This Tweet in History (Archives): March 2010

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Here are your top stories for the week ending March 27, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Canary Islands, March 27, 1977 - World's worst airline disaster occurs on the ground in Tenerife: http://bit.ly/cYxSbc
The Back-Story: [SFX:Undertow]A terrorist bombing at the Gran Canaria airport, on Las Palmas, in the Spanish Canary Islands, set off the chain of events that resulted in the worst aviation disaster in history. The bomb caused the Gran Canaria airport to close, and it's incoming traffic, including the ill-fated KLM and PanAm 747s, were diverted to the smaller airport at Los Rodeos. The KLM pilot, seeking to get back in the air before his daily allotment of flight hours expired, interpreted a transmission from the tower as giving him clearance to take off and headed down a runway which he'd been instructed to wait for the big PanAm jet to clear. In the foggy conditions, the two flight crews saw each other too late, and, although the PanAm crew tried to turn aside into a ditch and the KLM crew tried to rush into the air, the KLM jet's lower fuselage tore through the PanAm's upper fuselage. In the end, of the 628 passengers and crew on the airliners, only 61, all of whom had been aboard the PanAm jet, survived. [SFX:]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Germany, March 21 1970 - Vinko Bogataj experiences the agony of defeat: http://bit.ly/aUyKf0
The Back-Story: [SFX: Fanfare for the Common Man; I Believe I Can Fly; How Can I Fall; Fame] It was footage that became iconic to a generation, and a catchphrase that worked itself into the American lexicon, as every Saturday, a nation observed Vinko Bogataj's spectacular wipe-out illustrating Jim Mckey's narration as, "The Agony of Defeat." Although the footage that accompanied the rest of the narration was rotated periodically, Bogataj's crash stayed constant. For all of his fame, Bogataj was, in the days before the internet, an anonymous icon in the US, and, in his native Slovenia, totally unaware of his stature and was baffled by an invitation to attend an anniversary celebratio for the program some 20 years later. [SFX:]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In other news: DATELINE San Francisco, March 25 1957 - US Customs, howling mad, seizes imported copies of Ginsberg's opus: http://bit.ly/5yWgaZ
The Back-Story: [SFX:Howl; Me & Julio] Allen Ginsberg's first reading of his masterwork, "Howl" was a defining moment in the genesis of The Beat movement. It is a wide-ranging, breathy, breathless work that both observed and epitomized the experiences of young intellectuals of the generation that was to come of age in the 1960s, Vietnam-war era. In this free-flowing stream of structured chaos, no holds were barred - and therein lay the problem. Seizing on its uncensored - and, in some cases, metaphoric - references to sexuality and homosexuality, the US government declared the poem obscene, seizing imported copies and taking Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose City Lights publishing company published it dometically, to trial on obscenity charges. Ultimately, the poem was declared not obscene and went on to become the most popular piece produced by The Beat movement. [SFX: ]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

March 21: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
March 22: Composer Stephen Sondheim
March 23: Director Akira Kurosawa
March 24: Escape Artist Harry Houdini
March 25: Composer Bela Bartok
March 26:Poet Robert Frost, and
March 27: Poet Louis Simpson

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WRLD: 1977 - World's worst airline disaster occurs on the ground in Tenerife

SPRT: 1871 - Scotland bests England in first international rugby match

ENTR: 1973 - Littlefeather stands in for Brando; takes stand against Hollywood's depiction of Native Americans

BDAY: Xuxa; Michael York; Sarah Vaughan; Louis Simpson

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Friday, March 26, 2010

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WRLD: 1979 - Camp David negotiations bear fruit of Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty

SPRT: 1839 - First Henley Regatta

OTHR: 1974 - Protesting peasants in India hug trees against deforestation

BDAY: Leonard Nimoy; Sandra Day O'Connor; Tennessee Williams; Robert Frost

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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WRLD: 1975 - Saudi prince, Faisal, assassinates his uncle, King Faisal

SPRT: 1950 - Norwegian ski jumpers bring their own snow to contest in England

OTHR: 1957 - US Customs, howling mad, seizes imported copies of Ginsberg's opus

BDAY: Elton John; Aretha Franklin; Bela Bartok; Arturo Toscanini

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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WRLD: 1989 / 1976 -Tanker Disasters: Valdez hits / Cadiz Splits

SPRT: 1936 - 176 minutes of shut-out hockey isn't enough for Montreal in 1-0 loss to Detroit in NHL's longest game

OTHR: 1832 - Joseph Smith tarred, feathered

BDAY: Steve McQueen; Joseph Barbera; Fatty Arbuckle; Harry Houdini

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Monday, March 22, 2010

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WRLD: 1801 - Drunk assassins stab, strangle, trample Russia's Tsar Paul

SPRT: 1994 - Great One passes Mr. Hockey yet again; this time, with 802nd goal

OTHR: 1839 - Boston Morning Post makes misspelling OK

BDAY: Chaka Khan; Wernher Von Braun; Akira Kurosawa; Joan Crawford

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

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WRLD: 1995 - Polyakov returns from record 438 days in space

SPRT: 1894 - After 4 of league's 5 teams notch identical records, Montreal defeats Ottawa in 1st Stanley Cup final

TECH: 1960 - Patent for laser published

BDAY: Andrew Lloyd Webber; George Benson; Stephen Sondheim; Marcel Marceau

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

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WRLD: 1990 - Namibia breaks free from 70 years of South African rule

SPRT: 1970 - Vinko Bogataj experiences the agony of defeat

OTHR: 1800 - Pius VII, in exile, launches Papal fashion trend with paper tiara

BDAY: Ronaldinho; Flo Ziegfeld; Modest Mussorgsky; Johann Sebastian Bach

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HistorTweet Week in Review - W/E March 20, 2010

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Here are your top stories for the week ending March 20, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Stockholm, March 16, 1793 - Masked assassin shoots Sweden's masked king: http://bit.ly/bZSSIr
The Back-Story: [SFX: You Give Love a Bad Name; Point Blank;]At dinner on the fateful night, Sweden’s King Gustav III was passed a note containing a death threat. These were not unusual in his experience, and he ignored it. Later that evening, he made his way to the Royal Opera House for a masquerade party. Gustav, easily recognizable by the royal star on his cape, was surrounded by three men and shot through the heart from the back in a conspiracy aimed at coup d’etat. Gustav was not die immediately, and continued to carry out his duties for another two weeks before succumbing to the wound, which had become infected. [SFX: Dead On Time; The Party's Over;]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Philadelphia, March 20, 1934 - Philly's pitcher's a Babe! http://bit.ly/chtElL
The Back-Story: [SFX: You’re Fabulous, Babe; Babe] Mildred “Babe” Didrikson found success in many sports, from bowling to boxing; softball to basketbal. She won championships in tennis and golf, and olympic medals in track and field. Didrikson parlayed her fame into stunts on stage and in the athletic field, and, although she was not the first woman to pitch in a major-league baseball exhibition game, she was, at the time, the most famous, when she pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics in the first inning of a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers., hitting the first batter she faced and walking the second before the side was retired without a hit on a triple play. [SFX:Centerfield; Take Me Out to the Ballgame;]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In other news: DATELINE South Pole March 16, 1912 - Oates steps outside, in noble but ultimately vain effort to save his comrades: http://bit.ly/DZpTd
The Back-Story: [SFX:Baby, it’s cold outside; Don't Leave Me This Way] Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates was selected for Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole in 1910. party of 14 advanced steadily during the journey 895-mile journey, with various support members sent back at pre-determined stages until five men, including Oates, remained to walk the last 167 miles. The men reached the pole, only to find a tent that Roald Amundsen and his team had left behind 35 days earlier when they won the race to become the first to reach the pole. Disheartened, the men began their ill-fated trip back to base camp, marked by bad weather, lack of food, injuries from falls, and scurvy, exacerbated by frostbite. The men needed to average nine miles a day to get to the two-week supplies of food that the team had emplaced at 65-mile intervals. Captain Oates, frostbitten and with his war wounds opened by scurvy, realized that he was not able to keep. The team refused his request to leave him behind in his sleeping bag, although he was causing them to fall behind schedule. On the morning of March 17th, he told his three surviving companions, “I am just going outside and may be some time.” They tried to talk him out of it, but in the end, Scott’s diary records, he persisted in “the act of a brave man and English gentleman,” into -40 degree termperatures to his death. Sadly, the rest of polar explorers passed away nine days later, without making it back to base.[SFX:Thank You for Being a Friend;What I Did For Love; Wind Beneath My Wings; Toughest Street In Town ]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

March 14: Physicist Albert Einstein
March 15: Blues musician Lightnin’ Hopkins
March 16: US President James Madison
March 17: Dancer Rudolf Nureyev
March 18: South African President FW de Klerk
March 19: , US Marshal Wyatt Earp, and
March 20: Children’s TV’s beloved Mr. Rogers http://pbskids.org/rogers/

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WRLD: 1995 - Cult unleashes deadly Sarin gas on Tokyo subways

SPRT: 1934 - Philly's pitcher's a Babe!

HUH?: 1345 - Triple Conjunction occurs, causing the Black Death, according to Paris College of Physicians

BDAY: Kathy Ireland; Spike Lee; Mr. Rogers; B.F. Skinner

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Friday, March 19, 2010

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WRLD: 1982 - Argentine forces plant flag in Georgia, sparking war with UK

SPRT: 1954 - Mosconi runs record 526 in a row in straight pool exhibition

HUH?: 1842 - Balzac's writing skills no match for his PR ineptitude as publicity stunt draws empty house on opening day

BDAY: Bruce Willis; Glenn Close; Ursula Andress; Wyatt Earp

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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WRLD: 1970 - Right-wing Nol ousts Sihanouk in Cambodian coup

SPRT: 1893 - Lord Stanley pledges a silver cup to hockey's best team

OTHR: 1314 - de Molay immolated, Charney charred in fiery finale to Knights Templar

BDAY: F.W. deKlerk; John Updike; George Plimpton; Grover Cleveland

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WRLD: 1957 - Philippine pres perishes in plane crash

SPRT: 1984 - 130th Oxford-Cambridge race scuttled as Cambridge boat collides with barge in warm ups, sinks

OTHR: 1901 - Van Gogh gets major exhibition, recognition 11 years after his suicide

BDAY: Mia Hamm; Gary Sinise; Rudolf Nureyev; Nat "King" Cole

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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WRLD: 1793 - Masked assassin shoots Sweden's masked king

SPRT: 2003 - 2/1000 second separate winner, Craven, from runner-up, Busch, in Darlington

OTHR: 1912 - Oates steps outside, in noble but ultimately vain effort to save his comrades

BDAY: Flavor Flav; Jerry Lewis; Henny Youngman; James Madison

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

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WRLD: 44 BC - Brutality by Brutus, et al., brings down Caesar on the Ides of March

SPRT: 1970 - Orr scores 100th four; first defenseman to break 100 pts in single season

TECH: 1985 - First registered domain on the interweb is Symbolics

BDAY: Fabio; Sly Stone; Lightnin' Hopkins; Andrew Jackson

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

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WRLD: 1990 - Premier Gorbachev elected Soviets' first, only, short-lived president of Soviet Union

SPRT: 1980 - US Boxing team among casualties in Polish air tragedy

OTHR: 1757 - Bravery and Loyalty are Insufficient Securities for the Life and Honour of a Naval Officer

BDAY: Billy Crystal; Quincy Jones; Frank Borman; Albert Einstein

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HistorTweet Week in Review - W/E March 13, 2010

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Here are your top stories for the week ending March 13, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE France, March 9, 1765 - Three years after his conviction, torture, and execution, Jean Calas' sentence is overturned: http://bit.ly/9cXv6G
The Back-Story: [SFX: Robbery, Assault and Battery;] In an era of predominant Catholicism in France, Protestant Jean Calas and his family were looked down upon and mistrusted. When one of Calas' sons was found dead after another had converted to Catholicism, the rumor swirled that Jean had killed the second son in order to prevent him, too, from converting. The following Spring, Calas was convicted of murder. A day after the conviction, the brutal sentence was carried out: Calas was tortured and kiled. France's famed writer, Voltaire, was apprised of the case and, after the furor had died down, secured a full exoneration for Calas on the one-year anniversary of his conviction. [SFX: Blame it on Cain; Mystery Dance]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Baltimore, March 11, SPRT: 1901 - Orioles sign Chief Tokohama, seeking to evade baselballs black-out: http://bit.ly/bfuOpe
The Back-Story: [SFX: Black or White; Celebrity Skin] Years before Jackie Robinson crossed baseball’s color line, there was Charles Grant. Grant was a second baseman in the Negro leagues, who came to the attention of John McGraw, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, when the team stayed at the Eastland Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, during spring training. Grant, a bellhop at the hotel, was playing a pick-up game with fellow employees. McGraw recognized Grant’s major league talent, and signed the light-skinned player up under the pretense that he was a native American, “Chief” Charlie Tokohama. Grant was never to play in the bigs, though: On a siwng through Chicago, where Grant had plaed in the Negro Leagues, he was feted by his former teammates and recognized by Chicago White Sox president Charles Comiskey. [SFX:Centerfield; Renegade; Take Me Out to the Ballgame;]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE London, March 10, ENTR: 1988 - Drug-weakened heart gives out, and disco phenom dies just after 30th birthday: http://bit.ly/9NuSsg
The Back-Story: [SFX:] Andy Gibb was a shooting star in the music world, the first artist to have his first 3 releases reach number one, in the height of the disco craze. Like a shooting star, he burned out far too quickly, felled by disco’s meteoric fall from favor and his own cocaine addictions. His star appeared to be on the rise again, a decade after his fall, on a ride that included bankruptcy and rehab. Shortly after his 30th birthday, Gibb, who was about to start work on a new record, went into the hosptial with stomach pains. Three days later, he was dead of an inflammation of the heart. Although he was long over his cocaine addiction, the damage that the drug had done to his heart was irreversible. [SFX: ]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

March 7: Composer Maurice Ravel
March 8: Monkee Micky Dolenz
March 9: Explorer Amerigo Vespucci
March 10: Jazz Musician Bix Beiderbecke
March 11: Author Douglas Adams
March 12: Author Jack Kerouac dharmabeat.com
March 13: Singer-Songwriter Neil Sedaka

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Friday, March 12, 2010

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WRLD: 1989 - Magnetic storm KOs Quebec's power grid

TECH: 1781 - Herschel discovers Uranus, to the delight of mispronouncing punsters everywhere

OTHR: 1997 - Mystery, controversy as Phoenix Lights up

BDAY: Adam Clayton; Dana Delany; Neil Sedaka; L. Ron Hubbard

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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WRLD: 1993 - Bombs away in old Bombay

SPRT: 1903 - Orioles migrate north, join AL as Highlanders before becoming Yankees

OTHR: 1918 - St. Pete's out; Moscow's back in asRussian capital

BDAY: James Taylor; Liza Minnelli; Edward Albee; Jack Kerouac

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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WRLD: 1990 - Aylwin's swearing in ends Chile's nearly 2-decade drought of democratically elected leaders

SPRT: 1901 - Orioles sign Chief Tokohama, seeking to evade baselballs black-out

OTHR: 1818 - Shelley creates a monster

BDAY: Douglas Adams; Bobby McFerrin; Ralph Abernathy; Lawrence Welk

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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WRLD: 1959 - 300,000 Tibetan faithful form a human shield around Dalai Lama's palace

SPRT: 1988 - Swiss avalanche hits Brit royals' ski trip; spares prince, claims close friend

ENTR: 1988 - Drug-weakened heart gives out, and disco phenom dies just after 30th birthday

BDAY: Prince Edward; Kim Campbell; Chuck Norris; Bix Beiderbecke

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

++This Tweet in History: March 8, 2010++

WRLD: 1782 - PA Militiamen slaughter Native American Moravians in false retaliation

SPRT: 1971 - Frazier takes Battle of the Century, heavyweight title from Ali

ENTR: 1993 - Rude, crude works as Beavis & Butthead, MTV's highest-ranked show, debuts

BDAY: Freddie Prinze, Jr.; Aidan Quinn; Micky Dolenz; Cyd Charisse

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

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WRLD: 1799 - Napoleon takes Jaffa; slaughter of Turks follows

SPRT: 1987 - Iron Mike crushes some bones to become youngest undisputed heavyweight champ

OTHR: 1974 - As Nero to his fiddle, Nixon takes to the piano while Watergate's flames rise

BDAY: Ivan Lendl; Willard Scott; Maurice Ravel; Piet Mondrian

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HistorTweet Week in Review - W/E March 6, 2010

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Here are your top stories for the week ending March 6, 2010:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Philadelphia, March 4, WRLD: 1797 - Washington, Adams establish precedent of peaceful transtion between elected leaders: http://bit.ly/d8II6F
The Back-Story: [SFX: Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree; Young American; I’ll be around] The post-revolutionary United States of America had all the prerequisites for a dictatorship: A land devastated, emotionally and economically by a long war, the commanding general of which was anointed national leader. They, however, departed from the script, when their leader, George Washington, declined the trappings and titles of power, opting to be called Mr. President, rather than His Royal Highness or something similar. Most extraordinarily, after having served two terms in office, Mr, Washington chose on his own not to seek a further term of office. His vice president, John Adams, a stalwart in the movement for independence, was elected to replace him. On a crisp Philadelphia morning in March, in front of Congressional Hall, Adams was sworn in, bringing to completion the first peaceful transition between elected leaders in modern history. [SFX: But, Mr. Adams]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Los Angeles, March 4, 1990 - Hank Gathers is gathered home: http://bit.ly/4DhVMS
The Back-Story: [SFX: ]After Loyola-Marymount University’s basketball star, Hank Gathers, collapsed at the foul line during a game, he was diagnosed with an abnormal heartbeat and treated with a beta-blocker, Inderal, to counteract the effects of adrenaline and smooth out his heart’s rhythms. The drug made him sluggish and tired, and affected his game. When doctors refused to change his dosage, he began reducing it on his own and skipping testing. His game improved as his health declined. Ultimately, early in a game in the West Coast Conference tournament, Gathers tumbled to the courtunable to get up. Medics were unable to revive the young star. [SFX:Schicksalslied]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE US: February 28, 1983 - After 11 years, M*A*S*H bids viewers Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen: http://bit.ly/TCIiP
The Back-Story: [SFX:Just one of those things]For over a decade, the TV series, M*A*S*H brought us a piece of the Forgotten War, the Korean conflict, spinning tales of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in America’s living rooms. After 250 episodes, the series finale, Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, aired, in what was a landmark TV event. Multiple writers, including “Hawkeye” Pierce’s Alan Alda, collaborated on a script that highlighted the individual personnel in the unit and sought to close out the story lines. The episodem, which held the record for most total viewership until this year’s Super Bowl, still stands as the most-watched broadcast in America on the basis of ratings share. [SFX: Suicide is painless]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

February 28: Actor Zero Mostel
March 1: Author Ralph Ellison
March 2: Composer Bedrich Smetana
March 3: Inventor Alexander Graham Bell
March 4: Singer Miriam Makeba
March 5: Actor Rex Harrison
March 6: Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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