Tuesday March 11, 2014

• 70^th Day of 2014 / 295 Remaining
• 9 Days Until The First Day of Spring

• Sunrise:7:25
• Sunset:7:13
• 11 Hours 48 Minutes of Daylight

• Moon Rise:2:58pm
• Moon Set:4:21am
• Moon’s Phase: 79 %

• The Next Full Moon
• March 16 @ 10:10am
• Full Crow Moon
• Full Crust Moon
• Full Sap Moon
• Full Lenten Moon

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:7:48am/9:42pm
• Low:2:11am/2:54pm

• Rainfall
• This Year:8.68
• Last Year:14.59
• Average Year to Date:19.56

• Holidays
• National Oatmeal-Nut Waffle Day
• Johnny Appleseed Day
• Middle Name Pride Day

• Commonwealth Day-Tuvalu

• On This Day In …
• 0537 --- The Goths began their siege on Rome.

• 1302 --- The characters Romeo and Juliet were married this day according to William Shakespeare.
  

  

• 1791 --- Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Four patents were issued for his machines: (1) to thresh corn and grain, (2) to break and swingle hemp, (3) to cut polished marble, and (4) to raise the nap on cloths.

• 1810 --- The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

• 1818 --- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world's first science fiction novel. In Shelley's tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered

  

  corpses. The gentle, intellectually gifted creature is enormous and physically hideous. Cruelly rejected by its creator, it wanders, seeking companionship and becoming increasingly brutal as it fails to find a mate. Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron. Byron proposed they each write a gothic ghost story, but only Mary Shelley completed hers.

• 1845 --- Seven hundred Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of Kororareka. The act was in protest to the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, which was a breach of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

• 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.

• 1901 --- The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the signing of a mysterious player named "Chief Tokohama" to baseball’s Baltimore Orioles by manager John McGraw. Chief Tokohama was later revealed to be

  

  Charlie Grant, an African-American second baseman. McGraw was attempting to draw upon the great untapped resource of African-American baseball talent in the face of baseball’s unspoken rule banning black players from the major leagues.

• 1918 --- The first U.S. cases of the deadly 'Spanish Influenza' were reported at the Army hospital in Fort Riley, Kansas. The pandemic killed more than 600,000 Americans, and almost 40 million people worldwide.

• 1927 --- Samuel Roxy Rothafel opened the famous Roxy Theatre in New York City. The showplace was indeed a palace. It cost $10,000,000 to build and held 6,200 theatregoers. The Roxy truly

  

  was part of the ‘golden age of the movie palace’. The screen was 18-feet by 22-feet. The first feature shown at the Roxy was The Loves of Sunya, starring Gloria Swanson and John Boles.

• 1930 --- Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $80,000.
  

  

• 1948 --- Reginald Weir became the first black tennis player to participate in a U.S. Indoor Lawn Tennis Association tournament.
  

  

• 1956 --- Sir Lawrence Olivier starred in the three-hour afternoon NBC-TV special, Richard III. The network reportedly paid $500,000 for the rights to the program.
  

  

• 1969 --- Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
  

  

• 1971 --- ABC, CBS and NBC were told by the Federal Communications Commission that a limited three-hour nightly program service -- or ‘prime time’ -- would begin in September. The network programs were to be slotted between 8 and 11 p.m. on the East and West coasts -- an hour earlier in the Central and Mountain time zones.

• 1972 --- Neil Young's album 'Harvest' is number 1 on U.S. and U.K. charts.
  

  

• 1985 --- DJs around the U.S. began questioning listeners to see which ones could name the 46 pop music stars who appeared on

  

  the hit, We Are the World. The song, airing first on this day as a single, contains a “Who’s Who” of contemporary pop music.

• 1990 --- The Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence.

• 1992 --- Former U.S. President Nixon said that the Bush administration was not giving enough economic aid to Russia.

• 1993 --- Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the nation's first female attorney general.

• 1997 --- An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant caused 35 workers to be exposed to low levels of radioactivity. The incident was the worst in Japan's history.

• 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.

• 1998 --- The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.

• 2004 --- 191 people are killed and nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area train stations during a busy morning rush hour. The bombs were later found to have been detonated by mobile phones. The attacks, the deadliest

  

  against civilians on European soil since the 1988 Lockerbie airplane bombing, were initially suspected to be the work of the Basque separatist militant group ETA. This was soon proved incorrect as evidence mounted against an extreme Islamist militant group loosely tied to, but thought to be working in the name of, al-Qaida.

• 2008 --- San Francisco passed a law requiring chain restaurants (with 20 or more locations in California) to post nutrition information on their menus.

• 2011 --- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure to eliminate most union rights for public employees, a proposal which had provoked three weeks of protests.

• Birthdays
• Flaco Jimienez
• Bobby McFerrin
• Sam Donalson
• Susan Richardson
• Jimmy Iovine
• Gale Norton
• Nina Hagen
• Jesse Jackson Jr
• Lisa Oeb
• Terrence Howard
• Johnny Knoxville
• Ralph Abernathy
• Justice Antonin Scalia
• Rupert Murdoch
• Dorothy Gish
• Lawrence Welk
• PM Harold WIlson
• Mercer Ellington