itK8z.jpg?1 a bouncing 'bby boy...

1884 - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins.