Today's History - Mar 21
Gary Baumgartner
Today is Tuesday March 21, 2006.
This is the 81st day of the year, there are 285 days left.
Happy Birthday to...
In 1890 Clayton Douglass Buck 49th Governor of Delaware
In 1814 Abram Adams Hammond 12th Governor of Indiana
In 1786 Joseph Vance 13th Governor of Ohio
In 1854 James Withycombe 15th Governor of Oregon
In 1748 Arnoldus Van der Horst 7th Governor of South Carolin
In 1820 Horace Fairbanks 38th Governor of Vermont
In 1853 William Wallace Stickney 50th Governor of Vermont
In 1918 Patrick J. Lucey 38th Governor of Wisconsin
In 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
In 1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
In 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
On this day...
1st Quarter, Week 12, Day 3
12 Days - Daylight Savings Time
26 Days - Easter
49 Days - 24 hour Sunlight for Barrow, Alaska - North U.S. City
54 Days - Mother's Day
69 Days - U.S. Memorial Day
85 Days - U.S. American Flag Day
89 Days - Father's Day
In Southern Hemisphere its start of Autumn
In 2006 331 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2007 - New Orleans, LA, USA
In 2006 681 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2008
In 2006 1066 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2009
In 2006 1437 Days - Mission Trip to Mardi Gras 2010
Moscow, Russia - Sunrise/Set 6:29 AM 6:46 PM
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Sunrise/set 6:03 AM 6:12 PM
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Sunrise/Set 6:26 AM 6:36 PM
Earth Day
The First Day of Spring... Tra-la Tra-la
Natl Teen-Agers Day
Start of Persian and Bahม'ย New Years
In 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California, paradise found.
In 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery
In 1965 US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
Thought for the day...
In 1953 David Sholtz 25th Governor of Florida
In 2002 Herman E. Talmadge 68th & 70th Governor of Georgia
In 1881 William George Crosby 18th Governor of Maine
In 1961 Morgan Foster Larson 54th Governor of New Jersey
In 1937 Edwin Sydney Stuart 25th Governor of Pennsylvania
In 1928 William Cameron Sproul 28th Governor of Pennsylvania
In 2004 John Carl West 82nd Governor of South Carolin
In 1976 Walter Jodok Kohler, Jr. 33rd Governor of Wisconsin
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag
of its tail.
And remember...
ITS TUESDAY
Today's Date (Month\Day) will land on this day of week in 2011!
10% of all U.S. Space Shuttle launches have occurred on Tuesdays
U.S. National Alert Status is ELEVATED - YELLOW LEVEL 3RD
** NOTE ** U.S. Mint released "Nevada" State Quarter JAN 31ST!
In 2006, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released Nebraska
In 2007, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released Washington
In 2008, U.S. Currency State Quarter to be Released New Mexico
FUJITA TORNADO INTENSITY SCALE
CATEGORY F0 - GALE TORNADO: WIND SPEED 40 - 72 MPH
CATEGORY F1 - MODERATE TORNADO: WIND SPEED 73 - 112 MPH
CATEGORY F2 - SIGNIFICANT TORNADO: WIND SPEED 113 - 157 MPH
CATEGORY F3 - SEVERE TORNADO: WIND SPEED 158 - 206 MPH
CATEGORY F4 - DEVASTATING TORNADO: WIND SPEED 207 - 260 MPH
CATEGORY F5 - INCREDIBLE TORNADO: WIND SPEED 261 - 318 MPH
All U.S. Space Shuttles Grounded.
Mar 28 - Death of President Dwight D Eisenhower
Mar 29 - Birthdate for Pres. John Tyler (US)
Apr 04 - Death of President William Henry Harrison
Apr 12 - Death of President Franklin D Roosevelt
Apr 13 - Birthdate for Pres. Thomas Jefferson (US)
Apr 15 - Death of President Abraham Lincoln
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