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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7: National Cereal Day: -- Get your bowl spoons ready! Since the end of the 19th century, cereal has become America's most popular breakfast food. Now, not only is cereal eaten for breakfast, but it has become a popular bedtime snack. Some people even enjoy a bowl for an evening meal. Bakers turn to cereal in their cake, cookie, and bar recipes. Ferdinand Schumacher, a German immigrant, began the cereal revolution in 1854 with a hand oats grinder in the back room of a small store in Akron, Ohio. His German Mills American Oatmeal Company was the nation's first commercial oatmeal manufacturer. In 1877, Schumacher adopted the Quaker symbol, the first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal. Granula, the first breakfast cereal, was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson, operator of Our Home on the Hillside, which was later replaced by the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, New York. The cereal never became popular since it was inconvenient as the heavy bran nuggets needed soaking overnight before they were tender enough to eat. Do you remember mornings eating a bowl of cereal, reading the back of the box and trying to find the toy inside the box? The cereal industry rose from a combination of sincere religious beliefs and commercial interest in healthy foods. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg experimented with granola. He boiled some wheat, rolled it into thin films, and baked the resulting flakes in the oven; he acquired a patent in 1891. In 1895 he launched Cornflakes, which overnight captured a national market. In 1906, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's brother, William K. Kellogg, after working for John, broke away, bought the corn flakes rights from his brother, and set up the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. His signature on every package became the company trademark and insurance of quality. Charles W. Post introduced Grape-nuts in 1898 and soon followed with Post Toasties. So give a shout-out to your favorite cereal brand. Have a bowl for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Share it as a snack. Create a delicious recipe from cereal and share your recipes. And use #NationalCerealDay to post on social media! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/kebrcoflkibi.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7: National Flapjack Day (National Pancake Day): -- Time for some piping hot flavor and goodness! National Flapjack Day honors the pancake, the sturdy, wholesome cakes we've been cooking up for generations! Recipes handed down from grandmother to son and mother to daughter continue to bring smiles to families all across the country. Flapjacks were a staple of pioneers pursuing new lives on the frontier. Packed with nutrients and energy, flapjacks provided the fuel they needed to withstand the often arduous trails. Stacked high, flapjacks remind us of mornings in grandma's kitchen when the coffee was fresh. We topped them with fresh blueberries and real maple syrup. Maybe today you add pecans or walnuts, thick-sliced bananas, and your favorite nut butter. Fresh whipped cream always makes flapjacks seem extra special, too. So mix up a batch of flapjacks and invite the family to add their favorite toppings. Share your most enjoyable memories and the best ways to serve them up, too! Take a photo of your flapjack meal. Do you add chocolate chips or peaches? How tall is your stack - three, four, maybe five high? Join the conversation by using #NationalFlapjackDay on social media! Kodiak Cakes founded National Flapjack Day in 2020 to celebrate the celebrate a healthier flapjack to fuel our consumers' daily frontier, whatever and wherever that may be. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/fibber-mcgee-and-molly-mp3-dvd-complete-radio-serie3.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7: Plant Power Day: -- Get ready to experience and love all the healthy benefits of plant-based eating! Plant Power Day is celebrated to raise awareness about the benefits of sustainable eating and encourage everyone to embrace plant-based diets. Did you know Plant Power Day was launched by Alpro and BOSH!? Plant-based diets have different meanings depending on the individual. A plant-based diet may be entirely vegan - no animal-derived products - consisting mainly of plant foods, or is made up of whole plant foods that are minimally processed. While a plant-based diet has been an option for many people for ages, it's not until recently that it gained mainstream attention with people embracing it as a lifestyle. The history of plant-based diets is interwoven with veganism, which is itself derived from vegetarianism. The earliest evidence of vegetarianism appeared in 3300 to 1300 B.C. in the northern and western ancient Indus Valley Civilization. It was a lifestyle mainly practiced by Indian emperors and philosophers, including Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka, Mahavira, and Acharya Kundakunda. Vegetarianism was also practiced in ancient Greece and Rome by prominent individuals such as Seneca the Younger, Ovid, Plutarch, and Empedocles. They argued this choice of lifestyle was due to health, the transmigration of souls, and animal welfare and justice. The Arab poet, all-Ma'arri, was one of the earliest known vegans. In the 19th century, vegetarianism became a widely accepted movement in Britain and the United States. Professionals that were self-identified vegetarians raised awareness of the benefits of the vegetarian lifestyle through their works. That includes the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his 1813 book, "A Vindication of Natural Diet," the physician William Lambe, and Sylvester Graham - he developed the meatless 'Graham diet' that was hugely popular in the 1830s in the United States. Several vegetarian communities and societies were established around this time. The United Kingdom Vegetarian Society, established in the 1840s, was one of those societies. Several members requested for a section of the Vegetarian Society's newsletter to be dedicated to non-dairy vegetarianism in 1994. When the Vegetarian Society refused the request, the secretary of the Leicester branch, Donald Watson, started a newsletter called "The Vegan News" in November of that year. That led to the establishment of the Vegan Society and the vegan movement - 'veganism'. The movement received a large following from individuals who eat mainly plant produce and desist animal exploitations. In 1980, T. Colin Campbell coined the term 'plant-based diet'. The term refers to a diet that is low fat, high fiber, and consists primarily of vegetables, focusing on health and not ethics. The term has since been used in various works to mean 'veganism', 'vegetarianism', and 'semi-vegetarianism'. In 2018, the European company Alpro, and vegan recipe website, BOSH!, established Plant Power Day to encourage people to eat a more vegetable-based diet and plant-based foods. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mahatma-mohandas-gandhi-nonviolent-revolution-biography-dvd.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Day: -- Great Inventions: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, academic, scientist, inventor and innovator, went on to found the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (ATT) in 1885. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Bell developed an interest in the vibrating membrane as a method of electrically transmitting sounds. His very first sentence spoken on the newly invented telephone on March 10, 1876, was to his assistant, "Mister Watson, come here, I want you." Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. Although Bell was not one of the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society, he had a strong influence on the magazine while serving as the second president from January 7, 1898, until 1903. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-it39ll-never-fly-dvd-technology-history-dick-cave39.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 321: Chronology: Calendars: The Week: The Days Of The Week: The Seven-Day Week: Days Of Rest: Dies Solis Invicti (Day Of The Invincible Sun, Sunday): -- Emperor Constantine I decrees that the Etruscan eight-day week that had been in use by Rome was to be replaced by the seven-day week, which originated with the Babylonians, for use throughout the Roman Empire, while also making Sunday a public holiday as "Dies Solis Invicti" (Day Of The Invincible Sun, or Sun-Day), the day of rest in the Empire; this change in the week later spread across Europe, then the rest of the world, and the observance of Sunday as a day of rest has remained in most of the Christian world ever since. He decreed: "On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost." Constantine seems to have made this change himself and not through the papacy, since the papacy had not really yet come in to being. The papacy grew gradually out of the office of Bishop and for many years this was centered in Rome. With this decree, Constantine did not change the Sabbath; he merely made Sunday the official day of rest for the Roman Empire. His motivation was probably not born out of antisemitism but rather out of a desire to adopt what the Christians had practiced for nearly two and a half centuries. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/revelation-the-history-of-christianity-documentary.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

( #JCKaelin here: Meet #StephenHopkins, my grandfather some fourteen generations past! I am proud that he was one our nation's first longhair hippy activists, as well as his making that mojo work inside the system as well as out! :D ) ========= March 7, 1707: #BOTD: #HBD! Stephen Hopkins, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, a signer of the Declaration Of Independence, great-grandfather some fourteen generations past of J. C. Kaelin, proprietor of the EarthStation1.com/MediaOutlet.com websites (d. July 13, 1785) is #born in Providence, Rhode Island. Hopkins was from a prominent Rhode Island family, the grandson of William Hopkins who served the colony for 40 years as Deputy, Assistant, Speaker of the House of Deputies, and Major. His great grandfather Thomas Hopkins was an original settler of Providence Plantation, sailing from England in 1635 with his cousin Benedict Arnold who became the first governor of the Rhode Island colony under the Royal Charter of 1663. As a child, Stephen Hopkins was a voracious reader, becoming a serious student of the sciences, mathematics, and literature. He became a surveyor and astronomer, and was involved in taking measurements during the 1769 transit of Venus across the sun. He began his public service at age 23 as a justice of the peace in the newly established town of Scituate, Rhode Island. He soon became a justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, while also serving at times as the Speaker of the House of Deputies and President of the Scituate Town Council. While active in civic affairs, he also was part owner of an iron foundry and was a successful merchant who was portrayed in John Greenwood's 1750s satirical painting Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam. In May 1747, Hopkins was appointed as a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and he became the third Chief Justice of this body in 1751. In 1755, he was elected to his first term as governor of the colony, and he served in this capacity for nine out of the next 15 years. One of the most contentious political issues of his day was the use of paper money versus hard currency. His bitter political rival Samuel Ward championed hard currency, whereas Hopkins advocated the use of paper money. The rivalry between the two men became so heated that Hopkins sued Ward for 40,000 British Pounds, but he lost the case and had to pay costs. By the mid-1760s, the contention between the two men became a serious distraction to the government of the colony and, realizing this, they attempted to placate each other, initially without success. Ultimately, both agreed to not run for office in 1768, and Josias Lyndon was elected governor of the colony as a compromise candidate. In 1770, Hopkins once again became Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and, during this tenure, became a principal player in the colony's handling of the 1772 Gaspee Affair, when a group of irate Rhode Island citizens boarded a British revenue vessel and burned it to the waterline. In 1774, he was given an additional important responsibility as one of Rhode Island's two delegates to the First Continental Congress, his former rival Samuel Ward being the other. Hopkins had become well known in the thirteen colonies ten years earlier when he published a pamphlet entitled "The Rights of Colonies Examined" which was critical of British Parliament and its taxation policies. Hopkins signed the Declaration Of Independence in the summer of 1776 with worsening palsy in his hands. He signed it by holding his right hand with his left and saying, "My hand trembles, but my heart does not." He served in the Continental Congress until September 1776, when failing health forced him to resign. He was a strong backer of the College of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (later named Brown University) and became the institution's first chancellor. He died in Providence in 1785 at the age of 78, and is buried in the North Burial Ground there. Hopkins has been called Rhode Island's greatest statesman. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1850: The United States: The History Of The United States: United States Expansionism: Origins Of The American Civil War: The Compromise Of 1850: The Seventh Of March Speech -- Senator Daniel Webster delivers his "Seventh Of March" speech endorsing the Compromise Of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. He designed the speech to influence public opinion in favor of the compromise to preserve the Union; later he acknowledged that it was "probably the most important effort of my life." The Seventh Of March Speech is now considered a classic example of American political oratory, but at the time it deeply offended many in the North generally and in his state of Massachusetts specifically. As a result, Webster resigned as Senator. Despite this, Webster' support for the Compromise Of 1850, devised in part by Henry Clay, proved crucial to its passage. The Compromise Of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provision. The Compromise was greeted with relief, but each side disapproved of some of its specific provisions: 1) Texas surrendered claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of 36 deg. 30 min.. It retained the Texas Panhandle, and the federal government took over the state's public debt; 2) California was admitted as a free state, with its current boundaries; 3) The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery in their borders. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture, and their settlers were uninterested in slavery; 4) The slave trade, but not slavery altogether, was banned in the District of Columbia; and 5) A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted. The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor, who, although a slave owner, wanted to exclude slavery from the Southwest. Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850 because of opposition by both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs. Upon Clay's instruction, Douglas then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage, over the opposition of radicals on both sides. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-a-television-history-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-26-sh426.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1850: #BOTD: #HBD! Tomas Masaryk, sometimes anglicised as Thomas Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist, philosopher and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. September 14, 1937) is #born Tomas Garrigue Masaryk to a poor, working-class family in the predominantly Catholic city of Hodonin, Margraviate of Moravia, in Moravian Slovakia (in the present-day Czech Republic, then part of the Austrian Empire). The nearby Slovak village of Kopcany, the home of his father Jozef, also claims to be his birthplace. Masaryk grew up in the village of Cejkovice, in South Moravia, before moving to Brno to study. After trying to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a federal state with the help of the Allied Powers, he eventually succeeded in gaining Czechoslovak independence as a republic after World War I. He both founded and was the first President of Czechoslovakia and so is called the "President Liberator". He is the father of Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier, diplomat, politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1940 to 1948. Tomas Masaryk died in Lany, Czechoslovakia, aged 87. He was buried next to his wife in a plot at Lany cemetery, where later also the remains of his son Jan Masaryk and daughter Alice Masarykova were laid to rest. Masaryk was spared having to live to see the Munich Agreement and the Nazi occupation of his country, and was known as the Grand (Great) Old Man of Europe. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/czechoslovakia-the-long-wait-for-spring-dvd-1988-cold1988.html

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March 7, 1904: #BOTD: Reinhard Heydrich, high-ranking German Nazi official in manifold capacities, Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal during World War II, a main architect of the Holocaust, regarded by many historians as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite, and by Adolf Hitler as "the man with the iron heart" (d. June 4, 1942) is #born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrichin Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife, Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Heydrich (nee Krantz). Reinhard was an altar boy, attending evening prayers and Mass every week with his mother as part of the Catholic minority in Halle. Two of his forenames were musical references: "Reinhard" referred to the hero from his father's opera Amen, and "Tristan" stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Heydrich's third name, "Eugen", was his late maternal grandfather's forename (Eugen Krantz had been the director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory). SS-Obergruppenfuehrer und General der Polizei (Senior Group Leader and General of Police) as well as chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. Heydrich served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC; later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the Final Solution to "the Jewish Question", the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), an intelligence organisation charged with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organise Kristallnacht, a series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9-10 November 1938. The attacks, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians, presaged the Holocaust. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces which travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered over two million people, including 1.3 million Jews, by mass shooting and gassing. He was critically wounded in an ambush in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British Special Operations Executive-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in Operation Anthropoid. He died from his injuries a week later. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the assassins to the villages of Lidice and Lezaky. Both villages were razed; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ss-19231945-dvd-schutzstaffel-history-doc19231945.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1936: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The German Reich, The Third Reich): The Remilitarisation Of The Rhineland (German: Rheinlandbesetzung): -- In violation of the Treaty Of Versailles, which defined the immediate dispensation of post-war Germany, and the Locarno Treaties, seven agreements which secured the post-war territorial dispensation of Germany, 3,000 German Wehrmacht troops, acting under orders from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler who used the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext, reoccupy the Rhineland, the area of Western Germany along the Rhine River, causing joyous celebrations across Germany. The Allied occupation of the Rhineland took place following the armistice that brought the fighting of World War I to a close on November 11, 1918. The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and French forces. Neither France nor Britain was prepared for a military response, and unwilling to risk war, decided against enforcing the treaties, and so did not act to prevent the German reoccupation. After 1939, commentators often said that a strong military move in 1936 might have ruined Hitler's aggressive plans. However, recent historiography agrees that both public and elite opinion in Britain and France strongly opposed a military intervention, and neither had an army prepared to move in. Under the 1919 Treaty Of Versailles, the German military was forbidden from all territory west of the Rhine or within 50 km east of it. The 1925 Locarno Treaties reaffirmed the permanently-demilitarized status of the Rhineland. In 1929, German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann negotiated the withdrawal of the Allied forces. The last soldiers left the Rhineland in June 1930. After the Nazis took power in 1933, Germany began working towards rearmament and the remilitarization of the Rhineland. The remilitarization changed the balance of power in Europe from France and its allies towards Germany by allowing Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Western Europe that had been blocked by the demilitarized status of the Rhineland. The fact that Britain and France did not intervene made Hitler believe that neither country would get in the way of Nazi foreign policy. That made him decide to quicken the pace of German preparations for war and the domination of Europe. On March 14, 1936, during a speech in Munich, Hitler stated, "Neither threats nor warnings will prevent me from going my way. I follow the path assigned to me by Providence with the instinctive sureness of a sleepwalker". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-road-to-war-dvd-set-all-8-tv-shows-4-dis84.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Western Allied Invasion Of Germany: Operation Lumberjack: The Battle Of Remagen: The Ludendorff Bridge (The Bridge At Remagen, The Remagen Bridge): -- Troops of the 1st U.S. Army seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen, one of two remaining bridges across the river Rhine in Germany during the closing weeks of World War II. Built in World War I to help deliver reinforcements and supplies to the German troops on the Western Front, it connected Remagen on the west bank and the village of Erpel on the eastern side between two hills flanking the river. Midway through Operation Lumberjack, a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, the troops of the 1st U.S. Army approached Remagen and were surprised to find that the bridge was still standing. Its capture enabled the U.S. Army to establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine. After the U.S. forces captured the bridge, German forces tried to destroy it multiple times until it collapsed on March 17, 1945, ten days after it was captured, killing 18 U.S. Army Engineers. While it stood, the bridge enabled the U.S. Army to deploy 25,000 troops, six Army divisions, with many tanks, artillery pieces and trucks, across the Rhine. It was never rebuilt. The towers on the west bank were converted into a museum and the towers on the east bank are a performing arts space. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-remagen-bridge-documentaries-set-mp4-download-dv4.html

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March 7, 1951: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean Conflict: The Korean War: The Battles Of Seoul: Operation Ripper (The Fourth Battle Of Seoul): -- Immediately following the largest artillery bombardment of the Korean War, United Nations troops led by the commander US Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway, begin an assault against Chinese forces to retake Seoul, which had changed hands three times since June of 1950; by April 4, Operation Ripper would succeed in retaking Seoul, changing hands for the fourth and final time. Operation Ripper was a United Nations military operation conceived by General Ridgway with the intention of destroying as much as possible of the Chinese communist People's Volunteer Army and North Korean military around Seoul and the towns of Hongchon, 50 miles east of Seoul, and Chunchon, 15 miles further south. The operation also aimed to bring UN troops to the 38th parallel. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/korea-the-38th-parallel-korean-war-d38.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1965: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: The Selma Voting Rights Campaign: The Selma To Montgomery Marches: The First Selma To Montgomery March (Bloody Sunday): -- In one of the most terrible, dramatic and historic events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, 600 civil rights marchers, led by John Lewis of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee and Rev. Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC, are brutally attacked by state and local police on U.S. Highway 80 after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Afterl the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they encountered a wall of state troopers and county posse waiting for them on the other side. County sheriff Jim Clark had issued an order for all white men in Dallas County over the age of twenty-one to report to the courthouse that morning to be deputized. Commanding officer John Cloud told the demonstrators to disband at once and go home. Rev. Hosea Williams tried to speak to the officer, but Cloud curtly informed him there was nothing to discuss. Seconds later, the troopers began shoving the demonstrators, knocking many to the ground and beating them with nightsticks. Another detachment of troopers fired tear gas, and mounted troopers charged the crowd on horseback. Televised images of the brutal attack presented Americans and international audiences with horrifying images of marchers left bloodied and severely injured, and roused support for the Selma Voting Rights Campaign. Amelia Boynton, who had helped organize the march as well as marching in it, was beaten unconscious. A photograph of her lying on the road of the Edmund Pettus Bridge appeared on the front page of newspapers and news magazines around the world. Another marcher, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, age 14, was brutally beaten by a police officer during the march, and needed seven stitches for a cut above her right eye and 28 stitches on the back of her head. John Lewis suffered a skull fracture and bore scars on his head from the incident for the rest of his life. In all, 17 marchers were hospitalized and 50 treated for lesser injuries; the day soon became known as "Bloody Sunday" within the black community. Film of the brutal attack was televised on the ABC television network that evening, interrupting the television premiere of the film "Judgement At Nurmberg", a movie that challenged the master race theory of Nazi Germany in the same way the marchers were challenging the master race theory of American racism. In immediate response to the march, President Johnson issued an immediate statement "deploring the brutality with which a number of Negro citizens of Alabama were treated". He also promised to send a voting rights bill to Congress that week, although it took him until March 15. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

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Today, March 6, 2026

March 7, 1985: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States: Pop Music: The History Of Pop Music: Charity Records: Charity Singles (Charity Songs): We Are The World: -- We Are the World is released, a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is the eighth-bestselling physical single of all time. Soon after the UK-based group Band Aid released "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984, the musician and activist Harry Belafonte began to think about an American benefit single for African famine relief. He enlisted fundraiser Ken Kragen to help bring the vision to reality. The duo contacted several musicians, and enlisted Jackson and Richie to write the song; they completed the writing seven weeks after the release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and only one night before "We Are the World"'s first recording session, on January 21, 1985. The historic event brought together some of the era's best-known musicians. The song was released on March 7, 1985, as the first single from the album by Columbia Records. A worldwide commercial success, it topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest-selling U.S. pop single in history. "We Are the World" received a Quadruple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, becoming the first single to be certified multi-platinum. Awarded numerous honors-including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award-the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a VHS, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters, and shirts. The promotion and merchandise helped "We Are the World" raise more than 63M USD (214M USD as of 2024) for humanitarian aid in Africa and the United States. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7: Jose Abad Santos Day: -- Jose Abad Santos Day in the Philippines is observed on May 7 each year. The day commemorates Jose Abad Santos, a former Chief Justice of the Philippines during the second world war era. Santos demonstrated uncommon patriotism and bravery for his home nation. He rejected an invitation to flee the country and refused to cooperate with the Japanese during his capture, which eventually led to his execution. Santos is featured on the one thousand peso bill alongside two other heroes for his martyrdom and resistance against the Japanese occupation of World War II. On August 21, 2000, the Philippine Congress declared May 7 as a special non-working holiday in the province of Pampanga to honor the supreme martyr and hero, Jose Abad Santos. All schools, religious institutions, civic organizations, provincial and municipal communities, and individual citizens are required to observe this day with the appropriate ceremonies. Santos was born on February 19, 1886. He was raised in Pampanga during the Philippine Revolution against Spain. He was part of the first generation of Filipinos sent to study at American universities. After graduating with a law degree, Santos took up the position of legal counsel for the Philippine National Bank and the Manila Railroad Company. He continued to rapidly rise through the ranks. On December 24, 1941, Santos was appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. In March 1942, Santos displayed steadfast patriotism when he was invited by President Manuel Quezon to leave with him to the United States as a result of a rapidly advancing Japanese invasion. However, Santos declined, preferring to remain in the Philippines. Before he departed for the United States on March 17, 1942, Quezon appointed Santos as the Acting President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Santos and his son were captured by the Japanese in Cebu on April 11, 1942. In his capture, Abad further demonstrated personal integrity and loyalty to his nation by refusing to cooperate with the Japanese. He showed bravery and self-sacrifice even when threatened with death. On May 2, 1942, Santos was executed by the Japanese forces after being held in confinement for two days. https://store.earthstation1.com/battleline-wwii-tv-documentary-series-5-dual-layer-dvd5.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, filmmaker and photographer, a major figure of the post-war film industry, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema (b. July 26, 1928) unexpectedly #dies of a heart attack in his sleep at his home, Childwickbury Manor, in Hertfordshire, England, aged 70, six days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family and the film's stars. His funeral was held five days later at his home, Childwickbury Manor, in Hertfordshire, England with only close friends and family in attendance, totaling about 100 people. The media were kept a mile away outside the entrance gate. Alexander Walker, who attended the funeral, described it as a "family farewell, ... almost like an English picnic" with cellists, clarinetists, and singers providing music from many of Kubrick's favorite classical compositions. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer typically said by mourners and in other contexts, was recited. A few of his obituaries mentioned his Jewish background. Among those who gave eulogies were his brother-in-law Jan Harlan, Terry Semel, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, and Tom Cruise. He was buried next to his favorite tree on the estate. In her book dedicated to him, his wife Christiane included one of his favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde: "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young." It has been alleged that he was murdered after exposing too much about secret organisations such as that depicted in the film. According to Roger Avery, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction who also has an original script of Eyes Wide Shut, the film was centered around an elite pedophile ring and the final scene was meant to depict Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's characters sending their child to the ring. During the final scene, you can see them sort of nudge their daughter towards two older men, let her walk away, and take their eyes off of her. It was suggested that he died of an induced heart attack over this ending. Stanley Kubrick was born to a Jewish family in the Lying-In Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. His films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor. Kubrick taught himself film producing and directing after graduating from high school. After working as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he began making low-budget short films and made his first major Hollywood film, The Killing, for United Artists in 1956. This was followed by two collaborations with Kirk Douglas: the anti-war film Paths of Glory (1957) and the historical epic film Spartacus (1960). In 1961, Kubrick left the United States and settled in England. In 1978, he made his home at Childwickbury Manor with his wife Christiane, and it became his workplace where he centralized the writing, research, editing, and management of his productions. This permitted him almost complete artistic control over his films, with the rare advantage of financial support from major Hollywood studios. His first productions in England were two films with Peter Sellers: the comedy-drama Lolita (1962) and the Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove (1964). A perfectionist who assumed direct control over most aspects of his filmmaking, Kubrick cultivated an expertise in writing, editing, color grading, promotion, and exhibition. He was famous for the painstaking care taken in researching his films and staging scenes. He frequently asked for several dozen retakes of the same shot in a film, often confusing and frustrating his actors. Despite the notoriety this provoked, many of Kubrick's films broke new cinematic ground and are now considered landmarks. The scientific realism and innovative special effects in his science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) were a first in cinema history; the film earned him his only Academy Award (for Best Visual Effects) and is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. While many of Kubrick's films were controversial and initially received mixed reviews upon release -- particularly the brutal A Clockwork Orange (1971), which Kubrick withdrew from circulation in the UK following a media frenzy -- most were nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes, or BAFTA Awards, and underwent critical re-evaluations. For the 18th-century period film Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubrick obtained lenses developed by Carl Zeiss for NASA to film scenes by candlelight. With the horror film The Shining (1980), he became one of the first directors to make use of a Steadicam for stabilized and fluid tracking shots, a technology vital to his Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket (1987). https://store.earthstation1.com/aliens-invade-hollywood-20th-century-sf-films-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): Air Warfare Of World War II: The Tuskegee Airmen: : -- The Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) graduates its first class of what was to become known as The Tuskegee Airmen, a distinguished group of African American fighter and bomber pilots and airmen who fought in World War II in the 332d Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). This class of particularly distinguished pilots, who trained at The Tuskegee Army Air Field, Moton Field (now The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field Municipal Airport) in Tuskegee, Alabama are officially known as "Graduating Cadet Class - Single Engine Section - SE-42-C". These five men were the first of some 1007 documented cadet pilot graduates: 1) 2nd Lt Lemuel R. Custis (June 4, 1915 - February 24, 2005), who became Connecticut's first African American chief of sales tax, retiring as the Tax Department's Chief Examiner after a 30-year caree; 2) Captain Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (December 18, 1912 - July 4, 2002), commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group, first African American general in the U.S. Air Force, who ultimately became a four-star general; 3) 2nd Lt Charles DeBow (February 13, 1918 - April 4, 1986), combat fighter pilot and commanding officer of the 332nd Fighter Group's 301st Fighter Squadron, associate English lecturer at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); 4) 2nd Lt George S. "Spanky" Roberts (September 24, 1918 - March 8, 1984), commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, who at Langley Air Force Base in 1950 became the first African American U.S. Air Force officer to command a racially-integrated unit, who became a credit officer, training officer, and personal banking officer at Wells Fargo in Sacramento, California; and 5) 2nd Lt Mac Ross (June 12, 1912 - July 10, 1944), commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron and Group Operations Officer for the 332nd Fighter Group. The name Tuskegee Airmen also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks and other support personnel who did not recieve pilot training. https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-africanamericans-at-war-dvd.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1952: #DOTD: #RIP: Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American monk, yogi, guru and philosopher who introduced millions to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India, and who lived his last 32 years in America (b. January 5, 1893) #dies of heart failure at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, aged 59. Yogananda's remains are interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Great Mausoleum (normally closed off to visitors but Yogananda's tomb is accessible) in Glendale, California. In the days leading up to his death, Yogananda began hinting to his disciples that it was time for him to leave the world. On March 7, 1952, he attended a dinner for the visiting Indian Ambassador to the US, Binay Ranjan Sen, and his wife at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. At the conclusion of the banquet, Yogananda spoke of India and America, their contributions to world peace and human progress, and their future co-operation, expressing his hope for a "United World" that would combine the best qualities of "efficient America" and "spiritual India." According to an eyewitness - Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of the Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955 to 2010 - as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem My India, concluding with the words "Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God - I am hallowed; my body touched that sod." "As he uttered these words, he lifted his eyes to the Kutastha center (the Ajna Chakra or "spiritual eye"), and his body slumped to the floor." His followers said that he entered mahasamadhi; the cause of death was heart failure. His funeral service, with hundreds attending, was held at the SRF headquarters atop Mt. Washington in Los Angeles. Rajarsi Janakananda, who Yogananda chose to succeed him as the new president of the Self-Realization Fellowship, "performed a sacred ritual releasing the body to God." For three weeks afterwards, Yogananda's body did not decay. Those working with its mortuation process called it "the most extraordinary case in our experience..this state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one...a phenomal state of immutability...no odor of decay emanated from his body at any time...for these reasons we state again that the case of Paramhansa Yogananda is unique in our experience." Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh to a Hindu family of Bengali Kayastha, a Bengali Hindu who is a member of the Kayastha community. The historical caste occupation of Kayasthas throughout India has been that of scribes and administrators; the Kayasthas in Bengal also became the region's surrogate Kshatriya or warrior class and, along with Brahmins are regarded as the highest of Hindu castes that comprise the upper layer of Hindu society As a chief disciple of the Bengali yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Yogananda was sent by his lineage to spread the teachings of yoga to the West, to prove the unity between Eastern and Western religions and to preach a balance between Western material growth and Indian spirituality. His long-standing influence in the American yoga movement, and especially the yoga culture of Los Angeles, led him to be considered by yoga experts as the "Father of Yoga in the West". Yogananda was the first major Indian teacher to settle in America, and the first prominent Indian to be hosted in the White House (by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927); his early acclaim led to him being dubbed "the 20th century's first superstar guru," by the Los Angeles Times. Arriving in Boston in 1920, he embarked on a successful transcontinental speaking tour before settling in Los Angeles in 1925. For the next two and a half decades, he gained local fame as well as expanded his influence worldwide: he created a monastic order and trained disciples, went on teaching-tours, bought properties for his organization in various California locales, and initiated thousands into Kriya Yoga. By 1952, SRF had over 100 centers in both India and the US; today, they have groups in nearly every major American city. His "plain living and high thinking" principles attracted people from all backgrounds among his followers. He published his book Autobiography of a Yogi in 1946 to critical and commercial acclaim; since its first publishing, it has sold over four million copies, with HarperSan Francisco listing it as one of the "100 best spiritual books of the 20th Century". Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs had ordered 500 copies of the book for his own memorial, for each guest to be given a copy. The book has been regularly reprinted and is known as "the book that changed the lives of millions." A 2014 documentary, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, won multiple awards at film festivals around the world. His continued legacy around the world, remaining a leading figure in Western spirituality to the current day, led authors such as Philip Goldberg to consider him "the best known and most beloved of all Indian spiritual teachers who have come to the West....through the strength of his character and his skillful transmission of perennial wisdom, he showed the way for millions to transcend barriers to the liberation of the soul." https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1979: Music History: Music Of The United States: African-American Music: -- The state of Georgia honors African American pianist and composer Ray Charles with a formal apology for an incident affecting his performance in the state in 1961. At that time, Charles, born in Albany, GA, had refused to perform in front of a segregated all-white audience at a dance in Augusta, Georgia. Charles canceled his appearance after discovering that the event was restricted to white patrons, with Blacks relegated to the balcony of the Music Hall. He left Augusta immediately after letting the public know his objection to the segregated seating of the audience. The promoter sued Charles for canceling, a Fulton County court in Atlanta the following year fined Charles 757USD for the cancelation. Some eighteen years later, Charles was not only vindicated for this by receiving a formal apology from the state of Georgia in 1979, his version of the song "Georgia On My Mind" was made the official state song of Georgia later year, as well as became one of the first of the Georgia State Music Hall of Fame honorees to be recognized as a musician born in the state. https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Gordon Parks, African American photographer, film director, pianist, songwriter, composer, poet, writer and painter (b. November 30, 1912) #dies of complications from high blood pressure and prostate cancer at his home in Manhattan at the age of 93. Born Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks in Fort Scott, Kansas, he became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s, particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans, and in glamour photography. Parks was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures, developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and creating the "blaxploitation" genre. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans taken during the 1940s for a federal government project of the Farm Security Administration, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-moment-in-time-dvd-film-history-narrated-by-gordon-parks.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP: Ben Blue, Canadian-American vaudeville actor and comedian (b. December 9, 1901) #dies in Hollywood, California at the age of 73. He was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. After his death, his career papers covering 1935 to 1955 were deposited in the Special Collections at the University of California, Los Angeles Library. He was born Benjamin Bernstein in Montreal, Quebec on September 12, 1901 into the Jewish family of David Asher Bernstein and Sadie Goldberg. Blue emigrated to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of nine, where he won a contest for the best impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. At the age of fifteen he was in a touring company and later became a stage manager and assistant general manager. He became a dance instructor and nightclub proprietor. In the 1920s Blue joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers. The entire band emphasized comedy, and would continually interact with the joke-cracking maestro. Blue, the drummer, would sometimes deliver corny jokes while wearing a ridiculously false beard. The band emigrated to the United States, and appeared in two early sound musicals - the Vitaphone short subject Jack White and His Montrealers and Universal's feature-length 2-strip Technicolor revue King of Jazz (1930). In 1930, Blue toured with the "Earl Carroll Vanities". Blue left the band to establish himself as a solo comedian, portraying a bald-headed dumb-bell with a goofy expression. Producer Hal Roach featured him in his "Taxi Boys" comedy shorts, but Blue's dopey character was an acquired taste and he was soon replaced by other comedians. Later in the 1930s he worked at Paramount Pictures, notably in The Big Broadcast of 1938, and later at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in films such as Easy to Wed. He was divorced by his first wife in 1937. He was ordered to pay 600 USD (approximately 11K USD in 2020) monthly alimony. The judge told him: "You are no exception to the rule that theatrical careers do not last long, and yours already has been a long one." In 1950, he had his own short-lived TV series, The Ben Blue Show, and was also a regular on The Frank Sinatra Show. Blue was a guest star on the summer replacement television show Saturday Night Revue in 1954. In 1951, Blue began concentrating on managing and appearing in nightclubs in Hollywood, California and San Francisco. He once appeared in a Reno, Nevada nightclub called the Dollhouse where he lost 25K USD to its owner, Bill Welch. Blue and Maxie Rosenbloom owned and performed in Hollywood's top nightclub in the 1940s called "Slapsie Maxie's." Again, in the 1960s he opened a nightclub in Santa Monica, California, called "Ben Blue's". It quickly became the "in" place and night after night was packed with top celebrities. Ben closed the club three years later because of health problems. Blue made the cover of TV Guide's June 11, 1954 Special Issue along with Alan Young, headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows. He also made appearances in TV shows such as The Jack Benny Program and The Milton Berle Show. In 1958 he had major surgery. In 1958 he starred in a television pilot called Ben Blue's Brothers, in which he played four different parts. The show did not get picked up by a network, but the pilot was seen in 1965. In 1964 he was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts of tax evasion for the non-payment of more than 39K USD (approximately 321K USD in 2020) in income taxes from the nightclub he operated, the Merry-Go-Round, in Santa Monica, California. The case was contested for five years, before he pled no contest to a single count of evading corporate tax. He was fined 1K USD, with the payment suspended. He also had a recurring role in Jerry Van Dyke's television series Accidental Family in 1967. His film roles included many cameo appearances. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), his role was the pilot of the Standard J-1 biplane that flew Sid Caesar and Edie Adams, and he played Luther Grilk, the town drunk, in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). His other film appearances included small roles in The Busy Body (1967), A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968). He made one of his last television appearances in Land of the Giants in 1969. He was also seen the following year in the Dora Hall vanity syndicated television special, "Once Upon a Tour". https://store.earthstation1.com/vaudeville-tv-vanities-olsen-amp-johnson-ben-blue-dual-layer-dvd.html

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March 7, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Alan Sues, American soldier, actor and comedian, widely known for his roles on the 1968-1973 television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (d. December 1, 2011) is #born Alan Grigsby Sues in Ross, California. Sues's on-screen persona was campy and outrageous. Typical of his humor was a skit that found him following a pair of whiskey-drinking cowboys to a Wild West bar and requesting a frozen daiquiri. His recurring characters on the program included "Big Al the Sportscaster", "Uncle Al the Kiddies' Pal", and "Jo Anne Worley", after Worley left the show. Sues was born to Alice (nee Murray) and Melvyn Sues, who raised racehorses, requiring the family to move frequently. He served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. Sues used his GI Bill benefits to pay for acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he performed, later making his Broadway debut in the stage play Tea and Sympathy, directed by Elia Kazan, which had a successful run in New York City beginning in 1953. During this period, he met and married Phyllis Gehrig, a dancer and actress, subsequently starting a vaudevillian nightclub act in Manhattan - with which they toured North America before divorcing in 1958. After touring the country with his wife, he got more work in stand-up comedy (at Reuben Bleu and Blue Angel, both clubs in Manhattan), worked with Julius Monk, and joined an improv/sketch group with The Mad Show, which led to his being cast in Laugh-In. Outside of Laugh-In, he appeared in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Masks", in a non-comedic role. He also had supporting roles in the films Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Americanization of Emily (1964). After Laugh-In, Sues portrayed Professor Moriarty onstage in Sherlock Holmes (opposite John Wood, and later Leonard Nimoy), which, according to Alan, was "one of my favorite roles, because it's so against type, and I loved the makeup". The makeup for Moriarty was used in several books about makeup as an example of shadowing and technique. Sues appeared in television commercials for Peter Pan Peanut Butter during the 1970s, as a tongue-in-cheek, klutzy Peter Pan. He toured with Singin' in the Rain, playing the Elocution Instructor. He also appeared in several movies, and provided voiceovers including Oh! Heavenly Dog and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July. During the 1970s, Sues appeared as a celebrity guest on some popular game shows of the era, including The Movie Game, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Cross-Wits and Liar's Club. Sues appeared in the short films Lord of the Road (1999) and Artificially Speaking (2009), the latter making its premiere at the 2009 Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles. In 2008, fifty years after their divorce, Sues and his former wife, Phyllis, conducted a lengthy interview at his home for her website. Sues died on December 1, 2011 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, where he was taken after suffering an apparent heart attack while watching television with his beloved dog, Doris, according to his partner and accountant, Michael Michaud. https://store.earthstation1.com/rowan-and-martin-discount-set-2-albums-2-blooper-reel-sets-mp3-mp4-dvd.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 161: #DOTD: #RIP: Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor from 138 to 161 (b. September 19, 86) #dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Commodus (who changed his name to Lucius Verus). Two days before his death, his biographyin The Historia Augusta reports, Antoninus was at his ancestral estate at Lorium, in Etruria, about twelve miles (19 km) from Rome. He ate Alpine Gruyere cheese at dinner quite greedily. In the night he vomited; he had a fever the next day. The day after that, 7 March 161, he summoned the imperial council, and passed the state and his daughter to Marcus. The emperor gave the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered: when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password, he responded, "aequanimitas" (equanimity). He then turned over, as if going to sleep, and died. His death closed out the longest reign since Augustus (surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months). His record for the second-longest reign would be unbeaten for 168 years, until 329 when it was surpassed by Constantine The Great. Antoninus Pius' funeral ceremonies were, in the words of the biographer, "elaborate". If his funeral followed the pattern of past funerals, his body would have been incinerated on a pyre at the Campus Martius, while his spirit would rise to the gods' home in the heavens. However, it seems that this was not the case: according to his Historia Augusta biography (which seems to reproduce an earlier, detailed report) Antoninus' body (and not his ashes) was buried in Hadrian's mausoleum. After a seven-day interval (justitium), Marcus and Lucius nominated their father for deification. In contrast to their behavior during Antoninus' campaign to deify Hadrian, the senate did not oppose the emperors' wishes. A flamen, or cultic priest, was appointed to minister the cult of the deified Antoninus, now Divus Antoninus. A column was dedicated to Antoninus on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus. It survives as the church of San Lorenzo in Miranda. Antoninus Pius (Latin: Antoninus Pius) 19 September 86 - 7 March 161) was He was one of the Five Good Emperors in the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatorial family, Antoninus held various offices during the reign of emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor shortly before his death. Antoninus acquired the cognomen Pius after his accession to the throne, either because he compelled the Senate to deify his adoptive father, or because he had saved senators sentenced to death by Hadrian in his later years. His reign is notable for the peaceful state of the Empire, with no major revolts or military incursions during this time, and for his governing without ever leaving Italy. A successful military campaign in southern Scotland early in his reign resulted in the construction of the Antonine Wall. Antoninus was an effective administrator, leaving his successors a large surplus in the treasury, expanding free access to drinking water throughout the Empire, encouraging legal conformity, and facilitating the enfranchisement of freed slaves. https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Steve Lawrence, American singer, comedian, and actor, best known as a member of the pop duo Steve and Eydie with his wife Eydie Gorme, and for his performance as Maury Sline, the manager and friend of the main characters in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers (b. July 8, 1935) #dies from complications due to Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles, on March 7, 2024, at the age of 88. He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park cemetery in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, alongside his beloved wife Eydie. Steve Lawrence was born Sidney Liebowitz in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents Max, cantor at the Brooklyn synagogue Beth Sholom Tomchei Harav, Helen, a homemaker. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, and while there, Lawrence skipped school to spend time at the Brill Building in the hopes of being employed as a singer. Steve and Eydie first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gorme's retirement in 2009. In June 2019, following public speculation about his health, Lawrence announced that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and that treatment to slow its progression had so far been successful. https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-steve-allen-tv-shows-4-dual-layer-dvd-megase4.html

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March 7, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Antony Armstrong-Jones, commonly known as Lord Snowdon, 1st Earl of Snowdon GCVO FRSA RDI, English photographer and filmmaker, one time husband of Princess Margaret and brother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and other major venues, including more than 100 of his photographs in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery (d. January 13, 2017) is #born Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones at Eaton Terrace in Belgravia, central London, England as the only son of the marriage of the Welsh barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899-1966) and his first wife, Anne Messel (later Countess of Rosse; 1902-1992). Antony Armstrong-Jones died peacefully at his home in Kensington of natural causes aged 86. His funeral took place on January 20 at St Baglan's Church in the remote village of Llanfaglan, a parish in Gwynedd, north-west Wales near Caernarfon. He is buried in the family plot in the churchyard. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-monarchy-3-part-british-royal-family-tv-series-dvd-mp4-u34.html

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Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Peter Banks, English guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer and pioneer of progressive rock music, best known as the original guitarist in the rock bands The Syn, Yes, Flash, and Empire, designer of the first Yes logo and naming the band Yes (b. July 15, 1947) #dies in his rented flat where he grew up in Chipping Barnet, London, aged 65. He failed to turn up for a scheduled recording session, and a concerned friend had medical staff break into his home, where his body was discovered. The coroner declared that he died from heart failure. His former business partner and manager George Mizer, who he first met in the 1970s, organised Banks' posthumous business affairs, and discovered that Banks' body was unclaimed in the local mortuary. As Banks had no children or a will, Mizer reached out to Quino, who gave the required approval for the body to be released. There was no money to pay for a funeral or wake, so Mizer setup an online fund for fans to contribute. Banks was cremated, after which several friends and associates, including David Cross of King Crimson and original Yes manager Roy Flynn, met for a memorial drink in Denmark Street. Mizer kept the ashes, and sprinkled some in areas that meant something to Banks. Peter Banks was born Peter William Brockbanks in Chipping Barnet in north London, England. Banks started as rhythm guitarist in the Nighthawks, a local group, in 1963. His first gig took place at the New Barnet Pop Festival. In the following year he left to join the Devil's Disciples with John Tite on vocals, Ray Alford on bass, and Malcolm "Pinnie" Raye on drums. They recorded two covers on an acetate, Arthur Alexander's "You Better Move On" and Graham Gouldman's "For Your Love", which became a hit record for the Yardbirds one year later. It was Banks' first visit in a recording studio, during which he wore headphones and experienced stereo sound for the first time. He found the experience "totally terrifying", and was so traumatised that he started having doubts if he could carry on playing the guitar and work in another studio again. In 1965 Banks joined the Syndicats, replacing guitarist Ray Fenwick. After leaving the Syndicats, Banks joined the Syn which at the time included Chris Squire on bass, Andrew Pryce Jackman on keyboards, Steve Nardelli on vocals, and Gunnar Hakonarson on drums. They recorded two singles, "Created by Clive"/"Grounded" and "Flowerman"/"14 Hour Technicolour Dream", both in 1967, before they split. Later that year, Banks and Squire joined Mabel Greer's Toyshop with Clive Bayley on rhythm guitar and vocals and Bob Hagger on drums. In the spring of 1968 Banks left the band to join Neat Change, with whom he recorded one single, "I Lied to Aunty May". He was fired from the band after his bandmates wanted to adopt a skinhead look, and Banks refused to cut his hair. Meanwhile, Jon Anderson had joined Mabel Greer's Toyshop as lead vocalist, and Hagger was replaced by drummer Bill Bruford. The four entered a period of rehearsals in London, during which Banks replaced a departing Bayley and keyboardist Tony Kaye was brought in to round out the group. While rehearsing with the new line-up, the band exchanged ideas for a name. Anderson suggested Life and Squire proposed World, but all agreed on Banks' suggestion of Yes, which he had thought of some time before. Following their debut in August 1968 Banks devised the band's first logo, a design featuring the group's name inside a speech bubble. Banks performed on the first two Yes albums, Yes (1969) and Time and a Word (1970). The latter features orchestral arrangements which Banks disagreed with, and he often clashed with producer Tony Colton. On April 18, 1970, Banks was fired from Yes after their gig at the Luton College of Technology, and was replaced by former Syndicats guitarist Steve Howe. In his autobiography, Howe wrote that Banks "was an interesting guitarist to have to follow. He, too, adopted different guitar styles and had already set a scene I could relate to. He was a sweet guy and came to many of our early gigs. I can't think of many other ex-band members doing that - I mean, right after they've left the band." Banks' first marriage was to American singer and musician Sidonie Jordan (known as Sidney Foxx). They first met in 1974 and co-formed Empire, and divorced in 1985. Banks moved to Los Angeles, California in 1976. In 1996, Banks left the US for his childhood home in Barnet, north London, to care for his ailing father. In 1999, he married Peruvian-born Cecilia Quino Rutte. Although Banks found married life "fantastic" at one point, his second marriage ended in a divorce by the early 2000s due to the effects of his medication to treat his depression, which his friends said made him difficult to live with. A longtime friend said he also went through seasonal "dark" periods around February and March. In 2011, Banks was hospitalised with a case of septicaemia, likely caused from an infected tooth due to dental neglect. He also caught Legionnaires' disease. During this time his doctors discovered a cancerous tumour. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-uk-british-invasion-rock-1960s119601980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Montparnasse Revisited: The Genius That Was Paris DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: Alice B. Toklas, American-born memoirist, member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein (b. April 30, 1877) #dies in poverty in Paris, France at the age of 89. She is buried next to her life partner Gertrude Stein in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France; her name is engraved on the back of Stein's headstone. Toklas's later years had been very difficult because of poor health and financial problems, during which time she converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1957. Alice B. Toklas was born Alice Babette Toklas in San Francisco, California into a middle-class Polish Jewish family. The home Stein and Toklas shared, 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank of Paris, was a renowned Saturday evening gathering place for both expatriate American artists and writers and others noteworthy in the world of vanguard arts and letters. In the early decades of the century, hundreds of visitors flocked to the display of vanguard modern art, many came to scoff, but several went away converted. The gatherings in the Stein home brought together confluences of talent and thinking that would help define modernism in literature and art. Dedicated attendees included Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, Juan Gris, Sherwood Anderson, Francis Cyril Rose, Rene Crevel, Elisabeth de Gramont, Francis Picabia, Claribel Cone, Mildred Aldrich, Carl Van Vechten and Henri Matisse. Saturday evenings had been set as the jour fixe for formal congregation so Stein could work at her writing uninterrupted by impromptu visitors. Gertrude attributed the beginnings of the Saturday evening salons to Henri Matisse, as people began visiting to see his paintings and those of Cezanne: "Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began to be a nuisance, and it was in this way that Saturday evenings began." It was Stein's partner Toklas who became the de facto hostess for the wives and girlfriends of the artists in attendance, who met in a separate room. Entree into the Stein salon was a sought-after validation, and Stein became combination mentor, critic, and guru to those who gathered around her, including Ernest Hemingway, who described the salon in A Moveable Feast. The principal attraction was the collection of Paul Cezanne oils and watercolors and the early pictures by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso which Gertrude and her brother, the art collector and critic Leo Stein, had had the funds and the foresight to buy. The walls of their atelier (the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing pieces of fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision) at 27 rue de Fleurus were hung to the ceiling with now-famous paintings, the double doors of the dining room were lined with Picasso sketches. On a typical Saturday evening one would have found Gertrude Stein at her post in the atelier, garbed in brown corduroy, sitting in a high-backed Renaissance chair, her legs dangling, next to the big cast-iron stove that heated the chilly room. A few feet away, Leo Stein would expound to a group of visitors his views on modern art. In 1933, Gertrude Stein published a kind of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. https://store.earthstation1.com/montparnasse-revisted-the-genius-that-was-paris-3-dvd3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women Of Courage: The WASP Aviators Of WWII DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1943: #DOTD: #RIP: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): Air Warfare Of World War II: Women Airforce Service Pilots (Women's Army Service Pilots, Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots, WASPs): -- The first deaths of the WASPs occurs when Margaret Oldenburg and her instructor were practicing spins on March 7, 1943. Oldenburg had put her plane, a PT-19 open cockpit, into a spin that she could not recover from and the crash killed her and her instructor. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft, and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. Despite various members of the armed forces being involved in the creation of the program, the WASP and its members had no military standing. WASP was preceded by the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Both were organized separately in September 1942. They were pioneering organizations of civilian women pilots, who were attached to the United States Army Air Forces to fly military aircraft during World War II. On August 5, 1943, the WFTD and WAFS merged to create the WASP organization. The WASP arrangement with the US Army Air Forces ended on December 20, 1944. During its period of operation, each member's service had freed a male pilot for military combat or other duties. They flew over 60 million miles; transported every type of military aircraft; towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice; simulated strafing missions and transported cargo. Thirty-eight WASP members lost their lives and one disappeared while on a ferry mission, her fate still unknown. In 1977, for their World War II service, the members were granted veteran status, and in 2009 awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. https://store.earthstation1.com/women-of-courage-the-wasp-aviators-of-wwii-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Fall From Grace The Jim And Tammy Faye Bakker Story DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1942: #BOTD: Tammy Faye Messner, best known as Tammy Faye Bakker, American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepeneur, author, television personality, and talk show host (d. July 20, 2007) is #born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, Minnesota, to Pentecostal preachers Rachel Minnie (nee Fairchild; 1919-1992) and Carl Oliver LaValley. Shortly after she was born, a painful divorce soured her mother against other ministers, alienating her from the church. Both of her parents remarried, her mother to Fred Willard Grover, forming a large blended family, of which she was the oldest. In 1960, she met future televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker while they were students at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were married on April Fools Day, 1961. They were married from 1961 to 1992 to Jim Bakker. They hosted their own puppet show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. She gained notice for her work with The PTL Club, a televangelist program she co-founded with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club television show from 1976 to 1987. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Messner garnered significant publicity when Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy in 1989, resulting in the dissolution of The PTL Club. She divorced Bakker in 1992 and married Roe Messner. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, from which she suffered intermittently for over a decade before dying of the disease in 2007. During her career Messner was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona, as well as for moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream evangelists, particularly her advocacy for LGBT persons and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic. She released three autobiographies during her lifetime, I Gotta Be Me in 1978, Tammy: Telling it My Way in 1996 and I Will Survive and You Will Too! in 2003. She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show The Surreal Life. https://store.earthstation1.com/fall-from-grace-the-jim-and-tammy-faye-bakker-story-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #7 Shindig Hullabaloo DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, March 6, 2026
March 7, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Donna Loren, American singer, actress and beauty, prolific performer of the 1960s who was the "Dr Pepper Girl" from 1963 to 1968, featured female vocalist on Shindig, and a cast member of the American International Pictures Beach Party movie franchise, is #born Donna Zukor in Boston, Massachusetts to Ruth and adoptive father Morey Zukor (Morris Zukovsky). She was signed to Capitol Records in 1964, releasing several singles and the Beach Blanket Bingo LP soundtrack, which included her signature song "It Only Hurts When I Cry". Loren guest-starred on episodic television series including Dr. Kildare, Batman, and The Monkees, as well as appeared regularly on network and local variety and music shows. In 1968, Loren retired from her career to marry and raise a family. She recorded again in the 1980s and ran her own fashion business, ADASA Hawaii, throughout the 1990-2000s. In 2009, she returned to performing, and her most recent releases include the album Love It Away (2010) and the EP Donna Does Elvis in Hawaii (2010), as well as the compilation These Are the Good Times: The Complete Capitol Recordings (2014). Her first book, Pop Sixties: Shindig!, Dick Clark, Beach Party, and Photographs from the Donna Loren Archive, was released in 2017. In August, 2020, Loren began hosting Love's A Secret Weapon Podcast, an audio memoir of her life and career. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-7-shindig-hullabaloo-medley-dv7.html