March 27th in History

Michael Dobson | March 27

Cherry trees planted in DC! In other news, Typhoid Mary is quarantined, two 747s collide in Tenerife, the US Navy is founded, and Viagra® is approved for sale. It's the birthday of Mariah Carey, Quentin Tarantino, Cale Yarborough, Sarah Vaughn, Carl Barks, and Patti Hill, co-author of the song "Happy Birthday." RIP Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, M. C. Escher, Henry Adams, and James VI and I. Happy National "Joe" Day!

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March 15th in History

Michael Dobson | March 15

Caesar stabbed! Plus, Maine secedes from Massachusetts and Germany is reunified. It's the birthday of will.i.am, Jimmy Swaggart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harry James, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Andrew Jackson. RIP Benjamin Spock, Ari Onassis, Lester Young, and H. P. Lovecraft. Happy Дзень Канстытуцы!

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March 16th in History

Michael Dobson | March 16

Massacre in My Lai, Nebuchadnezzar captures Jerusalem to begin the Babylonian Captivity, Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, and Mississippi outlaws slavery...in 1995. It's the birthday of Jerry Lewis, Pat Nixon, Josef Mengele, Henny Youngman, and Georg Ohm; RIP Arthur Godfrey, T. Bone Walker, Judge Roy Bean, and Emperor Tiberius of Rome. In Latvia, it's the Day of the Book Smugglers; in parts of Minnesota it's St. Urdu's Day, celebrating the hero who drove the grasshoppers from Finland!

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