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March 24: National Cocktail Day: -- A yearly celebration of the tasty alcoholic drinks we have come to know and love. Cocktails remind us of vacations on sandy beaches, relaxing pool-side lounges, or just Friday night out with the girls. Speaking of, did you know that even though cocktails are now often referred to as 'girly drinks,' it used to be frowned upon for women to drink them? National Cocktail Day was created by holidaymaker Jace Shoemaker-Galloway as a fun day to celebrate a fun drink. Cocktails were traditionally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, and some mixed drinks today still conform to this, such as the Old Fashioned Whiskey cocktail, the Sazerac cocktail, and the Manhattan cocktail. Many people believe that cocktails originated in the U.S. While this is partly true, cocktails were actually inspired by British punches from the 18th century. British punches were big bowls of spirits mixed with fruit juice, spice, and other flavors. No one is exactly sure who first created cocktails, but the world is more than grateful to them. What is known is that by the 1860s, it started gaining popularity. Cocktails became especially popular after alcohol was prohibited in the United States from 1920 to 1933 ironically. Speakeasies began to sell inferior liquor because it was easier to produce illicitly. Then they started adding honey, fruit juice, and other flavorings to mask the foul taste of this liquor, enabling customers to drink faster, which was very important in case of a raid. The Industrial Age made a major contribution to the evolution of cocktails with the production of ice. Before the Industrial Age, there was no effective way to make ice blocks and keep them from melting. In the 90s, a group of bartenders at New York's famous Rainbow Room brought back classic cocktail culture and followed strict quality standards. Today, there is a substantive cocktail culture in the art of mixology, which draws on traditional cocktails, but uses novel ingredients and complex flavors. On National Cocktail Day, we celebrate the unique concoctions that remind us of good times! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/t-s-eliot-dvd-biography-poetry-literature.html
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March 24: World Tuberculosis Day: -- A day the World Health Organization (WHO) created in honor of the March 24, 1882 announcement of Robert Koch's discovery of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis TB bacillus, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, to spread knowledge and awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis, an infectious disease that kills millions every year, and efforts being made to eliminate the disease. Tuberculosis is easily curable, but it can lie dormant and undetected for years, so it's important to spread awareness. In 2018, 10 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.5 million died from the disease, mostly in low and middle-income countries. This also makes it the leading cause of death from an infectious disease. World TB Day is one of eleven official global public health campaigns marked by WHO, along with World Health Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, World Patient Safety Day and World AIDS Day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/franz-kafka39s-the-trial-dvd-1987-docum391987.html
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March 24, 1401: The Mongols: Mongol Invasions And Conquests: The Turco-Mongols (The Turko-Mongols): The Timurid Empire: The Timurid Empire's Campaigns In The Levant: The Sack Of Damascus (1401): -- Timur (Tamerlane), the Turco-Mongol emperor of The Timurid Empire, sacks Damascus; the city's inhabitants are brually massacred, except for the artisans, who were deported to Samarkand (Samarqand). In 1399, Timur began his campaigns in the Levant, and when he reached Syria in 1401, he sacked the ancient cities of Aleppo and Damascus. Timur cited the killing of Islamic Caliph Hasan ibn Ali (c. 625 - 2 April 670)) by the first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate Mu'awiya I (c.597, 603 or 605 - April 680) some seven centuries earlier, and the killing of prominent early Islamic figure Husayn Ibn Ali (January 10, 626 - October 10, 680) by Umayyad Caliph Yazid I (c.646 - November 11 683), also some seven centuries earlier, as the reason for his massacre of the inhabitants of Damascus. The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, as well as parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey. The empire was culturally hybrid, combining Turko-Mongolian and Persianate influences, with the last members of the dynasty being "regarded as ideal Perso-Islamic rulers". The empire was founded by Timur, also spelled Temur, historically known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane (Persian: Temur Lang, "Timur the Lame"), the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also paradoxically but certainly considered a great patron of art and architecture, as he interacted with intellectuals such as Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru and his reign introduced the Timurid Renaissance (the Turkic Renaissance), a period in Asian and Islamic history spanning the late 14th, the 15th, and the early 16th centuries. Following the gradual downturn of the Islamic Golden Age, the Timurid Empir witnessed the revival of arts and sciences, and its movement spread across the Muslim world. The French word renaissance means "rebirth", and defines a period as one of cultural revival; the use of the term for the description of this period has raised reservations among scholars, some of whom see it as the swan song of Timurid culture. The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was a cultural synthesis that arose during the early 14th century, among the ruling elites of Mongol Empire successor states such as the Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde. These elites adopted Turkic languages and different religions such as Buddhism and Islam, while retaining Mongol political and legal institutions. Many later Central Asian states drew heavily on this tradition, including the Timurid Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Nogai Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, and the Mughal Empire of India. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-with-michael-wood-world-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html
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March 24, 1603: The English Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Accessions: Successions To The English, Scottish And Irish Thrones: -- King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne of England and Ireland as James I, following the death of Queen Elizabeth I. James VI and I, King Of Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567 and King Of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on March 24 1603 until his death in 1625, was born James Charles Stuart on June 19, 1566 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, the only son of Mary, Queen Of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. As the eldest son and heir apparent of the monarch, James automatically became Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Both Mary and Darnley were great-grandchildren of Henry VII of England through Margaret Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII, thus James as a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, was a potential successor to all three thrones. Mary's rule over Scotland was insecure, and she and her husband, being Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by Protestant noblemen. During Mary's and Darnley's difficult marriage, Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and conspired in the murder of the queen's private secretary, David Rizzio, just three months before James's birth. Although James wanted to bring about a closer union between the kingdoms of Scotland and England, they remained individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, both ruled by James in personal union. He succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was compelled to abdicate in his favour. Four different regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583. In 1603, he succeeded Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, who died childless. He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death in 1625. After the Union Of The Crowns, he based himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from 1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain and Ireland". He was a major advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland. In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and English colonisation of the Americas began. At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in Scotland was the longest of any Scottish monarch. He achieved most of his aims in Scotland but faced great difficulties in England, including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and repeated conflicts with the English Parliament. Under James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary culture. James himself was a prolific writer, authoring works such as Daemonologie (1597) (a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men, a book which endorses the practice of witch hunting), The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598), and Basilikon Doron (1599). He sponsored the translation of the Bible into English later named after him, the Authorized King James Version, and the 1604 revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Anthony Weldon claimed that James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom", an epithet associated with his character ever since. Since the latter half of the 20th century, historians have tended to revise James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful monarch. He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years' War that devastated much of Central Europe. He tried but failed to prevent the rise of hawkish elements in the English Parliament who wanted war with Spain. He died at Theobalds House in Hertfordshire, England during a violent attack of dysentery, aged 58. He was succeeded by his second son, Charles I.. James's funeral on May 7 was a magnificent but disorderly affair. Bishop John Williams of Lincoln preached the sermon, observing, "King Solomon died in Peace, when he had lived about sixty years ... and so you know did King James". The sermon was later printed as Great Britain's Salomon [sic]. James is buried in Westminster Abbey. The position of the tomb was lost for many years until his lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault, during an excavation in the 19th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-family-history-films-dvd.html
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March 24, 1603: The English Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Accessions: Successions To The English, Scottish And Irish Thrones: The Union Of The Crowns (Scottish Gaelic: Aonadh Nan Cruintean; Scots: Union O The Crouns): -- James VI of Scotland acceeds to the throne of the Kingdom of England as James I and the practical unification of some functions (such as overseas diplomacy) of the two separate realms under a single individual. Whilst a misnomer, therefore, what is popularly known as "The Union Of The Crowns" followed the death of James's cousin, Elizabeth I of England, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The union was personal or dynastic, with the Crown of England and the Crown of Scotland remaining both distinct and separate despite James's best efforts to create a new imperial throne. England and Scotland continued as two separate states sharing a monarch, who directed their domestic and foreign policy, along with Ireland, until the Acts of Union of 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Anne. However, there was a republican interregnum in the 1650s, during which the Tender of Union of Oliver Cromwell created the Commonwealth of England and Scotland which ended with the Stuart Restoration. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-monarchy-3-part-british-royal-family-tv-series-dvd-mp4-u34.html
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March 24, 1765: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The Quartering Acts: The Quartering Act 1765 (The Quartering Act): -- The Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act, an almost 200-year series of annual Acts passed by the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom for governing, regulating, provisioning, and funding the English and later British Army, and the Quartering Act likewise required annual renewal by Parliament. The Quartering Acts were originally intended as a response to issues that arose during the French And Indian War and soon became a source of tensions between the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London, England. These tensions would later lead toward the American Revolution. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html
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March 24, 1874: #BOTD: Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American magician, stuntman and escape artist noted for his spectacular escape acts (d. October 31, 1926) is #born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary into a Jewish family; his parents were Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weisz (1829-1892) and Cecilia Steiner (1841-1913). His pseudonym is a reference to his spiritual master, French magician Robert-Houdin (1805-1871). He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the United States and then as "Harry 'Handcuff' Houdini" on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it. In 1904, thousands watched as he tried to escape from special handcuffs commissioned by London's Daily Mirror, keeping them in suspense for an hour. Another stunt saw him buried alive and only just able to claw himself to the surface, emerging in a state of near-breakdown. While many suspected that these escapes were faked, Houdini presented himself as the scourge of fake spiritualists. As President of the Society Of American Magicians, he was keen to uphold professional standards and expose fraudulent artists. He was also quick to sue anyone who imitated his escape stunts. Houdini made several movies but quit acting when it failed to bring in money. He was also a keen aviator and aimed to become the first man to fly a powered aircraft in Australia. Harry Houdini died some days after a tragic, foolish incident. Witnesses to the incident at Houdini's dressing room in the Princess Theatre in Montreal, Canada that occured on the prior October 22 which resulted in Houdini's death corroborated that the death was caused by Jocelyn Gordon Whitehead (1895-1954), who repeatedly struck Houdini's abdomen. The accounts of the witnesses were from students named Jacques Price and Sam Smilovitz (sometimes called Jack Price and Sam Smiley). Price said that Whitehead asked Houdini "if he believed in the miracles of the Bible" and "whether it was true that punches in the stomach did not hurt him". Houdini offered a casual reply that his stomach could endure a lot. Whitehead then delivered "some very hammer-like blows below the belt". Houdini was reclining on a couch at the time, having broken his ankle while performing several days earlier. Price said that Houdini winced at each blow and stopped Whitehead suddenly in the midst of a punch, gesturing that he had had enough, and adding that he had had no opportunity to prepare himself against the blows, as he did not expect Whitehead to strike him so suddenly and forcefully. Had his ankle not been broken, he would have risen from the couch into a better position to brace himself. Throughout the evening, Houdini performed in great pain. He was unable to sleep and remained in constant pain for the next two days, but did not seek medical help. When he finally saw a doctor, he was found to have a fever of 102 _F (39 _C) and acute appendicitis, and was advised to have immediate surgery. He ignored the advice and decided to go on with the show. When Houdini arrived at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24, 1926, for what would be his last performance, he had a fever of 104 _F (40 _C). Despite the diagnosis, Houdini took the stage. He was reported to have passed out during the show, but was revived and continued. Afterwards, he was hospitalized at Detroit's Grace Hospital. It is unclear whether the dressing room incident caused Houdini's eventual death, as the relationship between blunt trauma and appendicitis is uncertain. One theory suggests that Houdini was unaware that he was suffering from appendicitis, and might have been aware had he not received blows to the abdomen. After taking statements from Price and Smilovitz, Houdini's insurance company concluded that the death was due to the dressing-room incident and paid double indemnity (a clause or provision in a life insurance or accident policy whereby the company agrees to pay the stated multiple (e.g., double, triple) of the face amount in the contract in cases of death caused by accidental means; this includes murder by a person other than, and not in collusion with, the beneficiary of the insurance policy, and most accidental deaths. It excludes suicide, and deaths caused by the insured person's own gross negligence, as well as natural causes.) Houdini's funeral was held on November 4, 1926, in New York, with more than 2,000 mourners in attendance. He was interred in the Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, with the crest of the Society Of American Magicians inscribed on his grave site. A statuary bust was added to the exedra in 1927, a rarity, because graven images are forbidden in Jewish cemeteries. In 1975, the bust was destroyed by vandals. Temporary busts were placed at the grave until 2011 when a group who came to be called The self-named Houdini Commandos, from the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, placed a permanent bust with the permission of Houdini's family and of the cemetery. 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
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March 24, 1878: Maritime Incidents: Naval Maritime Incidents: The 1878 Loss Of HMS Eurydice (1843): -- One of Britain's worst peace-time naval disasters occurs when the British 26-gun Royal Navy corvette HMS Eurydice capsizes and sinks in a heavy snow storm off the Isle of Wight after a very fast Atlantic voyage, killing more than 300. One of the witnesses to the disaster was a young Winston Churchill, who was living at Ventnor with his family at the time. Only two of the ship's 319 crew and trainees survived, most of those who were not carried down with the ship died of exposure in the freezing waters. Captain Hare, a devout Christian, after giving the order to every man to save himself, clasped his hands in prayer and went down with his ship. The wreck was refloated later that same year but had been so badly damaged during her submersion that she was then subsequently broken up. Her ship's bell is preserved in St. Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin. There is a memorial in the churchyard at Christ Church, The Broadway, Sandown. The ship's anchor is set into a memorial at Clayhall Cemetery, Gosport. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/young-winston-dvd-churchill-early-life-simon-ward-anne-bancroft.html
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March 24, 1887: #BOTD: #HBD! Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter (d. June 29, 1933) is #born Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle in Smith Center, Kansas. Roscoe Arbuckle started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd, as well as with his nephew Al St. John. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. He was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for 14K USD (equivalent to approximately 175K USD in 2019). Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the alleged rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco in September 1921, and she died four days later. A friend of Rappe accused Arbuckle of raping and accidentally killing her. The first two trials resulted in hung juries, but Buster Keaton defended him in the third trial, which acquitted him, and the jury gave him a formal written statement of apology. Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian. His films were banned by motion picture industry censor Will H. Hays after the trial and he was publicly ostracized. Hays lifted the ban within a year, but Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. Keaton made an agreement to give him 35 percent of his profit from Buster Keaton Comedies Co. He later worked as a film director under the pseudonym William Goodrich. He was finally able to return to acting, making short two-reel comedies in 1932-33 for Warner Bros. Arbuckle died in his sleep of a heart attack in 1933 at age 46, reportedly on the day that he signed a contract with Warner Brothers to make a feature film. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-cure-1917-dvd-chaplin-special-edition-plus-the-waiter39191739.html
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March 24, 1897: #BOTD: #HBD! Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian American doctor of medicine, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and academic, inventor of the orgone accumulator and cloudbuster rain maker (d. November 3, 1957) is #born in Dobzau, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine. He was a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) and The Sexual Revolution (1936), Reich became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. After he moved to New York in 1939, in part to escape the Nazis, he coined the term "orgone" - from "orgasm" and "organism" - for a biological energy he said he had discovered, which he said others called God. In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators, devices that his patients sat inside to harness the reputed health benefits, leading to newspaper stories about sex boxes that cured cancer. Wilhelm Reich died during the night aged 60 at the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania of a heart attack, a death discovered at 7 a.m. when he failed to appear for roll call, and was thereafter found in his bed, fully clothed but for his shoes. He is buried in a vault at Orgonon, his 175-acre home, laboratory and research center in Rangeley, Maine, that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955. He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony, but that a record should be played of Schubert's "Ave Maria" sung by Marian Anderson, and that his granite headstone should read simply: "Wilhelm Reich, Born March 24, 1897, Died ... " None of the academic journals had the courtesy, courage, sympathy or academic responsibility to print his obituary. Time magazine wrote on November 18, 1957: "Died. Wilhelm Reich, 60, once-famed psychoanalyst, associate and follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa; where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device that supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, and could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer, and impotence." Orgonon is now open to the public as the Wilhelm Reich Museum. Its main building, designed by James B. Bell and built for Reich in 1948, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Orgone Research Laboratory, and is a significant example of International Style architecture in the state. The name is derived from the hypostatized term "orgone", Reich's principal area of study in his later years. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-open-mind-with-bill-jenkins-radio-mp3-dvd-alternate-scienc3.html
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March 24, 1900: The History Of Rail Transport (The History Of Railways): Rapid Transit (Bass Rapid Rransit [MRT], Heavy Rail, Metro): History Of The Subway (Tube, Underground): -- Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck of New York City breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" to link Manhattan and Brooklyn, which would ultimately become The New York City Subway rapid transit system that continues to be utilized till this day. On October 27, 1904, The New York City Subway opened, running from City Hall to West 145th Street, the first underground and underwater rail system in the world. Later designated as the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line), the line was constructed in two main portions by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator. The first portion, north of 42nd Street, was opened between 1904 and 1908, and is part of the first subway line in the city. The line ran from City Hall, up the Lexington Avenue Line, across 42nd Street, and up Seventh Avenue and Broadway, before splitting into the Broadway Branch and the Lenox Avenue Line. The second portion of the line, that south of 42nd Street, was constructed as part of the Dual Contracts, which were signed between the IRT, the New York Municipal Railway (a subsidiary of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company), and the City of New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-diary-complete-us-historytv-series-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html
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March 24, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Ub Iwerks ("YOOB EYE-wurks"), American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked as co-creator on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse, among others (d. July 7, 1971) is #born Ubbe Ert Iwerks in Kansas City, Missouri. Iwerks grew up with a contentious relationship with his father, who abandoned him as a child. Iwerks met fellow artist Walt Disney while working at a Kansas City art studio in 1919. After briefly working as illustrators for a local newspaper company, Disney and Iwerks ventured into animation together. Iwerks joined Disney as chief animator on the Laugh-O-Gram shorts series beginning in 1922, but a studio bankruptcy would cause Disney to relocate to Los Angeles in 1923. In the new studio, Iwerks continued to work with Disney on the Alice Comedies as well as the creation of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit character. Following the first Oswald short, both Universal Pictures and the Winkler Pictures production company insisted that the Oswald character be redesigned. At the insistence of Disney, Iwerks designed a number of new characters for the studio, including designs that would be used for Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. One of Iwerks' most long-lasting contributions to animation was a refined version of a sketch drawn by Disney that would later go on to become Mickey Mouse. Iwerks went on to do much of the animation for the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons, including Steamboat Willie, The Skeleton Dance and The Haunted House, before a fallout with Disney led to Iwerks' resignation from the studio in January 1930. Iwerks' final Mickey Mouse cartoon would be 1930's The Cactus Kid. Following his separation with Disney, Iwerks, operating under Iwerks Studio, would go on to create the characters Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper along with the ComiColor Cartoons series as part of a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but the new studio failed to rival its competitors. Iwerks would go on to direct two Looney Tunes cartoon shorts for Leon Schlesinger Productions and several Color Rhapsody cartoons for Screen Gems before joining Disney again in 1940, after which he worked with special visual effects on productions such as 1946's Song of the South. Iwerks died of a heart attack in Burbank, California, in 1971 at age 70. Ub Iwerks is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Iwerks had two children, Donald Warren Iwerks and David Lee Iwerks, both born with his wife and partner Mildred Sarah Henderson. Iwerks was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1989. His likeness has been featured in his granddaughter Leslie Iwerks' 1999 documentary The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story as well as the 2014 feature film Walt Before Mickey, in which he is portrayed by Armando Gutierrez. Iwerks received three nominations at the Academy Awards, for which he won one. He also posthumously received the Winsor McCay Award at the 1978 Annie Awards and the Hall of Fame award at the 2017 Visual Effects Society Awards. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/archival-cartoon-classics-3-fables-amp-fairy-tales-mp4-download-d34.html
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March 24, 1902: #BOTD: #HBD! Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician, 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954 (d. March 16, 1971) is #born Thomas Edmund Dewey in Owosso, Michigan, where he was raised. There his father, George Martin Dewey, owned, edited, and published the local newspaper, the Owosso Times. His mother, Annie (Thomas), whom he called "Mater", bequeathed her son "a healthy respect for common sense and the average man or woman who possessed it." She also left "a headstrong assertiveness that many took for conceit, a set of small-town values never entirely erased by exposure to the sophisticated East, and a sense of proportion that moderated triumph and eased defeat." He was the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1944, but lost the election to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history. Dewey played a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the presidential election that year. He also played a large part in the choice of Richard M. Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956. As a New York City prosecutor and District Attorney in the 1930s and early 1940s, Dewey was relentless in his effort to curb the power of the American Mafia and of organized crime in general. Most famously, he successfully prosecuted Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano on charges of compulsory prostitution in 1936. Luciano was given a thirty-year prison sentence. He also prosecuted and convicted Waxey Gordon, another prominent New York City gangster and bootlegger, on charges of tax evasion. Dewey almost succeeded in apprehending Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but not before Schultz was murdered in 1935 in a hit ordered by The Commission itself. Dewey led the moderate or progressive faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the Eastern Establishment. This group consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the Cold War fight against communism and the Soviet Union, and it supported most of the New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey's successor as leader of the progressive Republicans was Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959. The New York State Thruway is named in Dewey's honor. Thomas E. Dewey died at the Seaview Hotel in Miami, Florida of a massive heart attack eight days before his 69th birthday. He is buried in Pawling Cemetery in Pawling, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-upset-of-3948-dvd-truman-vs-dewey-elec3948.html
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March 24, 1909: #BOTD: Clyde Barrow, infamous as part of the American bank robber duo known as Bonnie and Clyde (d. May 23, 1934) is #born Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow into a poor farming family in Ellis County, Texas, southeast of Dallas. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, robbing people and killing when cornered or confronted. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "Public Enemy Era," between 1931 and 1935. Though known today for their dozen-or-so bank robberies, the duo most often preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and several civilians. The couple were eventually ambushed and killed by law officers near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He is buried at Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas, Texas; she is buried at Crown Hill Memorial Park cemetery in Dallas, Texas. Their exploits were revived and cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/gmen-the-rise-of-j-edgar-hoover-dvd.html
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March 24, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Richard Halsey Best, dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II (d. October 28, 2001) is #born in Bayonne, NJ. Stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Best led Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6) of the American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at the 1942 Battle of Midway, sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers in one day - the Akagi, flagship of Japan's First Air Fleet, and the Hiryu of the First Air Fleet (same fleet and ships that attacked Pearl Harbor) - while flying a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber, before being medically retired that same year due to damaging his lungs breathing bad oxygen during the battle. Richard Halsey Best was born on March 24, 1910 in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Frank Ellsworth Best and Euretta L. Halsey. Best was appointed to the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in 1928, and graduated with honors in 1932. He served for two years aboard the light cruiser USS Richmond. In 1934 he was transferred to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, as a naval aviation student. He completed his flight training in December 1935. His first assignment was Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2B) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, flying the Grumman F2F. In June 1938, Best was given the choice to either join a patrol squadron at Panama or Hawaii, or become a flight instructor at Pensacola: he chose Pensacola, and was assigned to instruct Training Squadron Five. Anticipating what was probably coming, after a year and some months of instructing, Best decided that he could be of most use as a dive bomber pilot. He put in a request for a transfer to the Pacific Fleet in that capacity. On May 31, 1940, Best received orders to join Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6), which was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and got his chance to fly the Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber. The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the United States Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. Upon arrival at the squadron's base on land, Naval Air Station North Island, California, on June 10, Best was made flight officer (operations officer) of the squadron, who was third-in-command. By early 1942, after the war in the Pacific had begun, he had advanced to executive officer (XO), a standard navy term for second-in-command, under his close friend and USNA classmate, William Hollingsworth, known as "Holly," as commander. Best subsequently became squadron commander in time for the Battle of Midway. On December 7, 1941, Best was aboard Enterprise awaiting her return to port when he learned (along with most of VB-6) that several of his squadmates on morning search had flown into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That evening, he flew in the first Enterprise strike of the war as one of six SBDs carrying smoke generators. His group was tasked with providing cover for Lieutenant Eugene E. Lindsey's torpedo bombers should they find the Japanese carriers. However, the strike found nothing, and Best's group returned to Enterprise without incident, although he later called the resulting night landing "the worst...of 330 carrier landings." Best saw his first real combat on February 1, 1942, flying in two strikes against the Marshall Islands. At dawn, he led VB-6's second division as part of a full-scale strike against Japanese shipping off Kwajalein. Before noon, he led eight SBDs from VB-6 and one from VS-6 to attack Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, a mission that would cost him one plane. On February 24, 1942, Best took part in the attack of Wake Island by the Enterprise Air Group, and on March 4 Marcus Island was attacked. After these raids Enterprise returned to Pearl Harbor and accompanied USS Hornet during the Doolittle Raid in mid-April. Both carriers then sped to the south, but were too late to take part in the Battle Of The Coral Sea. Both carriers and their sister ship USS Yorktown were then recalled to participate in what was to be the Battle of Midway. After contact reports from Midway-based PBY Catalina patrol aircraft on the morning of June 4, 1942, Enterprise started to launch her air group starting at 07:06. Under the overall command of the air group commander (CEAG) Lt.Cdr. Wade McClusky were 14 TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bombers of Torpedo Squadron 6 (VT-6), 34 SBDs of VB-6 and VS-6, and ten F4F-4 Wildcat fighters of Fighting Squadron 6 (VF-6). However, the squadrons became separated and reached the Japanese independently. Only the dive bombers stayed together and reached the Japanese by 09:55. At about 10:22, the Enterprise dive bombers (minus three that had dropped out with engine trouble) started to attack the two nearest Japanese carriers, Kaga and Akagi. At this point, the attack became confused, as all 31 remaining Dauntlesses moved to attack Kaga. Best expected to attack according to U.S. dive bomber doctrine, which stated that the trailing squadron (VB-6) would attack the nearer target (in this case Kaga), while the leading squadron (VS-6) would take the farther of the two (here Akagi). However, McClusky, who had been a fighter pilot before becoming CEAG, was apparently unaware of this, and decided to lead VS-6 against Kaga. As the leading squadron dove past him, Best realized what was happening and broke off to attack Akagi. However, most of VB-6 missed his signal to abort and continued their dives on Kaga. Left with only his two wingmen, Best now had just three planes to attack Akagi. Best's three SBDs launched their attack at 10:26am. The first bomb, dropped by Lieutenant(jg) Edwin John Kroeger, hit the water opposite the carrier's bridge. The second bomb, dropped by Best, punched through the flight deck and exploded in the upper hangar, in the middle of 18 Nakajima B5N2 planes parked there. The third bomb, dropped by Ensign Frederick Thomas Weber, exploded in the water, near the stern, jamming Akagi's rudder. Although only Best's bomb struck the Akagi, which ignited fuel and ordnance in the confined hangar deck, it was enough to doom the Japanese flagship carrier. Later that day, Best participated in the attack on the last remaining Japanese carrier, Hiryu, possibly scoring one of the four hits that sank her. Best's gunner, James Francis Murray, believed that he "saw the flash of [Best's] bomb through the smoke as it struck [Hiryu] amidships forward of the island." After the battle, Best was awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Citation said "Defying extreme danger from concentrated anti-aircraft barrage and powerful fighter opposition, Lieutenant Commander Best, with bold determination and courageous zeal, led his squadron in dive-bombing assaults against Japanese naval units. Flying at a distance from his own forces which rendered return unlikely because of probable fuel exhaustion, he pressed home his attacks with extreme disregard for his own personal safety. His gallant intrepidity and loyal devotion to duty contributed greatly to the success of our forces and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service". According to Stephen L. Moore, Best may have been "the first pilot to successfully bomb two Japanese carriers in one day". Considering this unique accomplishment, Admiral Thomas Moorer and Vice Admiral William D. Houser made a serious but unsuccessful effort to recommend Best for the Medal Of Honor after Best's death in 2001. June 4, 1942, was the last day Best flew for the U.S. Navy. Just after Best landed on Enterprise, he began to cough up blood. Over the next twenty-four hours, his hemoptysis (coughing up blood) continued. He became acutely ill with a temperature of 103 _F (39 _C), and was admitted to Pearl Harbor Hospital. Back in Pearl Harbor, Best was examined by the flight surgeon. During the morning flight on June 4 flying at 20,000 ft (6,100 m) several VB-6 pilots encountered difficulties with oxygen supply, so Best gave the order to reduce the altitude to 15,000 ft (4,600 m). The oxygen rebreather of Best's SBD had become heated during the unusually long search on the morning mission on June 4. The material used in the rebreather to remove exhaled carbon dioxide was sodium hydroxide. If the device containing this material were abnormally heated, it could release caustic soda fumes through the pilot's oxygen mask; consequently Best had inhaled caustic fumes. Sometime in the past, Best had contracted latent tuberculosis, which remained in his lungs in an inactive state for years. The inhaled caustic fumes caused an aspiration pneumonia and eroded away a tuberculosis granuloma, transforming the inactive form of the organism into an active form, resulting in the progression from latent TB infection to TB disease. Best was transferred from Pearl Harbor Hospital to Fitzsimons General Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, where he received proper treatment for his tuberculosis. Best was hospitalized in Fitzsimons Hospital until September 1943. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1944 with a 100% disability. After his retirement from the Navy, Best moved to Santa Monica, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. After discharge from the hospital, Best worked in a small research division of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. This division became part of the Rand Corporation in December 1948, where Best headed the security department until his retirement in March 1975. Best wrote the preface to the manual of Battlehawks 1942 flight simulation video game released in 1988 by LucasFilm Games. He died on October 28, 2001 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Best was married and had a daughter (Barbara Ann Llewellyn), a son (Richard Halsey Best II), a grandson, and a step-daughter (Amy Best). On October 28, 2001, Richard Halsey Best died at the age of 91 in Santa Monica, California. Best was portrayed in the 2019 film Midway by Ed Skrein. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/brute-force-aircraft-carriers-george-c-scott-dvd-mp4-video-downloa4.html
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March 24, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist and cartoon artist, co-founder of animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera (d. December 18, 2006) is #born Joseph Roland Barbera at 10 Delancey Street in the Little Italy (Lower East Side) section of Manhattan, New York City, to Italian (Sicilian) immigrants. Barbera joined Van Beuren Studios in 1927 and subsequently Terrytoons in 1929. In 1937, he moved to California and while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Barbera met William Hanna. The two men began a collaboration that was at first best known for producing Tom and Jerry. In 1957, after MGM dissolved their animation department, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Top Cat, The Smurfs, Huckleberry Hound, and The Jetsons. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for 12M USD, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company. In 1991, the studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System, which in turn was merged with Time Warner, owners of Warner Bros., in 1996; Hanna and Barbera stayed on as advisors. Hanna and Barbera directed seven Academy Award films and won eight Emmy Awards. Their cartoon shows have become cultural icons, and their cartoon characters have appeared in other media such as films, books, and toys. Hanna-Barbera's shows had a worldwide audience of over 300 million people in the 1960s and have been translated into more than 28 languages. Joseph Barbera died of natural causes at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, at the age of 95, ending a seventy-year career in animation. His wife Sheila was at his side at the end; he was also survived by three children from his first marriage: Jayne (who worked for Hanna-Barbera), Lynn, and Neal. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-theme-song-mp3-cd-classic-old-time-televisio3.html
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March 24, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter and activist, author of translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers (d. February 22, 2021) is #born Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti in Yonkers, New York. City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin (who left two years later). Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential collection Howl and Other Poems (City Lights, 1956). Nancy Peters started working there in 1971 and retired as executive director in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue, on the nexus of North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco. Lawrence Ferlinghetti died of interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco at age 101. He is buried at Bolinas Cemetery in Bolinas, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/kerouac-the-movie-dvd-1985-jack-kerouac-documentary-1985.html
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March 24, 1934: The Decolonisation Of Asia: The Decolonization Of The Philippines: Philippines-United States Relations: United States Federal Territory And Statehood Legislation: The Tydings-McDuffie Act (The Philippine Independence Act): -- United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. The Tydings-McDuffie Act, officially the Philippine Independence Act, is a United States federal law that established the process for the Philippines, then an American colony, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period. Under the act, the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines was written and the Commonwealth of the Philippines was established, with the first directly elected President of the Philippines (direct elections to the Philippine Legislature had been held since 1907). It also established limitations on Filipino immigration to the United States. The act was authored in the 73rd United States Congress by Senator Millard E. Tydings (Dem.) of Maryland and Representative John McDuffie (Dem.) of Alabama, and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-twentieth-century-with-walter-cronkite-5-dual-layer-dvd5.html
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March 24, 1944: #DOTD: #RIP: Orde Wingate, English general), renown for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of World War II (b. February 26, 1903) #dies in a USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber of the 1st Air Commando Group which crashed into jungle hills of present-day Manipur in northeast India, the result of Wingate's overloading the plane with two extra journalists contrary to the pilot's protest, killing all 10 men aboard. Wingate and the nine other crash victims were initially buried in a common grave close to the crash site near the village of Bishnupur in the present-day state of Manipur in India. The bodies were charred beyond recognition, hence individuals could not be identified under medical practices of the day, as identification from dental records was not possible. Since five of the ten crash victims, including both pilots, were Americans, all ten bodies were exhumed in 1947 and reburied in Imphal, India and yet again exhumed in 1950 and flown to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia for reburial. The exhumation was possible due to a three-way agreement among the governments of India, United Kingdom and the United States, and in accordance with the families' wishes. Orde Wingate was born Orde Charles Wingate in Nainital, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (now in Uttarakhand, India). Wingate was an exponent of unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Assigned to Mandatory Palestine, he became a supporter of Zionism, and set up a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit. Under the patronage of the area commander Archibald Wavell, Wingate was given increasing latitude to put his ideas into practice during World War II. He created units in Abyssinia and Burma. At a time when Britain was in need of morale-boosting generalship, Wingate attracted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's attention with a self-reliant aggressive philosophy of war, and was given resources to stage a large-scale operation. The last Chindit campaign may have determined the outcome of the Battle of Kohima, although the offensive into India by the Japanese may have occurred because Wingate's first operation had demonstrated the possibility of moving through the jungle. In practice, both Japanese and British forces suffered severe supply problems and malnutrition. The casualty rate the Chindits suffered, especially from disease, is a continuing controversy. Wingate believed that resistance to infection could be improved by inculcating a tough mental attitude, but medical officers considered his methods unsuited to a tropical environment. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-combat-bulletins-and-official-war-films-4-dvd4.html
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March 24, 1946: India: The History Of India: The British Raj (Crown Rule In India, Direct Rule In India, India, The Indian Empire): The Indian Independence Movement: The 1946 Cabinet Mission To India: -- Talks to discuss the transfer of power from the British government to the Indian leadership, with the aim of preserving India's unity and granting it independence, are held when The United Kingdom's Cabinet Mission To India arrives in India from Britain. Formulated at the initiative of Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the mission had Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary Of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India, did not participate in every step but was present. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/life-and-times-of-lord-mountbatten-3-dvds-tv-series-all-12-pa312.html
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March 24, 1958: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): -- Rock and roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army as a private at Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas. His arrival was a major media event. Hundreds of people descended on Presley as he stepped from the bus; photographers then accompanied him into the fort. Presley announced that he was looking forward to his military stint, saying that he did not want to be treated any differently from anyone else: "The Army can do anything it wants with me." Elvis completed his military service on March 5, 1960 with the rank of sergeant. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/viva-elvis-dvd-elvis-presley-cult-documentary.html
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March 24, 1962: Sports: The History Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Boxing: The History Of Welterweight Boxing: Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III: -- Benny Paret, the reigning welterweight champion, fights his last and fatal boxing match broadcast live on national television. Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III was the third meeting between Benny "Kid" Paret and Emile Griffith, for the welterweight boxing championship, held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on a Saturday night. Paret came into the match as the reigning welterweight champion; this would be the deciding rubber match (a match at the end of a series of fights in which the opponents were tied in terms of events won and lost). The match was broadcast live by ABC on its live weekly boxing sports program, Fight of the Week. The fight was both notable and controversial for the punishment Paret took in the ring at the hands of Griffith which led to his loss by knockout in round 12 of a scheduled 15 rounds. Paret died in the hospital from his injuries 10 days later. The match has been cited as one of the reasons for the decline of boxing as a mainstream televised sport, and led to political calls to ban the sport of boxing. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html
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March 24, 1965: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon: Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The United States Space Program: The Ranger Program: Ranger 9: -- Close-up images of the Moon from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television as the probe hurtled towards impact on the lunar surface. On March 21, 1965: NASA launched Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. It was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras - two wide-angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and four narrow-angle (channel P) - to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality television pictures. These images were broadcast live on television to millions of viewers across the United States. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft. The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those images to Earth until the spacecraft were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope".[1] Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After two reorganizations of the agencies, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately 170M USD (equivalent to 1.32B in 2017). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-mission-mp3-dvd-megaset-4-dis34.html
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March 24, 1999: The Aftermath Of The Cold War: The Post-Cold War Era: The Breakup Of Yugoslavia: The Yugoslav Wars: The Kosovo War: -- NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (by this time, consisting of the Republics of Montenegro and Serbia), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with air support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) from 24 March 1999, and ground support from the Albanian army. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-kosovo-crisis-march-26--june-10-1999-photo-cd-m26101999.html
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March 24: National Each Person Is A
Person Of Worth Day: -- The power of recognizing others' worth and
how this recognition impacts the other person is the key focus
behind National Each Person is a Person of Worth Day, which is
held each year on March 24. This celebration reminds us that not
only is self-worth a universal trait, but how we gauge others'
worth also stays the same around the world. This day aims to get
people to recognize the worth of everyone around them, and in
doing so, appreciate their own. Everyone, and we mean absolutely
everyone, even across geographical and cultural boundaries, judges
another person's 'worth' almost as soon as they meet them (and
sometimes before they even see the person). That's why common
beauty standards favor a certain type of individual, and why
famous people from around the world can resemble two peas in a
pod. Why do we humans indulge in this? How do we estimate others'
worthiness? And where does self-worth come from? The answer lies
somewhere in our long-established societal constructs, scientists
tell us. The more societies - and humans - evolved, the more they
noticed differences among themselves. People with more money,
land, etc. naturally became more prosperous and powerful, and
thus, enjoyed a higher status among their fellow men. This, in
turn, impacted how people viewed them and created a perception
that continues even today. Those who had 'more' - more money, more
land, more beauty, etc. - naturally became more prosperous and
powerful, and thus, enjoyed a higher status among their fellow
men. This in turn impacted how others viewed them, creating a
system that began to automatically measure people according to
these standards. While those long-ago standards have evolved -
slightly - some 'scales' to measure people remain constant. We
still have a tendency to raise certain qualities above others.
Building positive self-worth is still a struggle for countless
people due to these very standards. This is why Dr. Mary Jo
Podgurski, founder of the Academy for Adolescent Health, created
this day - to remind people that 'worth' is to be judged by who
you are rather than what you are. Dr. Podgurski believes that
self-worth must be taught right from adolescence to help teens
mature into confident and empowered adults. She and her team
conduct youth-centered workshops and training to encourage young
people to find their own self-worthiness and to love themselves
unconditionally.
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Today, March 24, 2026March 24: The Day Of Remembrance For
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D'Etat: -- A right-wing coup overthrows President Isabel Peron
citing problems of financial instability, inflation, endemic
corruption, international isolation and violence that typified her
last year in office. The date is commemorated annually in
Argentina as The Day Of Remembrance For Truth And Justice to honor
the memory of those who died during the state-sponsored terror
that followed. A military junta was installed to replace her; this
was headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, Admiral
Emilio Eduardo Massera and Brigadier-General Orlando Ramon Agosti.
This political process took the official name of "National
Reorganization Process", and the junta, although not with its
original members, remained in power until the return to the
democratic process on December 10, 1983. The right-wing coup had
been planned since October 1975, and the United States Department
of State learned of the preparations two months before its
execution. Henry Kissinger met several times with Argentine Armed
Forces leaders after the coup, urging them to destroy their
opponents quickly before outcry over human rights abuses grew in
the United States. Given the systematic persecution of leftists
and human acts activists during "The Dirty War", the
name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of
Argentina (Spanish: dictadura civico-militar de Argentina) for the
period of United States-backed state terrorism against some 30,000
people, primarily young opponents of the military regime, who were
"disappeared" or killed, the period has been classified
as a genocidal process. The fact of this genocide has been
established in the sentences of trials of its perpetrators for
crimes against humanity.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Carriers: Aircraft Carrier History TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24: Commonwealth Covenant Day
(Northern Mariana Islands): -- An annual celebration that marks
the founding of the commonwealth union between the United States
and the Northern Mariana Islands (N.M.I.). As a public holiday,
commercial establishments, businesses, banks, schools, and
government offices close on this day. While most take the day off
to rest, school administrators and educators take to the streets
and hold a roadside flag-waving event to celebrate the country's
political union with NMI. The islands have a rich history of
multiple colonizations throughout their existence. It first became
a Spanish colony in the 1500s where Spain's power and control
lasted for centuries, heavily influencing their culture, language,
and economy. However, the German Empire took possession of the
islands in 1899, but that only lasted until World War I. Following
Germany's defeat in the war against Japan in 1919, the Japanese
empire gained control of the N.M.I. after the League of Nations
awarded them all the islands above the equator. The island's
political relations with the U.S. started after Japan's defeat in
World War II. The U.S. helped administer the N.M.I.'s Security
Council Resolution 21 as part of the United Nations Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands. The U.S. was assigned the
defense of the island. For a brief period, there was a movement to
make Guam a part of the N.M.I. This was pursued in 1958, 1961, and
1963. However, Guam resisted and decided to remain part of U.S.
territory and officially rejected the integration under the 1969
memorandum. By then, the island had to decide whether it would
become an independent nation free from any outside control or
develop a union with the U.S. By 1975, the majority of the
N.M.I.'s population voted for a commonwealth covenant with the
U.S. rather than be an independent country. On March 24, 1976, the
memorandum took effect and on January 9, 1978, a new government
and constitution came into being under the 1977 memorandum.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Monty:
Bernard Montgomery Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1976: #DOTD: #RIP: Bernard
Montgomery, English field marshal, nicknamed "Monty" and
the "Spartan General" (b. November 17, 1887) #dies at
his home Isington Mill in Isington, Hampshire, aged 88. After a
funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor, his body was buried in
Holy Cross churchyard, in Binsted, Hampshire, England. Bernard Law
Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC,
DL, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was born Bernard Law
Montgomery in Kennington, Surrey, England. Bernard Montgomery
fought in both the First World War and the Second World War. He
saw action in the First World War as a junior officer of the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment. At Meteren, near the Belgian border at
Bailleul, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper, during
the First Battle Of Ypres. He returned to the Western Front as a
general staff officer and took part in the Battle of Arras in
April/May 1917. He also took part in the Battle Of Passchendaele
in late 1917 before finishing the war as Chief Of Staff of the
47th (2nd London) Division. In the inter-war years he commanded
the 17th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and, later, the 1st
Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment before becoming commander
of 9th Infantry Brigade and then General Officer Commanding (GOC)
8th Infantry Division. During the Second World War he commanded
the British Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert
until the final Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943. This
command included the Second Battle Of El Alamein, a turning point
in the Western Desert Campaign. He subsequently commanded the
British Eighth Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily and the
Allied invasion of Italy. He was in command of all Allied ground
forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until
after the Battle of Normandy. He then continued in command of the
21st Army Group for the rest of the campaign in North West Europe.
As such he was the principal field commander for the failed
airborne attempt to bridge the Rhine at Arnhem, and the Allied
Rhine crossing. On 4 May 1945 he took the German surrender at
Luneburg Heath in Northern Germany. After the war he became
Commander-In-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in
Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1946-1948).
He then served as Deputy Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe until
his retirement in 1958.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Master
Of The World 1961 Jules Verne Vincent Price DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1905: #DOTD: #RIP: Jules Verne,
sometimes called "The Father Of Science Fiction" (a
title that has also been given to Cyrano De Begerac, H. G. Wells
and Hugo Gernsback), French author, poet, and playwright, a major
literary figure with a wide influence on the literary avant-garde
and on surrealism, the second most-translated author in the world
since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William
Shakespeare(b. February 8, 1828) #dies aged 77 at his 44 Boulevard
Longueville (now Boulevard Jules-Verne) home in Amiens, France
while ill with chronic diabetes and complications from a stroke
which paralyzed his right side. He is buried at The Cimetiere De
La Madeleine in Amiens. Jules Verne was born Jules Gabriel Verne
in the seaport of Nantes, France where he was trained to follow in
his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early
in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration
with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the
Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously
researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). His son, Michel Verne,
oversaw the publication of the novels Invasion Of The Sea and The
Lighthouse At The End Of The World after Jules's death. The
Voyages extraordinaires series continued for several years
afterwards at the same rate of two volumes a year. It was later
discovered that Michel Verne had made extensive changes in these
stories, and the original versions were eventually published at
the end of the 20th century by the Jules Verne Society (Societe
Jules Verne). In 1919, Michel Verne published The Barsac Mission
(French: L'Etonnante Aventure De La Mission Barsac), whose
original drafts contained references to Esperanto, a language that
his father had been very interested in. In 1989, Verne's
great-grandson discovered his ancestor's as-yet-unpublished novel
Paris In The Twentieth Century, which was subsequently published
in 1994.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1990: #DOTD: #RIP: Ray
Goulding, American soldier, comedian, radio personality,
television personality, actor and screenwriter, one-half of the
comedy duo of Bob and Ray best known for the Matinee With Bob And
Ray radio show (b. March 20, 1922) #dies of kidney failure at his
home in Manhasset on New York's Long Island, four days after his
68th birthday. He is buried at Locust Valley Cemetery in Locust
Valley, Nassau County, New York. He was born Raymond Walter
Goulding in Lowell, Massachusetts. Upon graduation from high
school at age 17, Ray Goulding was hired as a 15 USD-a-week
announcer on local station WLLH, using the name 'Dennis Howard' to
avoid confusion with his older brother Phil, an announcer in
Boston radio at the time. A year later Ray was hired by Boston
radio station WEEI under his own name. His career was interrupted
in 1942 by World War II. After graduating from US Army Officer
Candidate School (OCS) he was posted to Fort Knox, Kentucky as an
instructor, attaining the rank of captain. While stationed there
he met his wife, then-Lt. Mary Elizabeth Leader, likewise attached
to the base as a dietitian. They married in 1945 and would
eventually have four sons and two daughters. Bob and Ray were an
American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades. Composed of
comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, the duo's format was
typically to satirize the medium in which they were performing,
such as conducting radio or television interviews, with
off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan style as
though it were a serious broadcast. Bob and Ray first worked
together at WHDH in Boston in 1946, Elliott as a disc jockey and
Goulding as a newscaster, originally with their own separate
programs, where each would visit with the other while on the air.
Their informal banter was so appealing that WHDH would call on
them, as a team, to fill in when Red Sox baseball broadcasts were
rained out. Elliott and Goulding (not yet known as Bob and Ray)
would improvise comedy routines all afternoon, and joke around
with studio musicians. Elliott and Goulding's brand of humor
caught on, and WHDH gave them their own weekday show. Matinee with
Bob and Ray was originally a 15-minute show, soon expanding to
half an hour. (When explaining why Bob was billed first, Goulding
claimed that it was because Matinee with Bob and Ray sounded
better than Matinob with Ray and Bob.) Their trademark sign-off
was "This is Ray Goulding reminding you to write if you get
work"; "Bob Elliott reminding you to hang by your
thumbs." Matinee with Bob and Ray was broadcast Monday
through Saturday on WHDH. The weekday half-hours were broadcast
live; the Saturday shows were usually 25 minutes long and were
sometimes recorded in advance. Staff musicians Ken Wilson (organ)
and Bill Green (piano) opened each show with a sprightly rendition
of "Collegiate". Matinee with Bob and Ray became a
favorite with listeners in New England, which brought Elliott and
Goulding to the attention of NBC in New York. They continued on
the air for over four decades on the NBC, CBS, and Mutual
networks, and on New York City stations WINS, WOR, and WHN. From
1973 to 1976, they were the afternoon drive hosts on WOR, doing a
four-hour show. In their last incarnation, they were heard on
National Public Radio, ending in 1987. They were regulars on NBC's
Monitor, often on stand-by to go on the air at short notice if the
program's planned segments developed problems, and they were also
heard in a surprising variety of formats and timeslots, from a
15-minute series in midafternoon to their hour-long show aired
weeknights just before midnight in 1954-55. During that same
period, they did an audience-participation game show, Pick and
Play with Bob and Ray, which was short-lived. It came at a time
when network pages filled seats for radio-TV shows by giving
tickets to anyone in the street, and on Pick and Play the two
comics were occasionally booed by audience members unfamiliar with
the Bob and Ray comedy style. Some of their radio episodes were
released on recordings, and others were adapted into graphic story
form for publication in MAD magazine. Their earlier shows were
mostly ad-libbed, but later programs relied more heavily on
scripts. While Bob and Ray wrote much of their material, their
writers included Tom Koch, who scripted many of their best-known
routines, and the pioneering radio humorist Raymond Knight; Bob
Elliott later married Knight's widow. David Letterman said of the
duo prior to one interview "The funniest people in this
country, these guys are also two of the keenest observers of the
American scene and the finest interviewers in the business."
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Frogmen 1951 Richard Widmark Dana Andrews DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Richard
Widmark, American film, stage, and television actor and producer
(b. December 26, 1914) #dies after a long illness at his home in
Roxbury, Connecticut, aged 93. Widmark's failing health in his
final year was aggravated by a fall he suffered in 2007. He is
buried at Roxbury Center Cemetery. Richard Widmark was born
Richard Weedt Widmark in Sunrise Township, Minnesota. He was
nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous
Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death, for which he also won
the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Early in his
career, Widmark was typecast in similar villainous or anti-hero
roles in films noir, but he later branched out into more heroic
leading and support roles in Westerns, mainstream dramas, and
horror films, among others. For his contribution to the motion
picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the
Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Akira
Kurosawa (1979) Film Director Documentary DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Kunie
Tanaka, Japanese actor who first made a name for himself as the
lecherous antagonist of the Wakadaisho series of films (1961-1981)
and in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Sanjuro (1962)
and Dodes'ka-den (1970) (b. November 23, 1932) #dies of natural
causes in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, aged 88. Kunie Tanaka was
born Tanaka Kunie in Toki District, Gifu Prefecture, Honshu,
Japan. He is also well-known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's
yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series
(1973-1974), and for starring in the Kita no Kuni Kara (1981-2002)
television series. Tanaka was nominated for five Japanese Academy
Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Gakko in 1993. He also
won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor for Nogare no
Machi and Izakaya Choji in 1983, and the Blue Ribbon Award for
Best Actor for Uhohho Tankentai in 1986. For his contributions to
the arts, the Japanese government decorated Tanaka with the Medal
with Purple Ribbon in 1999 and the Order of the Rising Sun in
2006.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bix
Beiderbecke Jazz Festival 1991 DVD, MP4 Download, Flash Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1962: #DOTD: #RIP: Jean
Goldkette, French-American classical and jazz pianist, conducter,
promoter and bandleader (b. March 18, 1893) #dies in Santa
Barbara, California, of a heart attack at the age of 69. He took a
taxi to the hospital by himself and died that same day. He is
buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles,
California. Goldkette was reportedly born on March 18, 1893 in
Valenciennes, France, but there is evidence that he was born in
Patras, Greece. His mother, Angela Goldkette, was a circus
performer from Denmark. His father is unknown. He spent his
childhood in Greece and Russia, where he studied piano at the
Moscow Conservatory as a child prodigy. The family emigrated to
the United States in 1911. He performed in a classical ensemble in
Chicago at the age of 15, later joining one of Edgar Benson's
dance orchestras. He leased a ballroom in Detroit and formed a
band which grew to success, and was the foundation for a business
empire acting as an agency for twenty orchestras and owning many
dance halls. In 1936 he filed for bankruptcy, but over the next
three decades he built up business again as a musician, conductor
and promoter. He married Lee McQuillen, a newspaperwoman, on March
4, 1939. He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the most
popular was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924-1929. The band
defeated Fletcher Henderson in a battle of the bands contest. The
head arranger was Bill Challis and the musicians included Bix
Beiderbecke, Steve Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy
Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Chauncey Morehouse, Don Murray, Bill Rank, and
Spiegle Willcox. Rex Stewart, a member of Henderson's band, wrote
that "It was, without any question, the greatest in the
world...the original predecessor to any large white dance
orchestra that followed, up to Benny Goodman." Brian Rust
also called it "the greatest band of them all."
Goldkette was music director for the Detroit Athletic Club for
over 20 years and co-owned the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit with
Charles Horvath, who performed with the Goldkette Victor Band in
its early years. He owned his own entertainment company, Jean
Goldkette's Orchestras and Attractions, working out of the
Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. He co-wrote the song "It's
the Blues (No. 14 Blues)" which was recorded in Detroit and
released by Victor. He also wrote the words to the 1926 song "New
Steps". In 1927, Paul Whiteman hired most of Goldkette's
better player due to Goldkette's inability to meet payroll for his
top-notch musicians. Goldkette helped organize McKinney's Cotton
Pickers and Glen Gray's Orange Blossoms, which became popular as
the Casa Loma Orchestra. In the 1930s he left jazz to work as a
booking agent and classical pianist. In 1939, he organized the
American Symphony Orchestra which debuted at Carnegie Hall.
Frankie Laine worked as Goldkette's librarian. He moved to
California in 1961 and the following year died in Santa Barbara,
California, of a heart attack at the age of 69. He took a taxi to
the hospital by himself and died that same day. He is buried in
the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Johnny
Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer, best known as a member of
the Doo Wop bands The Del-Satins, The Crests and The Brooklyn
Bridge (b. May 7, 1939) #dies at his home in Cape Coral, Florida
of cancer, aged 70. His remains were cremated, and given to his
widow, Grace. Johnny Maestro was born John Peter Mastrangelo in
New York City. Maestro began his career in 1957 as the original
lead singer of The Crests, one of the first interracial groups of
the recording industry. The Crests were an American doo-wop group,
formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s. The group
had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed
Records. Their most popular song, "16 Candles", rose to
#2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1959 selling over
one million copies and earning a gold disc status. The group's
other hits include "Step By Step", "The Angels
Listened In", "Trouble In Paradise", "Six
Nights A Week", and "A Year Ago Tonight". The
Crests were the first interracially mixed doo-wop group,
consisting of three African American members (one female), one
Puerto Rican, and one Italian American. Patricia Van Dross, older
sister to famed R & B singer Luther Vandross, sang with Johnny
Maestro while The Crests were signed to the Joyce Record label.
Before The Crests signed with Coed Records, Patricia left the
group because her mother didn't want her 15-year-old daughter
touring with the older guys. Late in 1960, Maestro would leave The
Crests for a solo career. Maestro was unable to reach his former
chart heights with The Crests. The Del-Satins were an American
vocal group, most active in the early 1960s, who recorded on their
own but are best remembered for their harmonies on hit records for
Dion and others. They song on Dion's "Runaround Sue",
"The Wanderer", "Lovers Who Wander", "Little
Diane", "Love Came to Me", "Ruby Baby",
"Donna the Prima Donna", "Drip Drop", and
"Sandy", as well as on records by Len Barry and Dean and
Jean. They also provided backing vocals on Ernie Maresca's
self-penned 1962 hit, "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)".
They have been described as having "few peers as
practitioners of white doo-wop." Johnny Maestro & the
Brooklyn Bridge (known as The Brooklyn Bridge Band since 2010) is
an American musical group, best known for their million-selling
rendition of "Worst That Could Happen" (1968), penned by
Jimmy Webb ("Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get
to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston",
"The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know",
and "MacArthur Park"), a note-for-note cover of the
version previously recorded by The 5th Dimension on the album The
Magic Garden, which had not been released as a single.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Let It
Be (1970) Beatles Final Film DVD, Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Neil
Aspinall, British music industry executive, school friend of Paul
McCartney and George Harrison, driver, road manager and personal
assistant to The Beatles who he went on to head their record
company Apple Corps, father of fired Beatles drummer Pete Best's
brother Vincent "Roag" Best (b. October 13, 1941) #dies
of lung cancer in New York City, aged 66. He is buried at
Teddington Cemetery in Teddington, Greater London, England. Neil
Aspinall was born Neil Stanley Aspinall in Prestatyn, Wales. The
Beatles employed Aspinall first as their road manager, which
included driving his old Commer van to and from shows, both day
and night. After Mal Evans started work for the Beatles, Aspinall
was promoted to become their personal assistant, later becoming
chief executive of their company, Apple Corps. He was one of
several Beatles associates to earn the nickname "the fifth
Beatle". On behalf of Apple, Aspinall was involved in court
cases against Allen Klein, EMI and Apple Computer. He supervised
the marketing of music, videos and merchandising, as well as being
a director of Standby Films, which was run from his home in
Twickenham, London. On April 10, 2007, Aspinall retired from Apple
Corps.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pirates
12 Part Documentary Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1603: #DOTD: #RIP: Elizabeth I
Of England (b. (September 7, 1533) #dies at Richmond Palace,
Surrey, England between two and three in the morning, aged 69. A
few hours later, her first cousin twice removed, James VI of
Scotland, was proclaimed King Of England; this laid the foundation
for the Kingdom of Great Britain. Elizabeth I was Queen Of England
and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She was
sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess.
Though some have suggested that she was the mother of Edward de
Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who was a favorite in Elizabeth' court
and who those who subscribe to the Oxfordian theory of
Shakespearean authorship believe was the true identity of William
Shakespeare. Whether she was or was not his mother, history
officially records that Elizabeth was childless, and thereby was
the last monarch of the House of Tudor. She was the daughter of
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She ascended the throne in 1558
at age 25. During her reign, Britain became a world power by
defeating the Spanish Armada. The Anglican Church was also fully
established.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Crime
Vs Uncle Sam: Kefauver & Army-McCarthy Hearings MP4 Download
DVD
Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1966: #DOTD: Virginia Hill,
Chicago Outfit prostitute, gun moll and courier, a "central
clearing house" for organized crime intelligence, famous for
being the girlfriend of mobster Bugsy Siegel (b. August 26, 1916)
#dies of a supposed overdose of sleeping pills in Koppl, near
Salzburg, Austria, on March 24, 1966 at the age of 49. Hill is
buried in Aigen Cemetery in Salzburg. According to Andy Edmonds'
biography Bugsy's Baby: The Secret Life of Mob Queen Virginia
Hill, her death was suspicious despite it being an apparent
suicide. The Austrian media, which were well informed about her
former relationship with Siegel, speculated that she tried to get
money by using her knowledge of the Italian-American Mafia and
Mexican drug cartels. She was born Onie Virginia Hill in Lipscomb,
Alabama, the seventh of ten children born to horse trader W.M.
(Mack) Hill and his wife Margaret.. By the time Hill was eight,
she moved to Marietta, Georgia with her mother and siblings after
her parents separated. Hill attended Roberts Grammar School, where
she completed eighth grade, then dropped out. In November 1931,
Hill, then 15, married 16-year-old George Randell. She claimed to
have neither worn nor owned a pair of shoes until the age of
seventeen, when she ran away in 1933 for Chicago with Randell,
with the hopes of breaking into show business. Once in Chicago,
Hill separated from Randell, divorcing him the following year.
Hill found a job as a waitress at the mob-run San Carlo Italian
Village exhibit during the 1933 Century of Progress Chicago's
World Fair, and supplemented her income working as a prostitute.
She came to the attention of a wealthy bookmaker and gambler,
Joseph Epstein, who became her financial advisor and reputed lover
(although Epstein was known to be gay), and ultimately, Hill
entered into the Chicago Outfit crime organization. In addition to
being sexually passed around the Chicago mob, she was used as a
courier to pass messages between mobsters. One contemporary
commentator described Hill as "... more than just another set
of curves. She had ... a good memory, a considerable flair for
hole-in-the-corner diplomacy to allay the suspicions of
trigger-happy killers and a dual personality, close-lipped about
essentials, and able to chatter freely, and apparently foolishly
about inconsequentials." Even law enforcement eventually
concluded that she was a "central clearing house" for
intelligence on organized crime and enjoyed an independent power
base within the Mafia. Eventually Hill became associated with
Charles Fischetti, a cousin and bodyguard of Al Capone. It was
Fischetti who sent Hill to New York to keep tabs on Luciano family
capo Joe Adonis, which she did by becoming his lover. Hill told
people that she was a Southern-belle society girl who had gone
through four rich husbands, all divorced or dead, and that she had
received 1M USD each from their estates, but authentic socialites
saw through the ruse. Hill built up an entourage of hangers-on and
Latin gigolos hanging out on Broadway and frequently picked up the
check. While in New York, Hill was introduced to another Luciano
associate, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, and they ended up in
a hotel together that night. Later Siegel's and Hill's separate
life paths brought them both to Hollywood, and they began a torrid
affair. There were rumors that she and Siegel were secretly
married in Mexico after Siegel divorced his wife Esta in 1946, but
there has not been any evidence to prove the theory. Lore has it
that Siegel named the Flamingo Las Vegas resort after Hill, who
loved to gamble and whose nickname was supposedly "Flamingo,"
a moniker that Siegel was said to have given her, referring to her
long, thin legs, but others have said that Hill was in fact short
and somewhat matronly in form. Another story about the origin of
the nickname said that after a few drinks, Hill's face would flush
a flamingo-like pink. However, organized crime king Lucky Luciano
wrote in his memoir that Siegel once owned an interest in the
Hialeah Park Race Track and viewed the flamingos who populated
nearby as a good omen. The "Flamingo" name was given to
the project at its inception by original resort financier Billy
Wilkerson. Four days before Siegel was assassinated at Hill's home
in California (June 1947), Hill took an unscheduled flight to
Paris, France, giving rise to speculation that she was warned in
advance of Siegel's impending murder. In 1950, Hill married Hans
Hauser, an Austrian skier; later giving birth to their only child,
Peter Hauser (November 20, 1950 - 1994). In 1951, Hill was
subpoenaed to testify before the Kefauver hearings, where she
denied having any knowledge of organized crime despite being
described by Time magazine in March of that year as the "queen
of the gangsters' molls." After Hill was indicted for income
tax evasion in 1954, she moved to Europe, where she lived for the
rest of her life with her son. Hill was the subject of a 1974
television movie, in which she was portrayed by Dyan Cannon. She
was played by Annette Bening in the 1991 film Bugsy, a
dramatization of her relationship with Bugsy Siegel (portrayed by
Warren Beatty). Hill was also the "loose" basis for Joan
Crawford's character "Ethel Whitehead"/"Lorna
Hansen Forbes" in the 1950 film noir The Damned Don't Cry.
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Today, March 24, 2026March 24, 1960: #BOTD: #HBD! Nena, German
singer-songwriter, actress, and comedian who rose to international
fame in 1983 with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99
Luftballons", is #born Gabriele Susanne Kerner in Hagen, West
Germany. In the same year she re-recorded this song in English as
"99 Red Balloons". The English version is not a direct
translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a
somewhat different meaning. Nena was also the name of the band
with whom she released the song. The re-recording of some of her
old songs rekindled her career in 2002 and she has sold over 25
million records, making her one of Germany's most successful music
artists.
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