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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Celts TV Series On Celtic History & Culture DVD Download USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17: Saint Patrick's Day: -- Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385-461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland), the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Lutheran Church. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, ceilidhs (a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering), and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks. Christians who belong to liturgical denominations also attend church services and historically the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol were lifted for the day, which has encouraged and propagated the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption. Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic Of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (for provincial government employees), and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world, especially in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. As early as Saint Patricks Day 1780, America joined in celebration of the Irish national day when George Washington granted the Continental Army observance of the holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence". Modern celebrations have been greatly influenced by those of the Irish diaspora, particularly those that developed in North America. In recent years, there has been criticism of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations for having become too commercialised and for fostering negative stereotypes of the Irish people. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-celts-dvd-set-tv-series-all-6-shows-celtic-history-3-dis63.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17: National Corned Beef And Cabbage Day: -- Dedicated to the simplicity of cured meat on a budget. The corned beef and cabbage combination was created decades ago by Irish immigrants. The meal has since become a flavorful favorite in the United States and other parts of the world as well. The dish was created to fit the budget of Irish Americans who could not afford their homeland's favorite pork and potatoes. The beef component was used to substitute for pork while the cabbage served as the vegetable replacement. The corned beef and cabbage combination is easy to make and is enjoyed with sour bread, wine or beer. Ever imagined how Corned Beef and Cabbage came to exist? Once upon a time, long ago, Irishmen immigrated to the U.S. They found simple jobs and earned little, which changed their lifestyle. When it came to food, naturally, they preferred to eat their native dishes like pork and potatoes before adapting to other food in the states. Unfortunately, the price of food differed drastically. In their homeland, beef was always more expensive than pork, but it was quite the opposite in the U.S. After seeing Jewish immigrants replace bacon and pork with corned beef, the Irish did the same, commenting that the two were very similar. Corned beef is made using the same salt curing method the Irish used to prepare pork. This is the main reason for their similar texture and taste. By now, you must be wondering, how did cabbage come into the pot? After moving to the U.S, the Irishmen had to be economical, so they removed some food staples from their platter, potato being one of them. Cabbage became the more affordable option. Thus, it took center stage next to corned beef. The corned beef and cabbage dish is made by boiling corned beef, spices, cabbage, and other affordable vegetables together. The meal has become popular worldwide, with some restaurants even serving it as a starter or main. National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day was adopted by Irish Americans on the same day as St. Patrick's Day, making the day all about Ireland. The day is celebrated with Irish parades and eating frenzies where corned beef and cabbage are among the main dishes. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-8-dv8.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17: Camp Fire Girls Day: -- Celebrates the work of Camp Fire, a development organization for the youth. The group was initially known as Camp Fire Girls of America, and its name was changed to Camp Fire Boys and Girls in 1975, after boys were also allowed to join. In 2001, the name was changed once again to Camp Fire U.S.A., and finally, in 2012 the organization was renamed Camp Fire. Camp Fire Girls Day is celebrated to mark the founding of the organization and all the wonderful work that they do. Happy Camp Fire Girls Day to all! The Boy Scouts had been around for a while, and young girls did not have a similar organization, which allowed them to pursue their interests. William Chauncey Langdon along with Mrs. Charles Farnsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Gulick created a national organization for girls. Langdon named this group of girls the Camp Fire Girls. In 1912, Camp Fire Girls became a formally organized group and Camp Fire Girls of America was incorporated. The group was seen as being a sister organization of the Boy Scouts of America. By the end of 1913, Camp Fire had 60,000 members! Their first handbook was published in 1914. During the First World War, they sold Liberty Bonds, conserved food, and supported French and Belgian orphans. The 50th anniversary of the group was celebrated with a project of planting two million trees and building 13,000 birdhouses. By 1974, their membership was at 274,000, and in 1975 they started allowing boys to join. The camp was then known as Camp Fire Boys and Girls. Camp Fire has programs that are mainly focused on leadership development, camping, and environmental education, child care learning, and service learning. There are also programs that are specific to community needs. Camping has long been a big part of Camp Fire, and there are now 130 camps throughout the country. Members work in different age group levels. From the youngest to oldest they are known as Little Stars, Starflight, Adventure, Discovery, and Horizon. The WoHeLo medallion award is given to 200 members a year and is the organization's most prestigious award. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/scouts-the-life-and-legacy-of-lord-badenpowell-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17: Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts): -- March 17, 1776: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The Siege Of Boston: Evacuation Day: -- British forces in Boston, following George Washington's successful Fortification Of Dorchester Heights which the British could not fire upon because their guns would not reach, peaceably evacuate the city of Boston on the condition that if they were allowed to withdraw unmolested they would not burn down the city of Boston. They began to move out at 4:00 a.m. By 9:00 a.m., after two days of unfavorable winds, the wind once again turned favorable, and by 9:00 a.m., all their 120 ships, with more than 11,000 people on board, of which 9,906 were British troops, 667 were women, and 553 were children, departing from Boston. In celebration of the event, Evacuation Day is observed as a holiday in Suffolk County, Massachusetts (which includes the cities of Boston, Chelsea, and Revere, and the town of Winthrop) and also by the public schools in Somerville, Massachusetts. Schools and government offices are closed. If March 17 falls on a weekend, schools and government offices are closed on the following Monday in observance. It is the same day as Saint Patrick's Day, a coincidence that played a role in the establishment of the holiday. The Fortification Of Dorchester Heights had been a decisive action between March 4-5, 1776 that precipitated the end of the siege of Boston and the withdrawal of British troops from that city. Troops from the Continental Army under George Washington's command occupied Dorchester Heights, a series of low hills with a commanding view of Boston and its harbor, and mounted powerful cannons there threatening the city and the Navy ships in the harbor, cannons that British fire could not reach. General William Howe, commander of the British forces occupying Boston, planned an attack to dislodge them. However, after a snowstorm prevented its execution, Howe withdrew instead. British forces, accompanied by Loyalists who had fled to the city during the siege, evacuated the city on March 17 and sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Fortification Of Dorchester Heights was the first major military victory for Americans, and played a vital role in the war effort by boosting troop morale. It also made Washington a popular figure among Americans, and undoubtedly contributed to his election as the first President of the U.S. Evacuation Day coincides with St. Patrick's Day, and as many Bostonians are historically of Irish ancestry, the holiday is looked forward to with great anticipation. On March 4, 1776, Major General John Thomas led a force of 1,200 laborers and 800 soldiers to Dorchester Heights. George Washington authorized this mission. The objective was to fortify Dorchester Heights. To conceal noise from the fortification work, the Americans began bombarding targets outside the city of Boston. When the sun rose the following day on March 5, over a dozen cannons from Fort Ticonderoga had found their way to Dorchester Heights. Lady Luck was on America's side. Bad weather prevented British ships docked in the Boston harbor from destroying enemy bases, giving the Americans enough time to set up artillery and complete their fortifications. When the weather settled down, the British realized their position was indefensible. They could no longer occupy the city they had held for eight years - not under the presence of such heavy firepower pointed directly at their troops and naval fleet. Though the British outnumbered the Americans several times, General William Howe, commander of the British army, did not want to repeat the mistakes made in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He decided to withdraw rather than suffer devastating losses in a Pyrrhic victory. Over 11,000 British troops sailed away from Boston on March 17, heading to Halifax in Nova Scotia, and never returned. This was a major psychological victory for Washington and the Americans. The Evacuation Day holiday was proclaimed in 1901. The residents of Massachusetts still celebrate this significant victory today. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17: The Anniversary Of The Unification Of Italy (Italian: Anniversario Dell'Unita D'Italia): March 17, 1861: Italy: The History Italy: The Unification Of Italy (Italian: Risorgimento):The Kingdom Of Italy: The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of Italy: -- The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed with The Law 17 March 1861, N. 4761, a normative act (a legal norm, a binding rule or principle, or norm, that organisations of sovereign power promulgate and enforce in order to regulate social relations) issued by King Victor Emmanuel II of The Savoyard Kingdom Of Sardinia, by which act he assumed for himself and for his successors the title of King Of Italy. March 17 is commemorated annually by the anniversary of the unification of Italy, a national holiday established in 1911 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, and also celebrated, in the Republican era, in 1961 and 2011. Following the Second Italian War of Independence and the Expedition of the Thousand, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the two-year period 1859-60, the goal of the unification of Italy had been largely achieved, with the sole exception of the Triveneto and Lazio. The annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia of the various provinces had been sanctioned by a series of plebiscites. The complete unification of Italy took place only in the following years. In 1866 the Veneto and the province of Mantua were annexed after the Third Italian War of Independence, then in 1870 Lazio after the capture of Rome, and finally in 1918 Trentino-Alto Adige and Julian March after the First World War. In this regard, the National Unity And Armed Forces Day (Victory Day) was also established, which is celebrated annually on November 4, recalling the Italian victory in the First World War, a war event considered to complete the process of unification of Italy. The anniversary of the birth of the Italian state was solemnly celebrated in 1911 (50 years), in 1961 (100 years), and in 2011 (150 years). With the Law of 23 November 2012, n. 222, on the subject of "Regulations On The Acquisition Of Knowledge And Skills In The Field Of 'Citizenship And Constitution' And On The Teaching Of The Hymn Of Mameli In Schools", the establishment every March 17 of the "National Unity, Constitution, Anthem And Flag Day" was definitively approved on an annual basis. While remaining a working day, March 17 is considered a "day promoting the values linked to national identity". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 45 BC: Rome: Ancient Rome: Roman Civil Wars: The Roman Republic: The Crisis Of The Roman Republic: Caesar's Civil War (The Great Roman Civil War): The Battle Of Munda: -- In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger. The Battle of Munda, in southern Hispania Ulterior, was the final battle of Caesar's civil war against the leaders of the Optimates. With the military victory at Munda, and the deaths of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius (eldest son of Pompey), Caesar was politically able to return in triumph to Rome, and then govern as the elected Roman dictator. Subsequently, the assassination of Julius Caesar began the Republican decline that led to the Roman Empire, initiated with the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/julius-caesar-and-the-battle-of-alesia-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1803: #BOTD: #HBD! William Driver, American sea captain who flew the original "Old Glory" flag during his career at sea (d. March 3, 1886) is #born in Salem, Massachusetts. At age 13, Driver ran away from home to become a cabin boy on a ship. At 21, Driver qualified as a master mariner and assumed command of his own ship, the Charles Doggett. In celebration of his appointment, Driver's mother and other women sewed the flag and gave it to him as a gift in 1824. It was believed that while leaving the harbor, the Captain unfurled his new flag, calling out "Behold Old Glory." With this flag flying over his ship, Driver went on to have a colorful career as a U.S. merchant seaman, sailing to China, India, Gibraltar, and the South Pacific. He participated in the tortoiseshell trade and knew some Fijian. In 1831, while voyaging in the South Pacific, Driver's ship "was the sole surviving vessel of six that departed Salem the same day." In Tahiti, where they withdrew because of illness, Driver picked up the 65 descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, the sole members of a race of mixed Tahitian and European ancestry resultant from this mutiny, and brought them back to Pitcairn Island, where to this day many inhabitants are descendants of those rescued - anoteworthy act that helped publicize Driver's nickname for the flag. Driver was convinced that God saved his ship to rescue this islander race. Driver retired from seafaring in 1837 after his wife Martha Silsbee Babbage died from throat cancer, leaving a 34-years-old Driver with their three young children to care for. He settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where his three brothers operated a store. Driver remarried the next year to Sarah Jane Parks, a Southerner with whom he had several more children. Driver took his flag to Nashville, flying it on holidays, rain or shine. The flag was so large that he attached it to a rope from his attic window and stretched it on a pulley across the street to secure it to a locust tree. Driver worked as a salesman and served as vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. In 1860, Driver, his wife, and daughters repaired the flag, sewing on ten additional stars. Driver added by applique a small white anchor in the lower right corner to symbolize his maritime career. By that time, the secession crisis had begun, and Driver's family was split. While Driver was a staunch Unionist, two of his sons were fervent Confederates who enlisted in local regiments. One of those sons died from wounds suffered at Battle of Perryville. In March 1862, Driver wrote: "Two sons in the army of the South! My entire house estranged... and when I come home... no one to soothe me." Soon after Tennessee seceded from the Union, Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris, the person most responsible for leading Tennessee out of the Union and aligning it with the Confederacy, sent men to Driver's home to demand the flag. Driver, 58 years old, turned the men away at his door after demanding they produce a search warrant. An armed group returned to Driver's front porch, who refused to produce the flag, saying "If you want my flag you'll have to take it over my dead body." To save the flag from further threats, Driver and some of his neighbors sewed it into a coverlet. They hid it until February 1862, when the Union victory at The Battle Of Fort Donelson caused Nashville to fall to Union forces. When the Union Army, led by the 6th Ohio Infantry, entered the city, Driver went to Tennessee state capitol after seeing the U.S. flag, and the 6th Ohio's regimental colors raised on the Capitol flagstaffand asked to see the general in command. Horace Fisher, the aide-de-camp to the Union commander in the city, Brigadier General William "Bull" Nelson, described Driver as "a stout, middle-aged man, with hair well shot with gray, short in stature, broad in shoulder, and with a roll in his gait." Introducing himself as a sea captain and Unionist, Driver brought the coverlet with him and opened it, revealing the flag. Nelson accepted the flag and ordered it run up on the Capitol flagstaff. The 6th Ohio later adopted the motto "Old Glory." That night, a violent storm threatened to tear the flag, so Driver replaced it with a newer flag, taking the original Old Glory for safekeeping. The flag remained in his home until December 1864, when the Battle Of Nashville was fought. As Confederate troopers under the command of John Bell Hood sought to retake the city, Driver hung the flag out of the third-story window and left to join the city's defense. For the rest of the American Civil War, Driver served as Provost Marshal (a person in charge of Military Police (MPs) of Nashville, serving in hospitals. On July 10, 1873: William Driver's daughter Mary Jane Roland recieved from her father the gift of "Old Glory", telling her "This is my old ship flag Old Glory. I love it as a mother loves her child. Take it and cherish it as I have always cherished it; for it has been my steadfast friend and protector in all parts of the world - savage, heathen and civilized." Following Driver's death, a family feud erupted over the ownership of the flag. Driver's niece, Harriet Ruth Waters Cooke, the daughter of Driver's youngest sister, said she inherited the flag and presented her version of Old Glory to the Essex Institute in Salem, which became the Peabody Essex Museum, thereafter dubbing that flag "The Peabody Flag". Cooke published a family memoir in 1889, omitting any mention of Mary Jane Roland. Roland wrote an account of the flag, known now as "The Roland Flag", publishing Old Glory, The True Story in 1918. In that memoir, Roland disputed Cooke's narrative. Shee presented evidence for her claim that the flag she owned was the true Old Glory. In 1922, Roland gave her Old Glory to President Warren G. Harding. Harding had the flag sent to the Smithsonian Institution. The same year, the Peabody Essex Museum sent its Old Glory to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Institution concluded the Roland flag is the authentic Old Glory, since documentary evidence in the Tennessee State Library and Archives suggests it was the one hidden in the quilt and presented to Union troops who took Nashville. The Roland flag is 17x10 feet. The Peabody flag is 12x6 feet. This conclusion has been validated as recently as 2012, when a conservation evaluation of both flags by NMAH curator Jennifer Locke Jones and Thomassen-Krauss began. They concluded that larger Roland flag has the stronger claim to being the original Old Glory' the Roland Old Glory is heavily worn on the fly edges, consistent with the wear of a seagoing flag. Accordingly, The Roland Flag remains at the National Museum Of American History. William Driver died just 14 days before his 83rd birthday. He is buried in the Nashville City Cemetery, where, at Driver's request, his rescue of the 65 descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bountyis noted on his grave stone. Old Glory was flown by Captain William Driver during his career at sea and later brought it to Nashville, Tennessee, where he settled. Driver greatly prized the flag and ensured its safety from the Confederates, who attempted to seize the flag during the American Civil War. It ultimately became part of the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, where it remains at the National Museum of American History. 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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1834: #BOTD: #HBD: Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer, industrial designer, businessman, industrialist and pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development, co-founder of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, inventor of the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine, conidered by many as "the father of the motorcycle" (d. March 6, 1900) is #born Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler in Schorndorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, German Confederation; the town is also sometimes referred to as Die Daimlerstadt (German: "The Daimler Town") in his honor. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. In 1883 they designed a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation applications. This engine was called Daimler's Dream. In 1885 they designed a vertical cylinder version of this engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle which was named the Petroleum Reitwagen (Riding Car) and, in the next year, to a coach, and a boat. Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine (Standuhr) because of its resemblance to a large pendulum clock. In 1890, they converted their partnership into a stock company Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English - the Daimler Motors Corporation). They sold their first automobile in 1892. Daimler fell ill and took a break from the business. Upon his return he experienced difficulty with the other stockholders that led to his resignation in 1893. This was reversed in 1894. Maybach resigned at the same time, and also returned. Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907. Gottlieb Daimler died aged 65 in Cannstatt, an outer city borough of Stuttgart in Wurttemberg, German Empire (now Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). He is buried at the Uff-Kirchhof in Cannstatt. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-fockewulf-fw-190-dvd-mp4-download1904.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1912: #BOTD: #HBD! Bayard Rustin, African American activist leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights (d. August 24, 1987) is #born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March On Washington Movement (MOWM, 1941-1946), to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership and teaching King about nonviolence; he later served as an organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Rustin worked alongside Ella Baker, a co-director of the Crusade for Citizenship, in 1954; and before the Montgomery bus boycott, he helped organize a group, called "In Friendship," amongst Baker, George Lawrence, Stanley Levison of the American Jewish Congress, and some other labor leaders. "In Friendship" provided material and legal assistance to those being evicted from their tenant farms and households in Clarendon County, Yazoo, and other places. Rustin became the head of the AFL-CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute, which promoted the integration of formerly all-white unions and promoted the unionization of African Americans. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin served on many humanitarian missions, such as aiding refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. At the time of his death in 1987, he was on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. Rustin was a gay man and, due to criticism over his sexuality, he usually acted as an influential adviser behind the scenes to civil-rights leaders. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay causes, speaking at events as an activist and supporter of human rights. Later in life, while still devoted to securing workers' rights, Rustin joined other union leaders in aligning with ideological neoconservatism, and (after his death) President Ronald Reagan praised him. On November 20, 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1913: #BOTD: Clay Shaw, Amercan playwright, soldier and businessman in New Orleans, Louisiana who worked with the CIA and was prosecuted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison for being and accomplice in the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy (d. August 15, 1974) is #born Clay LaVerne Shaw in Kentwood, Louisiana. Shaw served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He served as secretary to the General Staff and later served in Europe. He was decorated by three nations: the United States with the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star, by France with the Croix de Guerre and named Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite, and by Belgium named Knight of the Order of the Crown of Belgium. Shaw was honorably discharged from the United States Army as a major in 1946. After World War II Shaw helped start the International Trade Mart in New Orleans which facilitated the sales of both domestic and imported goods. He was known locally for his efforts to preserve buildings in New Orleans' historic French Quarter. Shaw was also a published playwright. The best-known of his works, Submerged (1929), was co-written with H. Stuart Cottman when both were still high-school students. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison prosecuted Clay Shaw on the charge that Shaw and a group of activists, including David Ferrie and Guy Banister, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Garrison arrested Shaw on March 1, 1967. Garrison believed that Shaw was the man named as "Clay Bertrand" in the Warren Commission Report. Garrison said that Shaw used the alias Clay Bertrand in New Orleans' gay society. During the trial, which took place in January-February 1969, Garrison called insurance salesman Perry Russo as his main witness. Russo testified that he had attended a party at the apartment of anti-Castro activist David Ferrie. At the party, Russo said that Lee Harvey Oswald (who Russo said was introduced to him as "Leon Oswald"), David Ferrie, and "Clay Bertrand" (who Russo identified in the courtroom as Shaw) had discussed killing Kennedy. The conversation included plans for the "triangulation of crossfire" and alibis for the participants. Critics of Garrison argue that his own records indicate that Russo's story had evolved over time. A key source was the "Sciambra Memo", which recorded Assistant D.A. Andrew Sciambra's first interview with Russo. The memo does not mention an "assassination party", and says that Russo met with Shaw on two occasions, neither of which occurred at the party. On March 1, 1969 Shaw was acquitted less than one hour after the case went to the jury. Shaw denied any part of a conspiracy and said of the slain President: "I was a great admirer of Kennedy. I thought he had given the nation a new turn after the rather drab Eisenhower years ... I felt he was vitally concerned about social issues, which concerned me also. I thought he had youth, imagination, style, and elan. All in all, I considered him a splendid president." A heavy smoker most of his life, Shaw died at the age of 61 at his home on August 15, 1974. The cause of death was listed as metastatic lung cancer. He was buried in Woodland Cemetery in Kentwood, Louisiana. At the time of his death, Shaw was engaged in a 5M USD lawsuit against Garrison and members of an organization, Truth and Consequences Inc., that financed Garrison's investigation. As Shaw had no surviving relatives, the United States Supreme Court dismissed the suit in 1978. In 1979, Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, testified under oath that Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service (DCS) of the CIA, where Shaw volunteered information from his travels abroad, mostly to Latin America. Like Shaw, 150,000 Americans (businessmen, and journalists, etc.) had provided such information to the DCS by the mid-1970s "on a nonclandestine basis" and that "such acts of cooperation should not be confused with an actual Agency relationship". Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Shaw in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jfk-assassination-mp3-set-cd-download-usb-flash-driv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Goon Show British Radio Comedy Series MP3 DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Ray Ellington, popular Jewish African English singer, drummer, bandleader and comedian, best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960 (d. February 27, 1985) is #born Henry Pitts Brown at 155 Kennington Road, Kennington, London, England. The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain (but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, in counter-intuitive roles such as a female secretary or a Scotsman). He was the youngest of the four children of Harry Pitts Brown (c.1877-1920), an African American music-hall comedian and entertainer, and Eva Stenkell Rosenthal (b. c.1879), a Russian Jew. His father died when Brown was four years old. Ellington was brought up as a strictly Orthodox Jew and attended the South London Jewish School (1924-30), before entering show business at the age of twelve, when he appeared in an acting role on the London stage. Ellington's first break came in 1937 when he joined Harry Roy and His Orchestra as the band's drummer, replacing Joe Daniels. His vocal talents were put to good use too, from the time of his first session when he recorded "Swing for Sale." Ellington was called up in May 1940 when he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a physical training instructor where he served throughout the war. He played in various service bands including RAF Blue Eagles (1945). After demobilisation, Ellington resumed his career, fronting his own group, playing at The Bag O'Nails club. Early in 1947, he rejoined the Harry Roy band for a few months. The Ray Ellington Quartet was formed in the same year. Ellington specialised in jazz but experimented with many other genres throughout the show's history and his musical style was heavily influenced by the comedic jump blues of Louis Jordan. Ellington's band was one of the first in the UK to feature the stripped-back guitar/bass/drums/piano format that became the basis of rock and roll, as well as being one of the first groups in Britain to prominently feature the electric guitar. They were also reputedly the first jazz band in the UK to use an amplified guitar, which was produced and introduced by their guitar player, Lauderic Caton. The other members of Ellington's quartet were Dick Katz (piano) and Coleridge Goode (bass). When guitarist Caton moved on he was succeeded in turn by Laurie Deniz, Australian Don Fraser and Judd Proctor, who was a member of the quartet for six years from July 1955. Early in The Goon Show's run, there were many jokes linking Ellington to the African nation of Ghana, thus leading Ellington to say that he came from Ghana. Ellington's recording of "The Madison" reached No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1962. He was married to Anita West, who was to become the second female presenter of Blue Peter when she replaced Leila Williams, but she only lasted a few months in this role. They had two young children (Lance and Nina) when the marriage ended in divorce. Ray's son Lance Ellington is a singer who has recorded several jazz-orientated albums, and is one of the backing singers in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing. Lance Ellington also appeared in tributes to Peter Sellers, in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where he played his father, and took his father's part in the Goon Show "50th Anniversary Cardboard Replica" first broadcast on 12 April 2001, the day after Harry Secombe died. Ray Ellington died of cancer in London, England, aged 68. He was both cremated and buried at Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-goon-show-otr-mp3-dvd-spike-milligan-peter-sellers-secomb3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Unforgettable Nat King Cole + Destination Freedom Docs DVD MP4 USB
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Nat King Cole, African American singer and pianist who recorded over one hundred pop chart hit songs, whose King Cole Trio became a model for small jazz ensembles that followed after him, and who as a solo act achieved lasting mainstream success despite intense racial discrimination. whose 1956 -1957 NBC variety series The Nat King Cole Show made him the first black man to host an American television series, and the favorite singer of Elizabeth II, father of the late singer and songwriter Natalie Cole (d. February 15, 1965) is #born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama. His King Cole Trio which became the top-selling group, and the only black act, on Capitol Records in the 1940s; the landmark Capitol Records Building, shaped like a stack of phonograph records, is known as "The House That Nat Built". Cole also acted extensively on television and in films produced in the short subject format, and in major motion pictures such as St. Louis Blues. and performed on Broadway. He was a broadway performer as well; Cole met his first wife, Nadine Robinson, while they were on tour for the all-black Broadway musical Shuffle Along. On Easter Sunday March 28, 1948, Cole married Maria Hawkins, niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, African American author, educator, civil rights activist, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute, a school for upper-class African Americans, in Sedalia, North Carolina. The Coles were married in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. They had five children: Natalie (1950-2015), who had a successful career as a singer; an adopted daughter, Carole (1944-2009, the daughter of Maria's sister), who died of lung cancer at the age of 64; an adopted son, Nat Kelly Cole (1959-1995), who died at the age of 36; and twin daughters, Casey and Timolin (born September 26, 1961), whose birth was announced in the "Milestones" column of Time magazine on October 6, 1961. Nat King Cole died in the early morning at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California of lung cancer brought on by heavy smoking, aged 45. Cole's funeral was held on February 18 at St. James' Episcopal Church on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles; 400 people were present, and thousands gathered outside the church. Hundreds of members of the public had filed past the coffin the day before. Honorary pallbearers included Robert F. Kennedy, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, George Burns, Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Alan Livingston, Frankie Laine, Steve Allen, and Pat Brown (the governor of California). The eulogy was delivered by Jack Benny, who said that "Nat Cole was a man who gave so much and still had so much to give. He gave it in song, in friendship to his fellow man, devotion to his family. He was a star, a tremendous success as an entertainer, an institution. But he was an even greater success as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a friend." Cole's remains are interred in Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unforgettable-nat-king-cole-dvd-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great Air Race Of 1924 1st Aerial World Flight DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1924: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: Aviation Firsts: Circumnavigation: Circumnavigation Of The Earth: Aerial Circumnavigation Of The Earth: The First Aerial Circumnavigation Of The Earth (The Great Air Race Of 1924): -- The First Aerial Circumnavigation Of The Earth begins when four aircraft - the Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans - left Clover Field, Santa Monica, California flown by an eight-man team of the US Army Air Service, the precursor of the US Air Force. The journey took 175 days, covering over 27,553 miles (44,342 km), and was completed on September 28, 1924 when four aviators from theeight-man team landed in Seattle after an arduous and dangerous trip. The team generally traveled east to west, around the northern-Pacific Rim, through to South Asia and Europe and back to the United States. Airmen Lowell H. Smith and Leslie P. Arnold, and Erik H. Nelson and John Harding Jr. made the trip in two single-engined open-cockpit Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) configured as floatplanes for most of the journey. Four more flyers in two additional DWC began the journey but their aircraft crashed or were forced down. All airmen survived. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-air-race-of-1924-dvd-1st-aerial-world-circumnavig19241.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Jack Benny Complete Radio Broadcasts Set MP3 DVD, Audio Download, USB
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1930: New York City (New York, NYC): The History Of New York City: The City Of Greater New York: Skyscrapers: Early Skyscrapers: Tallest Buildings In New York City: National Historic Landmarks In Manhattan: The Empire State Building: -- with the builders placing the first steel columns on the completed footings before the rest of the footings had been finished. Excavation of the site began on January 22, before the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that occupied the site had been completely demolished. Two twelve-hour shifts, consisting of 300 men each, worked continuously to dig the 55-foot (17 m) deep foundation. Excavation was nearly complete when the construction on the building itself started. The scale of the project was massive, with trucks carrying "16,000 partition tiles, 5,000 bags of cement, 450 cubic yards [340 m3] of sand and 300 bags of lime" arriving at the construction site every day. There were also cafes and concession stands on five of the incomplete floors so workers did not have to descend to the ground level to eat lunch. Temporary water taps were also built so workers did not waste time buying water bottles from the ground level. Additionally, carts running on a small railway system transported materials from the basement storage[3] to elevators that brought the carts to the desired floors where they would then be distributed throughout that level using another set of tracks. The 57,480 short tons (51,320 long tons) of steel ordered for the project was the largest-ever single order of steel at the time, comprising more steel than was ordered for the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street combined. By June 20, the skyscraper's supporting steel structure had risen to the 26th floor, and by July 27, half of the steel structure had been completed. Starrett Bros. and Eken endeavored to build one floor a day in order to speed up construction, achieving a pace of four and a half stories per week; prior to this, the fastest pace of construction for a building of similar height had been three and a half stories per week. While construction progressed, the final designs for the floors were being designed from the ground up (as opposed to the general design, which had been from the roof down). Some of the levels were still undergoing final approval, with several orders placed within an hour of a plan being finalized. On September 10, as steelwork was nearing completion, Al Smith, former Governor of New York and president of Empire State, Inc., the corporation that built and operated the Empire State Building, laid the building's cornerstone during a ceremony attended by thousands. The stone contained a box with contemporary artifacts including the previous day's New York Times, a U.S. currency set containing all denominations of notes and coins minted in 1930, a history of the site and building, and photographs of the people involved in construction. The steel structure was topped out at 1,048 feet (319 m) on September 19, twelve days ahead of schedule and 23 weeks after the start of construction. Workers raised a flag atop the 86th floor to signify this milestone. The Empire State Building was officially dedicated and opened on May 1, 1931, forty-five days ahead of its projected opening date, and eighteen months from the start of construction. The opening was marked with an event featuring United States President Herbert Hoover, who turned on the building's lights with the ceremonial button push from Washington, D.C.. Over 350 guests attended the opening ceremony, and following luncheon, at the 86th floor including Jimmy Walker, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Al Smith. An account from that day stated that the view from the luncheon was obscured by a fog, with other landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty being "lost in the mist" enveloping New York City. The Empire State Building officially opened the next day. Advertisements for the building's observatories were placed in local newspapers, while nearby hotels also capitalized on the events by releasing advertisements that lauded their proximity to the newly opened building. The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City; most sources state that there are 102 floors, but some give a figure of 103 floors due to the presence of a balcony above the 102nd floor. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. The Empire State Building was the world's tallest building until the first tower of the World Trade Center was topped out in 1970; following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was New York City's tallest building until it was surpassed in 2012. As of 2022, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 54th-tallest in the world, and the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. The site of the Empire State Building, in Midtown South on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was developed in 1893 as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In 1929, Empire State Inc. acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world's tallest building. Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931. Despite favorable publicity related to the building's construction, because of the Great Depression and World War II, its owners did not make a profit until the early 1950s. The building's Art Deco architecture, height, and observation decks have made it a popular attraction. Around four million tourists from around the world annually visit the building's 86th- and 102nd-floor observatories; an additional indoor observatory on the 80th floor opened in 2019. The Empire State Building is an international cultural icon: it has been featured in more than 250 television series and films since the film King Kong was released in 1933. The building's size has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures. A symbol of New York City, the building has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' List of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007. Additionally, the Empire State Building and its ground-floor interior were designated city landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1980, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and the broadcast centers atop it, leaving most of the city's stations without a transmitter for ten days until the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey, was re-activated temporarily. By October 2001, nearly all of the city's commercial broadcast stations (both television and FM radio) were again transmitting from the top of the Empire State Building. In a report that Congress commissioned about the transition from analog television to digital television, it was stated that the placement of broadcast stations in the Empire State Building was considered "problematic" due to interference from nearby buildings. In comparison, the congressional report stated that the former Twin Towers had very few buildings of comparable height nearby thus signals suffered little interference. In 2003, a few FM stations were relocated to the nearby Conde Nast Building to reduce the number of broadcast stations using the Empire State Building. Eleven television stations and twenty-two FM stations had signed 15-year leases in the building by May 2003. It was expected that a taller broadcast tower in Bayonne, New Jersey, or Governors Island, would be built in the meantime with the Empire State Building being used as a "backup" since signal transmissions from the building were generally of poorer quality. Following the construction of One World Trade Center in the late 2000s and early 2010s, some TV stations began moving their transmitting facilities there. As of 2021, the Empire State Building is home to the following stations: -- Television: WABC-7, WPIX-11, WXTV-41 Paterson, and WFUT-68 Newark; FM: WINS-92.3, WPAT-93.1 Paterson, WNYC-93.9, WPLJ-95.5, WXNY-96.3, WQHT-97.1, WSKQ-97.9, WEPN-98.7, WHTZ-100.3 Newark, WCBS-101.1, WFAN-101.9, WNEW-FM-102.7, WKTU-103.5 Lake Success, WAXQ-104.3, WWPR-105.1, WQXR-105.9 Newark, WLTW-106.7, and WBLS-107.5; NOAA Weather Radio station KWO35 broadcasts at a frequency of 162.550 MHz from the National Weather Service in Upton, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jack-benny-complete-radio-broadcasts-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Films 5: Apollo Moon Exploration Films DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Ken Mattingly, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and astronaut who flew on Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle STS-4 and STS-51-C missions (d. October 31, 2023) is #born Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II in Chicago, Illinois. Mattingly was scheduled to fly on the Apollo 13 mission, but three days before launch, he was replaced by Jack Swigert because he was exposed to German measles (which Mattingly did not contract). Mattingly flew as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 16 and made 64 lunar orbits, making him one of 24 people known to have flown to the Moon. Mattingly and his Apollo 16 commander, John Young, are the only people to have flown to the Moon and also a Space Shuttle mission (Fred Haise, his former training crewmate from Apollo 13, performed atmospheric flight testing of the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests). During Apollo 16's return flight to Earth, Mattingly performed an extravehicular activity (EVA) to retrieve film cassettes from the exterior of the spacecraft, the command and service module. It was the second "deep space" EVA in history, at great distance from any planetary body. As of 2023, it remains one of only three such EVAs which have taken place, all during the Apollo Program's J-Missions (missions involving "Extensive scientific investigation of Moon on lunar surface and from lunar orbit" conducted by Apollo 15, 16 and 17). Mattingly died in Arlington, Virginia of undisclosed causes, aged 87. NASA announced his death two days later on November 2. His burial details are also undisclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-5-apollo-moon-exploration-dv5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Clive James' Fame In The 20th Century TV Series DVD Set MP4 USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer, regarded by some as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation (d. January 6, 1993) is #born Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union, to a Tatar family. He began his early career with the company that in the Soviet era was called the Kirov Ballet (now called by its original name, the Mariinsky Ballet) in Leningrad. He went on to dance with The Royal Ballet in London and from 1983 to 1989 served as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Nureyev was also a choreographer serving as the chief choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet. He produced his own interpretations of numerous classical works, including Swan Lake, Giselle and La Bayadere. On June 16, 1961, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at Le Bourget Airport in Paris while touring with the Kirov Ballet, with the help of French police and a Parisian socialite friend, Clara Saint, who had been engaged to Vincent Malraux, the son of the French Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux. Nureyev escaped his KGB minders and asked for asylum. The Kirov's artistic director Konstantin Sergeyev, with whom Nureyev had growing tensions, and the KGB tried to dissuade him, but he chose to stay in Paris. Nureyev was seen to have broken the rules about mingling with foreigners and allegedly frequented gay bars in Paris, which alarmed the Kirov's management and the KGB agents observing him. When the KGB wanted to send him back to the Soviet Union, he defected. This was the first defection of a Soviet artist during the Cold War, and it created an international sensation. Rudolf Nureyev died of AIDS complications at age 54 in Levallois-Perret, France. His funeral was held in the marble foyer of the Paris Garnier Opera House. Many paid tribute to his brilliance as a dancer. One such tribute came from Oleg Vinogradov of the Mariinsky Ballet, stating: "What Nureyev did in the west, he could never have done here." Nureyev's grave, at the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris, features a tomb draped in a mosaic of an Oriental carpet. Nureyev was an avid collector of beautiful carpets and antique textiles. As his coffin was lowered into the ground, music from the last act of Giselle was played and his ballet shoes were cast into the grave along with white lilies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Zola Taylor, African American singer, original female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles (d. April 30, 2007) is #born Zoletta Lynn Taylor in Los Angeles, California. An American vocal group formed in 1952, The Platters are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Originally, their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre. The act went through several personnel changes, with one of the most successful incarnations comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor. Zola Taylor appeared with The Platters in the first rock'n'roll film, Rock Around the Clock. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four number-one hits. Taylor was a member of The Platters until 1962, when she was replaced by singer Barbara Randolph. Taylor was the second of Frankie Lymon's three wives. In 1984, on behalf of Emira Lymon, a lawyer and artist's agent sued to wrest the copyright of Frankie's hit song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" away from the current owner. The case became confused when it looked like Lymon had a second and possibly a third widow. Elizabeth Waters claimed to have married Lymon in 1964 in Virginia. However, it turned out she had been married to someone else at the time. As Waters' claim went to court, Taylor claimed that she had been sexually active with Lymon as early as the "Biggest Rock "n" Roll Show of 1956" tour. She claimed to have married Lymon in Mexicali, Mexico around 1965, but could not produce a marriage license. The first hearing, held in Philadelphia, was decided in favor of Waters being Lymon's first wife. Emira Eagle, his third wife, appealed and won a reversal based on her claim that she was Lymon's first wife. Zola Taylor died in Riverside, CA at age 69, from pneumonia, following a series of strokes. Zola Taylor was portrayed by Halle Berry in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall in Love. In 1990, Taylor was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Platters. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Kantner, American rock rhythm guitarist, and singer, best known as the co-founder and secondary vocalist of the leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era Jefferson Airplane, who continued in these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band (d. January 28, 2016) is #born Paul Lorin Kantner in San Francisco, California. Jefferson Airplane was formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded the album Blows Against the Empire, which was co-credited to both Paul Kantner and "Jefferson Starship". Jefferson Airplane continued to record and perform until 1973. Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name in 1974 and continued to record and perform with them through 1984. He later led a reformed Jefferson Starship from 1992 until his death in 2016. Kantner had the longest continuous membership with the band, with 19 years in the original run of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship and 24 years in the revived Jefferson Starship. At times, he was the only founding Jefferson Airplane member to remain in Jefferson Starship. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane in 1996. Paul Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 of multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier; coincidentally, he died a few hours before Jefferson Airplane co-founder and singer Ms. Signe Toly Anderson. He is buried at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, California.Shortly after Kantner's death, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart called Kantner the band's backbone and correctly states that Kantner should have received the kind of credit that singer Grace Slick, bass player Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen received. #PaulKantner #Guitarists #Singers #JeffersonAirplane #JeffersonStarship #PsychedelicRock #AcidRock #FolkRock #RockMusic #Counterculture #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! John Sebastian, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, harmonic player and autoharpist, who is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2000, writer and singer some of the band's biggest hits such as "Do You Believe in Magic", "Summer in the City", "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind", and "Daydream"; for his impromptu appearances at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and the Big Sur Folk Festival in 1970; and for his No. 1 hit in 1976, "Welcome Back", is #born John Benson Sebastian in New York City and grew up in Little Italy and Greenwich Village. His father, John Sebastian (ne John Sebastian Pugliese), was a noted classical harmonica player, and his mother, Jane (born Mary Jane Bishir), was a radio script writer. His godmother was Vivian Vance ("Ethel Mertz" of I Love Lucy), who was a close friend of his mother. His godfather and first babysitter was children's book illustrator Garth Williams, a friend of his father. Eleanor Roosevelt was a neighbor who lived across the hall at 29 Washington Square West, an apartment building in Greenwich Village, New York, which overlooks Washington Square Park. Sebastian grew up surrounded by music and musicians, including Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie, and hearing such players as Lead Belly and Mississippi John Hurt in his own neighborhood. He graduated from Blair Academy, a private boarding school in Blairstown, New Jersey, in 1962. He next attended New York University for just over a year, but dropped out as he became more interested in musical pursuits. In the early 1960s, Sebastian developed an interest in blues music and in playing harmonica in a blues style, rather than the classical style of his father. Through his father's connections, he met and was influenced by blues musicians Sonny Terry and Lightnin' Hopkins (for whom Sebastian served as "unofficial tour guide and valet" when Hopkins was in New York City). Sebastian became part of the folk and blues scene that was developing in Greenwich Village, which in part later gave rise to folk rock. One of Sebastian's first recording gigs was playing guitar and harmonica for Billy Faier's 1964 album The Beast of Billy Faier. He also played on Fred Neil's album Bleecker & MacDougal and Tom Rush's self-titled album in 1965. He played in the Even Dozen Jug Band and in the Mugwumps, which split to form the Lovin' Spoonful and the Mamas & the Papas. Bob Dylan invited him to play bass on his Bringing It All Back Home sessions (though Sebastian's parts probably did not appear on the album) and to join Dylan's new electric touring band, but Sebastian declined in order to concentrate on his own project, the Lovin' Spoonful. #JohnSebastian #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #RockMusic #PopMusic #FolkMusic #Blues #LovinSpoonful #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-7-shindig-hullabaloo-medley-dv7.html

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Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1944: #BOTD #HBD! Pattie Boyd, English model, author, photographer, fashion icon, musical muse and beauty, one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, along with Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, epitomised the British female look of the era, married muse of both George Harrison of The Beatles and Eric Clapton of Cream, is #born Patricia Anne Boyd in Taunton, Somerset, England. Boyd married George Harrison in 1966, experiencing the height of the Beatles' popularity and sharing their embrace of Indian spirituality. She divorced Harrison in 1977 and married mutual friend Eric Clapton in 1979; they divorced in 1989. Boyd inspired Harrison's songs "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something", and "For You Blue", and Clapton's songs "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", and "Wonderful Tonight". In August 2007, Boyd published her autobiography Wonderful Today (titled Wonderful Tonight in the United States). Her photographs of Harrison and Clapton, titled Through the Eye of a Muse, have been widely exhibited. #PattieBoyd #FashioModels #Authors #Photographers #FashionIcons #Beauties #Muses #MusicalMuses #SwingingSixties #Counterculture #GeorgeHarrison #Beatles #Beatlemania #EricClapton #BritishRock #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-compleat-beatles-documentary-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Damned Engineers At Remagen Bridge MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, March 17, 2026

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

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Universal Newsreels: The Space Race Films DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1958: Rocket Launches: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: The United States Space Program: Earth Satellites: Project Vanguard: Vanguard 1 (Harvard Designation: 1958-Beta 2, COSPAR ID: 1958-002B): -- The United States launches Vanguard 1, both the first solar-powered satellite and the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit, at 12:15:41 GMT atop a Vanguard rocket launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 18 (LC-18), the fourth artificial Earth orbital satellite to be successfully launched, following the Soviet Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 satellites, and the American Explorer 1. Vanguard's three-stage launch vehicle placed it into an orbit of 406 mi _ 2,466 mi, a 134.27-minute elliptical orbit inclined at 34.25 degs. Although Vanguard 1 transmitted its signals for over six years as it orbited the Earth until communication with it was lost in 1964, it remains the oldest manmade object still in orbit together with the upper stage of its launch rocket. Since then the spacecraft has been tracked optically from Earth, via telescope. Vanguard 1 was designed to test the launch capabilities of a three-stage launch vehicle as a part of Project Vanguard, and the effects of the environment on a satellite and its systems in Earth orbit. It also was used to obtain geodetic measurements through orbit analysis. Vanguard 1 was described by the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, as "the grapefruit satellite". As Vanguard 1, Vanguard 2, and Vanguard 3 are still orbiting with their drag properties essentially unchanged, they form a baseline data set on the atmosphere of Earth that is over 60 years old and continuing. Vanguard 1 was projected to remain aloft for up to 2,000 years, but solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag perturbations during periods of high solar activity affected its perigee, reducing its lifetime and expected burn up in the atmosphere to about 240 years, sometime in the late 22nd century, although a more realistic probability is that as space travel becomes routine, and especially when its re-entry date draws near, the satellite will be retrieved as a valued artifact of early space exploration. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/universal-newsreels-the-space-race-films-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Tibet History & The Dalai Lama Documentaries DVD, MP4, USB Drive
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March 17, 1959: Tibet: The History Of Tibet: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The 1959 Tibetan Uprising (The 1959 Tibetan Armed Rebellion, The 1959 Tibetan Anti-Riot movement, The 1959 Tibetan Unrests, The 1959 Anti-Chinese Uprising In Tibet, The Lhasa Uprising): The Dalai Lama's Escape From Tibet (The Dalai Lama's Escape From China): -- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, a title given to the extant spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, flees Tibet for India. At the outset of the 1959 Tibetan uprising of Tibetans against the effective control of their country by the People's Republic Of China, the Dalai Lama and his retinue, fearing for their lives, fled Tibet with the help of the CIA's Special Activities Division. They crossed into India on March 30-31, 1959, reaching Tezpur in Assam on April 18. Some time later he set up the Government of Tibet in Exile in Dharamshala, India, which is often referred to as "Little Lhasa". After the founding of the government in exile he re-established the approximately 80,000 Tibetan refugees who followed him into exile in agricultural settlements. He created a Tibetan educational system in order to teach the Tibetan children the language, history, religion, and culture. The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts was established in 1959 and the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies became the primary university for Tibetans in India in 1967. He supported the refounding of 200 monasteries and nunneries in an attempt to preserve Tibetan Buddhist teachings and the Tibetan way of life. The 1959 Tibetan Uprising (March 10-23, 1959) began when a revolt against Chinese rule erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. The anniversary of the uprising is observed by Tibetan exiles as the ''Tibetan Uprising Day'' and Woman's Uprising Day. The initial uprising occurred amid general Chinese-Tibetan tensions and a context of confusion, because Tibetan protesters feared that the Chinese government might arrest the 14th Dalai Lama. The protests were also fueled by anti-Chinese sentiment and separatism. At first, the uprising mostly consisted of peaceful protests, but clashes quickly erupted and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) eventually used force to quell the protests, some of the protesters had captured arms. The last stages of the uprising included heavy fighting, with high civilian and military losses. The 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Lhasa, while the city was fully retaken by Chinese security forces on March 23, 1959. Thousands of Tibetans were killed during the uprising, but the exact number of deaths is disputed. Earlier in 1956, armed conflict between Tibetan guerillas and the PLA started in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962. Some regard the Xunhua Incident (April 17-25, 1958), an uprising of Tibetan and Salar people against the rule of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Qinghai, China province bordering Tibet, as a precursor of the Tibetan uprising. The annual March 10 anniversary of the uprising is observed by exiled Tibetans as Tibetan Uprising Day and Women's Uprising Day. On January 19, 2009, The PRC-controlled legislature in the Tibet Autonomous Region chose March 28 as the national anniversary of Serfs Emancipation Day. American Tibetologist Warren W. Smith Jr. describes the move as a "counter-propaganda" celebration following the March 10, 2008 unrest in Tibet. Tibet, as it is today, was first unified in the Seventh Century A.D., by King Songsten Gampo and his successors. However, its history began in 127 B.C., with the formation of the Yarlung Dynasty. The People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China initially entered Tibet in 1949, defeating the small Tibetan army and seizing half of the nation, marking a watershed moment in Tibet's history. Repression, which included the destruction of holy buildings and the arrest of monks and other community leaders, rose substantially as resistance to the Chinese occupation grew, particularly in Eastern Tibet. The Communist Chinese government invaded Tibet in 1950, causing chaos and misery for Tibetans, finally resulting in the fall of the Tibetan government and the self-imposed exile of the Dalai Lama and 100,000 Tibetans in 1959. Despite all the religious persecution, loss of their national heritage, and frequent violations of their human rights, Tibetans continue to raise their voices in unison, asking for independence. Tibet is still considered a sovereign state under international law. Tibet's sovereignty has not been transferred to China as a result of China's armed invasion and ongoing occupation by the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.). All who continue to support this cause believe, that someday, Tibet will achieve the independence it so dearly desires and deserves. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tibet-documentaries-2-dvd-se2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bay Of Pigs Invasion DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1960: Cuba: The History Of Cuba: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cuban Cold War: The Cuban Revolution: The Consolidation Of The Cuban Revolution (Cuba Under Fidel Castro): The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasion De Bahia De Cochinos, Invasion De Playa Giron, Batalla De Playa Giron): Operation 40: -- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive that initiated Operation 40, the code name for the anti-Cuban covert action program conceived by Richard Bissel and presided over by Vice President Richard Nixon, which authorized the CIA to sponsor, organize, train, and equip Cuban refugees and Cuban exiles as a guerrilla and paramilitary force force to overthrow the government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and seize control of the Cuban government after what was to become known as The Bay Of Pigs Invasion (April 17-20, 1961). Operation 40 continued to operate unofficially until disbanded in 1970 due to allegations that an aircraft that was carrying cocaine and heroin in support of the group crashed in California. By early 1960, President Eisenhower had begun contemplating ways to remove Castro, in the hopes that he might be replaced by a Cuban government-in-exile, though none existed at the time. On December 11, 1959, following the Cuban Revolution of January 1959, Colonel J.C. King, chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sent a confidential memorandum to CIA director Allen W. Dulles. King argued that in Cuba there existed a "far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against U.S. holdings in other Latin American countries." This memorandum resulted in the formation of Operation 40. The group that ran Operation 40 was presided over by then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon and included Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant of the State Department, National Security Adviser Gordon Gray, as well as Dulles himself. Tracy Barnes functioned as operating office of the Cuban Task Force. Nixon called a meeting on January 18, 1960, in his temporary office near the Lincoln Memorial. Operation 40 was not only involved in sabotage operations. One associate of the group, although never a member, Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the presidency of Richard Nixon, allegedly told author Mike Canfield: "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time." The group sought to incite civil war in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel Castro. When Operation 40 failed in accomplishing this goal, then in October 1960, Brigade 2506 was created, a CIA-sponsored group made up of 1,511 Cuban exiles who fought in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. On April 17, 1961, Vicente Leon Leon, with other members of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the CIA-chartered freighter Atlantico, and was killed in action. Operation 40 is a playable faction in the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops. Within the game's campaign mode, there is heavy implication that the main protagonist and Operation 40 operative Alex Mason may have been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy as a Soviet sleeper agent. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Fabulous Sixties with Peter Jennings TV Docuseries MP4 Or DVD Set
Today, March 17, 2026

March 17, 1966: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: Nuclear Weapons Incidents And Accidents: The 1966 Palomares B-52 Crash (The Palomares Incident): -- After a search that continued for 80 days following the January 17, 1966 Palomares Incident in which a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command carrying four Mk28-type 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, killing seven airmen and dropping three nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and the fourth into the Mediterranean sea, the only one of the bombs not yet recoved, the one that landed at sea, is discovered by the DSV Alvin submersible in an uncharted area of the Rio Almanzora canyon on a 70-degree slope at a depth of 2,550 feet (780 m), but is dropped and temporarily lost when the Navy attempted to bring it to the surface. After the loss of the recovered bomb, the ship's positions were fixed by Decca HI-FIX position-locating equipment for subsequent recovery attempts. Alvin located the bomb again on April 2, this time at a depth of 2,900 feet (880 m). On April 7, an unmanned torpedo recovery vehicle, CURV-I, became entangled in the weapon's parachute while attempting to attach a line to it. A decision was made to raise CURV and the weapon together to a depth of 100 feet (30 m), where divers attached cables to both. The bomb was brought to the surface by USS Petrel. The USS Cascade was diverted from its Naples destination, stayed on scene until recovery, then took the bomb back to the United States. Once the bomb was located, local fisherman Francisco Simo Orts popularly known since as "Paco El De La Bomba ("Bomb Paco" or "Bomb Frankie"), who witnessed the bomb entering the water and was hired by the U.S. Air Force to assist in the search operation, appeared at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York with his lawyer, Herbert Brownell, formerly Attorney General of the United States under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, claiming salvage rights on the recovered thermonuclear bomb. According to Craven: "It is customary maritime law that the person who identifies the location of a ship to be salved has the right to a salvage award if that identification leads to a successful recovery. The amount is nominal, usually 1 or 2 percent, sometimes a bit more, of the intrinsic value to the owner of the thing salved. But the thing salved off Palomares was a thermonuclear bomb, the same bomb valued by no less an authority than the Secretary of Defense at 2B USD - each percent of which is, of course, 20M USD." The Air Force settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. In later years, Orts was heard to complain that the Americans had promised him financial compensation but had not kept their promise. The three Mk28 H-Bombs that were found on land impacted near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almeria, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 0.77-square-mile (2 km2) area with radioactive plutonium. The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact after a search lasting 2 1/2 months. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Yom Kippur War: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War MP4 Download DVD Set
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March 17, 1969: Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Judaism: The History Of Judaism: Zionism: Israel (The State Of Israel): The History Of Israel (The History Of The State Of Israel): Prime Ministers Of The State Of Israel: -- Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978) was born Golda Mabovitch in Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). She was one of the founders of the modern state of Israel. She emigrated to the United States as an eight-year-old child with her family in 1906, and was educated there, becoming a teacher. After marrying, she and her husband immigrated to then Mandatory Palestine in 1921, settling on a kibbutz. Meir was elected prime minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. The world's fourth and Israel's first and only woman to hold the office, she has been described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics; the term was later applied to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people." Meir resigned as prime minister in 1974, the year following the Yom Kippur War. Golda Meir died of lymphatic cancer (lymphoma) in Jerusalem at the age of 80. She is buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-yom-kippur-war-the-1973-arab-israeli-war-mp4-download-dvd-set.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Vietnam War Films & Documentaries Collection DVD, Download, USB Drive
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March 17, 1970: 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): -- Two years and one day after The My Lai Massacre occurred, the United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident. The My Lai Massacre occurs, a war crime of the Vietnam War, was 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 massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-war-films-2-dual-layer--dvd-se2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pioneers Of Surgery Documentary TV Series DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17: Doctor-Patient Trust Day: -- A day dedicated to the doctors who work to save lives by safeguarding the trust of their patients. Indeed, treating a patient means understanding the most personal aspects of their body and mind. People in healthcare are bound by the ethics of the medical profession to never disclose personal information about their patients. And, doctors are responsible for saving countless lives all over the world; they are responsible for healthcare - which is one of the most important trades in our world. Without proper developments in the medical field, the human population would have been reduced by more than half. The history of medical science dates back to the dawn of human civilization. Even before that, our ancestors knew about the healing potency of some of the herbs. The art of healing flourished around the iron age. Various civilizations, like the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, and Chinese, developed their medicinal schools and physicians. The development of modern medicine has resulted in an increase in the lifespan and the living conditions of people. It aided in drastically lowering infant mortality, average lifespan, death during delivery, complicated health conditions caused by common illnesses, and so on. Medical advancements brought doctors closer to their patients' personal lives and intimate information. The medical code of conduct requires healthcare workers to keep the personal information of their patients secret. We are going through a time when health care is at its best. But, as healthcare improved, so did the germs and the complexity of diseases and health conditions. Doctors now need more and more personal information to get an accurate diagnosis of a patient's condition. But people are sensitive about their personal information, and there are instances when they withhold that information from their doctors. Trust between a doctor and his patient is the most important factor for the success of treatment. Doctor-Patient Trust Day was created to spread awareness about the ethics and code of conduct that every healthcare worker follows. It is a day to make people aware of the importance of passing correct information to doctors. It is also a day for doctors to make sure they adhere to the latest standards for keeping the trust of patients. https://store.earthstation1.com/pioneers-of-surgery-dvd-set-4-episode-tv-series-2-dis42.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Other Side Of The Moon DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. August 8, 1991) is #born James Benson Irwin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James Irwin was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person known to have walked on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronauts to die, of the twelve people known to have been moon walkers, in his case of a heart attack after a bicycle ride in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, aged 61. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He and his wife, Mary Ellen, to whom he was married for three decades, had five children. The James Irwin Charter Schools were founded in Colorado in his honor. A patch cut by Irwin from a backpack abandoned on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission was auctioned at Christie's in 2001 for 310,500USD in a consignment of material from Irwin's estate that garnered "a combined 500K USD". https://store.earthstation1.com/the-other-side-of-the-moon-psychology-amp-spirituality-of-moonfarers.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy With Michael Wood World History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1406: #DOTD: #RIP: Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: Abu Zayd 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami), Muslim Tunisian Arab sociologist, historian, and scholar (b. May 27, 1332) #dies aged 73 in Cairo in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. Ibn Khaldun was a leading Arab Muslim historiographer whose work is widely considered a forerunner of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography. He is best known for his book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which records an early view of universal history, which some modern thinkers view as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography,and cultural history. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography, the philosophy of history, economics, political theory, and ecology. It has also been described as an early representative of social Darwinism, and Darwinism. The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians like Katip Celebi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and Mustafa Naima, who used its theories to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. 19th-century European scholars acknowledged the significance of the book and considered Ibn Khaldun to be one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. His work as a historiographer dealt with the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The World: A Television History Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 180: #DOTD: #RIP: Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius #dies, leaving his son Commodus as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180, ruling jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until Verus' death in 169, and jointly with his son, Commodus, from 177 till Aurelius' own death (b. April 26, 121) was born Marcus Aurelius Antoninus in Rome, Italy. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolo Machiavelli. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as Meditations, is a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. It is considered by many commentators to be one of the greatest works of philosophy. During his reign, the Roman Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East: Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic peoples began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire. A revolt in the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately. Persecution of Christians increased during his reign. His death in 180 is considered the end of the Pax Romana and the increasing instability in the west that followed has traditionally been seen as the beginning of the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-a-television-history-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-26-sh426.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Fall Of The Roman Empire 1964 DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 180: Royal Accessions: Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius #dies, leaving his son Commodus as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. Commodus (August 31, 161 - December 31, 192), born Lucius Aurelius Commodus in Lanuvium, near Rome, Italy, and died Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus in Rome, Italy aged 31, was Roman emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180, and solely until 192. His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of the Roman Empire known as the Pax Romana. During his father's reign, he accompanied Marcus Aurelius during the Marcomannic Wars in 172 and on a tour of the Eastern provinces in 176. He was made the youngest consul in Roman history in 177 and later that year elevated to co-emperor with his father. His accession was the first time a son had succeeded his biological father since Titus succeeded Vespasian in 79. He was also the first emperor to have both a father and grandfather (who had adopted his father) as the two preceding emperors. Commodus was the first (and until 337, the only) emperor "born in the purple", meaning during his father's reign. During his solo reign, the Empire enjoyed a period of reduced military conflict compared with the reign of Marcus Aurelius, but intrigues and conspiracies abounded, leading Commodus to an increasingly dictatorial style of leadership that culminated in a god-like personality cult. His assassination in 192 marked the end of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. He was succeeded by Pertinax, the first emperor in the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-1964-dvd-set-aleq-guinness-sophia-l1964.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Complete Fred Allen Radio Shows MP3 Set DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1956: #DOTD: #RIP: Fred Allen, American comedian, radio host, game show panelist,and author, host of the absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932-1949), which made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio (b. May 31, 1894) #dies of a heart attack on a Saturday night while taking his customary late night stroll up New York's West 57th Street on Saturday night, aged 61. He was born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Massachusetts into an Irish Catholic family. His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal; he was simultaneously radio's most admired comedian and the most frequently censored. A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives (and often barbed them on the air over the battles) while developing routines whose style and substance influenced fellow comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson; his avowed fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk (who began his career writing for Allen). Allen was honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to television and radio. https://store.earthstation1.com/fred-allen-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broadcast3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Struggles For Poland TV Series + Bonus MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1921: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Aftermath Of World War I: The History Of Poland: The Second Polish Republic (The Republic Of Poland): The March Constitution (Poland): -- The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution. The Second Polish Republic, commonly known as Interwar Poland, refers to the country of Poland between the First and Second World Wars (1918-1939). Officially known as the Republic Of Poland, the Polish state was recreated in 1918, in the Aftermath Of World War I. The Second Polish Republic adopted the March Constitution after ousting the occupation of the German/Prussian forces in the 1918 Greater Poland Uprising (a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region known as the Grand Duchy of Poznan against German rule) and avoiding conquest by the Soviets in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War (an armed conflict between the Second Polish Republic, the Ukrainian People's Republic, Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine over the control of an area equivalent to today's Ukraine and parts of modern-day Belarus). The Constitution, based on the French one, was very democratic; it expressly ruled out discrimination on racial or religious grounds. It also abolished all royal titles and state privileges, and banned the use of blazons. It was partially adjusted by the 1926 August Novelization, and superseded by the Polish Constitution of 1935 (April Constitution). https://store.earthstation1.com/the-struggles-for-poland-dvd-set-all-9-shows-5-dis95.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Toy Commercials: The Classics 1950s-60s DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1951: #BOTD: Kurt Russell, American actor and producer, is #born Kurt Vogel Russell at Wesson Maternity Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963-1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983). In the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter, including anti-hero roles such as army hero-turned-robber Snake Plissken in the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A. (1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody, having starred in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021), portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) installments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...? (2021), and subsequently portrayed Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020). https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-toy-commercials-the-classics-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: JFK, Hoffa & The Mob: Lawyer Frank Ragano Confessions DVD, MP4, USB
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1987: #DOTD: Santo Trafficante Jr., one of the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States (b. November 15, 1914) #dies at the age of 72 at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas where he had gone for heart surgery. Born in Tampa, Florida, to Sicilian parents Santo Trafficante Sr. and his wife Maria Giuseppa Cacciatore, he headed the Trafficante crime family and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante Sr. Trafficante maintained links to the Bonanno crime family in New York City, but was more closely allied with Sam Giancana in Chicago. Consequently, while generally recognized as the most powerful organized crime figure in Florida throughout much of the 20th century, Trafficante was not believed to have total control over Miami, Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, or Palm Beach. The east coast of Florida was a loosely knit conglomerate of New York family interests with links to Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Angelo Bruno, Carlos Marcello, and mob lawyer Frank Ragano. Trafficante admitted his anti-Castro activities to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978, and vehemently denied allegations that he had knowledge of a plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Frank Ragano alleges that both of these statements are false. Ragano states that Trafficante admitted to him that he lied to the House Assassinations committee about his anti-Castro activities, given him by the CIA to perform these activities but that he did nothing of the kind; and he asserts that Trafficante confessed to him shortly before he died that he, Carlos Marcello and Jimmy Hoffa had arranged for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. These Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories have been called into question by others. Federal investigators brought racketeering and conspiracy charges against Trafficante in summer of 1986, and Trafficante retained Ragano as his lawyer to defend against these charges. https://store.earthstation1.com/jfk-hoffa-amp-the-mob-lawyer-frank-ragano-confessions-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Making Sense Of The Sixties TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Malvina Reynolds, American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her songwriting, particularly the songs "Little Boxes" and "What Have They Done to the Rain" (b. August 23, 1900) #dies at the age of 77 of kidney failure caused by pancreatitis in n Berkeley, California. Born Malvina Milder in San Francisco to David and Abagail Milder, Jewish and socialist immigrants, who opposed involvement in World War I, she married William ("Bud") Reynolds, a carpenter and labor organizer, in 1934. They had one child, Nancy Reynolds Schimmel (a songwriter and performer in her own right), in 1935. Malvina earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and later earned a doctorate there, finishing her dissertation in 1938. Though she played violin in a dance band in her twenties, Reynolds began her songwriting career late in life. She was in her late forties when she met Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, and other folk singers and songwriters. She returned to school at UC Berkeley, where she studied music theory. Reynolds went on to write several popular songs, including "Little Boxes" (1962), recorded by Seeger and others, "What Have They Done to the Rain" (1962), recorded by The Searchers, The Seekers, Marianne Faithfull, Melanie Safka and Joan Baez (about nuclear fallout), "It Isn't Nice" (1964) (a civil rights anthem), "Turn Around" (1959) (about children growing up, later sung by Harry Belafonte), and "There's a Bottom Below" (about depression). Reynolds was also a noted composer of children's songs, including "Magic Penny" and "Morningtown Ride" (1957), a top-5 UK single (December 1966) recorded by The Seekers. Malvina lived on Parker Street in Berkeley. Four collections of Reynolds' music are available on compact disc. The Smithsonian Folkways label released Another County Heard From (Folkways 02524) and Ear to the Ground (Smithsonian Folkways 40124), and the Omni Recording Corporation in Australia issued Malvina Reynolds (Omni 112) and Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth (Omni 114). A film biography, Love It Like a Fool, was made (1977) a year before she died in 1978. Reynolds' most famous song, "Little Boxes" (made famous by Seeger), has enjoyed renewed popularity by being featured in Showtime's TV series Weeds. "Little Boxes" was inspired visually by the houses of Daly City, California. In her later years, Reynolds contributed songs and material to PBS' Sesame Street, on which she made occasional appearances as a character named Kate. In 1977, Reynolds became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Reynolds's name and picture. Reynolds was a Unitarian Universalist, a liberal religion which emphasizes personal and group liberty and rationality. https://store.earthstation1.com/making-sense-of-the-sixties-tv-documentary-series-6-hour-episode6.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Edward R. Murrow: The Government Information Films DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Helen Hayes, American actress whose career spanned 80 years, nicknamed "First Lady Of American Theatre", recipient of The Presidential Medal Of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, recipient of The National Medal Of Arts, the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting (Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award; as of December 2020, the only other person to have accomplished both is Rita Moreno), the second person and first woman to have won an EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award; the first person was American composer Richard Rodgers of Rodgers And Hammerstein) (b. October 10, 1900) #dies of congestive heart failure in Nyack, New York, aged 92. Hayes's friend Lillian Gish, herself nicknamed the "First Lady Of American Cinema", was the designated beneficiary of her estate, despite being survived by her son, James Gordon MacArthur, and four grandchildren: Charles P. MacArthur, Mary McClure, Juliette Rappaport, and James D. MacArthur; however, Gish had died less than a month earlier. Hayes is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, New York. Helen Hayes was #born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, D.C.. The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, DC, since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was torn down in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest leading ladies of the 20th-century theatre. In 2011, she was honored with a US postage stamp. https://store.earthstation1.com/edward-r-murrow-the-government-information-films-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Frieda: David Farrar Glynis Johns Mai Zetterling Flora Robson MP4 DVD
Today, March 17, 2026
March 17, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress, novelist, film director, beauty and sex symbol (b. May 24, 1925) #dies from cancer at the age of 68 in her home in London, England, a year after her final role on television. Mai Zetterling was born Mai Elisabeth Zetterling in Vasteras, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress at the age of 17 at Dramaten, the Swedish national theatre, appearing in war-era films. Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film Torment written by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's Frieda (1947) playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to Britain and starred in a number of UK films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker and Dennis Price. Some of her notable films as an actress include Quartet (1948), a film based on some of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories, The Romantic Age (1949) directed by Edmond T. Greville, Only Two Can Play (1962) co-starring Peter Sellers and directed by Sidney Gilliat, and The Witches (1990), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book directed by Nicolas Roeg. Having gained a reputation as a sex symbol in dramas and thrillers, she was equally effective in comedies, and was active in British television in the 1950s and 1960s. She began directing and publishing novels and non-fiction in the early 1960s, her films starting with political documentaries and a short film titled The War Game (1962), which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Silver Lion at Venice. Her first feature film Alskande par (1964, "Loving Couples"), based on the novels of Agnes von Krusenstjerna, was banned at the Cannes Film Festival for its sexual explicitness and nudity. Kenneth Tynan of The Observer later called it "one of the most ambitious debuts since Citizen Kane". It was not the only film she made that caused controversy for its frank sexuality. When critics reviewing her debut feature stated that "Mai Zetterling directs like a man," she began to explore feminist themes more explicitly in her work. The Girls, which had an all-star Swedish cast that included Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson, discussed women's liberation (or lack thereof) in a society controlled by men, as the protagonists compare their lives to characters in the play Lysistrata, and find that things have not progressed very much for women since ancient times. In 1966, she appeared as a storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory, and in five episodes narrated Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomintroll. Zetterling was married to Norwegian actor Tutte Lemkow from 1944 to 1953. They had a daughter, Etienne and a son, Louis, who is professor of environmental sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In her autobiography All Those Tomorrows, published in 1985, Zetterling details love affairs with actor Herbert Lom and Tyrone Power, with whom she lived from 1956 until early 1958. From 1958 to 1976, she was married to British author David Hughes, who collaborated with her on her first films as director. The couple were friends with the composer Michael Hurd, who wrote the music scores for Flickorna and Scrubbers. Documents at the National Archives in London show that, as a member of the Hollywood Left, she was watched by British security agents as a suspected Communist. However, the UK never had a system along the lines of the American Hollywood Blacklist. https://store.earthstation1.com/frieda-dvd-post-wwii-drama-flora-robson-mai-zetterling.html