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Friday March 6, 2015

  • 65th Day of 2015 300 Remaining
  • Spring Begins in 14 Days
  • Sunrise:6:32
  • Sunset:6:08
  • 11 Hours 36 Minutes
  • Moon Rise:7:19pm
  • Moon Set:6:56am
  • Phase:99%
  • Full Moon March 5 @ 10:06am

As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.

  • Tides
  • High:10:59am/11:40pm
  • Low:5:04am/5:15pm
  • Rainfall:
  • This Year to Date:17.01
  • Last Year:8.65
  • Avg YTD:18.98
  • Annual Avg:23.80
  • Holidays
  • Dress In Blue Day
  • Employee Appreciation Day
  • Middle Name Pride Day
  • National Day of Unplugging
  • National Doodle Day
  • National Frozen Food Day
  • White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
  • National Oreo Cookie Day
  • Dentist’s Day
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  • World Day of Prayer
  • Independence Day-Ghana
  • Foundation Day-Norfolk Island
  • On This Day
  • 1820 --- The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. 
  • 1834 --- The city of Toronto was incorporated.
  • 1836 --- The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
  • 1853 --- Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opera debuted in Venice. 
  • 1857 --- In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
  • 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.
  • 1902 --- The Madrid Foot Ball Club is founded by a group of fans in Madrid, Spain. Later known as Real Madrid, the club would become the most successful European football (soccer) franchise of the 20th century.
  • 1912 --- Oreo sandwich cookies were first introduced by the National Biscuit Co., which later became Nabisco.
  • 1933 --- A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt went into effect.
  • 1930 --- Retail frozen foods ('Birds Eye Frosted Foods') go on sale for the first time in a test marketing in Springfield, Massachusetts. Various fruits, vegetables, meat and fish were offered for sale to see how consumers would react to frozen foods. Clarence Birdseye had developed the method used to successfully freeze foods on a commercial scale. The test was a resounding success.
  • 1946 --- Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 
  • 1950 --- Silly Putty was introduced to the world at the International Toy Fair in New York.  Packaged in 1 ounce portions in plastic eggs.
  • 1953 --- Just one day after the death of long-time Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov is named premier and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Malenkov’s tenure was extremely brief, and within a matter of weeks he was pushed aside by Nikita Khrushchev.
  • 1957 --- The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent nation of Ghana.
  • 1965 --- The White House confirms reports that, at the request of South Vietnam, the United States is sending two battalions of U.S. Marines for security work at the Da Nang air base, which will hopefully free South Vietnamese troops for combat.
  • 1970 --- Charles Manson released his album "Lie " to finance his defense against murder charges.
       
  • 1970 --- A bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.
  • 1973 --- John Lennon's visa extension was canceled by the New York Office of the Immigration Department. It had been granted only five days before. 
  • 1983 --- Helmut Kohl, the interim chancellor of West Germany since the fall of Helmut Schmidt’s Social Democrat government in 1982, is elected German chancellor as his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is voted back into power.
  • 1987 --- A British ferry leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium, capsizes, drowning 188 people. Shockingly poor safety procedures led directly to this deadly disaster. Lord Justice Barry Sheen, an investigator of the accident, later said of it, from top to bottom, the body corporate was affected with the disease of sloppiness.
  • 1992 --- The computer virus "Michelangelo" went into effect. 
  • 2000 --- A new company called Napster created something of a music-fan’s utopia—a world in which nearly every song ever recorded was instantly available on your home computer—for free. Even to some at the time, it sounded too good to be true, and in the end, it was.
  • 2007 --- Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
  • Birthdays
  • Michelangelo
  • Mary Wilson
  • Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Ring Lardner
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
  • Bob Wills
  • Lou Costello
  • Ed McMahon
  • Wes Montgomery
  • Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva
  • Joana Miles
  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  • Rob Reiner
  • Kiki Dee
  • David Gilmour
  • Shaquille O’Neal