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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Appointment With Destiny: The Crucifixion Of Jesus MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 2026: Two Saturdays Before Easter: -- Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, "Fortieth"): Holy Week (Holy And Great Week, Passion Week): Lazarus Saturday: -- Lazarus Saturday in Eastern Christianity (consisting of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches) refers to the moveable feast before Palm Sunday to which it is liturgically linked. It celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany. Bethany is recorded in the New Testament as a small village in Judaea, the home of the siblings Mary of Bethany, Martha, and Lazarus, as well as that of Simon the Leper. It is the first day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity; in Western Christianity, the following day, Palm Sunday, is the first such day. John's gospel reports that "Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead." Presumably, it is where he spent the Great Sabbath that occurs immediately before Passover, prior to his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Jesus is reported to have lodged there during Holy Week, and it is where his anointing by Lazarus' sister Mary took place a few days later on Holy Wednesday. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/appointment-with-destiny-the-crucifixion-of-jesus-dvd.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1483: #BOTD: #HBD! Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (d. April 6, 1520) is #born Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in Urbino, Italy. Raphael's work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504-1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. He created some of the world' greatest masterpieces including 300 pictures with a Madonna theme. He died on his 37th birthday in Rome. Raphael died on Good Friday, April 6, 1520, which was possibly his 37th birthday; Italian Renaissance painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari says that Raphael had also been born on a Good Friday, which in 1483 fell on March 28, and that the artist died from exhaustion brought on by unceasing romantic interests. Several other possibilities for his death have been raised by later historians and scientists, such as a combination of an infectious disease and bloodletting. In his acute illness, which lasted fifteen days, Raphael was composed enough to confess his sins, receive the last rites, and put his affairs in order. He dictated his will, in which he left sufficient funds for the care of his mistress and model Margarita Luti, entrusted to his loyal servant Baviera, and left most of his studio contents to Giulio Romano and Penni. At his request, Raphael was buried in the Pantheon. Raphael's funeral was extremely grand, attended by large crowds. According to a journal by Paris de Grassis, four cardinals dressed in purple carried his body, the hand of which was kissed by the Pope. The inscription on Raphael's marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: "Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die." #Raphael #RaffaelloSanzioDaUrbino #Renaissance #HighRenaissance #Art #ArtHistory #Painters #Architects #Urbino #Neoplatonism #VaticanPalace #TheSchoolOfAthens #StanzaDellaSegnatura #GreatMasters #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hemuwogrartc.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28: Respect Your Cat Day: -- It's the day to celebrate you and your feline bestie! Your kitty pal has been there when you were happy; your kitty pal has been there when you were sad. Your kitty has, and always will, be there for you. So, this March 28, acknowledge all the hard work your cat puts into being your loyal companion. Feline friends can offer love, companionship and joy to individuals and families who choose to adopt a cat as a pet. Though cats can certainly have their own opinions and often have no issue with demanding what they want, cats can make great pets, especially because they are very independent creatures. They really deserve a huge amount of respect - and that is what Respect Your Cat Day is all about! The reverence that humans have for cats has been going on for thousands of years. In Ancient Egypt, cats were honored and some were even considered to be feline goddesses. In England, toward the end of the Middle Ages, King Richard II set forth an edict that prevented people from eating cats. In fact, some historians even say that the edict banning the eating of cats took place on March 28, 1384, which may very well be the reason that Respect Your Cat Day is celebrated on this day. It's true that cats and kittens have a few days that celebrate them throughout the year, including International Cat Day in August and Global Cat Day in October. But none of these are quite the same as the celebration of Respect Your Cat Day! Because, when it all comes down to it, cats can be impulsive, neurotic, and even somewhat antisocial. But the thing that they demand most (though they might pretend like they don't really care)? Respect! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/archival-cartoon-classics-4-cartoon-menagerie-mp4-video-download-d44.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28: Barnum & Bailey Day: -- An annual celebration of the great circus that was Barnum & Bailey! Founded by Phineas Barnum and James Bailey, the Barnum & Bailey Circus was the center of thrilling entertainment for millions of viewers for over a century of its existence. Today we are paying due respects to the Greatest Show on Earth! If you've never heard about this day before, by now you should have an idea of what this entertaining day is all about. Today we are focusing the spotlight, literally and figuratively, on circuses. Not just any circus, one of the greatest of all time. The Barnum & Bailey Circus, later known as The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was first established in 1881 and has a long history that has contributed to its tremendous popularity. The circus ran for over a century, until 2017, and became self-proclaimed as the "Greatest Show on Earth." The origin of modern circuses began in the 1700s in England with Philip Astley. He was the first person to create a one-stop show for horseriding tricks, acrobats, clowns, and other forms of entertainment. The Royal Circus was opened later in the same century and was the first time the term circus was ever used. John Bill Ricketts brought the circus to the United States for the first time in 1792, and over 30 years later, the first canvas tent was used thanks to Joshuah Purdy Brown. A complete revolution of the circus, however, was seen with the launch of the first-ever freak show by P. T. Barnum. After his retirement, Barnum partnered with William Cameron Coup to create The P. T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie & Circus, which was dubbed the "Greatest Show on Earth," and was also the first show to make use of circus trains for transportation. A decade after, James Anthony Bailey convinced Barnum to merge their independent circus acts to create Barnum and Bailey's Circus. Following the death of both partners, the circus was sold to the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows and was run separately until eventually being merged as The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/barnum39s-big-top-dvd-p-t-barnum-and-his-circuses-dvd-mp4-394.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1890: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Whiteman, American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violist born (d. December 29, 1967) is #born Paul Samuel Whiteman in Denver, Colorado. As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz". His most popular recordings include "Whispering", "Valencia", "Three O'Clock in the Morning", "In a Little Spanish Town", and "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers". Whiteman led a usually large ensemble and explored many styles of music, such as blending symphonic music and jazz, as in his debut of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including "Wang Wang Blues", "Mississippi Mud", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Wonderful One", "Hot Lips (He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)", "Mississippi Suite", "Grand Canyon Suite", and "Trav'lin' Light". He co-wrote the 1925 jazz classic "Flamin' Mamie". His popularity faded in the swing music era of the mid-1930s, and by the 1940s he was semi-retired from music. He experienced a revival and had a comeback in the 1950s with his own network television series, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue, which ran for three seasons on ABC. He also hosted the 1954 ABC talent contest show On the Boardwalk with Paul Whiteman. Whiteman's place in the history of early jazz is somewhat controversial. Detractors suggest that his ornately orchestrated music was jazz in name only, lacking the genre's improvisational and emotional depth, and co-opted the innovations of black musicians. Defenders note that Whiteman's fondness for jazz was genuine. He worked with black musicians as much as was feasible during an era of racial segregation. His bands included many of the era's most esteemed white musicians, and his groups handled jazz admirably as part of a larger repertoire. Critic Scott Yanow declares that Whiteman's orchestra "did play very good jazz...His superior dance band used some of the most technically skilled musicians of the era in a versatile show that included everything from pop tunes and waltzes to semi-classical works and jazz.... Many of his recordings (particularly those with Beiderbecke) have been reissued numerous times and are more rewarding than his detractors would lead one to believe." In his autobiography, Duke Ellington declared, "Paul Whiteman was known as the King of Jazz, and no one as yet has come near carrying that title with more certainty and dignity." Paul Whiteman died of a heart attack on in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, aged 77. He is buried at The First Presbyterian Church Of Ewing Cemetery in Ewing, New Jersey. He was survived by his wife Margaret Livingston, American film actress, businesswoman and beauty of the silent film era. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-of-jazz-1930-paul-whiteman-john-boles-laura-la-plante-dvd-mp19304.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1968: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour Strikes): Sanitation Strikes: The Memphis Sanitation Strike (The Memphis Sanitation Strike Of 1968): The March 28 Riot And Police Shooting Of Larry Payne: -- Martin Luther King and Reverend James Lawson, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, lead Memphis Sanitation Strike strikers and civil rights supporters in a march in downtown Memphis. City officials estimated that 22,000 students skipped school to participate in the march. King arrived late to find a massive crowd on the brink of chaos, causing Lawson and King to call off the demonstration as violence erupted. After peacefully marching for several blocks, singing "We Shall Overcome", Black armed men with iron pipes and bricks, and carrying signs, began smashing windows and looting along the stores. Police immediately reacted to the riot, moving into the crowd with nightsticks, mace, teargas, and gunfire. They arrested 280 individuals and 60 were reported injured, most of them Black. Lawson told the demonstration participants to return to Clayborn Temple. The police followed the crowd back to the church where they released tear gas and clubbed people. In the midst of the chaos, a police shot and killed sixteen-year-old Larry Payne. Witnesses said Payne had his hands raised as the officer pressed a shotgun to Payne's stomach and fired it. That same night Loeb declared martial law and authorized a 7 pm curfew, bringing about 4000 National Guardsmen. On April 2, Payne's funeral was held in Clayborn Temple. Despite police pressure to have a private closed-casket funeral in their home, the family held the funeral at Clayborn and had an open casket. Following the funeral, the sanitation workers marched peacefully downtown. Less than a week later, Martin Luther King was assassinated in the same city of Memphis on April 4. The Memphis Sanitation Strike began on February 12, 1968 with the slogan "I Am A Man", in response to the deaths of sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were killed when the compactor accidentally activated when the pair sought refuge from a rainstorm in the compactor area of the garbage truck while working for the Memphis Department Of Sanitation at the corner of Colonial Rd. and Verne Rd. on February 1, 1968; the only reason they took shelter there was because they were not allowed to go into the whites only office quarters. The peaceful Southern protest tradition of Civil Rights Movement was here successfully and shamefully sabotaged and subverted by agent provocateurs run by those in government set on making Martin Luther King pay for coming out against the Vietnam War. The same tactics used to sabotage this march were the same types used in Seattle against Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 - only in Seattle, it was masked white men, their masks obscuring that they were white until cell phone video taken by protesters got up close to them and recorded their universally white faces after committing acts of vandalism to blame on black people. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Triumph Of The Will (Triumph Des Willens) (1935) DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1935: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: German Film Premieres: Nazi German Film Premieres: -- Triumph Of The Will (German: Triumph Fes Willens), a German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl, commissioned by Adolf Hitler who served as an unofficial executive producer whose name appears in the opening titles, premieres at the Berlin Ufa Palace Theater. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts of speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction. Its overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power with Hitler as its leader. The film was produced after the Night of the Long Knives, and many formerly prominent SA members are absent. Following its release in March 1935, it became a major example of film used as propaganda and was well-received at home. Riefenstahl's techniques-such as moving cameras, aerial photography, the use of long-focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, and the revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography-have earned Triumph Of The Will recognition as one of the greatest propaganda films in history. It won several awards in Germany, France and Italy. During World War II, Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight was directly inspired by Triumph Of The Will and the United States' response to it. In present-day Germany, the film is not censored but the courts commonly classify it as Nazi propaganda, which requires an educational context for public screenings. The film continues to influence films, documentaries and commercials to this day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/triumph-of-the-will-triumph-des-willens-riefenstahl-hitler-dvd.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Konrad Schumann, East German border guard who escaped to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 (d. June 20, 1998), is #born Hans Konrad Schumann in Zschochau, now part of Ostrau, Saxony, Germany. On August 15, 1961, three days after the Berlin Wall came into existence after the East German government closed the border between east and west sectors of Berlin with barbed wire to discourage emigration to the West, Schumann leaped over the concertina wire and escaped to West Berlin, and thereby into West Germany, while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. The 19-year-old Schumann was sent to the corner of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse to guard the Berlin Wall on its third day of construction. At that time and place, the wall was only a single coil of concertina wire. From the other side, West Germans shouted to him, "Komm' rueber!" ("Come over!"), and a police car pulled up to wait for him. Schumann jumped over the barbed wire while dropping his PPSh-41 submachine gun and was promptly driven away from the scene by the West Berlin police. West German photographer Peter Leibing photographed Schumann's escape. This photograph, entitled "Leap into Freedom," has since become an iconic image of the Cold War era and featured at the beginning of the 1982 Disney film Night Crossing. The scene, including Schumann's preparations, was also filmed on 16-mm film from the same perspective by camera man Dieter Hoffmann. Schumann went from West Berlin into West Germany, where he settled in Bavaria. A famous Schumann inspired work of graffiti was placed on a 1.3km long section of the western side of the Berlin Wall on Muehlenstrasse in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough of Berlin, near the centre of West Berlin, that is now on display The East Side Gallery, an open-air gallery in Berlin that serves as an international memorial for freedom. .Schumann enlisted in the East German Bereitschaftspolizei (state police), a division of the Volkspolizei or VoPos, following his 18th birthday. After three months' training in Dresden, he was posted to a non-commissioned officers' college in Potsdam, after which he volunteered for service in Berlin. A year after his escape, he met and married Kunigunde Gunda in Guenzburg. They had a son the next year. He took up a new job at a winery and eventually at the Audi car assembly factory in Ingolstadt, where he worked for nearly 30 years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall Schumann said, "Only since 9 November 1989 [the date of the fall] have I felt truly free." Even so, he continued to feel more at home in Bavaria than in his birthplace, citing old frictions with his former colleagues, and was even hesitant to visit his parents and siblings in Saxony. On June 20, 1998, suffering from depression, he committed suicide, hanging himself in his orchard near the town of Kipfenberg in Upper Bavaria. His body was found by his wife a few hours later. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. In May 2011, the photograph of Schumann's "leap into freedom" was inducted into the UNESCO Memory of the World programme as part of a collection of documents on the fall of the Berlin Wall. A sculpture called Mauerspringer ("Walljumper") by Florian and Michael Brauer and Edward Anders can be seen close to the site of the defection, but has since been moved to the side of a building on Brunnenstrasse, several meters south of Bernauer Strasse. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-berlin-wall-documentary-mike-wallace-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1939: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: The Siege Of Madrid: -- The Fall Of Madrid occurs after a three-year siege when, besieged since October 1936 by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the city is conquered by the Francoist armies. Madrid had been held by various forces loyal to the Spanish Republic and was besieged and subject to aerial bombardment by the rebel faction under General Francisco Franco. The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 saw the most intense fighting in and around the city when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take the Republican capital. The highest military awards of the Spanish Republic, the Laureate Plate of Madrid and the Madrid Distinction, established by the Republican government in order to reward courage, were named after the capital of Spain owing to the city symbolizing valour and Antifascist resistance during the long siege throughout the Civil War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-last-cause-spanish-civil-war-all-3-tv-shows-dual-layer-dv3.html

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March 28, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Zbigniew Brzezinski, known by the nickname Zbig, Polish-American scholar, author, diplomat, political scientist, liberal idealist, progressive, internationalist, political liberal, anti-communist, political activist and analyst, primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission (a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America), 10th United States National Security Advisor(d. May 26, 2017) is #born Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski in Warsaw, Poland into an aristocratic Roman Catholic family originally from Brzezany, Tarnopol Voivodeship (then part of Poland, currently in Ukraine). He was an advocate for anti-Soviet containment, for human rights organizations, and for "cultivating a strong West". He has been praised for his ability to see "the big picture". Critics described him as hawkish or "foreign policy hardliner" on some issues such as Poland-Russia relations. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union; the brokering of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel; the overthrow of the US-friendly Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the start of the Iranian Revolution; the United States' encouragement of dissidents in Eastern Europe and championing of human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union; supporting the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and, ultimately, Soviet occupation troops during the Soviet-Afghan War; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999. Brzezinski served as the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appeared frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is co-anchor. He was a supporter of the Prague Process. His eldest son, Ian, is a foreign policy expert, and his youngest son, Mark, is the current United States Ambassador to Poland and previously served as the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/secret-intelligence-us-espionage-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1868: #BOTD: #HBD: Maxim Gorky, Russian Soviet novelist, short story writer, playwright, Bolshevik and political activist, founder of the socialist realism literary method, five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. June 18, 1936) is #born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire. Gorky became an orphan at the age of eleven. He was brought up by his maternal grandmother and ran away from home at the age of twelve in 1880. After an attempt at suicide in December 1887, around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire on foot for five years; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913-1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936. A Soviet Kirov-class cruiser, a Tupolev ANT-20 propaganda aircraft (the largest in the world during the 1930s, with a wingspan similar to a Boeing 747), the TS Maxim Gorkiy cruise ship and more were named for him. Maxim Gorky died of pneumonia at his home in Gorki-10 (the name of the place is a completely different word in Russian unrelated to his surname), Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union, aged 68. He is buried at The Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russia. Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of his death; before his death from this lingering case of pneumonia, he was visited at home by Stalin, Genrikh Yagoda (Soviet secret police official and director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency), and other leading communists. With the increase of Stalinist repression and especially after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest, and his long-serving secretary Pyotr Kryuchkov had been recruited by Yagoda as a paid informer. During the Bukharin Trial of 1938 (one of the three Moscow Trials), one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by the agents of Yagoda. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/great-days-of-the-century-the-russian-revolution-dvd.html

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March 28, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Dirk Bogarde, English matinee idol, actor, screenwriter and author (d. May 8, 1999) is #born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in West Hampstead, London, England to Ulric van den Bogaerde (1892-1972) and Margaret Niven (1898-1980). Ulric was born in Perry Barr, Birmingham, of Flemish ancestry, and was art editor of The Times. Initially a matinee idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, Sir Dirk Bogarde later acted in art-house films. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring in the successful Doctor film series (1954-63). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other notable film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. During five years of active military duty during World War Two, he reached the rank of major and was awarded seven medals. His poetry has been published in war anthologies; a painting by Bogarde, also from the war, hangs in the British Museum, with many more in the Imperial War Museum. Bogarde served as an intelligence officer with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group as it liberated Europe. Taylor Downing's book, Spies in the Sky, tells of Bogarde's work in photo-reconnaissance in the aftermath of D-Day, moving through Normandy with Royal Canadian Air Force units. By July 1944, they were located at the "B.8" airfield at Sommervieu, near Bayeux. As an air photographic interpreter with the rank of captain, Bogarde was later attached to the Second Army, where he selected ground targets in France, Holland and Germany for the Second Tactical Air Force and RAF Bomber Command. Villages on key routes were heavily bombed to prevent the Wehrmacht's armour from reaching the invasion lodgement areas. In a 1986 Yorkshire Television interview with Russell Harty, Bogarde recalled going on painting trips, sometimes to see the villages which he had selected as targets: "I found what I had thought in the rubble were a whole row of footballs, and they weren't footballs... they were children's heads...A whole school of kids, a convent, had been pulled out of school, and lined up in this little narrow alleyway between the buildings to save them from the bombing, and the whole thing had come in on top of them." Bogarde identified himself as one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on April 20, 1945, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he had difficulty speaking for many years afterward. In his 1986 Yorkshire Television interview with Russell Harty, he said "The gates were opened, and then I realised that I was looking at Dante's Inferno. And a girl came up who spoke English, because she recognised one of the badges, and she ... her breasts were like, sort of, empty purses, she had no top on, and a pair of man's pyjamas, you know, the prison pyjamas, and no hair... and all around us there were mountains of dead people, I mean mountains of them, and they were slushy, and they were slimy." The horror and revulsion at the cruelty and inhumanity that he said he witnessed left him with a deep-seated hostility towards Germany; in the late 1980s, he wrote that he would disembark from a lift rather than ride with a German of his generation. Nevertheless, three of his more memorable film roles were as Germans, one of them as a former SS officer in The Night Porter (1974). Bogarde was most vocal towards the end of his life on voluntary euthanasia, of which he became a staunch proponent after witnessing the protracted death of his lifelong partner and manager Anthony Forwood (the former husband of actress Glynis Johns) in 1988. He gave an interview to John Hofsess, London executive director of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society: "My views were formulated as a 24-year-old officer in Normandy ... On one occasion, the jeep ahead hit a mine ... Next thing I knew, there was this chap in the long grass beside me. A gurgling voice said, "Help. Kill me." With shaking hands I reached for my small pouch to load my revolver ... I had to look for my bullets - by which time somebody else had already taken care of him. I heard the shot. I still remember that gurgling sound. A voice pleading for death." For nearly four decades, Bogarde shared his homes, first in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and then in France, with Anthony Forwood, who had been married to actress Glynis Johns during the 1940s. They were together until Forwood's death in 1988. Bogarde repeatedly denied that his relationship to Forwood was anything other than platonic. There was much speculation as to whether this was in fact the case, given that male homosexual acts were criminal during most of his career, and could lead to prosecution and imprisonment. Rank Studio contracts included morality clauses, which provided for termination in the event of "immoral conduct" on the part of the actor. These included same-sex relationships, thus potentially putting the actor's career in jeopardy. Bogarde's refusal to enter into a marriage of convenience was possibly a major reason for his failure to become a star in Hollywood, together with the critical and commercial failure of Song Without End. His friend Helena Bonham Carter believed he did not come out during later life because this would have unbearably highlighted his regret at having been forced to camouflage his sexual orientation during his film career. He struggled with the trauma of his active service, compounded by rapid fame, recounting, "First there was the war, and then the peace to cope with, and then suddenly I was a film star. It happened all too soon." Dirk Bogarde died of a heart attack at his home in London, England, aged 78. His ashes were scattered at his former estate in Grasse, southern France. 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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Nelson Stepanyan, Il-2 pilot and regimental commander in the Soviet Air Force who was twice awarded with the title of the Hero Of The Soviet Union (d. December 14, 1944) is #born Nelson Georgievich Stepanyan into an Armenian family in Shusha (Shushi), Elisabethpol Governorate (modern Azerbaijan), where his father Gevorg ran the Shusha office of the Singer sewing company. Soon after Nelson was born, the Stepanyan family moved back to Yerevan. There Nelson attended the Transcaucasian Preparatory Military School, graduating from in 1930. He continued his studies at the Bataysk Military Aviation School, where he graduated in 1935 and became a flight instructor at the school from then until 1938. Stepanyan was teaching at another military flight academy when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. He volunteered for combat and participated in a number of battles as a pilot of an Ilyushin Il-2 fighter bomber. Stepanyan took part in defensive battles at Poltava, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Kakhovka, and Mykolaiv. During his 20th departure Stepanyan was wounded by shrapnel flak. He defended the skies over Leningrad while he as a pilot in the 2nd Aviation Squadron, part of the 57th Regiment in the Baltic Fleet's 8th Aviation Brigade. As of November 1942, Stepanyan was reported to have destroyed 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns, nineteen mortars, 36 railroad cars, twenty merchantmen and warships (including a destroyer), thirteen fuel tankers, twelve armored cars, seven long-range guns, five ammunition dumps, and five bridges. On October 23, 1942, the Supreme Soviet Of The Soviet Union conferred upon Stepanyan the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the first time. Nelson Stepanyan died when his squadron was attacked by German fighters during a sortie against German naval targets in the ice-free Baltic Sea port of the state city of Liepaja in western Latvia. His plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and though wounded, he dove his plane into a fleet of German ships. He died along with navigator of the 47th Regiment, Captain Aleksandr Rumiantsev. Stepanyan's loss devastated the rest of the men in the squadron. His fellow pilots sent the following letter to his parents after his death: "[Stepanyan was a] simple and modest man, close and beloved by all; he was a father and teacher to all of us, a friend and a commander.... We all wept when Nelson Gevorgovich failed to return on that fateful day. They say that tears bring comfort. But the few tears of a soldier, like the red-hot drops of metal, burn the heart and call for vengeance." He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title a second time posthumously for his sacrifice. Soviet sources assert that Stepanyan undertook in the course of his life no less than 239 combat sorties, sunk 53 ships of which thirteen he did alone, destroyed 80 tanks, 600 armored vehicles, and 27 aircraft. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-ilyushin-il2-sturmovik-dvd-mp4-usb-flash-dri24.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1941: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Battle Of The Mediterranean: The Battle Of Cape Matapan (Greek: Navmachia Tou Tainarou): The Battle Of Gaudo: -- The first day of the three-day battle occurs when Britain's Mediterranean Fleet, comprised of the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, sinks a cruiser division of three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina in what is known in Italy as The Battle of Gaudo. Squadron-Vice-Admiral Angelo Iachino who commanded the Italian squadron later wrote that the battle had "the consequence of limiting for some time our operational activities, not for the serious moral effect of the losses, as the British believed, but because the operation revealed our inferiority in effective aero-naval cooperation and the backwardness of our night battle technology." The Battle Of Cape Matapan was fought from March 27-29, 1941 off the south-western coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula of Greece after the interception and decryption of Italian signals by the Government Code and Cypher School (G C & C S) at Bletchley Park (the decrypted intelligence codenamed Ultra). Ships of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy, under the command of Royal Navy Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, intercepted and sank or severely damaged several ships of the Italian Regia Marina under Iachino. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-the-valiant-years-dvd-set-all-26-shows-7-d267.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The North West Europe Campaign Of World War II: The St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): -- In what became known as "The Greatest Raid Of All" within the British military, a Combined Operations Headquarters amphibious attack force, troops of the department of the British War Office set up to harass the Germans on the European continent with raids by combined naval and army forces. permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock, also known as the Normandie Dock, in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes. The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was undertaken by the Royal Navy and British Commandos under the auspices of Combined Operations Headquarters. St Nazaire was targeted because the loss of its dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs, such as the Bismarck's sister ship Tirpitz, to return to home waters via either the English Channel or the GIUK gap, both of which were heavily defended by British units including the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, rather than having a haven available on the Atlantic coast in Nazi-occupied France. The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown, a Town-class destroyer transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy in exchange for military bases under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, accompanied by 18 smaller craft, crossed the English Channel to the Atlantic coast of France and was rammed into the Normandie dock gates. The ship had been packed with delayed-action explosives, well hidden within a steel and concrete case, that detonated later that day, putting the dock out of service for the remainder of the war and up to five years after. A force of commandos landed to destroy machinery and other structures. Heavy German gunfire sank, set ablaze, or immobilised virtually all the small craft intended to transport the commandos back to England; the commandos had to fight their way out through the town to try to escape overland. Almost all were forced to surrender when their ammunition was expended and they were surrounded and captured by the Wehrmacht defending Saint-Nazaire. After the raid, 228 men of the force of 611 returned to Britain; 169 were killed and 215 became prisoners of war. German casualties were over 360 dead, some killed after the raid when Campbeltown exploded. To recognise their bravery, 89 decorations were awarded to members of the raiding party, including five Victoria Crosses. After the war, St Nazaire was one of 38 battle honours awarded to the Commandos. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crusade-in-europe-2-dual-layer-dvds-tv-series-eisenhowe2.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1921: #BOTD: Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish-Jewish refugee born in Germany and assassin of Ernst vom Rath, a diplomat at the German embassy in Paris (last rumoured to be alive 1945, declared dead 1960), is #born Herschel Feibel Grunszpan in Hanover, Germany. He was a Polish-Jewish refugee, born in Germany. His assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris was used by the Nazis as a pretext to launch Kristallnacht, the antisemitic pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the Fall of France and brought to Germany. Grynszpan's eventual fate remains unknown. It was assumed that he probably did not survive the Second World War, and he was declared dead in 1960. In 2016 a photograph of a man resembling Grunszpan was cited as evidence to support the claim that he was still alive in Bamberg, Germany, as of July 3, 1946. He is the subject of the book "The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan", by author Jonathan Kirsch. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/more-than-broken-glass-memories-of-kristallnacht-dvd.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman, shipping magnate, motion picture pioneer and film executive who was the president of the 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962 and famously had a friendly confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev at a studio luncheon (d. August 16, 1971) is #born Spyros Panagiotis Skouras in Skourochori, Greece. He resigned the presidency of 20th Century Fox on June 27, 1962, but served as chairman of the company for several years. He also had numerous ships, owning Prudential Lines. Skouras and two brothers came to the United States as immigrants in 1910; Spyros kept such a pronounced Greek accent in English that comedian Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week." Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra (1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the development of Century City. His grandchildren include Charles P. Skouras III, a film and television executive. His great-granddaughter Marielle Skouras has produced more than 25 television shows and created Beverly Hills Pawn, a hit reality show on REELZchannel. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/nikita-khrushchev-documentaries-dvd.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, AD 37: Rome: Ancient Rome: The Roman Empire: -- Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. The Principate is the name sometimes given to the first period of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the reign of Augustus in 27 BC to the end of the Crisis of the Third Century in 284 AD, after which it evolved into the so-called Dominate. The Principate is characterised by the reign of a single emperor (princeps) and an effort on the part of the early emperors, at least, to preserve the illusion of the formal continuance, in some aspects, of the Roman Republic. Although he was born Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August AD 12 - 24 January AD 41), Gaius Caesar for short , he acquired the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of caliga) from his father's soldiers during their campaign in Germania. He was Roman emperor from AD 37 to AD 41. The son of Germanicus, a popular Roman general, and Agrippina the Elder, the granddaughter of Augustus, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Two years after Caligula's birth, Germanicus' uncle and adoptive father, Tiberius, succeeded Augustus as emperor of Rome in AD 14. When his father Germanicus died at Antioch in AD 19 under suspicious circumstances that, according to author Robert Graves, implicated Caligula, Agrippina returned with her six children to Rome, where she became entangled in a bitter feud with Tiberius. The conflict eventually led to the destruction of her family, with Caligula as the sole male survivor. Untouched by the deadly intrigues, Caligula accepted an invitation in AD 31 to join the emperor on the island of Capri, where Tiberius had withdrawn five years earlier. Following the death of Tiberius, Caligula succeeded his adoptive grandfather as emperor in AD 37. In early AD 41, Caligula was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy by officers of the Praetorian Guard, senators, and courtiers. The conspirators' attempt to use the opportunity to restore the Roman Republic was thwarted, however. On the day of the assassination of Caligula, the Praetorians declared Caligula's crippled uncle, Claudius, the next Roman emperor. Although the Julio-Claudian dynasty continued to rule the empire until the fall of Nero in AD 68, Caligula's death marked the official end of the Julii Caesares in the male line. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1871: The Unification Of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung): The Franco-Prussian War (The Franco-German War, The War Of 1870): The Siege Of Paris (The Siege Of Paris 1870-1871): The Paris Commune (March 18 - May 28, 1871: -- The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. The Paris Commune was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from March 28 to May 28, 1871. Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the Second French Empire swiftly collapsed. In its stead rose a Third Republic at war with Prussia, which laid siege to Paris for four months. A hotbed of working-class radicalism, France's capital was primarily defended during this time by the often politicized and radical troops of the National Guard rather than regular Army troops. In February 1871 Adolphe Thiers, the new chief executive of the French national government, signed an armistice with Prussia that disarmed the Army but not the National Guard. Soldiers of the Commune's National Guard killed two French army generals, and the Commune refused to accept the authority of the French government. The regular French Army suppressed the Commune during "La Semaine Sanglante" ("The Bloody Week") beginning on May 21, 1871. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx, who described it as an example of the "dictatorship of the proletariat". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-a-television-history-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-26-sh426.html

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Today, March 28, 2026

March 28, 1902: #BOTD: #HBD! Dame Flora McKenzie Robson (Flora Robson), English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity (d. July 7, 1984) is #born Flora McKenzie Robson in South Shields, a coastal town in South Tyneside, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear Metropolitan County) in North East England of Scottish descent. Her acting range extended from queens to murderesses. She was educated at the Palmers Green High School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won a bronze medal in 1921. Her father discovered that Flora had a talent for recitation and, from the age of 5, she was taken around by horse and carriage to recite, and to compete in recitations. This established a pattern that remained with her. Robson made her stage debut in 1921. By the 1930s she was appearing in several prominent films both in the UK and in Hollywood, alongside such stars as Laurence Olivier, Paul Muni and George Raft. Her most notable role was that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). In 1934, Robson played the Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Angelique Buiton, a servant, in Saratoga Trunk (1945). The same year, audiences in the U.K. and the U.S. watched her hypnotic performance as Ftatateeta, the nursemaid and royal confidante and murderess-upon-command to Vivien Leigh's Queen Cleopatra in the screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). After the Second World War, demonstrating her range, she appeared in Holiday Camp (1947), the first of a series of films which featured the very ordinary Huggett family; as Sister Philippa in Black Narcissus (1947); as a magistrate in Good-Time Girl (1948); as a prospective Labour MP in Frieda (1947); and in the costume melodrama Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). Her other film roles included the Empress Dowager Cixi in 55 Days at Peking (1963), Miss Milchrest in Murder at the Gallop (1963), the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1972), and Livia in the aborted I, Claudius in 1937. She struggled to find a footing in the theatre after she graduated from RADA with a bronze medal since she lacked the conventional good looks which were then an absolute requisite for actresses in dramatic roles. After touring in minor parts with Ben Greet's Shakespeare company she may have played small parts for two seasons in the new repertory company at Oxford, but her contract was not renewed. She was told that they required a prettier actress. Unable to secure any acting engagements, she gave up the stage at the age of 23, and she took up work as a welfare officer in the Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City. Tyrone Guthrie, due to direct a season at the new Festival Theatre, Cambridge, asked her to join his company. Her performance as the stepdaughter in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author made her the theatrical talk of Cambridge. She followed with Isabella in Measure for Measure with Robert Donat, Pirandello's Naked, the title role in Iphigenia in Tauris, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, and Rebecca West in Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. In 1931, she was cast as the adulterous Abbie in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms. Her brief, shocking appearance as the doomed prostitute in James Bridie's play The Anatomist put her firmly on the road to success. "If you are not moved by this girl's performance, then you are immovable" the Observer critic wrote. This success would lead to her famous 1933 season as leading lady at the Old Vic. She continued her acting career late into life, though not on the West End stage, from which she retired at the age of 67, often for American television films, including a lavish production of A Tale of Two Cities (in which she played Miss Pross). She also performed for British television, including The Shrimp and the Anemone. In the 1960s, she continued to act in the West End, in Ring Round the Moon, The Importance of Being Earnest and Three Sisters, among others. She continued to act on film and television. She was last briefly seen as a Stygian Witch in the fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans in 1981. Both the BBC and ITV made special programs to celebrate her 80th birthday in 1982, and the BBC ran a short season of her best films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Angelique Buiton, a Haitian maid, in Saratoga Trunk (1945). She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1952 New Year Honours, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1960 Birthday Honours. She was also the first famous name to become president of the Brighton Little Theatre. On July 4, 1958, she received an honorary DLitt from Durham University at a congregation in Durham Castle. She was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1961 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in central London. Her private life was largely focused on her large family of sisters, nephews and nieces, who used the home in Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, which she shared with sisters, Margaret and Shela. She died in Brighton, aged 82, in her sleep, of cancer. She was never married and had no children. The two sisters, with whom she shared her life and home, died around the same time: Shela shortly before Flora, in 1984, and Margaret on 1 February 1985. Dame Flora Robson Avenue, built in 1962, in Simonside, South Shields, is named after her. There is a plaque on the house in Wykeham Terrace, Dyke Road, Brighton, and also one in the doorway of St. Nicholas's Church, of which Flora Robson was a great supporter. There is also a plaque to commemorate the opening of the Prince Charles Theatre (Leicester Square, London) by Flora Robson. In 1996, the British Film Institute erected a plaque at number 14 Marine Gardens, location of Flora's other home in Brighton, where she lived from 1961 to 1976. A plaque at 40 Handside Lane in Welwyn Garden City records Flora Robson living there from 1923 to 1925. A blue plaque sponsored by Southgate District Civic Trust and Robson's former school Palmers Green High School was unveiled at her family home from 1910 to 1921, The Lawe, 65, The Mall, Southgate, on April 25, 2010. Robson attended the opening of the Flora Robson Playhouse in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1962, which was named in her honour. The building was demolished in 1971 and the theatre company it housed relocated to the new University Theatre. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frieda-dvd-post-wwii-drama-flora-robson-mai-zetterling.html

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Today, March 28, 2026
March 28: National Something On A Stick Day: -- There seems to be no specific historical event attached to the beginning of the day's observance nationally; it is more likely a case of a fun-loving individual or group of people manipulating internet search results via the wizardry of SEO to boost the holiday's legitimacy, and we don't mind! There's no getting around it, food on a stick is fun. Well, maybe we wouldn't try to eat Jeff Dunham's 'Jalapeno on a Stick,' but as far as candy apples, creamsicles, shish kabobs, and teriyaki chicken on a stick are concerned, today is the day to chow down! The use of sticks - skewers of wood - in the preparation and consumption of food items goes back a long way. A very long way. An archeological site in Germany contained a stick with a burnt tip, indicating its use in the cooking of meat over a fire, from 300,000 years ago, the Lower Paleolithic era. From ancient Greece, Homer's "Iliad" makes mention of cooking meat on skewers. In the absence of a metal grill to set over a wood fire, piercing your meat with a sharpened stick and holding it over the flames to cook while you turn it and adjust its height above the flames for ideal doneness is a no-brainer. Perhaps this is the sole reason that this method has been around for millennia. There's even a story, popular among medieval scholars, of Turkish soldiers in the crusades using their swords as spits to cook meat with. Make that thing a multitasker! So the next time you are out camping and you cook your hot dog at the end of a sapling branch you've found, know that you're in good company - humans have cooked meat that way for almost as long as there have been humans. And National Something On A Stick Day is the perfect time to reflect on that. https://store.earthstation1.com/teenage-dating-films-194619461958.html

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Today, March 28, 2026
March 28: National Hot Tub Day: -- The best day to love your hot tub! Want to feel the soothing effects your hot tub has for a long time without feeling judged? National Hot Tub Day allows you to do so. Even though it's not an official holiday, National Hot Tub Day is a good opportunity to savor the benefits of a spa. With a hot tub, you can spend more time with your loved ones. As the jets relieve your tense muscles, you may relax and converse with your companion. Enjoy a mini-vacation in your backyard today in your hot tub. Early Egyptians may have taken hot therapeutic baths some 4,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence. In 600 B.C., King Phraortes of ancient Persia had a hot tub chiseled out of solid granite for him. Plato, Homer, and Hippocrates, three of Greece's greatest thinkers, all believed in the medicinal properties of hot water. Water springs drew people together for social gatherings and other activities in the form of elaborate constructions. And then there was Rome. The imperial leaders there were even more extravagant than those who came before them and built massive spas to match. Many of these facilities were built to aid the recuperation of exhausted legionnaires who had suffered wartime injuries and illnesses. The name 'Sanus Per Aquam,' which means 'health through water,' is the origin of the acronym for the term spa. Sports stadiums, spas, massage parlors, and eateries were common features of Roman spas. California is considered to have been the birthplace of the first modern home spas, starting in 1958, which were commonly constructed out of old redwood vats and disused wine barrels. When it came to hot tubs, water cleanliness and filtration systems weren't exactly high on the list of priorities during the swinging sixties. As a result, wood was used as a building component that failed to keep water out and was a breeding ground for disease-causing germs, mildew, algae, and slime. In the late 1970s, fiberglass shell hot tubs were introduced, which quickly replaced cast acrylic tubs. For owners, this made maintaining water cleanliness a lot easier, while manufacturers could start developing pumps, filters, control systems, and jets out of the pliable and adaptable plastic. It wasn't until an Italian migrant's labor that hot tub design took a turn for the better. Candido Jacuzzi, an aircraft engineer, developed a whirlpool bath for his son Ken, who was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis a few decades before. Jacuzzi became synonymous with hot tubs after a third-generation family member, Roy Jacuzzi, created and commercialized the first self-contained and completely integrated whirlpool spa. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-ii-dvd.html

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Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Edmund S. Muskie Day: -- Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, politician and statesman, 58th United States Secretary Of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election (d. March 26, 1996) is #born Edmund Sixtus Muskie in Rumford, Maine to Polish parents. Muskie graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, and Cornell University in Ithaca. He worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Upon his return, Muskie served in the Maine State Legislature from 1946 to 1951 against heavy Republican opposition. Despite an unsuccessful bid for the mayoralty of Waterville, he was elected the 64th Governor of Maine in an upset victory as its first Roman Catholic in 1954. Although elected as a reform Governor, Muskie split from his mandate; he amended its constitution multiple times to consolidate power, suspended the "as Maine goes, so goes the nation" doctrine, pressed aggressive economic expansionism and instated strict environmental provisions. Muskie's actions severed a nearly 100-year Republican stronghold and led to the political insurgency of the Maine Democrats. He used his increased public presence to gain a seat in the United States Senate representing his home state. His legislative accomplishments during his career as a Senator facilitated a vast expansion of modern liberalism in the United States. He fathered the 1960s environmental movement which culminated in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and Clean Water Act of 1972, hallmarks of international environmental policy. A supporter of the civil rights movement, Muskie rallied support for the Civil Rights Act Of 1964, the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and tapered Richard Nixon's "Imperial Presidency" by advancing New Federalism. Muskie ran alongside Hubert Humphrey against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, only to lose by 0.7 percentage points (42.72% vs. 43.42%), one of the narrowest margins in the history of the United States. He would go on to run in the 1972 presidential election where he secured 1.84 million votes in the primaries coming in fourth out of 15 contesters. The release of the controversial "Canuck letter" derailed his campaign, a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader published February 24, 1972, two weeks before the New Hampshire primary, which implied that Senator Muskie held prejudice against Americans of French-Canadian descent. A day later, the same paper released an article that contained accusatory reference to his wife, Jane, as a drunkard and racially intolerant. On the morning of February 26, Muskie gave a speech to supporters outside of the Manchester Union-Leader offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. His speech was viewed as emotional and defensive; he called the newspaper's editor a "gutless coward". Muskie gave the speech during a snowstorm which created the appearance of him crying. Though Muskie later attempted to claim that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned. Evidence later came to light during the Watergate scandal investigation that, during the 1972 presidential campaign, the Nixon campaign committee maintained a "dirty tricks" unit focused on discrediting Nixon's strongest challengers. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators revealed that the Canuck Letter was a forged document as part of the dirty-tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Nixon campaign. Nixon was also reported to have ordered men to follow Muskie around and gather information. He tried to connect Muskie's acquaintance with singer Frank Sinatra to an abuse of office. Muskie often flew on Sinatra's private plane while traveling around California. After the election, he returned to the Senate where he gave the 1976 State of the Union Response. Muskie served as first chairman of the new Senate Budget Committee from 1975 to 1980 where he established the United States budget process. Upon his retirement from the Senate, Carter nominated him to serve as the 58th U.S. Secretary Of State; he was confirmed to take office by a margin of 94-2. Assuming the office in the middle of a series of violent international conflicts, his biggest success as secretary came when his state department negotiated the release of 52 Americans concluding the Iran hostage crisis. He was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom in 1981 and is honored with a public holiday in Maine. Edmund Muskie died at 4:06 AM EST in the morning at the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. two days shy of his 82nd birthday after seeking treatment for bouts of congestive heart failure. Eight days prior he underwent a carotid endarterectomy in his right neck. His assistant reported that he had suffered a myocardial infarction. Some historians believe that his blood clots were brought on from frequent 8,421 mile (13,552 km) flights to Cambodia; he was asked to assist in stabilizing its government on behalf of President Bill Clinton. Due to his service in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II, he was eligible to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia. His ultimate rank of lieutenant had him placed in Section 25 of the cemetery. Although he died on March 26, his grave stone initially noted that he died on the 25th. His wife, Jane, died on December 25, 2004, at age 77, due to health complications brought on by Alzheimer's disease. She was buried next to Muskie and his grave stone was corrected to read "March 26, 1996". Muskie was memorialized in Washington D.C., Lewiston, Maine, and Bethesda, Maryland. At his Washington memorial, he was paid tribute to by a variety of U.S. senators and house representatives. His alma mater, Bates College, held a memorial presided over by its president, Donald Harward. On March 30, 1996, a publicly broadcast, Roman Catholic funeral was held in Bethesda at the Church of the Little Flower. He was eulogized by U.S. president Jimmy Carter; U.S. Senator, George J. Mitchell; 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright; a political aide, Leon G. Billings; and one of Muskie's sons, Stephen. https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dwight D. Eisenhower: In War And Peace DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: Dwight D. Eisenhower GCB, OM, RE, GCS, CCLH, KC, NPk, popularly known as "Ike", American general, politician and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (b. October 14, 1890) #dies in the morning in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, at age 78. The following day, his body was moved to the Washington National Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours. He was then transported to the United States Capitol, where he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda on March 30 and 31. A state funeral service was conducted at the Washington National Cathedral on March 31. The president and First Lady, Richard and Pat Nixon, attended, as did former president Lyndon Johnson. Also among the 2,000 invited guests were U.N. Secretary General U Thant and 191 foreign delegates from 78 countries, including 10 foreign heads of state and government. Notable guests included President Charles de Gaulle of France, who was in the United States for the first time since the state funeral of John F. Kennedy, Chancellor Kurt-Georg Kiesinger of West Germany, King Baudouin of Belgium and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. The service included the singing of Faure's The Palms, and the playing of the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers. That evening, Eisenhower's body was placed onto a special funeral train for its journey from the nation's capital through seven states to his hometown of Abilene, Kansas. First incorporated into President Abraham Lincoln's funeral in 1865, a funeral train would not be part of a U.S. state funeral again until 2018. Eisenhower is buried inside the Place of Meditation, the chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene. As requested, he was buried in a Government Issue casket, wearing his World War II uniform, decorated with Army Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit. Buried alongside Eisenhower are his son Doud, who died at age 3 in 1921, and wife Mamie, who died in 1979. President Richard Nixon eulogized Eisenhower in 1969, saying: "Some men are considered great because they lead great armies or they lead powerful nations. For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world." Dwight D. Eisenhower was born Dwight David Eisenhower in Denison, Texas. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star rank of General of the Army. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-1943 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944-1945 from the Western Front. Eisenhower was raised in Abilene, Kansas, in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His family had a strong religious background. His mother became a Jehovah's Witness. Eisenhower, however, did not belong to any organized church until 1952. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the United States entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945-1948), as president of Columbia University (1948-1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951-1952). In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft; Taft opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. Eisenhower won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. Eisenhower's main goals in office were to contain the spread of communism and reduce federal deficits. In 1953, he threatened to use nuclear weapons until China agreed to peace terms in the Korean War. China did agree and an armistice resulted which remains in effect. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence prioritized inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing funding for expensive Army divisions. He continued Harry S. Truman's policy of recognizing Taiwan as the legitimate government of China, and he won congressional approval of the Formosa Resolution. His administration provided major aid to help the French fight off Vietnamese Communists in the First Indochina War. After the French left, he gave strong financial support to the new state of South Vietnam. He supported regime-changing military coups in Iran and Guatemala orchestrated by his own administration. During the Suez Crisis of 1956, he condemned the Israeli, British, and French invasion of Egypt, and he forced them to withdraw. He also condemned the Soviet invasion during the Hungarian Revolution Of 1956 but took no action. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to the Space Race. He deployed 15,000 soldiers during the 1958 Lebanon crisis. Near the end of his term, he failed to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets when a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. He approved the Bay Of Pigs invasion, which was left to John F. Kennedy to carry out. On the domestic front, Eisenhower was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies and expanded Social Security. He covertly opposed Joseph McCarthy and contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking executive privilege. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders which integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. His largest program was the Interstate Highway System. He promoted the establishment of strong science education via the National Defense Education Act. His two terms saw unprecedented economic prosperity except for a minor recession in 1958. In his farewell address to the nation, he expressed his concerns about the dangers of massive military spending, particularly deficit spending and government contracts to private military manufacturers, which he dubbed "the military-industrial complex". Historical evaluations of his presidency place him among the upper tier of American presidents. https://store.earthstation1.com/dwight-d-eisenhower-documentaries-dual-layer-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: St. Louis Blues 1958 Nat King Cole + Bonus W. C. Handy Tribute DVD MP4
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1958: #DOTD: #RIP: W. C. Handy, African American trumpet player and composer known as the "Father of the Blues" (b. November 16, 1873) #dies of bronchial pneumonia at Sydenham Hospital in New York City, aged 84. Over 25,000 people attended his funeral in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. Over 150,000 people gathered in the streets near the church to pay their respects. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. W. C. Hand was born William Christopher Handy in Florence, Alabama, the son of Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, a small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Father Of The Blues that he was born in a log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became an African Methodist Episcopal minister after the Emancipation Proclamation. The log cabin of Handy's birth has been preserved near downtown Florence. William Christopher Handy is one of the most influential American songwriters. He was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, and he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. Handy did not create the blues genre and was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music. Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers. https://store.earthstation1.com/st-louis-blues-1958-dvd-nat-king-cole-eartha-1958.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: That Rhythm, Those Blues + Bonus The Death Of R & B? MP4 Download DVD
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Arthur Crudup, also known as Big Boy Crudup, American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, sometimes referred to as the "Father Of Rock And Roll" (b. August 24, 1905) #dies of complications of heart disease and diabetes aged 68 in the Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia, four years after a protracted and failed battle for a settlement on unpaid and overdue royalties. He is buried at Bethel Memorial Gardens cemetery in Franktown, Virginia. Born Arthur William Crudup in Forest, Mississippi, to a family of migrant workers, he is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs "That's All Right" (1946), "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later recorded by Elvis Presley and other artists. Elvis Presley acknowledged Crudup's importance to rock and roll when he said, "If I had any ambition, it was to be as good as Arthur Crudup"; The Blues Hall of Fame quotes Presley as having said, "Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw". Big Boy Crudup began his career as a blues singer around Clarksdale, Mississippi. As a member of the Harmonizing Four, he visited Chicago in 1939. He stayed in Chicago to work as a solo musician but barely made a living as a street singer. The record producer Lester Melrose allegedly found him while Crudup was living in a packing crate, introduced him to Hudson Whittaker, better known as Tampa Red, and signed him to a recording contract with RCA Victor's Bluebird label. He recorded with RCA in the late 1940s and with Ace Records, Checker Records and Trumpet Records in the early 1950s. He toured black clubs in the South, sometimes playing with Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James. He also recorded under the names Elmer James and Percy Lee Crudup. His songs "Mean Old 'Frisco Blues", "Who's Been Foolin' You" and "That's All Right" were popular in the South. These and his other songs "Rock Me Mama", "So Glad You're Mine", and "My Baby Left Me" have been recorded by many artists, including Elvis Presley, Slade, Elton John and Rod Stewart. Crudup stopped recording in the 1950s because of disputes over royalties. He said, "I realised I was making everybody rich, and here I was poor". His last Chicago session was in 1951. His 1952-54 recording sessions for Victor were held at radio station WGST, in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to recording, for Fire Records and Delmark Records, and touring in 1965. Sometimes labeled "The Father of Rock and Roll", he accepted this title with some bemusement. During this time Crudup worked as a laborer to augment the low wages he received as a singer (he was not receiving royalties). After a dispute with Melrose over royalties, he returned to Mississippi and took up bootlegging. He later moved to Virginia, where he lived with his family, including three sons and several of his siblings, and worked as a field laborer. He occasionally sang in and supplied moonshine to drinking establishments, including one called the Do Drop Inn, in Franktown, Northampton County. In 1968, the blues promoter Dick Waterman began fighting for Crudup's royalties and reached an agreement in which Crudup would be paid 60K USD. However, Hill and Range Songs, from which he was supposed to get the royalties, refused to sign the legal papers at the last minute, because the company thought it could not lose more money in legal action. In the early 1970s, two Virginia activists, Celia Santiago and Margaret Carter, assisted Crudup in an attempt to gain royalties he felt he was due, with little success. By 1971, he had collected over 10K USD in overdue royalties through the intervention of the Songwriters Guild of America (then called the American Guild Of Authors And Composers). On a 1970 trip to the United Kingdom, Crudup recorded "Roebuck Man" with local musicians. His last professional engagements were with Bonnie Raitt. Crudup was credited as the composer of Presley's "That's Alright, Mama", but despite legal battles into the 1970s, reportedly never received royalties. An out-of-court settlement was supposed to pay Crudup an estimated 60K USD in back royalties, but never materialized. There was some confusion about the date of death because of his use of several names, including those of his siblings. He died of complications of heart disease and diabetes in the Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia, in March 1974. Crudup has been honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail, placed at Forest. The Blues Hall of Fame stated that Crudup "became known as 'The Father of Rock 'n' Roll' after Elvis Presley recorded three of his songs" but adds that "Crudup was a classic victim of music industry exploitation, and despite the commercial success of his music, was never able to even support his family from his music". https://store.earthstation1.com/that-rhythm-those-blues-dvd-american-black-rampb-music-history.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: In The White Man's Image Indian Boarding Schools Tragedy DVD, MP4, USB
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1953: #DOTD: #RIP: Jim Thorpe, American athlete, Olympic gold medalist, football player and coach (b. May 22 or 28, 1887) #dies of heart failure in Lomita, California at the age of 65. He is buried at the Jim Thorpe Memorial in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; the Pennsylvania town that was named in his honor and where his monument site of his remains was the subject of legal action. James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk) Mesquakie language: Wa-Tho-Huk, "Bright Path") was born James Francis Thorpe near Prague, Indian Territory in modern Oklahoma as a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples. Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and basketball. He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was a two-time All-American for the school's football team. After his Olympic success in 1912, which included a record score in the decathlon, he added a victory in the All-Around Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union. In 1913, Thorpe signed with the New York Giants, and he played six seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919. Thorpe joined the Canton Bulldogs American football team in 1915, helping them win three professional championships; he later played for six teams in the National Football League (NFL). He played as part of several all-American Indian teams throughout his career, and barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of American Indians. From 1920 to 1921, Thorpe was nominally the first president of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which became the NFL in 1922. He played professional sports until age 41, the end of his sports career coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. He struggled to earn a living after that, working several odd jobs. He suffered from alcoholism, and lived his last years in failing health and poverty. He was married three times and had eight children, before suffering from heart failure and dying in 1953. Thorpe has received various accolades for his athletic accomplishments. The Associated Press named him the "greatest athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted him as part of its inaugural class in 1963. A Pennsylvania town was named in his honor and a monument site there is the site of his remains, which were the subject of legal action. Thorpe appeared in several films and was portrayed by Burt Lancaster in the 1951 film Jim Thorpe - All-American. https://store.earthstation1.com/in-the-white-man39s-image-indian-boarding-school-tragedy-dvd-mp4-394.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Ivan The Terrible Pt. 1 And Pt. 2 DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1584: #DOTD: Ivan The Terrible, commonly known as Ivan The Terrible or Ivan The Fearsome (a better English translation would be Ivan The Formidable), Tsar Of All The Russias until his death in 1584, a title which was used by all his successors thereafter (b. August 25, 1530) #dies from a stroke while playing chess with Bogdan Belsky.Upon Ivan's death, the Russian throne was left to his middle son, Feodor, a weak-minded figure. Feodor died childless in 1598, which ushered in the Time Of Troubles, the period of political crisis during the Tsardom Of Russia, which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov. During Ivan The Terrible's reign, Russia conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Sibir. He exercised autocratic control over Russia' hereditary nobility and developed a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. He transformed Russia from a medieval state into an empire, though at immense cost to its people, and its broader, long-term economy. Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan' complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental instability. In one such outburst, he killed his son and heir Ivan Ivanovich. Ivan was an able diplomat, a patron of arts and trade, and founder of the Moscow Print Yard, Russia' first publishing house. He was popular among Russia' commoners and he is noted for his paranoia and harsh treatment of the Russian nobility. https://store.earthstation1.com/ivan-the-terrible-part-1-and-part-2-dvd-aka-ivan-grozny-2-d122.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Complete Classic TV Kid Shows Series MegaSet DVD, MP4 Download, USB
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Emmett Kelly, American actor and circus performer who created the clown figure "Weary Willie" based on the hobos of the Depression era (b. December 9, 1898) #dies of a heart attack at age 80 in Sarasota, Florida on an opening day of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows. He is buried in the Rest Haven Memorial Park, in Lafayette, Indiana. Born Emmett Leo Kelly in Sedan, Kansas, Emmett Kelly was one of the great American circus clowns, best known for his role as Weary Willie, a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose. Kelly as a young man studied to become a cartoonist, and he originally created the Weary Willie character as a cartoon figure. He worked at various jobs in and around the circus, including as a painter. He taught himself trapeze work and was hired as a trapeze artist for Howe's Great London Circus. In 1923 he brought his cartoon character of the defeated hobo to life as a clown. He worked for the Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace circuses until 1931 and then for the Cole Bros. After appearing in England in the late 1930s with the Bertram Mills Circus, where he is said to have perfected his pantomime skills, Kelly joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey in 1942 and was a featured act there until the late 1950s. Kelly's great gift went far beyond a convincing performance as a down-and-out sad sack. He perfected a famous routine in which he tried to sweep up a spotlight only to be startled by its reappearance. He lent a little comic relief to dramatic acts by, for example, hanging his laundry on a low tightrope. He also notoriously parodied other acts until chased out of the ring. Kelly made his motion-picture debut in The Fat Man (1951), a Dashiell Hammett vehicle in which he played villainous ex-con Ed Deets, working as a clown in a circus. He also played his alter ego Weary Willie in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Kelly wrote an autobiography, Clown (1954), and in 1956 he retired from regular circus work, though he continued to work sporadically thereafter until the year of his death. He was a mascot in spring training for the Brooklyn Dodgers (now Los Angeles Dodgers) in 1957. He also made several appearances on television. On July 6, 1944, The Hartford Circus Fire occured. Kelly was preparing to perform in a matinee show of the Ringling Brothers circus for an audience of 6,000 in Hartford, Connecticut. 20 minutes into the show, the circus tent, which had been waterproofed with paraffin wax and gasoline, caught fire. Kelly was among those who acted quickly to help extinguish the fire, and then he helped panicked audience members-mostly women and children, due to World War II-to swiftly exit the tent. Officially, 168 people died in the fire, and 682 people were injured. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. Kelly's actions that day were immortalized by audience member Ralph Emerson, who took a photograph of Kelly rushing toward the burning tent in his full clown make-up and costume, carrying a single bucket of water. The photograph was published in Life magazine on July 17, 1944. According to eyewitnesses, it was one of few times in which he was seen crying. The fire affected Kelly deeply and for the remainder of his life; according to his grandson, Joey Kelly, he "rarely spoke of the fire to anyone other than family." https://store.earthstation1.com/4-disc-classic-tv-kid-shows-complete-dvd-se4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: When Hell Was In Session Jeremiah Denton Vietnam POW DVD Download USB
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Jeremiah Denton, American politician, United States Navy Rear Admiral and naval aviator, who served as a U.S. Senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987, widely known for enduring almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam after the A-6 Intruder he was piloting was shot down in 1965 (b. July 15, 1924) #dies of complications from a heart ailment at a hospice in Virginia Beach at age 89. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery with his wife Jane. He was born Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. in Mobile, Alabama. He was the first of all American POWs held captive and released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming in February 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Vietnam, Denton was forced by his captors to participate in a 1966 televised propaganda interview which was broadcast in the United States. While answering questions and feigning trouble with the blinding television lights, Denton blinked his eyes in Morse code, spelling the word "T-O-R-T-U-R-E"-and confirming for the first time to U.S. Naval Intelligence that American POWs were being tortured. In 1976, Denton wrote When Hell Was In Session about his experience in captivity, which was made into the 1979 film with Hal Holbrook. Denton was also the subject of the 2015 documentary Jeremiah produced by Alabama Public Television. In 1980, Denton was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he focused mainly on family issues and national security, helping pass the Adolescent Family Life Act (the so-called "Chastity Bill") in 1981 and heading the Judiciary Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism. https://store.earthstation1.com/when-hell-was-in-session-dvd-pow-jeremiah-denton-vietnam-war.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: High Crimes And Misdemeanors: The Iran-Contra Scandal DVD, MP4, USB
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, politician and businessman, 15th United States Secretary Of Defense (b. August 18, 1917) #dies from complications of pneumonia at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine at the age of 88. He was born Caspar Willard Weinberger in San Francisco, California, the younger of two sons of Herman Weinberger, a Colorado native. His father was of Jewish descent from Bohemia, while his maternal grandparents were immigrants from England. Weinberger was named "Caspar" for a friend of his mother's; his father began calling him "Cap", a nickname that stuck into adulthood. "Cap" Weinberger served as a prominent Republican in a variety of state and federal positions for three decades, including Chairman of the California Republican Party, 1962-68. Most notably he was Secretary Of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987. Weinberger was born in San Francisco, California. He served in the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific theater of World War II. Weinberger's entry into politics was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959, and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. An accomplished private sector businessman, he later became vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and still later Chairman of Forbes magazine. Weinberger's tenure as Secretary Of Defense is the third longest in U.S. history, and spanned the final years of the Cold War. He is also known for his key role in the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative and for being indicted in the Iran-Contra Affair. Weinberger was awarded both the Presidential Medal Of Freedom in 1987 and an honorary British knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. The Iran-Contra Affair concerned the selling of US missiles to Iran. The funds received from Iran were then channeled to guerilla rebels known as Contras, who were fighting the socialist government of Nicaragua. Such funding had been specifically denied by the US Congress. Though he claimed to have been opposed to the sale on principle, actually Weinberger participated in the transfer of United States Hawk and TOW missiles to Iran at that time. This resulted in a large scandal with several investigations which resulted in fourteen Reagan administration officials being indicted, including Caspar Weinberger who resigned before trial. Following his resignation as Secretary Of Defense, legal proceedings against him were continued by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. A federal grand jury then indicted Weinberger on two counts of perjury and one count of Obstruction of Justice on June 16, 1992. He was defended by defense attorney Carl Rauh. Prosecutors brought an additional indictment just four days before the 1992 presidential election. This was controversial because it cited a Weinberger diary entry contradicting a claim made by President George H. W. Bush. Republicans claimed that this action contributed to President Bush's later defeat. On December 11, 1992, Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out this indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. Before Weinberger could be tried on the original charges, he received a pardon on December 24, 1992, from then President Bush, who had been Reagan's Vice President during the scandal. https://store.earthstation1.com/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-the-ironcontra-scandal-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Homage To Chagall: Colors Of Love DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1985: #DOTD: #RIP: Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and poet (b. July 6, 1887) #dies of undetermined causes in the evening at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, aged 97. His relationship with his Jewish identity was unresolved and tragic; he would have died without Jewish rites, had not a Jewish stranger stepped forward and said the kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, over his coffin. Chagall is buried alongside his last wife Valentina "Vava" Brodsky Chagall, in the multi-denominational cemetery in the traditional artists' town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in the French region of Provence. Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal into a Russian Jewish family near the city of Vitebsk in Liozna, Belarus, Russian Empire. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world' preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opera. https://store.earthstation1.com/homage-to-chagall-colors-of-love-dvd-marc-chagall-biography.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Jets: Duel Over Korea: F-86 Sabre Vs MiG-15 Fagot MP4 Download DVD
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, producer, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter (b. April 16,1921) #dies of heart failure in a clinic in Genolier, near his home in Bursins, Switzerland, aged 82. He had suffered from diabetes and heart disease. He is buried in Bursins Cemetery in Bursins, Switzerland. UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy spoke at his funeral, representing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, FRSA was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov was born at 45 Belsize Park, London, England. He was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. A respected intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting, and a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklos Rozsa, composer of the music for Quo Vadis and of numerous concert works, dedicated his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1950) to Ustinov. In 2003, Durham University changed the name of its Graduate Society to Ustinov College in honour of the significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-duel-over-korea-f86-sabre-vs-mig15-fagot-mp4-downloa86154.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Secret War Historic WWII TV Series + Bonus Title DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1881: #DOTD: #RIP: Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five", innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period who strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music (b. March 21 [O.S. March 9], 1839) #dies in St. Petersburg a week after his 42nd birthday. Mussorgsky was interred at the Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg. Mussorgsky, like others of "The Five", was perceived as an extremist by the emperor and much of his court. This may have been the reason Tsar Alexander III personally crossed off Boris Godunov from the list of proposed pieces for the Imperial Opera in 1888. Modest Mussorgsky was born Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky in Karevo, Toropets Uyezd, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire, 400 km (250 mi) south of Saint Petersburg. Many of Mussorgsky's works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. For many years, Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available. At the State Institute for Art Studies in Moscow, M. P. Musorgsky's Complete Works: Academic Edition is being published. As of 2026, six volumes have been issued, including the opera Boris Godunov: two volumes of the vocal score (2020) and four volumes of the full score (2025). The vocal score was prepared by Nadezhda Teterina and Evgeny Levashev (1944-2022). The full score was prepared by Evgeny Levashev, Nadezhda Teterina, and Roman Berchenko. The title of his opera Boris Godunov is the inspiration of the character name of the Rocky and Bullwinkle villain Boris Badenov, and his Pictures At An Exhibition is the theme song of the historic BBC World War II TV documentary series THE SECRET WAR. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-secret-war-wwii-weaponry-tv-series-all-7-episodes-2-dv72.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1943: #DOTD: #RIP: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period (b. April 1, 1873) #dies of melanoma in Beverly Hills, California four days before his seventieth birthday. In his will, Rachmaninoff wished to be buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, where Scriabin, Taneyev, and Chekhov were buried, but his American citizenship made that impossible. Instead, he was interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. He was born Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff in Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire into a musical family. Rachmaninoff's works are among the most popular in the romantic repertoire. He took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano and orchestral pieces by this time. In 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninoff and his family left Russia and resided in the United States, first in New York City. Demanding piano concert tour schedules caused his output as composer to slow tremendously; between 1918 and 1943, he completed just six compositions, including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3, and Symphonic Dances. In 1942, Rachmaninoff moved to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninoff acquired American citizenship. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colors. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. https://store.earthstation1.com/rediscovering-rachmaninoff-liturgy-of-st-john-chrysostom-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Virginia Woolf Biography + Bonus Mrs Dalloway DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, March 28, 2026
March 28, 1941: #DOTD: #RIP: Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer and critic, considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device (b. January 25, 1882) #dies by suicide, drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, East Sussex, England, aged 59. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by mental illness. She was institutionalised several times and attempted suicide at least twice. According to Dalsimer (2004), her illness was characterised by symptoms that would today be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective treatment during her lifetime. Her cremains are buried beneath an elm tree in the garden of Monk's House Grounds, Rodmell, East Sussex, England. She was born Adeline Virginia Stephenat 22 Hyde Park Gate in South Kensington, London into an affluent. She attended the Ladies' Department of King' College and was acquainted with the early reformers of women' higher education. Having been home-schooled for the most part of her childhood, mostly in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. She published her first novel titled The Voyage Out in 1915, through the Hogarth Press, a publishing house that she established with her husband, Leonard Woolf. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One' Own (1929), with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.". Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Her works are widely read all over the world and have been translated into more than fifty languages. She suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59. https://store.earthstation1.com/virginia-woolf-dvd-biography-literature-documentary.html