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March 11: National Johnny Appleseed Day:
-- An annual planting season remembrance of the man who made apple
(and pear) trees bloom across the nation. The day celebrates a
kindly legend who lived by sage teachings and labored to bring the
shade of fruit trees across much of the United States. He was born
John Chapman on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts,
to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Simons Chapman. Not much is known about
his early life other than his mother died when he was two. His
father packed up Johnny and his sister (an infant brother had died
the previous year) and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. His
father served as a Minuteman and fought at Bunker Hill. Then in
1797, Chapman shows up in northwestern Pennsylvania, propagating
his apple seeds. He worked his way steadily into the frontier of
West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. Eventually, Chapman became known
as Johnny Appleseed and worked his way as far west as Illinois and
Iowa and as far north as Michigan and Wisconsin. In his wake, he
left orchards and the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish
spiritual leader. Appleseed would buy his books with whatever
payment he might receive for his endeavors. In turn, Johnny would
give the books away as he traveled and planted. Mostly, though, he
planted his seeds and seedlings for free along with his wisdom,
his broad-brimmed pasteboard hat keeping the sun from his eyes as
he went. Often shoeless, he traveled mostly by foot and sometimes
by horseback or canoe. His appearance was nearly as noteworthy as
his accomplishments, but so was his kindness. Farmers and frontier
folk always found a place at the table if Johnny Appleseed came
visiting. There are many stories told that the man would travel
many miles to nurse an ailing orchard when word would reach him of
its poor condition. Bringing the trees back to health would be his
chief endeavor while dispersing wisdom, care, and kindness as he
did. Across the Midwest, landmarks pepper the countryside honoring
the man that brought fruit to the frontier. Warren County,
Pennsylvania, lays claim to Johnny Appleseed's first tree nursery.
Mansfield, Ohio, honors the man with a monument in South Park. The
last known Chapman tree still lives! In rural Ashland County,
Ohio, the tree struggles to survive, but half of it still manages
to bloom in the spring. In his hometown of Springfield,
Massachusetts, there is an entire park named after the man who
nurtured the land and made apple trees bloom across a young
nation. Two dates celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day, either March
11th or September 26th. The September date is Appleseed's
acknowledged birth date. However, many people across the country
prefer the March date due to the planting season. While some
vagueness surrounds Appleseed's death and burial, he became ill in
early March and passed soon after. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, in
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March 11: National Promposal Day: -- A
timley yearly prompting for teens to ask the ultimate question of
their year: "Will you go to the prom with me?" It's the
day for high school students across North America to craft their
unique invitation to the event of the year. Going to a prom takes
a lot of planning. That includes finding the right tux, the right
dress, shoes, and accessories. Does mom teach you how to dance or
do you take a dance class? Do you borrow dad's car or rent a limo?
Those are just a few of the details. But that's getting ahead of
the plan. First, ask the question on March 11th,
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in high school. Start it off right with an exceptional promposal.
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March 11: Worship Of Tools Day: -- Tools
are really the unsung heroes. Unfortunately, we don't give them
enough commendation. There are so many different types of tools,
and this day is meant to worship each one of them. Upgrade them,
organize them, or buy new ones. They come super handy when you
need to build or fix something. We wonder who created this
constructive holiday dedicated to the worshipping of tools. It
most definitely has to be someone very passionate about their tool
kit. In ancient times, humans were able to build tools as simple
as knives from rocks. In fact, the screwdriver can be traced to
the 1400s. However, with the advent of technology, there is a
surge in the creation of modern tools that can almost do a job as
good as a machine. A tool is essentially a physical object used to
fix or build a thing, and it's hard to imagine a world without
tools as part of our daily lives. Right from a hammer,
screwdriver, or wrench - these tools are essential. However, it is
important to keep them clean and sharpened because, when
frequently used, they can get blunt or rusted and may not be of
any use. It is even important to have a good tool kit to keep the
tools in place. Many times we even see construction workers
carrying around tool kits on sites. Many tool enthusiasts know a
good tool when they see one and have their preferred brand or
style. Tool lovers end up having an extensive collection of tools,
and it's almost like a hobby. There is even a code in tool
borrowing and loaning as they often don't get returned. This
phenomenon has been picked up by many sitcoms and shown humorously
from time to time. With the ever-growing need for tools in our
home, it's only right that there is a day dedicated to worshipping
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March 11: World Plumbing Day: -- Honor the critical role that plumbing plays in societal health. Plumbing is, after all, the reason that our cities and towns are so clean. Without proper plumbing, all the human defecation and waste would remain in the city. This would not only render an area unhabitual due to the foul smell but would also result in the spread of fatal diseases that may put an end to life as we know it. Therefore, on this day, the occasion is marked with events across the world to highlight the importance of good plumbing and sanitation. Plumbing is so important to the world that Albert Einstein is claimed to have declared that if he could do it all over again, he would become a plumber. Plumbing is, without a doubt, a vital component of every contemporary and developed city. It is critical because a town or cities plumbing must be chosen before any architectural plans are drawn. A town's plumbing and sanitation plans must also be carefully considered, as the future of any place is determined by how well thought out the plumbing system is. Since 2010, World Plumbing Day has been observed to recognize the importance of plumbing across the world. The World Plumbing Council is in charge of naming the day, with the goal of promoting the relationship between excellent plumbing, health, environmental sustainability, and, increasingly, economic prosperity. The World Bank has acknowledged the importance of plumbing. It is regarded as the most cost-effective of all health treatments, according to them. The World Plumbing Council has pushed for more adequately trained workers to enter the plumbing business. If the plumbers fail to provide quality services, they will be held accountable. Trained personnel can provide immediate and modern solutions that can improve the overall sanitation system. This is essential because about a thousand children under the age of 5, die every year from water-borne diarrheal diseases caused by open defecation near waterways. As a result, festivals, tournaments, lectures, and events are held all around the world on March 11 to raise awareness. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/micisirarevm.html
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March 11: World Day Of Muslim Culture,
Peace, Dialogue And Film: -- A special observance to highlight the
beauty of the Muslim culture. Instead of relying on word of mouth,
the World Day Of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue And Film seeks to
provide some insight to better understand Islam, through its
culture, dialogue, and film. The day's event aims to build bridges
of understanding between faiths, regardless of denomination, and
to help accurately portray Muslim culture. The World Day Of Muslim
Culture, Peace, Dialogue And Film was created in 2010 by the
writer and producer Javed Mohammed, from the San Francisco bay
area. On March 11, 2010, he declared the day a special observance
dedicated to informing, sharing, and discussing the Muslim
culture. Javed hoped to use art, culture, and film to create a
link and open the forum for dialogue with the hope of giving
insight into and helping people understand, the Muslim culture,
regardless of religious denominations. Islam is one of the oldest
religions in the world. Its roots can be traced as far back as the
seventh century. Islam is said to have originated in Mecca,
located in present-day Saudi Arabia. The originator of this
religion is the Prophet Muhammad, who directly received
instructions from Allah. Presently, the Islamic faith is one of
the fastest spreading religions in the world. The Muslim-Culture
spread across the world is highly influenced by Indian, Persian,
Turkish, and Indonesian values. In Muslim culture, it is believed
that "Allah is the only God, and his messenger is Muhammad."
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created in 2010 by the writer and producer Javed Mohammed, from
the San Francisco bay area. Javed Mohammed is also the founder of
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discussing the Muslim culture. Javed hoped to use art, culture,
and film to create a link and open the forum for dialogue with the
hope of giving insight into and helping people understand, the
Muslim culture, regardless of religious denominations. Globally,
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March 11: National COVID-19 Day: -- March
11, 2020: 102 years to the day that the Spanish Flu (the H1N1
influenza virus) reached Queens, New York, COVID-19 (the
SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus) is declared a global pandemic by The World
Health Organization (WHO). The first known case was identified in
Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread
worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of
COVID-19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache,
fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste.
Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the
virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop
noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable
enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to
moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe
symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on
imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure,
shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher
risk of developing severe symptoms. Some people continue to
experience a range of effects (long COVID) for months or years
after infection, and damage to organs has been observed.
Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the
long-term effects of the disease. COVID-19 transmits when
infectious particles are breathed in or come into contact with the
eyes, nose, or mouth. The risk is highest when people are in close
proximity, but small airborne particles containing the virus can
remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances,
particularly indoors. Transmission can also occur when people
touch their eyes, nose or mouth after touching surfaces or objects
that have been contaminated by the virus. People remain contagious
for up to 20 days and can spread the virus even if they do not
develop symptoms. Testing methods for COVID-19 to detect the
virus's nucleic acid include real-time reverse transcription
polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), transcription-mediated
amplification, and reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal
amplification (RT-LAMP) from a nasopharyngeal swab. Several
COVID-19 vaccines have been approved and distributed in various
countries, which have initiated mass vaccination campaigns. Other
preventive measures include physical or social distancing,
quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, use of face masks or
coverings in public, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing,
and keeping unwashed hands away from the face. While work is
underway to develop drugs that inhibit the virus, the primary
treatment is symptomatic. Management involves the treatment of
symptoms through supportive care, isolation, and experimental
measures. ========= March 11, 1918: Influenza Pandemics: The
European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The
European Theater Of World War I): The 1918-1920 Flu Pandemic (The
Great Influenza Rpidemic, The Spanish Flu, The H1N1 Influenza A
Virus Influenza Pandemic): -- Spanish flu, an unusually deadly
influenza pandemic that most likely originated in the major troop
staging and hospital camp in Etaples in France in late 1917 during
World War I, reaches Queens, New York; ultimately, one quarter of
the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus,
resulting in 500,000 deaths. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic (January
1918 - December 1920; colloquially known as the Spanish Flu), the
first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the
second being the swine flu in 2009), infected 500 million people
around the world, or about 27% of the then world population of
between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific
islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have
been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high
as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human
history. Despite historical and epidemiological data, it is still
difficult with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin. The
close quarters and massive troop movements of World War I hastened
the pandemic, and probably both increased transmission and
augmented mutation. The war may also have increased the lethality
of the virus. Some speculate the soldiers' immune systems were
weakened by malnourishment, as well as the stresses of combat and
chemical attacks, increasing their susceptibility. A large factor
in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel.
Modern transportation systems made it easier for soldiers,
sailors, and civilian travelers to spread the disease. In the
United States, the disease was first observed in Haskell County,
Kansas, in January 1918, prompting local doctor Loring Miner to
warn the U.S. Public Health Service's academic journal. On March
4, 1918, company cook Albert Gitchell, from Haskell County,
reported sick at Fort Riley, an American military facility that at
the time was training American troops during World War I, making
him the first recorded victim of the flu. Within days, 522 men at
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March 11: National Immune System Day: --
When Did You Last Say Thank You... to Your Immune System? Think
about it: As soon as you entered this world, your immune system
took on the job of your bodyguard. Yet, despite its relentless
service, it has never received paid time off or a vacation. It has
been on duty 24/7, non-stop, working three daily shifts, and
rarely receives a simple Thank you. And let us be honest, when was
the last time you even acknowledged its existence? Today, that
changes. Welcome to National Immune System Day, a day when we roll
out the red carpet for our immune systems. It's a day dedicated to
celebrating your indispensable yet silent, overworked yet
underpaid, vigilant sidekick who never gives up on you! March 11
is a day that should be remembered forever because it shaped the
course of humanity forever. It marks the day the World Health
Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, underscoring our
immune systems' critical role in everyday life. What about YOU?
Were you prepared? Did you feel protected? Did you find your
immune system was up for the challenge when COVID-19 hit the
scene? ========= March 11, 1955: #DOTD: #RIP: Alexander Fleming,
Scottish physician, microbiologist, pharmacologist, and botanist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. August 6, 1881) #dies at his home in
London of a heart attack at the age of 73. His ashes are buried in
St Paul's Cathedral. Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS was born
in Lochfield, Scotland. His best known discoveries are the enzyme
lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective
antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the
mould Penicillium Rubens in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and
Ernst Boris Chain. He wrote many articles on bacteriology,
immunology, and chemotherapy. He discovered Penicillin by
accident, when he found that mold from soil killed deadly bacteria
without injuring human tissue. Fleming was knighted for his
scientific achievements in 1944. In 1999, he was named in Time
magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th
century. In 2002, he was chosen in the BBC's television poll for
determining the 100 Greatest Britons, and in 2009, he was also
voted third "greatest Scot" in an opinion poll conducted
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March 11, 1890: #BOTD: #HBD! Vannevar
Bush, American academic, engineer, inventor and science
administrator, head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and
Development (OSRD), through which almost all World War II military
research and development was carried out, founding member of the
secret Majestic 12 (MJ12) group that managed the Roswell UFO
incident and all things involving UFOs and extraterrestrials
afterward (d. June 28, 1974) is #born in Everett, Massachusetts.
Vannevar Bush headed the OSRD) when important developments in
radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan
Project occurred. He emphasized the importance of scientific
research to national security and economic well-being, and was
chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of
the National Science Foundation. Bush joined the Department of
Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in 1919, and founded the company that became the Raytheon
Company in 1922. Bush became vice president of MIT and dean of the
MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington in 1938. During his career, Bush
patented a string of his own inventions. He is known particularly
for his engineering work on analog computers, particularly for the
memex, a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting
with microform documents described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article
"As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device
in which individuals would compress and store all of their books,
records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be
consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility"; the concept
of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext
systems, eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web,
and personal knowledge base software. Starting in 1927, Bush
constructed a differential analyzer, an analog computer with some
digital components that could solve differential equations with as
many as 18 independent variables. An offshoot of the work at MIT
by Bush and others was the beginning of digital circuit design
theory. Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. As
chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), and
later director of OSRD, Bush coordinated the activities of some
six thousand leading American scientists in the application of
science to warfare. Bush was a well-known policymaker and public
intellectual during World War II, when he was in effect the first
presidential science advisor. As head of NDRC and OSRD, he
initiated the Manhattan Project, and ensured that it received top
priority from the highest levels of government. In Science, The
Endless Frontier, his 1945 report to the President of the United
States, Bush called for an expansion of government support for
science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science
Foundation. Majestic 12, also known as MJ-12 for short, is a code
name of a secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and
government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S.
President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation
of alien spacecraft. The concept originated in a series of both
authentic and doctored leaked secret government documents first
circulated by ufologists in 1984. While the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) declared the documents to be "completely
bogus", and many ufologists consider them to be an elaborate
hoax, the information contained within them yielded literally
hundreds of successful FOIA requests revealing previously unknown
matters which would not have come to light had it not been for
these documents. Majestic 12 remains a popular subject among UFO
enthusiasts, and the concept has appeared in popular culture
including television, film and literature. Vannevar Bush died from
pneumonia in Belmont, Massachusetts after suffering a stroke at
the age of 84. He was buried at South Dennis Cemetery in South
Dennis, Massachusetts, after a private funeral service. At a
public memorial subsequently held by MIT, Jerome Wiesner declared
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March 11, 1895: #BOTD: #HBD! Shemp
Howard, American comedian and actor best known as a part of the
Three Stooges comedy team (d. November 22, 1955) is #born Samuel
Horwitz in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, to Lithuanian Jewish
parents Solomon and Jennie Gorwitz. He was called "Shemp"
because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick
Litvak accent. His role as Shemp as the third stooge in the Three
Stooges lasted from the beginning of the act in 1923 to 1932,
while the act was still associated with Ted Healy and known as
"Ted Healy and his Stooges", and again from 1946 until
his death in 1955. Between his times with the Stooges, Shemp had a
successful film career as a film comedian, including series of
shorts by himself and with partners, and reluctantly returned to
the Stooges as a favor to his brothers Moe and Curly. Shemp Howard
died of a massive heart attack at the age of 60 after attending a
boxing match at the Hollywood Legion Stadium; he had just told a
joke and was leaning back, lighting a cigar, and suddenly slumped
over onto his associate Al Winston's lap, burning him with the
cigar. His brother Moe Howard's autobiography gives a death date
of November 23, 1955, as do most subsequent accounts, because of
Moe's book. But much of that book was finished posthumously by his
daughter and son-in-law, and some details were confused. The Los
Angeles County Coroner's death certificate states that Shemp
Howard died on Tuesday, November 22, 1955, at 11:35 [PM] PST.
Howard's obituary also appeared in the November 23 afternoon
editions of Los Angeles newspapers, citing the death on the night
of November 22. He is buried at The Home Of Peace Memorial Park
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March 11, 1898: #BOTD: #HBD! Dorothy
Gish, American actress of the screen and stage, film director,
writer and beauty (d. June 4, 1968) is #born Dorothy Elizabeth
Gish in Dayton, Ohio. She had an older sister, Lillian, who like
Lillian was a pioneering actress of the screen, stage, film
director, writer and beauty. Dorothy and her sister Lillian were
major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great
success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater
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March 11, 1917: The History Of The
Ottoman Empire: The Dissolution Of The Ottoman Empire (1908-1922):
The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The
European Theater Of World War I): The Middle Eastern Theater Of
World War I: The Fall Of Baghdad (1917): -- Troops of the Ottoman
Turkish Empire defending Baghdad are defeated by an Anglo-Indian
force commanded by General Stanley Maude. After the British
surrender of the Kut garrison to Ottoman forces on April 29, 1916
during the Siege Of Kut, the British Army in Mesopotamia underwent
a major overhaul. A new commander, Lieutenant General Sir
Frederick Stanley Maude, was given the job of restoring Britain's
military reputation. General Maude spent the rest of 1916
rebuilding his army. Most of these troops were recruited in India
and then sent by sea to Basra. While these troops were being
trained, British military engineers built a field railway from the
coast up to Basra and beyond. General Maude also obtained a small
force of armed river boats and river supply ships. The British
launched their new Mesopotamian Campaign on December 13, 1916. The
British had some 50,000 well-trained and well-equipped troops:
mostly British India troops of the Indian Expeditionary Force D
together with the 13th (Western) Division of the British Army
forming the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. The Indian divisions
of the Indian III Corps (also called the Tigris Corps) included
British Army units. The Ottoman forces were smaller, perhaps
around 25,000 strong under the overall command of General Khalil
Pasha. The result was a decisive victory for the British and yet
another defeat for the Ottoman government. The humiliation for the
British due to the loss of Kut had been partially rectified. The
Ottoman government was forced to end its military operations in
Persia and try to build up a new army to prevent the British from
moving on to capture Mosul. The capture of Baghdad, a provincial
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March 11, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Ralph
Abernathy, African American minister, activist, leader of the
African American Civil Rights Movement and close friend of Martin
Luther King (d. April 17, 1990) is #born Ralph David Abernathy on
his family's 500-acre (200 ha) farm in Linden, Alabama. Ralph
David Abernathy Sr. collaborated with King to create the
Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery
Bus Boycott. Abernathy also co-founded, and was an executive board
member, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Following the assassination of King in 1968, Abernathy became
president of the SCLC. As president of the SCLC, he led the Poor
People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., among other marches and
demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. Abernathy also
served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial
Equality (CORE). Abernathy addressed the United Nations about
world peace. He also assisted in brokering a deal between the FBI
and the indigenous peoples during the Wounded Knee incident of
1973. He retired from his position as President of the SCLC in
1977, and subsequently became President emeritus. That year he
unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, for the
5th district of Georgia. Abernathy later founded the Foundation
for Economic Enterprises Development. And in 1982, he testified
before the U.S. Congress in support of extending of the Voting
Rights Act. In 1989, Abernathy wrote And the Walls Came Tumbling
Down: An Autobiography, a controversial autobiography about his
and King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. After
becoming ridiculed for the revelations in the book about Martin
Luther King's alleged infidelity, Abernathy eventually became less
active in politics and returned to his work as a minister. He died
of heart disease on April 17, 1990. His tombstone is engraved with
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March 11, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Sam
Donaldson, American soldier, news anchor, reporter and journalist
serving with ABC News from 1967 to 2013, and sheep rancher is
#born Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. in El Paso, Texas. He is best
known as the ABC TV network's White House Correspondent (1977-1989
and 1998-99) and as a panelist and later co-anchor of the
network's Sunday program, This Week. The son of Chloe (nee
Hampson), a school teacher, and Samuel Donaldson, a farmer, he
grew up on the family farm in Chamberino, New Mexico, which his
father had bought in 1910, two years before New Mexico was
admitted to the Union. He attended New Mexico Military Institute
as well as Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas
at El Paso) where he served as station manager of KTEP, the campus
radio station, and joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity. From 1956 to
1959, Donaldson served on active duty as an artillery officer in
the United States Army, attaining the rank of Captain (USAR).
While on active duty in 1958, Donaldson was one of the military
observers of an atomic test in the Nevada testing grounds when an
atomic device, with a yield roughly equivalent to the bombs
dropped on Japan, was detonated three thousand yards away from the
slit trench protecting the observers. Following military service,
Donaldson was hired by KRLD-TV (now KDFW-TV), the then-CBS
television affiliate in Dallas, Texas. After a year, he resigned
and moved to New York City to look for a job in broadcast news. He
failed to get one. He was hired by WTOP-TV (currently WUSA-TV) in
Washington, D.C., in February 1961. He covered both local and
national stories, including the Goldwater Presidential Campaign in
1964, the Senate debates on the civil rights bill in March 1964,
and the Medicare bill the next year. He anchored the 6:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday evening newscasts with John Douglas doing the
weather forecasts. Donaldson was hired by ABC News as a Washington
correspondent in October 1967. He covered the two major party
political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the
network's 11:00 pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts. In 1971,
Donaldson covered the Vietnam War for ABC News. He was ABC's chief
Watergate correspondent in 1973-74, covering the trial of the
Watergate burglars, the Senate Watergate hearings and the House
Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation of President
Nixon. Donaldson covered Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign
and became the network's White House Correspondent in January
1977, a post he held until January 1989. One of his most widely
remembered questions during his tenure at the White House came
during the Reagan administration: "Mr. President, in talking
about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes
of the past, and you have blamed the congress. Does any of the
blame belong to you?" To which Reagan retorted: "Yes,
because for many years I was a Democrat!" Donaldson appeared
as a panelist on the Sunday morning television program This Week
with David Brinkley from its inception in 1981 and after
Brinkley's retirement in 1996 co-anchored the This Week program
with Cokie Roberts until the two were replaced in September 2002
by George Stephanopoulos. He still occasionally serves as a
panelist on This Week. Donaldson anchored the ABC Sunday Evening
News from its inception in 1979 until August 1989. Donaldson
co-anchored the network's magazine program Primetime Live with
Diane Sawyer from 1989 to 1999. One of his reports featured a Nazi
Gestapo officer named Erich Priebke who had escaped to Argentina
after World War II. Donaldson's team located Priebke in 1994, and
Donaldson interviewed him on a street in Bariloche, Argentina,
about his role in the execution of 335 Italian civilians on the
direct orders of Adolf Hitler in the caves outside Rome. When the
report aired, Italy demanded Priebke's extradition and Argentina
eventually complied. Priebke was sentenced to life in prison in
Italy for his crimes. In 1990-91, Donaldson covered the First
Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert
Storm) and co-anchored Primetime Live from Kuwait City two days
after the Iraqi troops were forced out. In August 1992, Donaldson
and his producer David Kaplan went to Sarajevo on assignment. On
the way into town from the airport, Kaplan, riding in a second
vehicle, was shot to death by a sniper. That night from Belgrade,
Donaldson, co-anchoring the program Primetime Live, reported on
Kaplan's death. In January 1997, Donaldson was once again assigned
to the White House as the network's chief correspondent there and
served until mid-1999. He covered the Lewinsky scandal and the
impeachment of President Clinton. In 2002, Donaldson anchored the
first regularly scheduled U.S. news broadcast on the Internet and,
in later years, hosted the ABC News Now "Politics Live"
broadcast. On August 2, 2006, during the last White House Press
conference in the briefing room before undergoing major
renovations, Donaldson shouted, "Mr. President, should Mel
Gibson be forgiven?", referencing reports of the
actor/producer's alleged anti-Semitic remarks. President George W.
Bush laughed and looked up to see who had asked the question. Bush
joked, "Is that Sam Donaldson? Forget it ... you're a
'has-been'! We don't have to answer has-beens' questions."
Donaldson replied, "Better to have been a has-been than a
never-was." With the exception of the Republican convention
in August 1992, Donaldson covered every major political party
convention from 1964-2012, until he retired from ABC in 2013.
Donaldson was voted Best White House Correspondent in 1985 by
readers of the Washington Journalism Review and Best Television
Correspondent in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 by readers of the same
magazine. Among his other awards are four Emmys, three Peabodys,
the Edward R. Murrow award 1997 (WSU), the Paul White award (RTNDA
1998), and he and his wife Jan were among those named as
"Washingtonians of the Year" by Washingtonian Magazine
in 2002. In 1995, the struggle in DC over whether to cut the
growing deficit touched journalist Sam Donaldson directly. Bruce
Ingersoll, award-winning journalist for the Chicago Sun and Wall
Street Journal, published a column entitled "As Congress
Considers Slashing Crop Subsidies, Affluent Urban Farmers Come
Under Scrutiny", where he named Donaldson as one of the
wealthy, absentee beneficiaries of Federal subsidies, the "third
largest recipient" of Federal funds in his area. During the
debate in Congress over whether to cut "pork", this
article was read into the record, and Donaldson was chastised by
Senator Al D'Amato to "Give the money back", a phrase
repeated multiple times in his floor speech and elsewhere. There
were claims that Donaldson received as much as one million dollars
in subsidies. The real number turned out to be around 188K USD,
but the scandal of a millionaire receiving money for a farm on
which he was "absentee" still got significant public
coverage. The subsidy was held up as a sign of how meaningless
much of the pork was, as the Federal government had stopped using
mohair for uniforms in 1960, after only seven years of subsidies,
but was still subsidizing its production over three decades later,
and apparently giving out money to people other than "poor
family farmers". Even the Department of Agriculture was on
record as wanting the program ended. Donaldson initially refused
to comment, but eventually defended himself by describing the
mohair subsidy as "built into the price of sheep", and
claimed he had "argued against subsidies for years" and
was glad when the program was finally "killed", though
in fact mohair subsidies continued all the way to 2012. Only a
year later, Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal aid
scandal. While still receiving Federal mohair subsidies, it was
revealed that he was also using Federal resources to kill prairie
dogs, bobcats, foxes, and coyotes on his ranch. His farm was
reported to have used the USDA's Animal Damage Control agents 412
times in only 5 years This sparked outrage among both deficit
hawks and animal rights activists. This was actually brought to
light by Donaldson's own demands for more Federal money. He
claimed to have lost a number of sheep to predators despite the
heavy use of Federal resources, and therefore wanted Federal money
to pay for his losses: "The government helps ranchers and
farmers and businesses of all kinds. If it's in existence and I am
eligible to use it, I'll use it." In an interview, Donaldson
said of the animal rights complaints: "What are we going to
do about the coyotes, that are eating the lambs like there's no
tomorrow? They're eating so many lambs, I thought the other day
I'd put out some mint jelly, in case they want it with their
mutton. Every time I say this, the conservationists and the people
who love animals just jump all over me. "What? A coyote is a
predator and has a right to live." Yeah, they have a right to
live, I'm all for that, but they're eating my lambs, folks. I just
put it to you, doesn't the lamb have a right to live? "Yeah,
but you're going to sell the lamb and they're going to kill the
lamb for the money." That's right. If you're going to be in
the sheep ranching business, you have to try to get rid of the
coyotes. Otherwise, you're not going to stay in the ranching
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Kanoya Air Field on Kyushu, the southernmost of the main Japanese
islands. The aircraft were sent to the limits of their range in an
attempt to destroy the Fifth Fleet carriers at anchor there. Each
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number of support aircraft and submarines were used to help guide
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to ditch at sea. A mere two of the twenty-four aircraft sent
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March 11, 1970: Music: Music History: The
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Societies, Academic Associations): The Recording Academy (The
National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences, NARAS): The
Grammy Awards (GRAMMY, The Grammys, The Gramophone Awards): The
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(lyrics), and Galt MacDermot (music), wins The Grammy Award for
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session musicians commonly known as the Wrecking Crew. The actual
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March 11, 1970: Music: Music History: The
Music Industry: Learned Societies (Learned Academies, Scholarly
Societies, Academic Associations): The Recording Academy (The
National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences, NARAS): The
Grammy Awards (GRAMMY, The Grammys, The Gramophone Awards): The
12th Annual Grammy Awards: -- "Games People Play", a
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Year. "Games People Play" is a protest song whose lyrics
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intolerance, and irresponsibility, in both interpersonal and
social interactions between people. Billboard favorably reviewed
the song some three months after its release and eight weeks
before it finally reached the Hot 100 in January 1969. The song
was released on South's debut album Introspect and as a single,
reaching No. 12 on the Hot 100. It was also a No. 6 hit in the UK
in 1969 and No. 4 in Ireland. The distinctive guitar in the
opening is played on a Danelectro electric sitar, which can be
seen in a video recorded to support South's album Introspect.
Concurrent with South's version of the song on the pop chart,
Freddy Weller, guitarist for Paul Revere and the Raiders, released
a country version of the song in 1969 as his debut single; this
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March 11: Debunking Day: -- Automobile
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of misinformation and setting the facts straight? Debunking Day
lights up every March 11th, inviting everyone to roll up their
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within the Santa Cruz area of California. He is also the founder
of Beauty and Truth Lab, the author of several books and a memoir,
the officiant of hundreds of weddings at the 2001 Burning Man, and
he even ran for city council in Santa Cruz. Brezsny established
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11: Lithuania Independence
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Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of
1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): Baltic States Under Soviet Rule: The Singing
Revolution: The January Events: The Act Of The Re-Establishment Of
The State Of Lithuania ( The Act Of 11 March): -- Lithuania
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independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist
Republic adopted on March 11, 1990, signed by all members of the
Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania led by Sajudis. The
act emphasized restoration and legal continuity of the
interwar-period Lithuania, which was occupied by the USSR and lost
independence in June 1940. It was the first time that a Union
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Kazakhstan's independence in 1991. These events (part of the
broader process dubbed the "parade of sovereignties")
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London. The newspaper consisted of a single page, with
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Richard E.
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1874: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles
Sumner, American statesman, United States Senator from
Massachusetts, academic lawyer, orator, anti-slavery activist,
Radical Republican, famous and honored for his having suffered
being beaten nearly to death with a cane on the Senate floor by
rabid pro slavery congressman Preston Brooks after Sumner
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Kansas" (b. January 6, 1811) #dies of a heart attack at his
home in Washington, D.C., aged 63, after serving nearly 23 years
in the Senate. He lay in state at the United States Capitol
rotunda, the second senator (Henry Clay being the first, in 1852)
and fourth person so honored. At his March 16 burial in Mount
Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the pallbearers
included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In the aftermath,
Mississippi Senator Lucius Lamar's positive eulogy for Sumner was
controversial enough considering his Southern heritage that the
incident resulted in Lamar's inclusion in President John F.
Kennedy's Profiles In Courage. Charles Sumner was born on Irving
Street in Boston, Massachusetts to Charles Pinckney Sumner, a
Harvard-educated lawyer, abolitionist, and early proponent of
racial integration of schools, who shocked 19th-century Boston by
opposing anti-miscegenation laws, and Relief Jacob, a seamstress
before marrying Charles. Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery
forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the
U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction,
he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and
guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. He fell into a dispute
with President Ulysses Grant, a fellow Republican, over the
control of Santo Domingo, leading to the stripping of his power in
the Senate and his subsequent effort to defeat Grant's
re-election. Sumner changed his political party several times as
anti-slavery coalitions rose and fell in the 1830s and 1840s
before coalescing in the 1850s as a member of the Republican
Party, the affiliation with which he became best known. He devoted
his enormous energies to the destruction of what Republicans
called the Slave Power, that is, to the ending of the influence
over the federal government of Southern slave owners who sought to
continue slavery and to expand it into the territories. On May 22,
1856, South Carolina Democratic congressman Preston Brooks beat
Sumner nearly to death with a cane on the Senate floor after
Sumner delivered an anti-slavery speech, "The Crime Against
Kansas." In the speech, Sumner characterized the attacker's
first cousin once removed, South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler,
as a "Don Quixote" who had chosen "the harlot,
slavery" as his mistress. The widely reported episode left
Sumner severely injured and both men famous. It was several years
before he could return to the Senate; Massachusetts not only
refused to replace him, it even re-elected him, leaving his empty
desk in the Senate as a reminder of the incident. The episode
contributed significantly to the polarization of the country
leading up to the Civil War, with the event symbolizing the
increasingly vitriolic and violent socio-political atmosphere of
the time. During the war, he was a leader of the Radical
Republican faction that criticized President Lincoln for being too
moderate on the South. Sumner specialized in foreign affairs and
worked closely with Lincoln to ensure that the British and the
French refrained from intervening on the side of the Confederacy
during the Civil War. As the chief Radical leader in the Senate
during Reconstruction, Sumner fought hard to provide equal civil
and voting rights for the freedmen on the grounds that "consent
of the governed" was a basic principle of American
republicanism, and to block ex-Confederates from power so they
would not reverse the gains derived from the Union's victory in
the Civil War. Sumner, teaming with House leader Thaddeus Stevens,
battled Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans and sought to impose
a Radical Republican program on the South. Although Sumner
forcefully advocated the annexation of Alaska in the Senate, he
was against the annexation of the Dominican Republic, then known
by the name of its capital, Santo Domingo. After leading senators
to defeat President Ulysses S. Grant's Santo Domingo Treaty in
1870, Sumner broke with Grant and denounced him in such terms that
reconciliation was impossible. In 1871, President Grant and his
Secretary Of State Hamilton Fish retaliated; through Grant's
supporters in the Senate, Sumner was deposed as head of the
Foreign Relations Committee. Sumner had become convinced that
Grant was a corrupt despot and that the success of Reconstruction
policies called for new national leadership. Sumner bitterly
opposed Grant's re-election by supporting the Liberal Republican
candidate Horace Greeley in 1872 and lost his power inside the
Republican Party. Less than two years later, he died in office.
Sumner was controversial in his time; even the 1960 Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography of Sumner by David Herbert Donald
described him as an arrogant egoist. Sumner was known for being an
ineffective political leader in contrast to his more pragmatic
colleague Henry Wilson. Ultimately, Sumner has been remembered
positively, with biographer Donald noting his extensive
contributions to anti-racism during the Reconstruction era. Many
places are named for him.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Linton
Satterthwaite, Maya archeologist and epigrapher well known for his
works at Caracol, Piedras Negras, Cahal Pech and Benque Viejo
(Xunantunich), primarily associated with the University Museum at
the University of Pennsylvania (b. February 8, 1897) #dies at the
age of 81 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Linton Satterthwaite was
born in Trenton, New Jersey. After graduating from Trenton High
School, Satterthwaite joined the military and served as a cadet
and flying officer for the Royal Navy Air Force during World War
I. Afterwards, he decided to attend Yale University for his B.A.
and worked as a reporter from 1929 to 1931. He married Margaret
Elizabeth Conway on May 21, 1930. He participated as an
archaeological assistant in excavations in Texas, West Virginia,
and Guatemala. In 1932, Linton Satterthwaite was named assistant
director for the excavations at Piedras Negras, the modern name
for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located
on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Peten department
of northwestern Guatemala. In 1933, J. Alden Mason left his
position as field director at Piedras Negras, and the title was
then given to Satterthwaite until 1939. The focus of the
expeditions at Piedras Negras was to answer archaeological
questions such as establishing building sequences, stratigraphy
(the use of sedimentation at sites to determine age), and
uncovering architectural remains. This was a stark difference from
that of Mason, who focused on monumental sculptures. Acting as
director, Satterthwaite was able to excavate eleven temples,
seventeen palaces, two ballcourts and multiple sweatbaths.
Although many publications on Piedras Negras came out during his
time there, Satterthwaite was still never able to finish all of
the reports that he intended to. One publication that was
completed the book Piedras Negras Archaeology, 1931-1939. It was
after Satterthwaite had achieved all this that he was awarded his
Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1943. From 1950 to 1958, Linton
Satterthwaite directed three sessions of archaeological work at
Caracol, Belize. Initial discovery and research of Caracol, Belize
occurred in 1938, when Rosa Mai discovered the ancient ruins and
A.H. Anderson did initial research, discovering 8 pieces of stelae
in the process. Satterthwaite's concentration at this site was on
hieroglyphs and chronology. During this time, in 1955 Linton
Satterthwaite became curator of the American Section of the
University Museum and Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Pennsylvania. He created a systematic locational guide and
inventory of the artifacts from the New World. During the three
seasons in the 1950s at Caracol, Satterthwaite was able to find
twenty-six early classic vessels, nine late classic vessels, but
as previously stated most of his time was dedicated to the
monumental sculptures. In total, Satterthwaite found twenty stelae
and nineteen altars. These monuments were made into casts,
photographed, sketched and made into quarter-scale blowups. Much
of his work at Caracol was published in the book The Monuments and
Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize, which is co-authored with Carl P.
Beetz. In this book, Satterthwaite and Beetz describe the stelea
and altars, from their exact context in the ground to
interpretations of the hieroglyphs recorded on these monuments. At
the same time of the Caracol investigations, Satterthwaite was
also conducting archaeological investigations at Cahal Pech and
Benque Viejo (what is now called Xunantunich). Satterthwaite
worked at these sites for two seasons beginning in 1950. It was
considered a "housemound project", and Satterthwaite was
able to investigate seventeen structures and five stelae. Linton
Satterthwaite also served as the project's epigrapher at Tikal,
Guatemala. His heavy interest in Maya chronology and monuments can
also be seen in the article entitled, "New Radiocarbon Dates
and the Maya Correlation Problem," which he co-authored with
radiocarbon-dating specialist Elizabeth K. Ralph, and in which
they discuss dates of lintel and vault beams from Tikal. In 1969,
Linton Satterthwaite retired as curator for the University Museum
and professor at Penn. He did however continue his work on the
data at Caracol, Belize and Xunantunich. Satterthwaite was able to
jumpstart careers in Maya studies, specifically with Tatiana
Proskouriakoff, a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and
archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of
Maya hieroglyphs, who started her archaeological career in Piedras
Negras, Guatemala during Satterthwaite's tenure there. Linton
Satterthwaite is commemorated in the scientific name of a species
of Central American snake, Tantillita Lintoni.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
Commercials: The Classics Vol. 6 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Lawrence
Welk, American accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario
(d. May 17, 1992) is #born in the German-speaking community of
Strasburg, North Dakota. Lawrence Welk hosted for 31 years one of
the oldest and longest running television program series, The
Lawrence Welk Show, from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known
to his large audience of radio, television, and live-performance
fans (and critics) as "champagne music". Lawrence Welk
died of pneumonia at age 89 in his Santa Monica apartment,
surrounded by his family. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, in
Culver City, California. His tombstone reads "Keep a song in
your heart".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1965: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Finales: Television Finales: American Television Finales: --
Jonny Quest, an animated science fiction adventure television
series about a boy who accompanies his scientist father on
extraordinary adventures, concludes its one-year run at 7:30 p.m.
EDT on a Thursday, having premiered on the ABC television network
at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 18, 1964. It was produced by
Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and was created and
designed by the late comic book artist Doug Wildey. The show was
inspired by radio serials and comics in the action-adventure
genre, and featured more realistic art, human characters, and
stories than Hanna-Barbera's previous cartoon programs. It was the
first of several Hanna-Barbera action-based adventure shows --
which would later include Space Ghost, The Herculoids, and Birdman
and the Galaxy Trio -- and ran on ABC in prime time early on
mostly Friday nights (its last episode was on a Thursday) for one
season. Jonny Quest also aired on CBS Saturday mornings/early
afternoons from 1967 to 1970. It was an almost instant success
both critically and ratings-wise. However, it was canceled after
one season due to its high production costs. Like the original
Star Trek television series, the series proved profitable in
syndication, but the fact that syndication could make a high-cost
production profitable was not yet understood when the show was
canceled in 1965, otherwise the show would have continued
production. Along with another Hanna-Barbera series, The Jetsons,
Jonny Quest is one of the few television series to have aired on
each of the Big Three television networks in the United States.
The series revolves around the titular Jonny Quest, a boy who
accompanies his scientist father Dr. Benton C. Quest on
extraordinary adventures, along with Roger T. "Race"
Bannon, a special agent from "Intelligence One" assigned
to safeguard Jonny; Jonny's best friend and adopted brother Hadji
Singh, a streetwise 11-year-old Calcutta orphan; and Jonny's dog
Bandit, a white with black dog markings resembling a black domino
mask. Their adventures span from the mythic to the scientific, the
supernatural to the conspiratorial, the diplomatic to the
paramilitary.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: One Of
The Reasons Why: The War In Vietnam 1945-46 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1945: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater: The China Burma India Theater (CBI)
(The India-Burma Theaters [IBT]) The South-East Asian Theater Of
World War II: The Burma Campaign: The Japanese Coup D'Etat In
French Indochina (Japanese: Meigo Sakusen, "Operation Bright
Moon"): The Empire Of Vietnam (Vietnamese: De Quoc Viet Nam;
Japanese: Betonamu Teikoku): -- The Empire Of Vietnam, a
short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bao Dai as
its ruler, governing the former French protectorates of Annam and
Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945. At the end of its
rule, the empire also successfully reclaimed French Cochinchina as
part of Vietnam. On March 9, 1945, Japanese forces in French
Indochina removed the French from power over French Indochina.
With Japanese forces losing the war and the threat of an Allied
invasion of Indochina imminent, the Japanese were concerned about
an uprising against them by French colonial forces. Despite the
French having anticipated an attack, the Japanese struck in a
military campaign attacking garrisons all over the colony. The
French were caught off guard and all of the garrisons were
overrun, with some then having to escape to Nationalist China,
where they were harshly interned. The Japanese replaced French
officials, and effectively dismantled their control of Indochina.
The Japanese were then able to install and create a new Empire of
Vietnam, Kingdom of Kampuchea and Kingdom of Luang Phrabang which
under their direction would acquiesce with their military presence
and forestall a potential invasion by the Allies. The coup had, in
the words of diplomat Jean Sainteny, "wrecked a colonial
enterprise that had been in existence for 80 years." French
losses were heavy. 15,000 French soldiers in total were held
prisoner by the Japanese. Nearly 4,200 were killed with many
executed after surrendering - about half of these were European or
French metropolitan troops. Practically all French civil and
military leaders as well as plantation owners were made prisoners,
including Decoux. They were confined either in specific districts
of big cities or in camps. Those who were suspected of armed
resistance were jailed in the Kempeitai prison in bamboo cages and
were tortured and cruelly interrogated. The locally recruited
tirailleurs and gardes indochinois who had made up the majority of
the French military and police forces, effectively ceased to
exist. About a thousand were killed in the fighting or executed
after surrender. Some joined pro-Japanese militias or Vietnamese
nationalist guerrillas. Deprived of their French cadres, many
dispersed to their villages of origin. Over three thousand reached
Chinese territory as part of the retreating French columns. What
was left of the French forces that had escaped the Japanese
attempted to join the resistance groups where they had more
latitude for action in Laos. The Japanese there had less control
over this part of the territory and with Lao guerilla groups
managed to gain control of several rural areas. Elsewhere the
resistance failed to materialize as the Vietnamese refused to help
the French. They also lacked precise orders and communications
from the provisional government as well as the practical means to
mount any large-scale operations. In northern Vietnam, Ho Chi
Minh's Viet Minh started their own guerilla campaign with the help
of the American OSS who trained and supplied them with arms and
funds. The famine in Vietnam had caused resentment among the
population both towards the French and the Japanese (although US
bombing played a part). They established their bases in the
countryside without meeting much resistance from the Japanese who
were mostly present in the cities. Viet Minh numbers increased
especially after they ransacked between 75 and 100 warehouses,
dispersed the rice and refused to pay taxes. In July OSS with the
Viet Minh-some of whom were remnants of Sabattiers division-went
over the border to conduct operations. Their actions were limited
to a few attacks against Japanese military posts. Most of these
were unsuccessful however as the Viet Minh lacked the military
force to launch any kind of attack against the Japanese.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Auschwitz And The Allies 2 Part TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1946: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland:
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (KL Auschwitz, KZ Auschwitz): --
Rudolf Hoess, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration
camp, is captured by British troops. He was a Nazi German
SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (lieutenant colonel) and the
longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and
extermination camp in World War II. He tested and carried into
effect various methods to accelerate Hitler's plan to
systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied
Europe, known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of
his subordinates, SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Karl Fritzsch,
Hoess introduced pesticide Zyklon B containing hydrogen cyanide to
the killing process, thereby allowing SS soldiers at Auschwitz to
kill 2,000 people every hour. Hoess joined the Nazi Party in 1922
and the SS in 1934. From 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again
from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945, he was in charge of Auschwitz
where more than a million people were killed before the defeat of
Germany. He was hanged in 1947 following a trial in Warsaw. During
his imprisonment in Poland, at the request of the Polish
authorities, he wrote a book, which was released in English under
the title Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf
Hoess. It consists of two parts, one about his own life and the
other one deals with other SS-men with whom he had become
acquainted, mainly Heinrich Himmler and Theodor Eicke, but several
others as well.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1971: #DOTD: #RIP: Whitney
Young, African American civil rights leader (b. July 31, 1921)
#dies aged 49 when he drowned while swimming with friends in
Lagos, Nigeria, where he was attending a conference sponsored by
the African-American Institute. President Nixon sent a plane to
Nigeria to collect Young's body and traveled to Kentucky to
deliver the eulogy at Young's funeral. He is buried at Ferncliff
Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York. Whitney Young was
born Whitney Moore Young Jr. in Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S. His
father, Whitney M. Young Sr., was the president of the Lincoln
Institute, and served twice as the president of the Kentucky Negro
Educational Association. Whitney's mother, Laura (Ray) Young, was
a teacher who served as the first female postmistress in Kentucky
(second in the United States), being appointed to that position by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Trained as a social
worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment
discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban
League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into
one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic
opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. Young was
influential in the United States federal government's War on
Poverty in the 1960s, and was an organizer of the August 28, 1963
March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom.
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1986: #DOTD: #RIP: Sonny Terry,
also known as Blind Sonny Terry, African American blues and folk
music singer, harmonica player and Jew's harp player (b. October
24, 1911) #dies of natural causes in Mineola, New York in March
1986, three days before Crossroads was released in theaters. He
was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in the same year. Born
Saunders Teddell (or Saunders Terrell or other variants; sources
differ) in Greensboro, Georgia, Terry was known for his energetic
blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and
hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.
Terry's father, a farmer, taught him to play basic blues harp as a
youth. He sustained injuries to his eyes and went blind by the
time he was 16, which prevented him from doing farm work, and was
forced to play music in order to earn a living. Terry played
Campdown Races to the plow horses which improved the efficiency of
farming in the area. He began playing blues in Shelby, North
Carolina. After his father died, he began playing in the trio of
Piedmont blues-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. When Fuller died
in 1941, Terry established a long-standing musical relationship
with another Piedmont blues muscian, guitarist Brownie McGhee, and
they recorded numerous songs together. Piedmont Blues, also known
as East Coast Blues or Southeastern Blues, refers primarily to a
guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach
in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern
supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally
picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others, resulting in a
sound comparable to ragtime or stride piano styles. Blues
researcher Peter B. Lowry coined the term, giving co-credit to
fellow folklorist Bruce Bastin. The Piedmont style is
differentiated from other styles, particularly the Mississippi
Delta blues, by its ragtime-based rhythms. The Piedmont blues duo
of Terry and McGhee became well known among white audiences during
the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. This included
collaborations with Styve Homnick, Woody Guthrie and Moses Asch,
producing classic recordings for Folkways Records (now
Smithsonian/Folkways). In 1938 Terry was invited to play at
Carnegie Hall for the first From Spirituals to Swing concert, and
later that year he recorded for the Library of Congress. He
recorded his first commercial sides in 1940. Some of his most
famous works include "Old Jabo", a song about a man
bitten by a snake, and "Lost John", which demonstrates
his amazing breath control. Despite their fame as "pure"
folk artists, in the 1940s Terry and McGhee fronted a jump blues
combo with honking saxophone and rolling piano, which was
variously billed as Brownie McGhee and his Jook House Rockers or
Sonny Terry and his Buckshot Five. Terry was also in the 1947
original cast of the Broadway musical comedy Finian's Rainbow. He
also appeared in the film The Color Purple, directed by Steven
Spielberg. With McGhee, he appeared in the 1979 Steve Martin
comedy The Jerk. Terry collaborated with Ry Cooder on "Walkin'
Away Blues". He also performed a cover of Robert Johnson's
"Crossroad Blues" for the 1986 film Crossroads. Terry
and McGhee were both recipients of a 1982 National Heritage
Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which
is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and
traditional arts. That year's fellowships were the first bestowed
by the NEA.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 222: #DOTD: Roman Emperor
Elagabalus (b. c. 204) #dies when he is assassinated at the age of
18, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard
during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the
streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber. When he became
Emperor at age 14, he initiatied a reign remembered mainly for sex
scandals and religious controversy. He replaced the traditional
head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity Elagabalus, of
whom he had been high priest. He forced leading members of Rome's
government to participate in religious rites celebrating this
deity, over which he personally presided. Elagabalus was
supposedly "married" as many as five times, lavishing
favours on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his
lovers, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the
imperial palace. His behavior estranged the Praetorian Guard, the
Senate, and the common people alike. Amidst growing opposition,
Elagabalus was assassinated in the Castra Praetoria, the ancient
barracks (castra) of the Praetorian Guard. When his mother Julia
entered the camp to protect her son, she was slain along with
Elagabalus by the Praetorian Guard. She was thereafter declared a
public enemy and her name erased from all records. Elagabalus was
replaced as Emperor by his cousin Severus Alexander, who ruled for
13 years before his own assassination which would mark the epoch
event for the Crisis of the Third Century. The assassination plot
against Elagabalus was devised by his grandmother, Julia Maesa,
and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.
Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for
extreme eccentricity, decadence, and zealotry. This tradition has
persisted, and with writers of the early modern age he suffers one
of the worst reputations among Roman emperors. Edward Gibbon, for
example, wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the
grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury". According to
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, "The name Elagabalus is branded in
history above all others" because of his "unspeakably
disgusting life".
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 2013: #DOTD: Martin Adolf
Bormann, German theologian and laicized Roman Catholic priest (b.
April 14, 1930) #dies in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany, aged 82. He was the eldest of the ten children of Martin
Bormann, German Nazi Party official, head of the Nazi Party
Chancellery and personal secretary of Adolf Hitler. Bormann was
born in Grunwald, Bavaria, the oldest of the ten children of the
head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf
Hitler, Martin Bormann (1900-1945) and his wife, Gerda Buch
(1909-1946). Nicknamed Kronzi, short for Kronprinz (German for
crown prince), he was an ardent young Nazi, attending the Nazi
Party Academy of Matrei am Brenner in the Tyrol from 1940 to 1945.
On April 15, 1945, the school closed and young Martin was advised
by a party functionary in Munich, named Hummel, to try to reach
his mother in the still German-occupied hamlet of Val
Gardena/Groden, near Selva/Wolkenstein in Italian South Tyrol.
Unable to get there, he found himself stranded in Salzburg where
the Gauleiter provided him with false identity papers and he found
hospitality with a Catholic farmer, Nikolaus Hohenwarter, at the
Querleitnerhof, halfway up a mountain in the Salzburg Alps. After
Germany surrendered, his mother, Gerda, was subjected to intense
interrogation by officers of the CIC (Combined Intelligence
Committee, the joint American-British intelligence body). She died
of abdominal cancer in the prison hospital at Merano on 23 April
1946. The following year, he learned of his mother's death from an
article in the Salzburger Nachrichten and only then confessed his
true identity to Hohenwarter, who reported the information to his
local priest at Weissbach bei Lofer. Subsequently, the priest
advised the rector of the Church of Maria Kirchtal, who then took
the boy into his care. Young Martin converted to Catholicism.
While serving as an altar boy at Maria Kirchtal, he was arrested
by American intelligence officers and imprisoned at Zell am See
for several days of interrogation before being returned to his
parish. He stayed there until he joined the religious congregation
of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Ingolstadt. He had been
able to resume contact with his brothers and sisters, all of whom,
except for one sister, had also been received into the Catholic
Church. On July 26, 1958, he was ordained a priest. In 1961, he
was sent to the newly independent Congo (formerly the Belgian
Congo), where he worked as a missionary until 1964, when he had to
flee the country due to the Simba rebellion. In 1966, he returned
to the Congo for a year. Following a near-fatal injury in 1969
Bormann was nursed back to health by a nun named Cordula. He left
the priesthood in the early 1970s, and they later both renounced
their vows and wed in 1971. They had no children. Bormann became a
teacher of theology and retired in 1992. In 2001, he toured
schools in Germany and Austria, speaking about the horrors of the
Third Reich, and even visited Israel, meeting with Holocaust
survivors. In 2011, Bormann was accused by a former pupil at an
Austrian Catholic boarding school of having raped him as a
12-year-old when Bormann was working there as a priest and
schoolmaster in the early 1960s. Other former pupils alleged
severe physical violence had been used against them and others. By
this point, Bormann was suffering from dementia and was unwilling
to and/or incapable of commenting on the accusations. No legal
proceedings followed, but the independent Klasnic Commission,
established to investigate abuse by Catholic Church members in
Austria, awarded the accuser compensation.
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1947: #DOTD: Victor Lustig,
highly skilled con artist, who undertook a criminal career that
involved conducting scams across Europe and the United States
during the early 20th century, widely regarded as one of the most
notorious con artists of his time, and is infamous for being "the
man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice" and for conducting the
"Rumanian Box" scam (b. January 4, 1890) #dies of
pneumonia at The Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in
Springfield, Missour, aged 57. He is buried at Davis Memorial Park
cemetery in Las Vegas, Nevada. On his death certificate, his
occupation was listed as "apprentice salesman". Victor
Lustig was born in Hostinne, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (modern
Czech Republic)). In 1925, Lustig traveled back to France. While
staying in Paris, he chanced upon a newspaper article discussing
the problems faced with maintaining the Eiffel Tower, which gave
him inspiration for a new con. At the time, the monument had begun
to fall into disrepair, and the city was finding it increasingly
expensive to maintain and repaint it. Part of the article made a
passing comment that overall public opinion on the monument would
move towards calls for its removal, which was the key to
convincing Lustig that using it as part of his next con would be
lucrative. After researching what he needed to help him utilize
the information from the article, Lustig set to work preparing the
scam, which included hiring a forger to produce fake government
stationery for him. Once he was ready, Lustig invited a small
group of scrap metal dealers to a confidential meeting at an
expensive hotel, whereupon he identified himself to them as the
Deputy Director-General of the Ministere de Postes et Telegraphes
(Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs). In the meeting, he convinced
the men that the upkeep of the Eiffel Tower was becoming too much
for Paris and that the French government wished to sell it for
scrap, but that because such a deal would be controversial and
likely spark public outcry, nothing could be disclosed until all
the details were thought out. Lustig revealed that he was in
charge of selecting the dealer who would receive ownership of the
structure, claiming that the group had been selected carefully
because of their reputations as "honest businessmen".
His speech included genuine insight about the monument's place in
the city and how it did not fit in with the city's other great
monuments like the Gothic cathedrals or the Arc de Triomphe.
During his time with the dealers, Lustig kept watch on who would
be the most likely to fall for his scam and found his mark in
Andre Poisson-an insecure man who wished to rise up amongst the
inner circles of the Parisian business community. As Poisson
showed the keenest interest in purchasing the monument, Lustig
decided to focus on him once the dealers sent their bids to him.
Arranging a private meeting with Poisson, Lustig convinced him
that he was a corrupt official, claiming that his government
position did not give him a generous salary for the lifestyle he
wished to enjoy. Believing the sale of the Eiffel Tower would
secure him a place amongst the top businessmen, Poisson agreed to
pay a large bribe to secure ownership of the Eiffel Tower.
However, once Lustig received his bribe and the funds for the
monument's "sale" (around 70,000 francs), he soon fled
to Austria. Lustig suspected that when Poisson found out he had
been conned, he would be too ashamed and embarrassed to inform the
French police of what he had been caught up in, yet despite this
belief, he maintained a check on newspapers while in Austria. His
suspicions soon proved to be correct when he could find no
reference of his con within their pages, and thus he decided to
return to Paris later that year to pull off the scheme once more.
However, when Lustig attempted to con another group of dealers and
had managed to find a mark among them willing to buy the Eiffel
Tower, the police were informed about the scam and he fled to the
U.S. to evade arrest. One of Lustig's most notable scams involved
selling unsuspecting marks a box that he claimed was a machine
that could duplicate any currency bills that were inserted into
it, with the only catch being that the device needed six hours to
print an identical copy. Referred to as the "money box"
or "Rumanian Box", the scam involved a specially
designed mahogany box, roughly the size of a steamer trunk. The
box's design featured two small slots designed to take in bills
and the paper to "print" the duplicate on, and a
compartment containing a false arrangement of levers and
mechanisms that had to be "operated" to make the
duplicates. In order to convince the mark it truly worked, Lustig
would ask them to give him a specific denomination of bill (e.g.
100 USD), insert it into his device along with the paper, and then
wait with them until the duplicate was made. When it had, Lustig
would take the mark with him to a bank to authenticate the note.
In reality, Lustig had concealed a genuine note within the device;
the choice of the denomination was influenced by what he put into
the box beforehand. Once the mark was convinced, Lustig would
refuse to sell them the box until they offered him a high price
for it. Before it was sold, Lustig would pack the box with
additional genuine notes, to buy him time to make a clean escape,
before his mark realized they had been conned. One of Lustig's
most infamous uses of the device was upon a Texas sheriff, whom he
convinced to buy it for thousands of dollars. Upon realizing he
had been tricked, the sheriff pursued Lustig to Chicago. Upon
meeting him again, the sheriff was conned into believing that he
was not operating the device correctly, and was handed a large sum
of cash as compensation, unaware that the money was counterfeit.
This counterfeiting would eventually lead to Lustig's arrest by
American law enforcement officers.
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 1955: #DOTD: #RIP: Oscar F.
Mayer, German-American businessman who founded the processed-meat
firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name (b. March 29, 1859) #dies in
his sleep 2 weeks before his 96th birthday, at his home, 5727
North Sheridan Road, in Chicago, with his son and successor Oscar
G. Mayer Sr. and his three daughters at his bedside. He is buried
at Rosehill Cemetery And Mausoleum in Chicago, Illinois. Oscar
Ferdinand Mayer was #born in Kosingen (now part of Neresheim), in
the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, where his family had been foresters
and ministers for generations. While he was a child, Wurttemberg
became part of the German Empire. In 1873 he emigrated to the
United States and lived in Detroit with his cousin, John Schroll.
He worked in that city's meat market and in 1876 moved to Chicago
with the Schrolls. Mayer found work at Armour & Company in
Chicago's North Side. In 1880, he shared his idea of starting how
own meat business with his younger brother, Gottfried, who was
back in Germany. He asked Gottfried to begin studying sausage
making process. Meanwhile, Oscar began saving money for the
venture. Three years later, he started a butcher and
sausage-making shop of his own, when he was 24 years old with his
brothers - Gottfried and Max. Five years later, the proprietor who
owned the store refused to renew Mayer's lease, hoping that he
could profit from Mayer's business success. Pushed out on his own,
Mayer bought a property and constructed a two-story building for
his business and family. In 1887 he married Louise Greiner,
originally from Munich, and their only son, Oscar G. Mayer Sr. was
born in that building. With the company's continued growth, it
became a sponsor of such events as polka bands and the German
exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. The
company had grown to 43 employees in 1900, offering meat delivered
across the city of Chicago and its suburbs. Capitalizing on an
industry trend, in 1904 the company started using its own brands
for its meat products and was one of the earliest participants in
the Food Safety and Inspection Service, created under the Federal
Meat Inspection Act of 1906, to verify the contents of its
products. By the time of his death, the business named after
himself had grown to 9,000 employees, with facilities in
Davenport, Iowa; Los Angeles; Madison, Wisconsin; and
Philadelphia. In 1912, Mayer founded the Lincoln Park Gun Club
with Philip K. Wrigley, Sewell Avery, and other prominent
Chicagoans. After being ill for six weeks, he died (two weeks
before his 96th birthday) in his sleep at age 95 on March 11,
1955, at his home, 5727 North Sheridan Road, in Chicago, with his
son and successor Oscar G. Mayer Sr. and his three daughters at
his bedside. His wife died in 1931. Oscar Mayer is now an American
meat and cold cut production company, owned by the American food
company Kraft Heinz based in Chicago, Illinois. It is known for
its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham, and Lunchables products.
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Today, March 11, 2026March 11, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Betty
Hutton, American stage, film, and television actress, comedian,
dancer, singer and beauty (b. February 26, 1921) #dies at her home
in Palm Springs, California from colon cancer complications at the
age of 86. She is buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral
City, California. Born Elizabeth June Thornburg in Battle Creek,
Michigan, her sister Marion Hutton is best remembered for her
singing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1938 to 1942. The two
of them started singing with their mother in the family's
speakeasy when Betty was 3 years old. Troubles with the police
kept the family on the move. She appeared in several musical
shorts for Warner Bros., Queens of the Air (1938), Three Kings and
a Queen (1939), Public Jitterbug No. 1 (1939), and One for the
Book (1940). Hutton was cast in a Broadway show, Two for the Show
(1940) which ran for 124 performances. The show was produced by
Buddy DeSylva, who then cast Hutton in Panama Hattie (1940-42).
This was a major hit running for 501 performances. It starred
Ethel Merman; despite rumors through the years that Merman
demanded from envy that Hutton's musical numbers be reduced from
the show, more careful reports demonstrate that producer Buddy
DeSylva chose to cut just one song of three, "They Ain't Done
Right by Our Nell," due to Hutton's "always in
overdrive" performance style. When DeSylva became a producer
at Paramount Pictures, Hutton was signed to a featured role in The
Fleet's In (1942), starring Paramount's number-one female star
Dorothy Lamour, alongside Eddie Bracken and William Holden. The
film was popular and Hutton was an instant hit with the moviegoing
public. Hutton was one of the many Paramount contract artists who
appeared in Star Spangled Rhythm (1942). The studio did not
immediately promote her to major stardom but did give her the
second lead in a Mary Martin film musical, Happy Go Lucky (1943).
The response was positive and Hutton was given co-star billing
with Bob Hope in Let's Face It (1943). During that year, she made
1250 USD per week. In 1942, writer-director Preston Sturges cast
Betty as the dopey but endearing small-town girl who gives local
troops a happy send-off and wakes up married and pregnant, but
with no memory of who her husband is, except that a few "z's"
were in his name. This film, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, was
delayed by Hays Office objections and Sturges' prolific output and
was finally released early in 1944. The film made Hutton a major
star; Sturges was nominated for a Best Writing Oscar, the film was
named to the National Film Board's Top Ten films for the year, and
the National Board of Review nominated the film for Best Picture
of 1944, and awarded Betty Hutton the award for Best Acting for
her performance. The New York Times named it as one of the 10 Best
Films of 1942-1944. Critic James Agee noted that "the Hays
office must have been raped in its sleep" to allow the film
to be released. And although the Hays Office received many letters
of protest because of the film's subject matter, it was
Paramount's highest-grossing film of 1944, playing to
standing-room-only audiences in some theatres. Paramount kept
Hutton busy, putting her in And the Angels Sing (1944) with Fred
MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour, and Here Come the Waves (1944) with
Bing Crosby. Both were huge hits. On the strength of Hutton's
success, she signed a recording contract with the newly formed
Capitol Records (she was one of the earliest artists to do so).
Buddy DeSylva, one of Capitol's founders, also co-produced her
next hit, the musical Incendiary Blonde (1945), where she played
Texas Guinan. It was directed by veteran comedy director George
Marshall and Hutton had replaced Lamour as Paramount's top female
box-office attraction. Hutton was one of many Paramount stars in
Duffy's Tavern (1945), and was top billed in The Stork Club (1945)
with Barry Fitzgerald, produced by DeSyvla. Hutton went into Cross
My Heart (1946) with Sonny Tufts, which she disliked. She did
however enjoy the hugely popular The Perils of Pauline (1947),
directed by Marshall, where she sang a Frank Loesser song that was
nominated for an Oscar: "I Wish I Didn't Love You So."
Hutton's relationship with Paramount began to disintegrate when
DeSylva left the studio due to illness (he would die in 1950).
"After I left I started doing scripts that I knew weren't
good for me." Hutton's next screen triumph came in Annie Get
Your Gun (1950) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which hired her to
replace Judy Garland in the role of Annie Oakley. The film, with
the leading role retooled for Hutton, was a smash hit, with the
biggest critical praise going to Hutton. She was billed above Fred
Astaire in the 1950 musical Let's Dance. Hutton was one of several
stars in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). She made an unbilled
cameo in Sailor Beware (1952) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a
remake of The Fleet's In, in which she portrayed Dean's
girlfriend, Hetty Button. She made Somebody Loves Me (1952), a
biography of singer Blossom Seeley, with Ralph Meeker. Hutton then
clashed with Paramount. The New York Times reported that the
dispute resulted from her insistence that her husband at the time,
choreographer Charles O'Curran, direct her in a film. In April
1952 Hutton returned to Broadway, performing in Betty Hutton and
Her All-Star International Show. In July 1952 she announced she
and her husband would form a production company. She left
Paramount in August. Hutton got work in radio, appeared in Las
Vegas where she had a great success. She had the rights to a
script about Sophie Tucker but was unable to raise funds. In 1954,
TV producer Max Liebman, of comedian Sid Caesar's Your Show of
Shows, fashioned his first "Color Spectacular" as an
original musical written especially for Hutton, Satins and Spurs.
Hutton's last completed film was a small one, Spring Reunion
(1957). It was a financial disappointment. She also became
disillusioned with Capitol's management and moved to RCA Victor.
In 1957, she appeared on a Dinah Shore show on NBC that also
featured Boris Karloff; the program has been preserved on a
kinescope. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz took a chance on Hutton in
1959, with their company Desilu Productions giving her a CBS
sitcom, The Betty Hutton Show. Hutton hired the still-blacklisted
and future film composer Jerry Fielding to direct her series. They
had met over the years in Las Vegas when he was blacklisted from
TV and radio and could get no other work, and her Hollywood career
was also fading. It was Fielding's first network job since losing
his post as musical director of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life
in 1953 after hostile questioning by HUAC. The Betty Hutton Show
ended after 30 episodes. Hutton continued headlining in Las Vegas
and touring across the country. She returned to Broadway briefly
in 1964 when she temporarily replaced a hospitalized Carol Burnett
in the show Fade Out - Fade In. She guest starred on shows like
The Greatest Show on Earth, Burke's Law and Gunsmoke. In 1967, she
was signed to star in two low-budget Westerns for Paramount, but
was fired shortly after the projects began. After the 1967 death
of her mother in a house fire and the collapse of her last
marriage, Hutton's depression and pill addictions escalated. She
divorced her fourth husband, jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli, when she
discovered he'd fallen in love with Edie Adams (who would become
Candoli's second wife). She declared bankruptcy the same year.
After losing her singing voice in 1970, Hutton had a nervous
breakdown and later attempted suicide. She regained control of her
life through rehabilitation, and the mentorship of a Roman
Catholic priest, Father Peter Maguire. Hutton converted to Roman
Catholicism, and took a job as a cook at a rectory in Portsmouth,
Rhode Island. She made national headlines when it was revealed she
was practically penniless and working in a rectory. After an
aborted comeback in 1974, she was hospitalized with emotional
exhaustion. Later that year, a well-publicized "Love-In for
Betty Hutton" was held at New York City's Riverboat
Restaurant, emceed by comedian Joey Adams, with several old
Hollywood pals on hand. The event raised 10K USD for Hutton and
gave her spirits a big boost, but steady work still eluded her.
Hutton appeared in an interview with Mike Douglas and a brief
guest appearance in 1975 on Baretta. In 1977, Hutton was featured
on The Phil Donahue Show. Hutton was then happily employed as
hostess at a Newport, Rhode Island, jai alai arena. She also
appeared on Good Morning America, which led to a 1978 televised
reunion with her two daughters. Hutton began living in a shared
home with her divorced daughter and grandchildren in California,
but returned to the East Coast for a three-week return to the
stage. In 1980, she took over the role of Miss Hannigan during the
original Broadway production of Annie while Alice Ghostley was on
vacation. Ghostley replaced the original Miss Hannigan actress,
Dorothy Loudon (who won a Tony Award for the role). Hutton's
rehearsal of the song "Little Girls" was featured on
Good Morning America. Hutton's Broadway comeback was also included
in a profile that was done about her life, her struggle with
pills, and her recovery on CBS News Sunday Morning. A ninth-grade
drop-out, Hutton went back to school and earned a master's degree
in psychology from Salve Regina University in 1986. During her
time at college, Hutton became friends with singer-songwriter
Kristin Hersh and attended several early concerts of Hersh's band,
Throwing Muses. Hersh later wrote the song "Elizabeth June"
as a tribute to her friend, and wrote about their relationship in
further detail in her memoir, Rat Girl. Hutton's last known
performance, in any medium, was on Jukebox Saturday Night, which
aired on PBS in 1983. Hutton stayed in New England and began
teaching comedic acting at Boston's Emerson College. She became
estranged again from her daughters. After the death of her ally,
Father Maguire, Hutton returned to California, moving to Palm
Springs in 1999, after decades in New England. Hutton hoped to
grow closer to her daughters and grandchildren, as she told Robert
Osborne on TCM's Private Screenings in April 2000, though her
children remained distant. She told Osborne that she understood
their hesitancy to accept a now elderly mother. The TCM interview
first aired on July 18, 2000. The program was rerun as a memorial
on the evening of her death in 2007, and again on July 11, 2008,
April 14, 2009, January 26, 2010, and as recently as March 18,
2017. as part of TCM's memorial tribute for Robert Osborne. Hutton
lived in Palm Springs until her death March 12, 2007, at 86, from
colon cancer complications. She is buried at Desert Memorial Park
in Cathedral City, California.
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