March 12th in History

Michael Dobson | March 12

The Girl Scouts USA are founded, FDR makes a fireside chat, Bernie Madoff pleads guilty, and there's a problem at the Fukushima power plan. Happy birthday to Darryl Strawberry, James Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Buckwheat, along with no-first-names-needed Kerouac, Nijinsky, Boycott, and Studebaker. RIP Woody Hayes, Charlie Parker, George Westinghouse, and John "Fredo" Cazale. Happy Graekarismessa!

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March 13th in History

Michael Dobson | March 13

Uranus is discovered; schoolchildren everywhere snicker. In other news, the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto begins, Kitty Genovese is murdered, and Apollo 9 returns to Earth. It's the birthday of airport namesake Butch O'Hare, scientologist L. Ron Hubbard, and tea drinker Earl Grey. RIP Clarence Darrow, Susan B. Anthony, shattering cannonball inventor Henry Shrapnel, and Robert Baker, who invented the chicken nugget. Happy Monkey Festival!

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March 14th in History

Michael Dobson | March 14

3.14...must be Pi Day! In other news, Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald and the British build a 22,000 lb. earthquake bomb. It's the birthday of astronauts Eugene Cernan and Frank Borman, along with Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Casey Jones, and Albert Einstein! RIP to Busby Berkeley, Karl Marx, and Balto the Sled Dog.

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