GREETINGS FROM THE TORNADO TAVERN GALLERY and the periodic HISTORY BLOG (take 1)

What start to March in the North! About 10% of the ground still has snow on it. The Sturgeon Bay channel is almost free from ice. Ahh well, we do have snow coming tonight; the weather guy says 4 to 6 inches overnight. The forecast is actually very nice, a little snow and mild temperatures, snowman weather.

The TTG next show is also coming up fast, later this week I’ll start our preparations and replace sold items. This show will be in the Milwaukee area, it’s been a long time since I did a show there and the first time I’ve done a show in Whitnall High School.

 This “blog cycle” will be a little different from the previous blogs. When I started putting it together I got very involved with FDR and realized that the time of Herbert Hoover/FDR have similarities to our present. I felt the same with Andrew Jackson/Donald Trump and let that go; but I’m going to follow through with FDR idea. So, there will be two history blogs this time. I’ll post the regular “Day in History” format first. There are quite a few interesting events in the next two weeks; I would be interested in knowing the ones that catch your eye. I also kept two items separate from the “history chart”, they are listed below;

REMINDER; March 11^th is the day to move your clock time ahead one hour.

March 18^th  – ALDER Month starts

The Alder Month (March 18th - April 14th)

Planet: Neptune

Element: Fire and Water

Symbolism: Release, Shield and Foundation, Determination, Discrimination and Inner Confidence, Royalty

Stone: Amethyst, Lapis Lazuli (understanding the mind) 

Birds: Hawk, Seagulls, Raven

Color: Purple

Deity: Bran, Apollo, Odin, King Arthur

Folk Names: Owler

Ogham: Fearn

DAY in HISTORY

DATE	NAME	HISTORY
3/11/1952	Douglas Adams Birth	Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams was known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, as being a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh, and as a "devout atheist".
3/06/1474	Michelangelo born  Birth	Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist’s apprentice at age 13.
3/14/1879	Albert Einstein born  Birth	On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
3/16/1751	James Madison  Birth	James Madison, “Father of the Constitution”, drafter of the Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the Federalist Papers and fourth president of the United States, is born on a plantation in Virginia.
3/16/1751	James Madison Birth	Future President James Madison is born on this day in 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia. Madison, one of the key drafters of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, became America’s fourth president in 1809. He is considered the Father of the Constitution, though he humbly referred to its development as the work of many heads and many hands.
3/17/1804	Jim Bridger  Birth	Two months before Lewis and Clark begin their epic western expedition, Jim Bridger is born in Richmond, Virginia. Twenty years later, Bridger, heading West along the routes Lewis and Clark pioneered, became one of the greatest mountain men of the 19th century.
3/18/1858	Rudolf Diesel  Birth	Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel; Paris, France (18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine, and for his mysterious death. Diesel was the subject of the 1942 film Diesel.
3/9/1890	Vyacheslav Molotov  Birth	Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, born Skryabin (9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) from 1930 to 1941 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956. He served as First Deputy Premier from 1942 to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. Molotov retired in 1961 after several years of obscurity. The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons. During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications. When Molotov claimed in radio broadcasts that they were not bombing, but rather delivering food to the starving Finns, the Finns started to call the air bombs Molotov bread baskets. Soon they responded by attacking advancing tanks with "Molotov cocktails," which were "a drink to go with the food." According to Montefiore, the Molotov cocktail was one part of Molotov's "cult of personality that the vain Premier surely did not appreciate."
3/16/1903	Judge Roy Bean dies	Roy Bean, the self-proclaimed “law west of the Pecos,” dies in Langtry, Texas. A saloonkeeper and adventurer, Bean’s claim to fame rested on the often humorous and sometimes-bizarre rulings he meted out as a justice of the peace in western Texas during the late 19th century. By then, Bean was in his 50s and had already lived a life full of rough adventures.
3/10/1913	Harriet Tubman dies	Harriet Tubman (c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) Born Araminta Ross as a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.
3/15/1937	H. P. Lovecraft dies	Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
3/12/1945	Anne Frank dies	Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank; (12 June 1929 – February or March 1945) was a German-born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank died in a German concentration camp.
3/12/1955	Charlie Parker dies	Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop,[2] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso, and he introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions.
3/10/1792	John Stuart dies	The Right HonourableJohn Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute and advisor to the British king, George III, dies in London. Although most Americans have never heard his name, Lord Bute played a significant role in the politics of the British empire that spawned the American Revolution.
3/13/1842	Henry Shrapnel dies	Lieutenant General Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.
3/14/1883	Karl Marx dies	Karl Marx; (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.
3/16/0037	Tiberius dies	Roman emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Born Tiberius Claudius Nero, a Claudian, Tiberius was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Octavian, later known as Augustus, in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian.
3/17/0180	Marcus Aurelius dies	Roman emperor from 161 to 180, the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as Meditations, is a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. It is considered by many commentators to be one of the greatest works of philosophy.
3/17/0461	Saint Patrick dies	On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and "Apostle of Ireland", dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Although little is actually known about his life and death. Legend have him as a Roman Britain captured by pirates. He was taken to Ireland as an adolesent and held as a slave. He later escaped and had almost mystical experiences, became a Catholic priest and returned as a missionary to Ireland.
3/18/1314	Jacques de Molay dies	23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar. Molay (or Molai) was arrested on Friday, October 13, 1307 by King Philip IV of France. (NOTE: This was the beginning of the "Friday the 13th curse.) Molay was in France acting a pallbearer for his sister (and sister-in-law of King Philip) at the time. Molay was interigated for heresy and ultimately burned at the stake in Paris, on the Île de la Cité (Island of the City) in the Seine.
3/7/0332  BC	Aristotle dies	Aristotle; (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. Along with Plato, Aristotle is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy", which inherited almost its entire lexicon from his teachings, including problems and methods of inquiry, so influencing almost any form of knowledge known to the modern world.
3/07/1876	The telephone is patented	On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
3/10/1876	The first telephone call	The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
3/7/1904	Japanese bomb Vladivostok	Russo-Japanese War - ends in 1905, The war concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt. The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world observers. The consequences transformed the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage. It was the first major military victory in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one. Scholars continue to debate the historical significance of the war.
3/11/1907	The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907	The Japanese emigrants living in the United States faced discriminatory activity, especially evident in California, where many Japanese had settled. President Teddy Roosevelt induces California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation. The roots of this problem came from Asian immigration to California boomed during the Gold Rush of 1852, but the strict Japanese government practiced policies of isolation that thwarted Japanese emigration.
3/17/1910	The Camp Fire Girls	The Camp Fire Girls are informally founded around Lake Sebago, Maine. The Camp Fire Girls was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. Its programs emphasize camping and other outdoor activities for youth, initially exclusively for girls.
3/12/1912	The Girl Scouts	Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts, in Savannah, Georgia after meeting Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.
3/9/1916	Pancho Villa attacks Columbus, New Mexico	Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader Pancho Villa attacks the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. The U.S. government sent U.S. Army General John J. Pershing to capture Villa, but Villa continued to evade his attackers with guerrilla tactics during the unsuccessful, nine-month incursion into Mexican sovereign territory (Pancho Villa Expedition). This incursion ended when the United States entered World War I and Pershing was recalled.
3/8/1917	February Revolution begins	In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd. One week later, centuries of czarist rule in Russia ended with the abdication of Nicholas II, and Russia took a dramatic step closer toward communist revolution.
3/6/1930	Birdseye frozen food	Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Birdseye was was a  taxidermist, an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry.
3/12/1930	Gandhi leads civil disobedience	On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
3/7/1933	The board game Monopoly is invented.	Monopoly is derived from The Landlord's Game, which was created by Elizabeth Magie in the United States in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints and to promote the economic theories of Henry George and in particular his ideas about taxation.
3/12/1933	FDR gives first fireside chat	On this day in 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly from the White House.
3/12/1933	FDR starts Sunday evening Fireside Chats	Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 28 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of World War II. This would be the predicessor to President Trump's twitters.
3/18/1933	Studebaker goes bankrupt	On this day in 1933, American automaker Studebaker, then heavily in debt, goes into receivership. The company’s president, Albert Erskine, resigned and later that year committed suicide. Studebaker eventually rebounded from its financial troubles, only to close its doors for the final time in 1966.
3/12/1938	Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria	On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an “Anschluss” (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany.
3/18/1939	150th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights	Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also ratify the Bill of Rights in this year. Was there a problem, were they "holding out"? No, there just wasn't any legal need for them to formally ratify the BoR. The remaining 3 states symbolicly ratified the BoR at the 150th Annyversary.
3/8/1948	McCollum v. Board of Education	The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution. The high court revisited the issue of religious instruction in Zorach v. Clauson in 1952. The 6 to 3 ruling in the later case held that a New York program allowing religious education during the school day was permissible, because it did not use public school facilities or public funds.
3/18/1953	Boston Braves to Milwaukee Braves	The baseball years between the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, then Red Caps, then Beaneaters, to the 1912 Boston Braves were tumultuous but roots of the team arguably rival those of the Chicago Cubs as the oldest operating organization. Moved to Milwaukee in 1953. Moved to Atlanta in 1966.
3/9/1954	Republican senators criticize Joseph McCarthy	On this day in 1954, President Eisenhower writes a letter to his friend, Paul Helms, in which he privately criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy’s approach to rooting out communists in the federal government. Senate Republicans level criticism at fellow Republican Joseph McCarthy and take action to limit his power. The criticism and actions were indications that McCarthy’s glory days, that began as a publicity stunt, as the most famous investigator of communist activity in the United States were coming to an end.
3/13/1954	Viet Minh attack French garrison	A force of 40,000 Viet Minh with heavy artillery surround 15,000 French troops at Dien Bien Phu. French General Henri Navarre had positioned these forces 200 miles behind enemy lines in a remote area adjacent to the Laotian border. He hoped to draw the communists into a set-piece battle in which he hoped superior French firepower would destroy the enemy. He underestimated the enemy.
3/8/1957	Egypt opens the Suez Canal	Following Israel’s withdrawal from occupied Egyptian territory, the Suez Canal is reopened to international traffic. However, the canal was so littered with wreckage from the Suez Crisis that it took weeks of cleanup by Egyptian and United Nations workers before larger ships could navigate the waterway.
3/14/1958	The RIAA awards first Gold Record	On March 14, 1958, the RIAA awarded its first official Gold Record to Perry Como for his smash-hit single “Catch A Falling Star.” For as long as most people have been buying popular music on records, tapes and compact disks, the records, tapes and disks they’ve bought have carried labels like “Certified Gold!” and “Double Platinum!!” Those labels have been in use since the early days of the rock-and-roll era, when a young trade organization called the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) created and trademarked its precious-metals-based scale for measuring music sales.
3/5/1963	Hula-Hoop patented	On this day in 1963, the Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone. look at Wham-o history
3/7/1965	Bloody Sunday	Peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma, Ala., are brutally attacked with billy clubs and tear gas by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event is later called “Bloody Sunday.”
3/13/1965	Eric Clapton leaves the Yardbirds	In and of itself, one man leaving one band in the middle of the 1960s might warrant little more than a historical footnote. But what makes the departure of Eric Clapton from the Yardbirds on March 13, 1965, more significant is the long and complicated game of musical chairs it set off within the world of British blues rock. When Clapton walked out on the Yardbirds, he did more than just change the course of his own career. He also set in motion a chain of events that would see not just one, but two more guitar giants pass through the Yardbirds on their way toward significant futures of their own. And through the various groups they would later form, influence, join and quit, these three guitar heroes—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page—would shape more than a decade’s worth of rock and roll.
3/15/1965	Johnson calls for equal voting rights	On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting rights for all. LBJ more than any other president, fully embrassed the inequality of Black America. LBJ - “Their cause must be our cause, too,” the president said of the Selma activists. “Because it’s not just Negroes, but really it’s all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.”
3/16/1968	My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam	On this day in 1968, a platoon of American soldiers brutally slaughter more than 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.
3/10/1970	Army captain charged with My Lai war crimes	The U.S. Army accuses Capt. Ernest Medina and four other soldiers of committing crimes at My Lai in March 1968. The charges ranged from premeditated murder to rape and the “maiming” of a suspect under interrogation. Medina was the company commander of Lt. William Calley and other soldiers charged with murder and numerous crimes at My Lai 4 in Song My village.
3/8/1978	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast	Douglas Adams' radio play was a major success with BBC Radio 4 listeners. The book version consisting of five novels - A Trilogy in Five Parts - became a worldwide success.
3/8/1979	The compact disc is presented to the public	The CD was developed by Philips and Sony. The companies later collaborated to produce a standard format and CD players.
3/5/1981	The home computer ZX81 is launched	The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. The computer had 1KB on board memory and connected to a UHF TV, sold over 1.5 million units.
3/11/1997	Paul McCartney knighted	On this day in 1997, Paul McCartney, a former member of the most successful rock band in history, The Beatles, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his “services to music.” The 54-year-old lad from Liverpool became Sir Paul in a centuries-old ceremony of pomp and solemnity at Buckingham Palace in central London. Fans waited outside in a scene reminiscent of Beatlemania of the 1960s. Crowds screamed as McCartney swept through the gates in his chauffeur-driven limousine and he answered with a thumbs-up.
3/06/1857	Dred Scott v. Sandford	On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, slaves could not be American citizens and could not sue the federal government, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. Proponents of slavery hoped that this would settle the "slave issue", however it created such a backlash that many view it as a indirect catalyst for the Civil War.
3/06/1899	Bayer patents aspirin	On this day in 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. look at history of company. A precursor to aspirin in the form of leaves from the willow tree has been used for its health effects for at least 2,400 years.
3/08/1781	Spanish siege of Pensacola begins	After successfully capturing British positions in Louisiana and Mississippi, Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish forces in North America, turns his attention to the British-occupied city of Pensacola, Florida, on this day in 1781. General Galvez and a Spanish naval force of more than 40 ships and 3,500 men landed at Santa Rosa Island and begin a two-month siege of British occupying forces that becomes known as the Battle of Pensacola.
3/08/1782	Pennsylvania militiamen senselessly murder Patriot allies	On this day in 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militiamen murder 96 Christian Indians–39 children, 29 women and 28 men–by hammering their skulls with mallets from behind as they kneel unarmed, praying and singing, in their Moravian Mission at Gnadenhuetten in the Ohio Country. The Patriots then piled their victims’ bodies in mission buildings before burning the entire community to the ground. Two boys managed to survive, although one had lost his scalp to his attackers. Although the militiamen claimed they were seeking revenge for Indian raids on their frontier settlements, the Indians they murdered had played no role in any attack.
3/08/1893	Emmet Dalton goes to prison	Emmet Dalton, the only survivor of the Dalton Gang’s disastrous attempt to rob two Kansas banks, begins serving a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary.
3/09/1841	Supreme Court rules on Amistad mutiny	At the end of a historic case, the U.S. Supreme Court rules, with only one dissent, that the African slaves who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus are free under American law. What was the effect on history?
3/09/1862	U.S.S. Monitor battles C.S.S. Virginia	On this day in 1862, one of the most famous naval battles in American history occurs as two ironclads,the U.S.S.Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginiafight to a draw off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ships pounded each other all morning but their armor plates easilydeflected the cannon shots, signaling a new era of steam-powered iron ships.
3/10/0049 BC	Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon	The Great Roman Civil War, also known as Caesar's Civil War transitioned the “Roman Republic” to the Roman Empire. Caesar, just bac from the Gallic Wars, formed an alliance with Pompey, and Marcus Licinius Crassus establishing the First Triumvirate to rule Rome. Caesar soon advocated reforms that threatened the Senate. The Senate lead by Pompey, fearful of Caesar, asserted their authority over the army. Caesar retaliated took the army and marched on Rome (crossed the Rubicon), Pompey fled to Rome and organized an army to stop Caesar and lost
3/10/0515 BC	The Second Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed	According to the Book of Ezra, construction of the Second Temple was authorized by Cyrus the Great and began in 538 BCE, after the fall of the Babylonian Empire the year before. It was completed 23 years later, on the third day of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the Great (12 March 515 BCE), dedicated by the Jewish governor Zerubbabel.
3/10/1776	"Common Sense" is published	““Common Sense” is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776. The pamphlet presents straightforward arguments for American Independence and a democratic republic. The pamphlet is written in persuasive, easy to understand language. It addressed his points with prevailing Protestant beliefs, calling forth a clear American identity. It was called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era".
3/11/1779	Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	On this day in 1779, Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help plan, design and prepare environmental and structural facilities for the U.S. Army. Made up of civilian workers, members of the Continental Army and French officers, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers played an essential role in the critical Revolutionary War battles at Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown.
3/11/1888	Great Blizzard of ’88 hits East Coast	On this day in 1888, one of the worst blizzards in American history strikes the Northeast, killing more than 400 people and dumping as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas. New York City ground to a near halt in the face of massive snow drifts and powerful winds from the storm. At the time, approximately one in every four Americans lived in the area between Washington D.C. and Maine, the area affected by the Great Blizzard of 1888.
3/13/1868	Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins	For the first time in U.S. history, the impeachment trial of an American president gets underway in the U.S. Senate. President Andrew Johnson, reviled by the Republican-dominated Congress for his views on Reconstruction, stood accused of having violated the controversial Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress over his veto in 1867.
3/15/0044 BC	The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered	Julius Caesar, the”dictator for life”of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as sixty noblemen, including Caesar’s own protege, Marcus Brutus.
3/15/0933	Henry the Fowler	Henry the Fowler, (876 – 2 July 936) was the duke of Saxony from 912 and the elected king of East Francia (became Germany) from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king, he established the Ottonian Dynasty of kings and emperors. Henry successfully protected East Francia from invaders from the East. Henry the Fowler routs the raiding Magyars at Merseburg, Germany. Magyars were a Hungarian clan from the Ural Mountains.
3/15/1783	Washington puts an end to the Newburgh Conspiracy	On the morning of March 15, 1783, General George Washington makes a surprise appearance at an assembly of army officers at Newburgh, New York, to calm the growing frustration and distrust they had been openly expressing towards Congress in the previous few weeks. Angry with Congress for failing to honor its promise to pay them and for its failure to settle accounts for repayment of food and clothing, officers began circulating an anonymous letter condemning Congress and calling for a revolt.
3/17/1762	First St. Patrick’s Day parade	In New York City, the first parade honoring the Catholic feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is held by Irish soldiers serving in the British army.
3/18/1766	Parliament repeals the Stamp Act	The Stamp Act was a taxation measure on all printed materials it was enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. Parliament argued that the Colonials did not own land and therefore were represented by the colonial British landowners. The Colonials refuted this by pointing out “the relation between the British Americans, and the English electors, is a knot too infirm to be relied on.” (i.e. not enough in common between Parliament and the Colonials to justify imposing the law without the consent of the Colonials). The phrase “No taxation without representation” was coined and survived to the Revolutionary War.
3/18/1834	Tolpuddle Martyrs banished to Australia	In England, six English agricultural laborers are sentenced to seven years of banishment to Australia’s New South Wales penal colony for their trade union activities.
3/18/1852	Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company	On this day in 1852, in New York City, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo join with several other investors to launch their namesake business.
3/18/1881	Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth	Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden.
3/6/1836	The Alamo falls to Mexican forces.	Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders.
3/6/1869	The first periodic table of chemical elements is presented	Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.
3/6/1884	Susan B. Anthony	Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.