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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16: Robert Goddard Day: -- March
16, 1926: Rocket Launches: The History Of Rocketry: -- Robert
Goddard launches history's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn,
Massachusetts, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation.
He and his team launched 34 liquid-fueled rockets between 1926 and
1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as
fast as 885 km/h (550 mph). A liquid-propellant rocket, also known
as a liquid-fueled or liquid rocket, utilizes a rocket engine that
uses liquid propellants. Liquids are desirable because their
reasonably high density allows the volume of the propellant tanks
to be relatively low, and it is possible to use lightweight
centrifugal turbopumps to pump the propellant from the tanks into
the combustion chamber, which means that the propellants can be
kept under low pressure. This permits the use of low-mass
propellant tanks, resulting in a high mass ratio for the rocket.
An inert gas stored in a tank at a high pressure is sometimes used
instead of pumps in simpler small engines to force the propellants
into the combustion chamber. These engines may have a lower mass
ratio, but are usually more reliable, and are therefore used
widely in satellites for orbit maintenance. Liquid rockets can be
monopropellant rockets using a single type of propellant, or
bipropellant rockets using two types of propellant. Tripropellant
rockets using three types of propellant are rare. Some designs are
throttleable for variable thrust operation and some may be
restarted after a previous in-space shutdown. Liquid propellants
are also used in hybrid rockets, with some of the advantages of a
solid rocket. Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 - August
10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and
inventor whose work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many
of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible. He has
been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's
214 patented inventions-a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a
liquid-fuel rocket (1914)-were important milestones toward
spaceflight. His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme
Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century
rocket science. Goddard successfully applied two-axis control
(gyroscopes and steerable thrust) to rockets to effectively
control their flight. Although his work in the field was
revolutionary, Goddard received little public support, moral or
monetary, for his research and development work. He was a shy
person and rocket research was not considered a suitable pursuit
for a physics professor. The press and other scientists ridiculed
his theories of spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of
his privacy and his work. He also preferred working alone because
of the aftereffects of a bout with tuberculosis. Years after his
death, at the dawn of the Space Age, Goddard came to be recognized
as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, along with
Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Hermann
Oberth. He not only recognized the potential of rockets for
atmospheric research, ballistic missiles and space travel but was
the first to scientifically study, design and construct the
rockets needed to implement those ideas. NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center was named in Goddard's honor in 1959. He was also
inducted into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 1966,
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1244: The History Of
Christianity: The History Of Roman Catholicism: The Latin Church
(Latin: Ecclesia Latina): The Middle Ages (The Medieval Period,
The Mediaeval Period): The Crusades: The Albigensian Crusade
(1209-1229 (French: Croisade Des Albigeois) (The Cathar Crusade):
The Siege Of Montsegur: -- The Cathar castle of Chateau de
Montsegur falls to French royal forces after a nine month siege.
After the castle surrenders, about 210 Cathar bonhommes (Cathar
adepts) and unrepentant credentes (common believers) were burned
in a bonfire that same day. Catharism (from the Greek katharoi,
"the pure [ones]") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic
revival movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe,
particularly what is now northern Italy and southern France,
between the 12th and 14th centuries. The followers were known as
Cathars, or Good Christians, and are now mainly remembered for a
prolonged period of persecution by the Catholic Church, which did
not recognise their belief as being Christian. Catharism appeared
in Europe in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th century
and this is when the name first appears. The adherents were
sometimes known as Albigensians, after the city Albi in southern
France where the movement first took hold. The belief system may
have originated in Persia or the Byzantine Empire. Catharism was
initially taught by ascetic leaders who set few guidelines, and,
thus, some Catharist practices and beliefs varied by region and
over time. The Catholic Church denounced its practices including
the Consolamentum ritual, by which Cathar individuals were
baptized and raised to the status of "perfect". Perfecti
(Cathar Perfects, also known as a Parfait in French or Perfectus
in Latin), was the name given by the anti-Cathar Cistercian monk
Bernard of Clairvaux to the leaders of the Cathars, members who
had become 'adepts' in the teaching, and who were not clerics in
any way, and whose role was that of aiding the ordinary members
achieve the rewards of belief and practice - men and women could
become Perfecti. The term reflects that such a person was seen by
the Catholic Church as the "perfect heretic". As
"bonhommes" (their term) Perfecti were expected to
follow a lifestyle of extreme austerity and renunciation of the
world which included abstaining from eating meat and avoiding all
sexual contact. By that virtue, they were recognized as
trans-material (i.e. spiritualized) angels by their followers,
known as the Credentes (Croyant in French, Believers in English).
Perfecti were drawn from all walks of life and counted
aristocrats, merchants and peasants among their number. Women
could also become Perfects; Female Perfects were known as
Parfaites or Perfectae. The Siege of Montsegur is considered the
final act of the Albigensian Crusade, also known as the Cathar
Crusade, which though ended in 1229 still had to fight
insurrections, of which the Siege of Montseguar is the last major
military operation to destroy the Cathars. The Albigensian Crusade
or the Cathar Crusade (1209-1229; French: Croisade des albigeois,
Occitan: Crosada dels albigeses) was a 20-year military campaign
initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in
Languedoc, in southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted
primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political
flavour, resulting in not only a significant reduction in the
number of practising Cathars, but also a realignment of the County
of Toulouse in Languedoc, bringing it into the sphere of the
French crown, and diminishing both Languedoc's distinct regional
culture and the influence of the counts of Barcelona. The Cathars
originated from an anti-materialist reform movement within the
Bogomil churches of the Balkans calling for a return to the
Christian message of perfection, poverty and preaching, combined
with a rejection of the physical to the point of starvation. The
reforms were a reaction against the often scandalous and dissolute
lifestyles of the Catholic clergy in southern France. Their
theology, neo-Gnostic in many ways, was basically dualist. Several
of their practices, especially their belief in the inherent evil
of the physical world, conflicted with the doctrines of the
Incarnation of Christ and Catholic sacraments. This led to
accusations of Gnosticism and attracted the ire of the Catholic
establishment. They became known as the Albigensians, because
there were many adherents in the city of Albi and the surrounding
area in the 12th and 13th centuries. Raphael Lemkin, who in the
20th century coined the word "genocide", referred to the
Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive cases of
genocide in religious history". Mark Gregory Pegg writes that
"The Albigensian Crusade ushered genocide into the West by
linking divine salvation to mass murder, by making slaughter as
loving an act as His sacrifice on the cross." ========= On
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1751: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Madison, American statesman and Founding Father who served as the
fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (d. June
28, 1836) is #born James Madison Jr. in Port Conway, Virginia.
James Madison Jr. is hailed as the "Father of the
Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting
the United States Constitution, and for his role in drafting the
first ten amendments to the Constitution during the 1st Congress,
Madison is known as the "Father of the Bill Of Rights".
Born into a prominent Virginia planting family, Madison served as
a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental
Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. In the
late 1780s, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention,
which produced a new constitution to supplant the ineffective
Articles Of Confederation. After the Convention, Madison became
one of the leaders in the movement to ratify the Constitution, and
his collaboration with Alexander Hamilton produced The Federalist
Papers, among the most important treatises in support of the
Constitution. After the ratification of the Constitution in 1788,
Madison won election to the United States House Of
Representatives. While simultaneously serving as a close adviser
to President George Washington, Madison emerged as one of the most
prominent members of the 1st Congress, helping to pass several
bills establishing the new government. Though he had played a
major role in the enactment of a new constitution that created a
stronger federal government, Madison opposed the centralization of
power sought by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during
Washington's presidency. To oppose Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and
Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party, which became
one of the nation's two first major political parties alongside
Hamilton's Federalist Party. After Jefferson won the 1800
presidential election, Madison served as Jefferson's Secretary Of
State from 1801 to 1809. In this role, Madison supervised the
Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation's size. Madison
succeeded Jefferson with a victory in the 1808 presidential
election, and he won re-election in 1812. After the failure of
diplomatic protests and a trade embargo against the United
Kingdom, he led the U.S. into the War Of 1812. The war was an
administrative morass, as the United States had neither a strong
army nor financial system. As a result, Madison came to support a
stronger national government and military, as well as the national
bank, which he had long opposed. Historians have generally ranked
Madison as an above-average president. He played an important role
in the formation of the new U.S. Constitution following the
American Revolutionary War. During the War Of 1812, President
Madison was forced to flee Washington, D.C,. while the British
attacked and burned the White House and other important public
buildings. James Madison died in the morning of congestive heart
failure aged 85 in Montpelier, Virginia. According to one common
account of his final moments, he was given his breakfast, which he
tried eating but was unable to swallow. His favorite niece, Nellie
Madison Willis, who sat by to keep him company, asked him, "What
is the matter, Uncle James?" Madison died immediately after
he replied, "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear."
He was buried in the family cemetery at Montpelier. He was one of
the last prominent members of the Revolutionary War generation to
die. His last will and testament left significant sums to the
American Colonization Society, Princeton, and the University of
Virginia, as well as 30K USD(897K USD in 2021) to his wife,
Dolley. Left with a smaller sum than James had intended, Dolley
suffered financial troubles until her death in 1849. In the 1840s
Dolley sold Montpelier, its remaining slaves, and the furnishings
to pay off outstanding debts. Paul Jennings, one of Madison's
younger slaves, later recalled in his 1865 memoir "A Colored
Man's Reminiscences of James Madison": "In the last days
of her life, before Congress purchased her husband's papers, she
was in a state of absolute poverty, and I think sometimes suffered
for the necessaries of life. While I was a servant to Mr. Webster,
he often sent me to her with a market-basket full of provisions,
and told me whenever I saw anything in the house that I thought
she was in need of, to take it to her. I often did this, and
occasionally gave her small sums from my own pocket, though I had
years before bought my freedom of her." On Sale @ 15% Off
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1900: Archaeology (Archeology): The Minoan Civilization: Knossos: -- The site of the ruins of Knossos, site of the famed Minoan palace unearthed by Sir Arthur Evans, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, is purchased by Evans in order to excavate and restore the site. Knossos was a major center of the Minoan civilization, and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus and the minotaur. It is located on the outskirts of Heraklion, and remains a popular tourist destination. Knossos is dominated by the monumental Palace of Minos. Like other Minoan palaces, this building served as a combination religious and administrative center rather than a royal residence. The earliest parts of the palace were built around 1900 BC in an area that had been used for ritual feasting since the Neolithic. The palace was continually renovated and expanded over the next five centuries until its final destruction around 1350 BC. The site was first excavated by Minos Kalokairinos in 1877. In 1900, Arthur Evans undertook more extensive excavations which unearthed most of the palace as well as many now-famous artifacts including the Bull-Leaping Fresco, the snake goddess figurines, and numerous Linear B tablets. While Evans is often credited for discovering the Minoan Civilization, his work is controversial in particular for his inaccurate and irreversible reconstructions of architectural remains at the site. Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FREng (July 8, 1851 - July 11, 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the Minoan palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on the structures and artifacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Evans found that he needed to distinguish the Minoan civilisation from Mycenaean Greece. Evans was also the first to define the Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/micisirarevm.html
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Henny
Youngman, English-American comedian, actor and violinist (d.
February 24, 1998) is #born Henry Yungman to a Jewish family in
London, England. His family moved to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New
York, when he was a child. Famous for his mastery of the
"one-liner"; his best known one-liner being "Take
my wife ... please". In a time when many comedians told
elaborate anecdotes, Youngman's routine consisted of telling
simple one-liner jokes, occasionally with interludes of violin
playing. These depicted simple, cartoon-like situations,
eliminating lengthy build-ups and going straight to the punch
line. He was known as "the King of One-Liners", a title
conferred to him by columnist Walter Winchell. A stage performance
by Youngman lasted only 15 to 20 minutes but contained dozens of
jokes in rapid succession. Henny Youngman died of pneumonia at
Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, three weeks before his
92nd birthday. He is interred in the Mount Carmel Cemetery,
Glendale, New York next to his wife Sadie. #HennyYoungman
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1911: #BOTD: Josef Mengele,
German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz
concentration camp during World War II, nicknamed The Angel Of
Death (German: Todesengel) (d. February 7, 1979) is #born Josef
Rudolf Mengele into a Catholic family in Gunzburg, Kingdom of
Bavaria, German Empire. Mengele was a member of the team of
doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in
the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on
prisoners. Arrivals deemed able to work were admitted into the
camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were immediately killed in
the gas chambers. Mengele left Auschwitz on 17 January 1945,
shortly before the arrival of the liberating Red Army troops.
After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture
for the rest of his life. Mengele received doctorates in
anthropology and medicine from Munich University and began a
career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the
SS in 1938. Initially assigned as a battalion medical officer at
the start of World War II, he was transferred to the concentration
camp service in early 1943 and assigned to Auschwitz. There he saw
the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects. His
subsequent experiments, focusing primarily on twins, had no regard
for the health or safety of the victims. Assisted by a network of
former SS members, Mengele sailed to Argentina in July 1949. He
initially lived in and around Buenos Aires, then fled to Paraguay
in 1959 and Brazil in 1960 while being sought by West Germany,
Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal so that he could
be brought to trial. In spite of extradition requests by the West
German government and clandestine operations by the Israeli
intelligence agency, Mossad, Mengele eluded capture. He drowned
after suffering a stroke while swimming off the Brazilian coast in
1979 and was buried under a false name. His remains were
disinterred and positively identified by forensic examination in
1985. For more than 30 years, his bones laid unclaimed inside a
blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo, Brazil's Legal Medical Institute.
Dr Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele's
remains saw an opportunity to put them to use in 2017, and as head
of the department of legal medicine at the University of Sao
Paulo's Medical School, he obtained permission to use them in his
forensic medical courses. #JosefMengele #SS #FinalSolution
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1916: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Banana Wars: 20th Century Revolutions: The Mexican
Revolution: Mexican Border War (1910-1919): The Pancho Villa
Expedition (The Mexican Expedition, The Punitive Expedition, U.S.
Army): -- The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John Joseph
"Black Jack" Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join
the hunt for Pancho Villa, the Mexican Revolutionary general and
one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution,
beginning the Pancho Villa Expedition, also known as the Mexican
Expedition, officially as "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army",
and colloquially as the Mexican Punitive Expedition. On March 9,
1916:, Villa had led nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack
against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, known variously
as the Battle of Columbus, the Burning of Columbus or the Columbus
Raid. It began as a raid conducted by Villa's Division of the
North on the small United States border town of Columbus, New
Mexico, located 3 miles north of the border. The raid escalated
into a full-scale battle between Villistas and the United States
Army. Villa himself led the assault, only to be driven back into
Mexico by elements of the 13th Cavalry Regiment stationed at the
town. The attack angered Americans and President Woodrow Wilson
ordered the Punitive Expedition in which the US Army invaded
Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to capture General Villa. On
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March 16, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Leo McKern,
Australian sapper, actor, and comedian who appeared in numerous
British, Australian and American television programmes and films,
and in more than 200 stage roles (d. July 23, 2002) is #born
Reginald McKern in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Known as
"Leo" from a young age, Reginald McKern, AO's notable
roles include: Man With Boxing Glove in The Running Jumping &
Standing Still Film (1959), which inspired such films as the two
Beatles films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and the
television series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974); Clang
in Help! (1965); Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (1966);
Number Two in The Prisoner (1967); Tom Ryan in Ryan's Daughter
(1970); Carl Bugenhagen in the first and second installments of
The Omen series, The Omen (1976) and Damien: Omen II (1978); Paddy
Button in The Blue Lagoon (1980); Dr. Grogan in The French
Lieutenant's Woman (1981); Father Imperius in Ladyhawke (1985);
and the role that made him a household name as an actor, Horace
Rumpole, whom he played in the British television series Rumpole
of the Bailey (1978-1992). On leaving school, he initially worked
in a factory, where at the age of 15, he suffered an accident
which resulted in the removal of his left eye. He first worked as
an engineering apprentice, then as an artist, followed by service
as a sapper with the Australian Army's Royal Australian Engineers
during World War II, a unit of the Second Australian Imperial
Force that served in North Africa, Malaya, New Guinea and Borneo
campaigns. In 1944, in Sydney, he performed in his first stage
role. McKern fell in love with Australian actress Jane Holland,
moved to the United Kingdom to be with her, and married her in
1946. He soon became a regular performer at London's Old Vic
theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now the Royal
Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, despite the
difficulties posed by his glass eye and Australian accent.
McKern's most notable Shakespearean role was as Iago in Othello,
in 1952. One of McKern's earliest television roles was in the
1950s black-and-white series The Adventures of Robin Hood (as Sir
Roger DeLisle, usurper of the Locksley manor and lands, and
Herbert of Doncaster, a corrupt lender). During the 1960s, he was
one of several Number Twos in the groundbreaking and critically
acclaimed TV series The Prisoner. Along with Colin Gordon, McKern
was one of only two actors to play Number Two more than once. He
first played the character in the episodes "The Chimes of Big
Ben" and "Once Upon a Time", and later reprised the
role in the final episode, "Fall Out". The filming of
"Once Upon a Time" proved to be a particularly intense
experience for McKern; according to one biographer, the stress
caused him to suffer either a nervous breakdown or a heart attack
(accounts differ), forcing production to stop for a time. Leo
McKern died of diabetes in a Bath, Somerset, England nursing home
where he had moved a few weeks earlier, aged of 82. His body was
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March 16, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Jerry Lewis,
American film pioneer, actor, comedian, singer, film producer,
film director and screenwriter (d. August 20, 2017) is born Jerome
Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, to the Jewish family of Daniel
"Danny" Levitch (1902-1980), a master of ceremonies and
vaudevillian who performed under the stage name Danny Lewis, from
New York whose parents immigrated to the United States from the
Russian Empire, and Rachael "Rae" Levitch (nee Brodsky;
1903-1983), a WOR pianist and Danny's music director, from Warsaw,
Poland. Reports as to his birth name are conflicting; in Lewis'
1982 autobiography, he claimed his birth name was Joseph, after
his maternal grandfather, but his birth certificate, the 1930 U.
S. Census, and the 1940 U. S. Census all name him as Jerome. Jerry
Lewis is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage
and radio. He and Dean Martin were partners as the hit popular
comedy duo of Martin and Lewis. Following that success, he was a
solo star in motion pictures, nightclubs, television shows,
concerts, album recordings and musicals. Lewis served as national
chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and hosted the live
Labor Day broadcast of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon for 44 years.
Lewis has received several awards for lifetime achievements from
the American Comedy Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association,
Venice Film Festival, Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
and been honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Lewis wed Patti Palmer (nee Esther Grace Calonico; 1921-2021), a
singer with Ted Fio Rito, on October 3, 1944. They had six sons
together; five biological: Gary (born 1945), Scott (born 1956),
Christopher (born 1957), Anthony (born 1959) and Joseph
(1964-2009); and one adopted: Ronald (born 1949). It was an
interfaith marriage; Lewis was Jewish and Palmer was Catholic. He
openly pursued relationships with other women and gave
unapologetic interviews about his infidelity, revealing his
affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich to People in
2011. Palmer filed for divorce from Lewis in 1980, after 35 years
of marriage, citing Lewis's extravagant spending and infidelity on
his part, and it was finalized in 1983. Lewis's second wife was
Sandra "SanDee" Pitnick, a University of North Carolina
School of the Arts professionally trained ballerina and
stewardess, who met Lewis after winning a bit part in a dancing
scene on his film Hardly Working. They wed on February 13, 1983,
in Key Biscayne, Florida, adopted a daughter, Danielle (born
1992), and were married for 34 years until Lewis' death of
end-stage cardiac disease and peripheral artery disease at his
home in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 91. In his will, Lewis
left his estate to his second wife of 34 years, SanDee Pitnick,
and their adopted daughter. All of Lewis's children and
grandchildren from his marriage to Palmer were excluded from
inheriting any part of his estate. His eldest son, Gary, the
leader of Gary Lewis & the Playboys, publicly called his
father a "mean and evil person" and said that Lewis
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1935: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The
German Reich, The Third Reich): German Rearmament: -- Adolf Hitler
orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty Of
Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht,
the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It
consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the
Luftwaffe (air force). The designation "Wehrmacht"
replaced the previously used term Reichswehr, and was the
manifestation of the Nazi regime's efforts to rearm Germany to a
greater extent than the Treaty Of Versailles permitted. After the
Nazi rise to power in 1933, one of Adolf Hitler's most overt and
audacious moves was to establish the Wehrmacht, a modern
offensively-capable armed force, fulfilling the Nazi regime's
long-term goals of regaining lost territory as well as gaining new
territory and dominating its neighbours. This required the
reinstatement of conscription, and massive investment and defense
spending on the arms industry. The Wehrmacht formed the heart of
Germany's politico-military power. In the early part of the Second
World War, the Wehrmacht employed combined arms tactics (close
cover air-support, tanks, and infantry) to devastating effect in
what became known as Blitzkrieg (lightning war). Its campaigns in
France (1940), the Soviet Union (1941), and North Africa (1941/42)
are regarded as acts of boldness. At the same time, the far-flung
advances strained the Wehrmacht's capacity to the breaking point,
culminating in the first major defeat in the Battle Of Moscow
(1941); by late 1942, Germany was losing the initiative in all
theatres. The operational art was no match to the war-making
abilities of the Allied coalition, making the Wehrmacht's
weaknesses in strategy, doctrine, and logistics readily apparent.
Closely cooperating with the SS and the Einsatzgruppen, the German
armed forces committed numerous war crimes, despite later denials
and promotion of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht. The majority of
the war crimes were committed in the Soviet Union, Poland,
Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy, as part of the war of annihilation
against the Soviet Union, the Holocaust and Nazi security warfare.
During the war about 18 million men served in the Wehrmacht. By
the time the war ended in Europe in May 1945, German forces
(consisting of the Heer, the Kriegsmarine, the Luftwaffe, the
Waffen-SS, the Volkssturm, and foreign collaborateur units) had
lost approximately 11,300,000 men, about half of whom were missing
or killed during the war. Only a few of the Wehrmacht's upper
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1945: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Air Warfare Of
World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II: European Air
Operations During The Battle Of Europe: RAF Strategic Bombing
During The Second World War: The Bombing Of Wurzburg In World War
II: -- Ninety percent of the city of Wurzburg, Franconia in
Northern Bavaria, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes in a
fire bombing by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
All of the city's churches, its cathedral, and other monuments
were heavily damaged or destroyed; the city center, which mostly
dated from medieval times, was completely destroyed. Although
lacking major armaments industries (the Wurzburg radar was named
after the city, but not produced there) and hosting around 40
hospitals at the time, Wurzburg was targeted as a traffic hub and
as part of the attempt by Bomber Command to break the spirit of
the German people. Royal Air Force bombers dropped incendiary
bombs that set fire to much of the city, killing an estimated
5,000 people and almost completely obliterating the historic town.
Over the next 20 years, the buildings of historical importance
were painstakingly and accurately reconstructed. The citizens who
rebuilt the city immediately after the end of the war were mostly
women - Trummerfrauen ("rubble women") - because the men
were either dead or still prisoners of war. On a relative scale,
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1945: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Volcano And Ryukyu
Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment):
-- The main battle of the Battle Of Iwo Jima ends, but small
pockets of Japanese resistance persisted for another ten days. The
Battle Of Iwo Jima began on February 19, 1945, when about 30,000
United States Marines landed on the island. Lasting from February
18 to March 26, 1945, it was one of the major battles of World War
II, in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and
eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial
Japanese Army during World War II. The American invasion,
designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the
entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields
(including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a
staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This
five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest
fighting of the Pacific War of World War II. After the heavy
losses incurred in the battle, the strategic value of the island
became controversial. It was useless to the U.S. Army as a staging
base and useless to the U.S. Navy as a fleet base. However, Navy
Seabees rebuilt the landing strips, which were used as emergency
landing strips for USAAF B-29s. The Imperial Japanese Army
positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense
network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 11 miles of
underground tunnels. The American ground forces were supported by
extensive naval artillery, and had complete air supremacy provided
by U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviators throughout the entire
battle. Japanese combat deaths numbered three times the number of
American deaths although, uniquely among Pacific War Marine
battles, American total casualties exceeded those of the Japanese.
Of the 21,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of
the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner, some of whom were
captured because they had been knocked unconscious or otherwise
disabled. The majority of the remainder were killed in action,
although it has been estimated that as many as 3,000 continued to
resist within the various cave systems for many days afterwards,
eventually succumbing to their injuries or surrendering weeks
later. On February 18, 1945, the 133rd Naval Construction
Battalion (NCB) of the Seabees joined the Fifth Marine Amphibious
Corps and the Fourth Marine Division for the amphibious assault on
Iwo Jima. The next day, the entire force landed on Iwo Jima on
D-Day with the first assault wave led by the Fourth Marine
Division. The 133rd NCHB suffered severe casualties during the
fight for Iwo Jima, where it distinguished itself in both
front-line combat and construction. The 133rd NCHC had 370
casualties, more than 40 percent of the 875 men that landed, the
highest casualties as part of a single battle in Seabee history.
Joe Rosenthal's Associated Press photograph of the raising of the
U.S. flag on top of the 169 m (554 ft) Mount Suribachi by six U.S.
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Isabelle
Huppert, French actress and beauty, known for her portrayals of
cold, austere women devoid of morality, considered one of the
greatest actresses of her generation, is #born Isabelle Anne
Madeleine Huppert in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
With 16 nominations and two wins, Huppert is the most nominated
actress at the Cesar Awards. She is also the recipient of several
accolades, including five Lumieres Awards, a BAFTA Award, three
European Film Awards, two Berlin International Film Festival,
three Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival honors, a
Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award nomination. In 2020, The
New York Times ranked her first on its list of the greatest
actresses of the 21st century. Huppert's first Cesar Award
nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in Aloise (1975) and
she won Best Actress for La Ceremonie (1995) and Elle (2016). For
The Lacemaker (1977) she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising
Newcomer. She went on to win two Cannes Film Festival Awards for
Best Actress for Violette Noziere (1978) and The Piano Teacher
(2001) as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actress twice for Story
of Women (1988) and La Ceremonie. Huppert's other films in France
include Loulou (1980), La Separation (1994), 8 Women (2002),
Gabrielle (2005), Amour (2012), Things to Come (2016), and Happy
End (2017). For her performance in Elle, Huppert was nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Actress; she also won several critics
awards as well as a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award.
Huppert is among international cinema's most prolific actresses
with her best known English-language films including Heaven's Gate
(1980), The Bedroom Window (1987), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), Louder Than Bombs (2015),
Greta (2018), Frankie (2019), and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
(2022). She acted the character Rose in Bertrand Tavernier's 1981
French crime film Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate)
which he adapted and directed from Jim Thompson's acclaimed 1964
novel Pop. 1280. Also a prolific stage actress, Huppert is the
most nominated actress for the Moliere Award, with nine
nominations; she received an honorary award in 2017. In the same
year she was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize. She made her London
stage debut in the title role of the play Mary Stuart in 1996, and
her New York stage debut in a 2005 production of 4.48 Psychosis.
Huppert's recent credits include in Heiner Muller's Quartett
(2009) in New York, Sydney Theater Company's The Maids (2014) and
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1962: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Civil Aviation: Aviation Incidents And
Accidents: (FT739/FTL739): -- A Lockheed L-1049 Super
Constellation propliner disappears over the western Pacific Ocean
in a likely act of sabotage. The aircraft, which had been
chartered by the United States Army, was transporting ninety-six
military passengers from Travis Air Force Base in California to
Tan Son Nhut International Airport in Saigon, South Vietnam. After
refueling at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the Super
Constellation disappeared while en route to Clark Air Base in the
Philippines. All 107 aboard were declared missing and presumed
dead. The airliner's disappearance prompted one of the largest air
and sea searches in the history of the Pacific. Aircraft and
surface ships from four branches of the U.S. military searched
more than 144,000 square miles (370,000 km2) during the course of
eight days. A civilian tanker observed what appeared to be an
in-flight explosion believed to be the missing Super
Constellation, though no trace of wreckage or debris was ever
recovered. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) determined that,
based on the tanker's observations, Flight 739 probably exploded
in-flight, though an exact cause could not be determined without
examining the remnants of the aircraft. This was the deadliest
single-aircraft aviation accident involving the Super
Constellation. The incident aircraft was a five-year-old Lockheed
L-1049H Super Constellation with 17,224 airframe hours. It carried
eleven American civilian crew members and ninety-six military
passengers. The flight was operated by the Flying Tiger Line as
Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Flight 739, chartered by the
United States Army. The Super Constellation carried 93
Ranger-trained Army communications specialists en route to South
Vietnam. Their orders were to relieve soldiers in Saigon who had
been training South Vietnamese troops to fight Viet Cong
guerrillas. Also on board were three members of the South
Vietnamese military. The flight crew consisted of eleven civilians
based out of California, including seven men, under the command of
Captain Gregory P. Thomas. Flight 739 departed Travis Air Force
Base, California, at 05:45 GMT, on March 14, 1962, and set its
course for Saigon. There were four planned refueling stops:
Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii; Wake Island Airfield;
Andersen Air Base in Guam; and Clark Air Base in the Philippines.
The flight arrived at Guam at 11:14 GMT, on March 15, after being
delayed for minor maintenance on engines numbers 1 and 3 at
Honolulu, and later at Wake Island. The aircraft departed from
Guam at 12:57 GMT with an estimated time of arrival at the
Philippines at 19:16 GMT. The Super Constellation carried nine
hours' worth of fuel for the eight-hour flight of 1,600 miles
(2,600 km). Eighty minutes after departure, at 14:22 GMT, the
captain radioed a routine message and gave his position as being
280 nautical miles (520 km; 320 mi) west of Guam at coordinates
(13dg 40'N 140dg 0'E). The aircraft was expected to reach 14dg 0'N
135dg 0'E at 15:30. At that time, the Guam IFSS experienced
temporary communication difficulties with heavy radio static. At
15:39 the Guam radio operator attempted to contact Flight 739 for
a position report but was unable to establish contact. The
aircraft was not seen or heard from again. The Clark Field Rescue
Coordinating Center declared the aircraft missing on the morning
of March 16, 1962. United States Navy officials reported that they
believed that the aircraft had crashed closer to Guam than the
Philippines. At the time of the disappearance, the weather was
clear and the sea was calm. The Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and
Marines ordered aircraft and ships to the area. The first day of
searching continued overnight. Over the first two days in the
search, vessels crisscrossed 75,000 square miles (190,000 km2) of
ocean. U.S. Secretary of the Army Elvis Stahr told newspapers that
"we have not given up hope that it will be found and that
those aboard are safe," and that a "maximum effort"
was being made. After four days of searching, Major General
Theodore R. Milton of the 13th Air Force told newspapers that
although the chance of finding survivors was doubtful, every
effort would be made "as long as there is any hope at all."
Search efforts included aircraft from Clark Air Field, the United
States Seventh Fleet, and the Air Force detachment at Kadena Air
Base in Okinawa, Japan. Additionally, surface ships and aircraft
from numerous U.S. bases in the western Pacific contributed to the
search efforts. After eight days, however, the search was called
off. The search, which was at the time one of the largest to ever
take place in the Pacific, had covered more than 200,000 square
miles (520,000 km2) of ocean. Flight 739 was one of two Flying
Tiger Line flights with military connections that had been
destroyed under similar circumstances on the same day. This led
both airline officials and the press to offer suggestions of
sabotage and conspiracy. Both Flight 739 and the other aircraft,
an L-1049 Super Constellation, departed from Travis Air Force Base
at around 09:45 PST on Wednesday, March 14, 1962, and both
encountered difficulties several hours later. The other aircraft
was carrying "secret military cargo" when it crashed in
the Aleutian Islands and caught fire. Flying Tiger Lines released
a statement outlining some possible reasons for the two
occurrences, including sabotage of either or both aircraft or
kidnapping of Flight 739 and its passengers. The airline also said
that these were merely "wild guesses" and that there was
no evidence to support either theory. A Liberian tanker, the SS T
L Linzen, reported seeing a bright light in the sky near the
aircraft's expected position about ninety minutes after the last
radio contact. U.S. military officials described it as being a
"bright light strong enough to light a ship's decks". It
was reported that the tanker observed a flash of light
approximately 500 miles (800 km) west of Guam, followed
immediately by two red lights falling to the ocean at different
speeds. A Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigation determined
that crewmen aboard the tanker also observed what appeared to be
vapor trails, and observed the two fireballs fall into the ocean.
The tanker proceeded to the location where the fireballs had been
observed to fall into the ocean but was unable to find any trace
of the falling objects during their six-hour search. A spokesman
at the rescue effort command post in Guam said that as time passed
with no sign of the aircraft, "more credence is given to the
possibility that the tanker may have seen the missing aircraft
explode in flight." Officials with the Flying Tiger Line said
that their earlier theories of sabotage would be bolstered were
the investigation to reveal that an explosion had occurred. The
executive vice president of operations said that experts
considered it impossible for explosions to occur on the Super
Constellation in the course of normal operation. Additionally, he
claimed that there was nothing powerful enough aboard the aircraft
to completely blow it apart, and that "something violent must
have happened." The CAB determined that, given the
observations of the tanker crew, the flight most likely exploded
in midair. As no part of the wreckage was ever found, the agency
was unable to establish a determination of cause. The accident
report concluded "A summation of all relevant factors tends
to indicate that the aircraft was destroyed in flight. However,
due to the lack of any substantiating evidence the Board is unable
to state with any degree of certainty the exact fate of N 6921C."
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1968: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): War Crimes: War Crimes Of The
Vietnam War: The My Lai Massacre (The Pinkville Massacre, The
Massacre At Songmy, Son My Massacre): -- The My Lai Massacre
occurs, a war crime of the Vietnam War, a mass killing of between
347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam. It was
committed by U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion,
20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry
Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some
of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.
Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only
Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was
convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally
given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years
under house arrest. The massacre, which was later called "the
most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two
hamlets of Son My village in Quang Ngai Province. These hamlets
were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My
Khe. The U.S. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in
that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to
as the Pinkville Massacre. On November 12, 1969, independent
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My
Lai Massacre, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for
International Reporting. Later, when the U.S. Army started its
investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy.
Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the
United States and called the Son My Massacre in Vietnam. The
incident prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge
as a result of Hersh' story. The My Lai massacre increased
domestic opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
when the scope of killing and cover-up attempts were exposed.
Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the
massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even
denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen, including
Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Only after thirty years were they recognized and decorated, one
posthumously, by the U.S. Army for shielding non-combatants from
harm in a war zone. Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in Korea
eighteen years earlier, My Lai was one of the largest single
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16, 1979: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Sino-Vietnamese War (The Third Indochina War): The Battle Of
Lang Son (1979): -- The Sino-Vietnamese War ends as Communist
China's People's Liberation Army cross back over the Vietnamese
border and returns to China after their costly victory in The
Battle Of Lang Son, the capital city of Lang Son Province in far
Northern Vietnam and the northernmost point of Vietnam's National
Route 1 that leads into the heart of Vietnam's capital of Hanoi.
This Chinese withdrawal took place days after the Chinese People's
Liberation Army (PLA) advanced 15 to 20 kilometres (9.3 to 12.4
mi) deep into the northern provinces of Vietnam. After capturing
the northern heights above Lang Son, the Chinese surrounded and
paused in front of the city in order to lure the Vietnamese into
reinforcing it with units from Cambodia. This had been the main
strategic ploy in the Chinese war plan as Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping did not want to risk an escalation potentially involving
the Soviet Union. The Vietnam People's Army (VPA) high command,
after a tip-off from Soviet satellite intelligence, was able to
see through the trap, however, and committed reserves only to
Hanoi. Once this became clear to the PLA, the war was practically
over. An assault was still mounted, but the Vietnamese only
committed one VPA regiment defending the city. After three days of
bloody house-to-house fighting, Lang Son fell on March 6, 1979.
The PLA then took the southern heights above Lang Son. Although
the PLA managed to capture and briefly occupy Lang Son and its
nearby vicinities, the campaign was slower and more costly than
the Chinese leadership had anticipated, with the PLA's regular
units suffering heavy casualties against the guerilla tactics of
Vietnamese militia and irregular units. According to the
Washington Post, analysts described the battle as being an
important Chinese victory for capturing the Vietnamese capital of
Lang Son. "They beat the hell out of the Vietnamese,"
stated one analyst in describing the battle around Lang Son. "The
Vietnamese know that; the Russians know that. That is all the
Chinese are interested in." Vietnamese resistance being too
heavily preoccupied elsewhere near Lao Cai and Cao Bang in the
middle of the front was highlighted as a contributing factor to
the Vietnamese defeat in Lang Son. Some Bangkok analysts stated
Vietnam was at least successful in keeping their losses low by
avoiding direct battles between its Hanoi based main-force units
with the Chinese forces. The Sino-Vietnamese War (February 17 -
March 16, 1979) began when Red China launched a surprise invasion
of northern Vietnam in response to Vietnam's successful invasion
and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the
Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. China quickly captured several cities
near the border, and after the fall of Lang Son on March 6, China
declared that the "gate to Hanoi" had been opened, and
that its punitive mission had been accomplished. Chinese troops
then withdrew from Vietnam. However, Vietnam continued to occupy
Cambodia until 1989, which means that China did not achieve its
goal of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. However,
China's operation at least successfully forced Vietnam to withdraw
some units, namely the 2nd Corps, from the invasion forces of
Cambodia to reinforce the defense of Hanoi. The conflict had a
lasting impact on the relationship between China and Vietnam, and
diplomatic relations between the two countries were not fully
restored until 1991. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union
in 1991, the Sino-Vietnamese border was finalized. Although unable
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Today, March 16, 2026
March 16: Lips Appreciation Day: -- The
only day in the year dedicated to appreciating the lips - an
attractive part of the face. Did you know that lips come in
different shapes, structures, and sizes? Not only do they protect
our teeth from the elements, but the lips also form an important
part of our smiles, pouts, smacks, and other facial expressions.
That's not all, lips are also essential in eating and drinking. On
Lips Appreciation Day, don't forget to show your lips some
appreciation and good care lips to make them more attractive. Lips
Appreciation Day owes its creation to Thomas and Ruth Roy of
Wellcat Holiday. While the purpose for the creation of the day is
obvious - to appreciate the lips as an attractive feature of the
face - no one knows for certain which year this appreciation day
was first celebrated. A visible part of the faces of humans and
numerous mammals, the lips form an important feature of the
visage. Coming in different shapes and sizes - thin, thick, pouty,
and plump - the human lips are the two dainty fleshy folds of
tissue surrounding the mouth and covering the teeth. The lips are
naturally mobile and play a role in eating, sucking, whistling,
and the articulation of sound and speech. Particularly in humans,
the lips are a pinkish, hypersensitive sensory organ that forms an
integral part of facial gestures like pouting, smiling, scoffing,
and grimacing. Thanks to their suppleness, the lips are also used
for erogenous and intimate acts like kissing. The skin of the lip
comprises three to five cellular layers which are uniquely more
tender than the normal facial skin. Since the lips lack the
security layer every other part of the face has, they dry out
quicker and chap out, especially during extreme temperatures. It's
also possible for the lips to lose up to ten times more moisture
than every other part of the face because of their vulnerability.
This is why it's important to take great, exceptional care of the
lips to keep them moisturized, and looking attractive. Nowadays,
many aesthetic products exist to care for the lips and protect
them from chapping. Some of them include lip balms, moisturizing
creams, and lipsticks.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16: National Panda Day: --
Celebrate the fluffiest, bamboo-munching bears that are a source
of national pride for China. There are two subspecies of panda:
The Giant, black and white panda, and the 'Qinling panda' - A much
smaller, brown subspecies of panda, discovered in 1985 in the
mountain ranges of the southern Shaanxi Province in China. In the
wilderness, giant pandas live only in the remote, mountainous
regions of China. As of 2019, due to rapidly growing population
numbers, the status of pandas was upgraded from "endangered"
species to "vulnerable" species. Still, it is reported
that there are less than 2,000 pandas left in the wild, due to
habitat loss, farming, fur hunting, and other factors. Pandas only
live about 15 to 20 years in the wild, but those in captivity can
live even longer. Panda bears play an important part in the
ecosystem of China's bamboo forests, by spreading seeds, and
therefore, growing new vegetation, which serves both humans and
animals. That's why it is important to protect the panda and its
environment. One factor contributing to their endangered status is
the low birth rate for pandas. Considering that female pandas are
only fertile two or three days of the year, it makes sense that
reproduction in the wild is more difficult for this species. There
are about 27 zoos worldwide that protect Giant Pandas, and foster
environments to encourage reproduction. The most important factor
for preserving wild pandas is to protect their environment,
especially bamboo forests, their main source of nutrition. Though
the origin of this holiday is unknown, we can assume that the day
was created to bring awareness to the beauty of pandas, in order
to keep them from going extinct. In 1961, the World Wide Fund for
Nature was formed, and created their logo around the Panda,
because it is "an animal that is beautiful, endangered, and
loved by many people in the world," as said by Sir Peter
Scott, one of the first WWF founders. The panda became a symbol of
the conservation movement around the world - a call to action to
preserve endangered species, and our natural wildlife environments
for our wild animals. In 2020, due to the reproduction efforts in
zoos, reforestation and conservation campaigns, pandas are
considered "vulnerable" to extinction. Though they are
no longer on the brink of extinction, it's important to keep the
environment for pandas intact, as the giant panda plays an
important part in our natural ecosystem. There have been some
political debates in China and worldwide recently on how important
it is to keep spending money to breed pandas in captivity, and
protect the forests of China, where the wild panda bears live.
According to a scientific paper published in 2015 by The Society
for Conservation Biology, preserving the natural habitat of the
giant panda also helps 70% of the country's forest birds, 70% of
mammals and 31% of amphibians. Pandas play a crucial role in
forests, and it's our job to protect them.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1983: #DOTD: #RIP: Arthur
Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and
entertainer, known by the nickname "The Old Redhead" (b.
August 31, 1903) #dies at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the
age of 79 of emphysema caused by decades of smoking and the
radiation treatments for Godfrey's lung cancer.Godfrey is buried
at Union Cemetery in Leesburg, Virginia, not far from his farm.
Arthur Godfrey was born Arthur Morton Godfrey in Manhattan, New
York City. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid 1950s,
Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a
week, sometimes for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS.
His programs included Arthur Godfrey Time (Monday-Friday mornings
on radio and television), Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (Monday
evenings on radio and television), Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
(Wednesday evenings on television), The Arthur Godfrey Digest
(Friday evenings on radio) and King Arthur Godfrey and His Round
Table (Sunday afternoons on radio). One of the medium' early
master commercial pitchmen, he was strongly identified with many
of his sponsors, especially Chesterfield cigarettes and Lipton
Tea. Having advertised Chesterfield for many years, during which
time he devised the slogan "Buy 'em by the carton",
Godfrey terminated his relationship with the company after he quit
smoking, five years before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in
1959. Subsequently, he became a prominent spokesman for
anti-smoking education. An on-air incident involving the firing of
one of his regularly featured singers Julius LaRosa undermined his
folksy image and resulted in a gradual decline. At the peak of his
success in the mid-1950s, Godfrey helmed two CBS-TV weekly series
and a daily 90-minute television mid-morning show, but, by the
early 1960s, his presence had been reduced to hosting the
occasional TV special and his daily network radio show, which
ended in 1972.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Constantin
Brancusi, nicknamed "The Patriarch Of Modern Sculpture",
Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career
in France, considered one of the most influential sculptors of the
20th century and a pioneer of modernism (b. February 19, 1876)
#dies aged 81 in Paris, France. He is buried in the Cimetiere Du
Montparnasse in Paris. This cemetery also displays statues that
Brancusi carved for deceased artists. At his death, Brancusi left
1200 photographs and 215 sculptures. He bequeathed part of his
collection to the French state on condition that his workshop be
rebuilt as it was on the day he died. This reconstruction of his
studio, adjacent to the Pompidou Centre, is open to the public.
Brancusi's studio inspired Swedish architect Klas Anshelm's design
of the Malmo Konsthall, which opened in 1975. Constantin Brancusi
was born in the village of Hobita, Gorj, near Targu Jiu, Romanian
United Principalities close to the Carpathian Mountains in modern
Romania. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden
farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to
Munich, then to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to
1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance
forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of
representational art. Brancusi sought inspiration in non-European
cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin,
Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain, and others. However, other influences
emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and
Dionysian traditions.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1966: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold
War: The Space Age: The Space Age: Space Programs Of The United
States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project Gemini: Gemini 8
(Gemini VIII): -- Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight
and the sixth manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program, lifts
off at 16:41:02 UTC from Cape Kennedy LC-19 (Launch Complex 19)
carrying the two-man crew of Command Pilot Neil Armstrong and
Pilot David Scott atop a Gemini-Titan II rocket (a Titan II GLV
(Gemini Launch Vehicle). Gemini 8, officially Gemini VIII,
conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but
suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S.
spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and
required immediate abort of the mission. The Agena target vehicle,
an unmanned spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini program to
develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking
techniques, began execution of its stored command program, which
instructed the Agena to turn the combined spacecraft 90_ to the
right, and when the command was being executed, Scott noticed that
they were yawing. Armstrong used the Gemini's OAMS thrusters to
stop the yaw, but after it stopped, it immediately started again.
With concern that the high yaw rate might damage one or both
spacecraft or even cause the propellant-heavy Agena to rupture or
explode, the crew decided to undock from the Agena so they could
analyze the situation. Scott switched the Agena control back to
ground command, while Armstrong struggled to stabilize the
combined vehicle enough to permit undocking. Scott then hit the
undock button, and Armstrong fired a long burst of translation
thrusters to back away from the Agena. Without the added mass of
the Agena, Gemini starting tumbling end-over-end more rapidly. The
astronauts realized that the problem was on the Gemini. NASA
turned off the squawk box at Armstrong's home, alarming his wife.
Scott later praised Armstrong's actions as their spacecraft spun:
"The guy was brilliant. He knew the system so well. He found
the solution, he activated the solution, under extreme
circumstances ... it was my lucky day to be flying with" him.
The spacecraft came in range of the ground communications ship
Coastal Sentry Quebec. By now the tumble rate had reached one
revolution per second, blurring the astronauts' vision and
threatening loss of consciousness or vertigo. Armstrong decided to
shut down the OAMS and use the Re-entry Control System (RCS)
thrusters to stop the tumble. After steadying the spacecraft, the
crew tested each OAMS thruster in turn and found that Number 8 had
stuck on. Almost 75% of the reentry maneuvering fuel had been used
to stop the tumble, and mission rules dictated that the flight be
aborted once the Re-entry Control System was fired for any reason.
Gemini 8 immediately prepared for an emergency landing. It was
decided to let the spacecraft reenter one orbit later so that it
could land in a place that could be reached by the secondary
recovery forces. The original plan was for Gemini 8 to land in the
Atlantic, but that was supposed to be three days later. USS
Leonard F. Mason started to steam towards the new landing site 800
kilometers (430 nmi; 500 mi) east of Okinawa and 1,000 kilometers
(540 nmi; 620 mi) south of Yokosuka, Japan. The crew was returned
to Earth safely. The only other time a critical in-space system
failure of a U.S. spacecraft threatened the lives of the
astronauts and required an abort of the mission happened on the
flight of Apollo 13. It was the twenty-second manned spaceflight
of all time (including X-15 flights over 54 nautical miles).
Command pilot Armstrong's flight marked the second time a U.S.
civilian flew into space (Joseph Albert Walker became the first
U.S. civilian on X-15 Flight 90). Armstrong had resigned his
commission in the United States Naval Reserve in 1960; the Soviet
Union had launched the first civilian, Valentina Tereshkova (also
the first woman), aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Mike
Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, Democratic U.S.
representative (1943-1953) and U.S. senator (1953-1977) from
Montana, longest-serving Senate Majority Leader from 1961 to 1977,
22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (d. October 5, 2001) is
#born Michael Joseph Mansfield in the Brooklyn, New York City, the
son of Irish immigrants Patrick J. Mansfield and Josephine (nee
O'Brien) Mansfield. His father struggled to support the family,
and after Mansfield's mother died of pneumonia in 1906, his father
sent Mansfield and his two sisters to live with his great-aunt and
uncle in Great Falls, Montana. He turned into a habitual runaway,
even living at a state orphanage in Twin Bridges for half a year.
At 14, Mansfield dropped out of school and lied about his age in
order to enlist in the US Navy during World War I. He went on
several overseas convoys on the USS Minneapolis but was discharged
by the Navy after his real age was discovered. He is the last
known veteran of the war to die before he reached the age of 100,
and the last World War I veteran to sit in the US Senate. After
his Navy discharge, he enlisted in the US Army, serving as a
private from 1919 to 1920. Mansfield went on to become a Private
First Class in the US Marine Corps from 1920 to 1922. He was
awarded the Good Conduct Medal, his character being described as
"excellent" during his two years as a Marine. Following
his return to Montana in 1922, Mansfield worked as a "mucker"
and shoveled ore and other waste in the copper mines of Butte for
eight years. Having never attended high school, he took entrance
examinations to attend the Montana School of Mines (1927-1928),
studying to become a mining engineer. He later met a local
schoolteacher and his future wife, Maureen Hayes, who encouraged
him to further his education. With her financial support,
Mansfield studied at the University of Montana in Missoula, where
he took both high school and college courses. He was also a member
of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He earned his Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1933 and was offered a graduate assistantship teaching
two courses at the university. He ultimately became a professor of
history and political science at the University of Montana. He won
election to the House of Representatives and served on the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs during World War II. In 1952, he
defeated incumbent Republican Senator Zales Ecton to take a seat
in the Senate. Mansfield served as Senate Majority Whip from 1957
to 1961. Mansfield ascended to Senate Majority Leader after Lyndon
B. Johnson resigned from the Senate to become vice president.
During his tenure, he shepherded Great Society programs through
the Senate. In the later years of the campaign, he eventually
opposed escalation of the Vietnam War and supported President
Richard Nixon's plans to replace US soldiers from Southeast Asia
with Vietnamese belligerents. After retiring from the Senate,
Mansfield served as US Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988. Upon
retiring as ambassador, he was awarded the nation's highest
civilian honor, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Mansfield is
the longest-serving American ambassador to Japan in history. After
his ambassadorship, Mansfield served for a time as a senior
adviser on East Asian affairs to Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street
investment banking firm. Mike Mansfield died in Walter Reed Army
Hospital in Washington, D.C. at 7:35 a.m. EDT at the age of 98;
Mansfield had undergone surgery Sept. 7 to have a pacemaker
implanted in his chest after complaining to friends of feeling
weak. He was survived by his daughter, Anne Fairclough Mansfield
(1939-2013), and one granddaughter. The burial plot of Pvt. and
Mrs. Mansfield can be found in section 2, marker 49-69F of
Arlington National Cemetery.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, AD 37: #DOTD: Tiberius (Latin:
T), Roman emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD, succeeding the tenure of
the Empire's founder, Augustus (b. November 16, 42 BC) #dies in
Misenum, Italy, Roman Empire aged 77. He was succeeded by his
grand-nephew and adopted grandson, Caligula. Tacitus relates that
the emperor appeared to have stopped breathing, and that Caligula,
who was at Tiberius' villa, was being congratulated on his
succession to the empire, when news arrived that the emperor had
revived and was recovering his faculties. Those who had moments
before recognized Caligula as Augustus fled in fear of the
emperor's wrath, while Macro took advantage of the chaos to have
Tiberius smothered with his own bedclothes. Suetonius reports
several rumours, including that the emperor had been poisoned by
Caligula, starved, and smothered with a pillow; that recovering,
and finding himself deserted by his attendants, he attempted to
rise from his couch, but fell dead. According to Cassius Dio,
Caligula, fearing that the emperor would recover, refused
Tiberius' requests for food, insisting that he needed warmth, not
food; then assisted by Macro, he smothered the emperor in his
bedclothes. After his death, the Senate refused to vote Tiberius
the divine honors that had been paid to Augustus, and mobs filled
the streets yelling "To the Tiber with Tiberius!"; the
bodies of criminals were typically thrown into the river, instead
of being buried or burnt. However, the emperor was cremated, and
his ashes were placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus. In his will,
Tiberius nominated Caligula and Tiberius Gemellus as his joint
heirs. Caligula's first act on becoming Princeps was to void
Tiberius' will. Born Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti Filius Augustus
to Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla in a Claudian family,
he was given the personal name Tiberius Claudius Nero. His mother
divorced Nero and married Octavian-later to ascend the Empire as
Augustus-who officially became his stepfather. Tiberius would
later marry Augustus' daughter (from his marriage to Scribonia),
Julia the Elder, and even later be adopted by Augustus. Through
the adoption, he officially became a Julian, assuming the name
Tiberius Julius Caesar. The subsequent emperors after Tiberius
would continue this blended dynasty of both families for the
following thirty years; historians have named it the
Julio-Claudian dynasty. In relations to the other emperors of this
dynasty, Tiberius was the stepson of Augustus, grand-uncle of
Caligula, paternal uncle of Claudius, and great-grand uncle of
Nero. His 22-and-a-half-year reign would be the longest after
Augustus's until Antoninus Pius, who surpassed his reign by a few
months in 161. Tiberius was one of the greatest Roman generals;
his conquest of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily, parts
of Germania, laid the foundations for the northern frontier. Even
so, he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive and sombre ruler
who never really desired to be emperor; Pliny the Elder called him
"the gloomiest of men." After the death of his son
Drusus Julius Caesar in 23 AD, Tiberius became more reclusive and
aloof. In 26 AD he removed himself from Rome and left
administration largely in the hands of his unscrupulous Praetorian
prefects Lucius Aelius Sejanus and Quintus Naevius Sutorius Macro.
Tiberius has been represented in fiction, in literature, film and
television, and in video games, often as a peripheral character in
the central storyline. One such modern representation is in the
novel I, Claudius by Robert Graves, and the consequent BBC
television series adaptation, where he is portrayed by George
Baker.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1898: #DOTD: #RIP: Aubrey
Beardsley, English illustrator and author, leading figure in the
aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James
McNeill Whistler whose contribution to the development of the Art
Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death
(d. August 21, 1872) #dies at the age of 25 of tuberculosis at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France, attended by
his mother and sister. Following a requiem mass in Menton
Cathedral the following day, his remains were interred in the
Cimetiere du Trabuquet in Menton, a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes
department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region on the French
Riviera, close to the Italian border. Aubrey Beardsley was born
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley in Brighton, Sussex, England. His black
ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted
the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He is one of the
important Modern Style figures, a style of architecture, art, and
design that first emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1880s
that was the first Art Nouveau style worldwide and represents the
evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement which was native to
Great Britain. Aubrey Beardsley's black ink drawings were
influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and emphasized the grotesque, the
decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic
movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill
Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art
Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death.
He is featured on the cover of The Beatles album cover of Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the cover of their Revolver
album, designed by Klaus Voormann, combined Aubrey
Beardsley-inspired line drawing with photo collage and won the
1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1971: #DOTD: #RIP: Thomas E.
Dewey, American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician, 47th Governor
of New York from 1943 to 1954 (b. March 24, 1902) #dies at the
Seaview Hotel in Miami, Florida of a massive heart attack eight
days before his 69th birthday. He is buried in Pawling Cemetery in
Pawling, New York. Thomas E. Dewey was born Thomas Edmund Dewey in
Owosso, Michigan, where he was raised. There his father, George
Martin Dewey, owned, edited, and published the local newspaper,
the Owosso Times. His mother, Annie (Thomas), whom he called
"Mater", bequeathed her son "a healthy respect for
common sense and the average man or woman who possessed it."
She also left "a headstrong assertiveness that many took for
conceit, a set of small-town values never entirely erased by
exposure to the sophisticated East, and a sense of proportion that
moderated triumph and eased defeat." He was the Republican
Party's nominee for President in 1944, but lost the election to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four
presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential
nominee in 1948, but lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of
the greatest upsets in presidential election history. Dewey played
a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for
Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the
presidential election that year. He also played a large part in
the choice of Richard M. Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential
nominee in 1952 and 1956. As a New York City prosecutor and
District Attorney in the 1930s and early 1940s, Dewey was
relentless in his effort to curb the power of the American Mafia
and of organized crime in general. Most famously, he successfully
prosecuted Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano on
charges of compulsory prostitution in 1936. Luciano was given a
thirty-year prison sentence. He also prosecuted and convicted
Waxey Gordon, another prominent New York City gangster and
bootlegger, on charges of tax evasion. Dewey almost succeeded in
apprehending Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but not before
Schultz was murdered in 1935 in a hit ordered by The Commission
itself. Dewey led the moderate or progressive faction of the
Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator
Robert A. Taft. Dewey was an advocate for the professional and
business community of the Northeastern United States, which would
later be called the Eastern Establishment. This group consisted of
internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the
Cold War fight against communism and the Soviet Union, and it
supported most of the New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted
during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey's
successor as leader of the progressive Republicans was Nelson
Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959. The New York
State Thruway is named in Dewey's honor.
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP: T-Bone
Walker, African American blues pioneer and innovator of the jump
blues and electric blues sound, considered by many the greastest R
& B guitarist, singer, songwriter. composer, pianist, banjo
player, ukelele player, violinist and mandolin player, writer and
performer of the famous blues standard "Call It Stormy Monday
(But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (b. May 28, 1910) #dies of
bronchial pneumonia in Lost Angeles, California following a stroke
at the age of 64. He is buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. He was born Aaron
Thibeaux Walker in Linden, Texas, of African American and Cherokee
descent. His parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both
musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington, taught him to play
the guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano. Walker
began his career as a teenager in Dallas in the 1920s. His mother
and stepfather (a member of the Dallas String Band) were
musicians, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, a family friend, sometimes
came over for dinner. Walker left school at the age of 10, and by
15 he was a professional performer on the blues circuit.
Initially, he was Jefferson's protege and would guide him around
town for his gigs. In 1929, Walker made his recording debut with
Columbia Records, billed as Oak Cliff T-Bone, releasing the single
"Wichita Falls Blues" backed with "Trinity River
Blues". Oak Cliff is the community in which he lived at the
time, and T-Bone is a corruption of his middle name. The pianist
Douglas Fernell played accompaniment on the record. Walker married
Vida Lee in 1935; the couple had three children. By the age of 25,
Walker was working in clubs on Central Avenue, in Los Angeles,
sometimes as the featured singer and as guitarist with Les Hite's
orchestra. In 1940 he recorded with Hite for the Varsity label,
but he was featured only as a singer. In 1942, Charlie Glenn, the
owner of the Rhumboogie Cafe, brought T-Bone Walker to Chicago for
long-time stints in his club. In 1944 and 1945, Walker recorded
for the Rhumboogie label, which was tied to the club, backed up by
Marl Young's orchestra. T-Bone Walker performed at the second
famed Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los
Angeles produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on October 12, 1946. Jack
McVea, Slim Gaillard, The Honeydrippers, Lionel Hampton and his
Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong were all on the same program. He
also performed for the third Cavalcade of Jazz concert held in the
same location on September 7, 1947 along with Woody Herman as
Emcee, The Valdez Orchestra, The Blenders, The Honeydrippers, Slim
Gaillard, Johnny Otis and his Orchestra, Toni Harper, The 3
Blazers and Sarah Vaughn. Much of his output was recorded from
1946 to 1948 for Black & White Records, including his most
famous song, "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as
Bad)" (1947). Other notable songs he recorded during this
period were "Bobby Sox Blues" (a number 3 R & B hit
in 1947) and "West Side Baby" (number 8 on the R & B
singles chart in 1948). Throughout his career Walker worked with
top-notch musicians, including the trumpeter Teddy Buckner (e.g.
in Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad), the pianist
Lloyd Glenn, the bassist Billy Hadnott (in the vinile album Hot
Leftovers and in Good-Bye Blues), and the tenor saxophonist Jack
McVea (in the songs Don't leave me baby and No Worry Blues). He
recorded from 1950 to 1954 for Imperial Records (backed by Dave
Bartholomew). Walker's only record in the next five years was
T-Bone Blues, recorded during three widely separated sessions in
1955, 1956 and 1959 and released by Atlantic Records in 1959. By
the early 1960s, Walker's career had slowed down, in spite of an
energetic performance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962
with the pianist Memphis Slim and the prolific writer and musician
Willie Dixon, among others. However, several critically acclaimed
albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for
Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from
1968 to 1975, for Robin Hemingway's music publishing company,
Jitney Jane Songs. He won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or
Traditional Folk Recording in 1971 for Good Feelin', while signed
with Polydor Records, produced by Hemingway, followed by another
album produced by Hemingway, Fly Walker Airlines, released in
1973. Walker's career began to wind down after he suffered a
stroke in 1974. He later died of bronchial pneumonia following
another stroke in March 1975. He influenced a generation of
Detroit guitarists. Walker was posthumously inducted into the
Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1987. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its
list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Chuck
Berry named Walker and Louis Jordan as his main influences. B.B.
King cited hearing Walker's recording of "Stormy Monday"
as his inspiration for getting an electric guitar. In his 1996
autobiography, King commented when first heard Walker, he thought
"Jesus Himself had returned to earth playing electric guitar.
T-Bone's blues filled my insides with joy and good feeling. I
became his disciple. And remain so today. My biggest musical debt
is to T-Bone." Blues-rock soloing pioneer Lonnie Mack named
Walker his principal blues guitar influence. Walker was admired by
Jimi Hendrix, who imitated Walker's trick of playing the guitar
with his teeth. Steve Miller stated that in 1952, when he was
eight, Walker taught him how to play his guitar behind his back
and also with his teeth. He was a family friend and a frequent
visitor to Miller's family home and Miller considers him a major
influence on his career. "Stormy Monday" was a favorite
live number of the Allman Brothers Band. The British rock band
Jethro Tull covered Walker's "Stormy Monday" in 1968 for
John Peel's "Top Gear". Eva Cassidy performed "Stormy
Monday" on her 1996 Live at Blues Alley recording. According
to Cleveland.com, Walker may have been the best R & B
guitarist. He "pioneered electric blues by becoming the first
artist to make the electric guitar a solo instrument and a true
centerpiece of his stunning live shows".
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Dick Dale,
American rock guitarist known as The King of the Surf Guitar,
pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and
experimenting with reverb, one of the most influential guitarists
of all time and especially of the early 1960s, cited as one of the
fathers of heavy metal for pushing the limits of amplification,
helping Leo Fender to develop new equipment that was capable of
producing thick and previously unheard volumes including the
first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier (b. May 4, 1937 ) #dies in
Loma Linda, California at the age of 81. He was treated for heart
failure and kidney failure prior to his death. He is buried at
Hollywood Forever cemetary in Hollywood, California. Dick Dale was
born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of the
leading bands in surf music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean
and The Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, and often
included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums. His style and
music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend,
Eddie Van Halen and Brian May. He has been credited with
popularizing alternate picking, also known as tremolo picking or
double picking, on electric guitar, a technique that employs
alternating downward and upward strokes in a continuous fashion
that is now widely used in many musical genres (such as extreme
metal, jazz fusion, etc.). alternate picking is a guitar playing
technique. If the technique is performed at high speed on a single
string or course voicing the same note, it may be referred to as
"tremolo picking"[1] or "double picking". His
speedy single-note staccato picking technique was unrivaled until
guitarists like Eddie Van Halen entered the music scene. The use
of his recording of "Misirlou" by Quentin Tarantino in
the film Pulp Fiction led to his return in the 1990s, marked by
four albums and world tours. He was also nominated for a Grammy in
the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the song
"Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan. In "Rolling
Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", Dale was ranked
31st in 2003 and 74th in the 2011 revision. "The King of the
Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second studio
album.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1970: #DOTD: #RIP: Tammi
Terrell, African American singer and songwriter, widely known as a
star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a
series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye (b. April 29, 1945) #dies
at the age of 24 of brain cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Terrell's funeral was held at the Janes Methodist Church in
Philadelphia. At the funeral, Gaye delivered a final eulogy while
"You're All I Need to Get By" was playing. According to
Terrell's fiance Dr. Ernest "Ernie" Garrett, who knew
Gaye, her mother angrily barred everyone at Motown from her
funeral, except for Gaye, whom she felt was Terrell's closest
friend. Gaye never fully got over Terrell's death, according to
several biographers who have stated that Terrell's death led Gaye
to depression and drug abuse. In addition, Gaye's classic album
What's Going On, an introspective, low-key work which dealt with
mature themes released in 1971, was in part a reaction to
Terrell's death. Born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Terrell's career began as a teenager,
first recording for Scepter/Wand Records, before spending nearly 9
months as a member of James Brown's Revue, recording for Brown's
Try Me label. After a period attending college, Terrell recorded
briefly for Checker Records, before signing with Motown in 1965.
With Gaye, Terrell scored seven Top 40 singles on the Billboard
Hot 100, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" which
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, "Ain't
Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to
Get By". Terrell's career was interrupted when she collapsed
into Gaye's arms as the two performed at a concert at
Hampden-Sydney College on October 14, 1967, with Terrell later
being diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had eight unsuccessful
surgeries before succumbing to the illness.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Milton
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Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Jesse Colin
Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player, founding member
and lead singer of the 1960s group The Youngbloods (b. November
22, 1941) #dies at his home aged 83 in Aiken, South Carolina,
where he had moved to live in his second wife Connie
Darden-Young's hometown. His burial details are not publicly
disclosed. Jesse Colin Young was born Perry Miller in Queens, New
York City. After the dissolution of The Youngbloods in 1972, Young
embarked on a solo career, releasing a series of successful albums
through Warner Bros. Records, including Song for Juli (1973),
Light Shine (1974), Songbird (1975) and the live album On the Road
(1976). Young continued to release music in the 1980s with Elektra
Records and Cypress Records, before deciding to release music
through his personal label, Ridgetop Music, in 1993. After the
Mount Vision Fire in 1995, Young relocated with his family to a
coffee plantation in Hawaii, periodically releasing music. Young
received a diagnosis of "chronic Lyme disease" in 2012,
and decided to retire from music. He began performing again in
2016 with his son Tristan, releasing a new album Dreamers in 2019
through BMG. Young's song "Sunlight" was covered by
Three Dog Night on their album Naturally (1970), and "Darkness,
Darkness" by Robert Plant in 2002, which received a
nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal
Performance. In 2006, Young and his family moved to Aiken, South
Carolina, hometown of his second wife Connie Darden-Young.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Harold
Lloyd: The Third Genius TV Documentary Series DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, March 16, 2026March 16, 1971: #DOTD: #RIP: Bebe
Daniels, American actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer, Medal
Of Freedom recipient and beauty (b. January 14, 1901) #dies of a
cerebral hemorrhage in London at the age of 70. Her remains were
cremated at London's Golders Green Crematorium and the ashes
returned to the United States; she was interred at the Chapel
Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Upon his death in 1979,
her loving husband Ben Lyon's remains were interred next to
Daniels'. Bebe Daniels was born Phyllis Virginia Daniels (Bebe was
a childhood nickname)) in Dallas, Texas. She began her career in
Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a
star in musicals such as Rio Rita, and later gained further fame
on radio and television in Britain. Over the course of her 50-year
career, Daniels appeared in 230 films. Her father was a travelling
theater manager, Scottish-born Melville Daniel MacNeal, who
changed his name to Danny Daniels after a disagreement with his
own father over his ambition to change from the medical profession
to show business. Her mother was Phyllis de Forest Griffin, born
in Colombia of an American father and a Colombian mother, a stage
actress who was in Danny's travelling stock company when their
child was born. At the age of ten weeks her father proudly carried
her on stage even though there was no part in the play for a baby.
The family moved to Los Angeles, California in her childhood, and
she began her acting career at the age of four in the first
version of The Squaw Man. The same year, she went on tour in a
stage production of Shakespeare's Richard III. The following year,
she participated in productions by Oliver Morosco and David
Belasco. By the age of seven, Daniels had her first starring role
in film as the young heroine in A Common Enemy. At the age of
nine, she starred as Dorothy Gale in the 1910 short film The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz. At the age of 14, she was hired by comedy
producer Hal Roach at 5 USD a day, to star opposite Roach's star
comedian Harold Lloyd in a series of one-reel comedies, starting
with the 1915 film Giving Them Fits. Lloyd and Daniels eventually
developed a romantic relationship that was well publicized; they
were known in Hollywood as "The Boy" and "The
Girl." In 1919, she declined to renew her contract with Hal
Roach, because she wanted to be a dramatic actress. She accepted
an offer from producer-director Cecil B. DeMille, who gave her
secondary roles in Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Wife?
(1920), and The Affairs of Anatol (1921). In the 1920s, Daniels
was under contract with Paramount Pictures. She made the
transition from child star to adult in Hollywood in 1922 and by
1924 was playing opposite Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire.
Following this, she was cast in a number of light popular films,
namely Miss Bluebeard, The Manicure Girl, and Wild Wild Susan.
Paramount dropped her contract with the advent of talking
pictures. Daniels was hired by the new studio Radio Pictures
(later known as RKO Radio) to star in its first feature, the
Technicolor musical Rio Rita, co-starring the comedy team of Bert
Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Rio Rita turned out not to be RKO's
inaugural film due to production delays, but it was still one of
the most successful films of that year. Bebe Daniels became
established as a musical star, and RCA Victor hired her to record
several records for their catalog. Radio Pictures starred her in a
number of musicals including Dixiana (1930) and Love Comes Along
(1930). Toward the end of 1930, Bebe Daniels appeared in the
musical comedy Reaching for the Moon, released through United
Artists. However, by this time, musicals had gone out of fashion,
and most of the musical numbers from the film had to be removed
before it could be released. Daniels had become associated with
musicals, and Radio Pictures did not renew her contract. Warner
Bros. realized she was a boxoffice draw, and she was offered a
contract. During her years at Warner Bros., she starred in My Past
(1931), Honor of the Family (1931), and the 1931 pre-code version
of The Maltese Falcon. In 1932, she appeared in Silver Dollar
(1932) and the successful Busby Berkeley choreographed musical
comedy 42nd Street (1933) in which she sang once again. The same
year, she played in Counsellor at Law. Her last film for Warner
Bros. was Registered Nurse (1934). In 1934, Daniels and husband
Ben Lyon, whom she had married in June 1930, garnered press
attention while having to testify against Albert F. Holland, a
36-year-old World War I veteran with a history of stalking
Daniels. Holland had been under the delusion that he had attended
school with Daniels and that they had married in Mexico in 1925.
In 1931, he broke into Daniels' hotel room in San Francisco,
confronting and terrifying her, and had to be removed by security.
He was arrested and committed to the Arizona State Asylum. Holland
escaped from the institution in 1932, and began sending more than
150 threatening letters to Daniels. Arrested once more, he was
again placed in a psychiatric institution. Following his release,
another confrontation took place, and Holland was again arrested.
A lengthy trial in Los Angeles took place, with Holland conducting
most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of
Daniels' husband, Ben Lyon. Actress Doris Kenyon, a friend of
Daniels and Lyon, testified for the prosecution. Ultimately, the
jury found Holland to be mentally unfit, and he was committed to a
psychiatric facility for an indefinite period. Daniels and Lyon
subsequently moved to London. Bebe Daniels retired from Hollywood
in 1935 with her husband, film actor Ben Lyon, and their two
children, and moved to London. In February 1939, Daniels and Lyon
co-starred in a series of commercial radio shows, the Rinso Radio
Revue, recorded in London for Radio Luxembourg. They and Bebe's
mother Phyllis all returned to the U.S. on 14 June 1939, leaving
their children in Los Angeles in the care of Phyllis, and returned
to London seven weeks later. After the start of World War II, they
worked for the BBC, starring in the comedy radio series Hi Gang!.
Born from an idea by Ben, and with most of the dialogue by Bebe,
it enjoyed considerable popularity. A few years later, Daniels
starred in the London production of Panama Hattie in the title
role originated by Ethel Merman. The couple remained in England
through the days of The Blitz. Following the war, Daniels was
awarded the Medal Of Freedom by Harry S Truman for war service. In
1945, she returned to Hollywood for a short time to work as a film
producer for Hal Roach and Eagle-Lion Films. She returned to the
UK in 1948 and lived there for the remainder of her life. Daniels,
her husband, her son Richard and her daughter Barbara all starred
in the radio sitcom Life with the Lyons (1951 to 1961), which
later made the transition to television. Daniels married actor Ben
Lyon in June 1930. They had two children: daughter Barbara in 1932
and a son Richard (born Bryan Moore in 1935), whom they adopted
from a London orphanage. In an issue of the contemporary magazine
Radio Pictorial, she explained how she saw Richard peering through
the railings and instantly thought "A brother for Barbara".
Daniels suffered a severe stroke in 1963 and withdrew from public
life. She suffered a second stroke in late 1970.
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