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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 2026: Monday Before Easter: -- Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, "Fortieth"): Holy Week (Holy And Great Week, Passion Week): Holy Monday (Great And Holy Monday, Holy And Great Monday): -- According to the gospels, on this day, the third day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity, following after Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, and the second day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday, Jesus Christ cursed the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-22, Mark 11:20-26), cleansed the temple, and responded to the questioning of his authority (Matthew 21:23-27). The Cursing Of The Fig Tree is reported in the Synoptic Gospels (the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, called Synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording). This cursing is presented in the Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Matthew as a miracle in connection with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, and in the Gospel of Luke as a parable. The image is taken from the Old Testament symbol of the fig tree representing Israel, and the cursing of the fig tree in Mark and Matthew and the parallel story in Luke are thus symbolically directed against the Jews, who have not accepted Jesus as Messiah. The Gospel of John omits the incident entirely and shifts the event with which it is connected, the cleansing of the temple, from the end of Jesus' career to the beginning. The Cleansing Of The Temple narrative in all four canonical gospels tells of Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple in Jerusalem. The scene is a common motif in Christian art. In this account, Jesus and his disciples travel to Jerusalem for Passover, where Jesus expels the merchants and consumers from the temple, accusing them of turning it into "a den of thieves" (in the synoptic Gospels) and "a house of trade" (in the Gospel of John) through their commercial activities. The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12-17, Mark 11:15-19, and Luke 19:45-48) and near the start of the Gospel of John (at John 2:13-16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover. The Questioning Of Jesus' Authority occured whilst he was teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem, as reported in all three synoptic gospels: Matthew 21:23-27, Mark 11:27-33 and Luke 20:1-8. According to the Gospel of Matthew: "Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. "By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you this authority?" Jesus replied, "I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John's baptism -- where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?" They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, 'From heaven', he will ask, 'Then why didn't you believe him?' But if we say, 'Of human origin' - we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet". So they answered Jesus, "We don't know". Then he said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things". In all three synoptic gospels, this episode takes place shortly after the cleansing of the Temple reported after Jesus' triumphal entry into the city. The word "authority" (Greek: exousia) is frequently used in relation to Jesus in the New Testament. A similar episode is described in the Gospel of John at John 2:13-18) as part of the Cleansing of the Temple narrative. 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 30, 2026

March 30: Doctors' Day: -- Commemorates when on March 30, 1842 ether anesthesia was used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long, a procedure which revolutionized surgery. Since then, Doctors' Day is an annual observance aimed at appreciating physicians who help save our lives everywhere. The holiday first started in 1933 in Winder, Georgia, and since then it's been honored ever since. Today we continue to celebrate medical advances like these and thank all doctors everywhere who've spent so much time and energy mastering their field of expertise. Crawford Williamson Long (November 1, 1815 - June 16, 1878) was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic. Long was also a cousin of the western legend Doc Holliday, and may have operated on Doc's cleft lip. After observing the same physiological effects with diethyl ether ("ether") that Humphry Davy had described for nitrous oxide in 1800, Long used ether for the first time on March 30, 1842 to remove a tumor from the neck of a patient, James M. Venable. He administered sulfuric ether on a towel and simply had the patient inhale. He performed many other surgeries using this technique during the next few years, introducing the technique to his obstetrics practice as well. Long subsequently removed a second tumor from Venable and used ether as an anesthetic in amputations and childbirth. Despite his continued use of the ether anesthetic, Long did not immediately publish his findings. The results of these trials were eventually published in 1849 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. An original copy of this publication is held in the U.S. National Library of Medicine. On October 16, 1846, unaware of Long's prior work with ether during surgery, William T. G. Morton administered ether anesthesia before a medical audience at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. His work was published in the December 1846 issue of Medical Examiner which alerted Long to this other claim. Furthermore, the January 1847 issue of the editorial featured more evidence and etherization experiments. Although Long had informed several surgical colleagues who had similarly administered ether in their practices, and performed six additional surgeries since his initial discovery, Morton is generally credited with the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia. After these articles surfaced, Long began documenting the details of his experiments, collecting patient accounts, and notarizing their letters. He reported his own findings to the Medical College of Georgia in 1849. While he was in Augusta, he learned of two additional physicians staking an ether claim - Charles Jackson and Horace Wells. It was at this time that his findings were finally published. In 1854, Long requested William Crosby Dawson, a U.S. Senator, to present his claims of ether anesthesia discovery to the attention of Congress. Despite his extensive petitioning and documented proof, he never received full credit for his discovery during his lifetime. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pioneers-of-surgery-dvd-set-4-episode-tv-series-2-dis42.html

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March 30, 1432: #BOTD: Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: Romanized Mehmed-I Sani), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Turkish: Fatih Sultan Mehmet), Ottoman Sultan from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481, conqueror of Constantinople and thereby bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire (d. May 3 ,1481) is #born in Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state. His father was Sultan Murad II (1404-1451) and his mother Huma Hatun, a slave of uncertain origin. In Mehmed II's first reign, he defeated the crusade led by John Hunyadi after the Hungarian incursions into his country broke the conditions of the truce Peace of Szeged. When Mehmed II ascended the throne again in 1451 he strengthened the Ottoman navy and made preparations to attack Constantinople. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire. After the conquest Mehmed claimed the title "Caesar" of the Roman Empire (Qayser-i Rum), based on the fact that Constantinople had been the seat and capital of the surviving Eastern Roman Empire since its consecration in 330 AD by Emperor Constantine I. The claim was only recognized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Nonetheless, Mehmed II viewed the Ottoman state as a continuation of the Roman Empire for the remainder of his life, seeing himself as "continuing" the Empire rather than "replacing" it. This assertion was eventually abandoned by his successors. Aside from his efforts to expand Ottoman dominion throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Mehmed II also cultivated a large collection of Western art and literature, many of which were produced by Renaissance artists. From a young age, Mehmed had shown interest in Renaissance art and Classical literature and histories, with his school books having caricaturistic illustrations of ancient coins and portraiture sketched in distinctly European styles. Furthermore, he reportedly had two tutors, one trained in Greek and another in Latin, reading to him Classical histories including those of Laertius, Livy, and Herodotus in the days leading up to the fall of Constantinople. From early on in his reign, Mehmed invested in the patronage of Italian Renaissance artists. His first documented request in 1461 was a commission from artist Matteo de' Pasti, who resided in the court of the lord of Remini, Sigismondo Malatesta. This first attempt was unsuccessful, though, as Pasti was arrested in Crete by Venetian authorities accusing him of being an Ottoman spy. Later attempts would prove more fruitful, with some notable artists including Costanzo da Ferrara and Gentile Bellini both being invited to the Ottoman court. Aside from his patronage of Renaissance artists, Mehmed was also an avid scholar of contemporary and Classical literature and history. This interest culminated in Mehmed's work on building a massive multilingual library that contained over 8000 manuscripts in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Latin, and Greek, among other languages. Of note in this large collection was Mehmed's Greek scriptorium, which included copies of Arrians' Anabasis of Alexander The Great and Homer's Iliad. His interest in Classical works extended in many directions, including the patronage of the Greek writer Kritiboulos of Imbros, who produced the Greek manuscript History of Mehmed the Conqueror, alongside his efforts to salvage and rebind Greek manuscripts acquired after his conquest of Constantinople. Mehmed continued his conquests in Anatolia with its reunification and in Southeast Europe as far west as Bosnia. At home he made many political and social reforms, encouraged the arts and sciences, and by the end of his reign, his rebuilding program had changed the city into a thriving imperial capital. On May 3, 1481, Mehmed II died at the age of forty-nine, and was buried in his turbe near the Fatih Mosque Complex.According to the historian Colin Heywood, "there is substantial circumstantial evidence that Mehmed was poisoned, possibly at the behest of his eldest son and successor, Bayezid." The news of Mehmed's death caused great rejoicing in Europe; church bells were rung and celebrations held. The news was proclaimed in Venice thus: "La Grande Aquila e morta!" ('The Great Eagle is dead!'). He is considered a hero in modern-day Turkey and parts of the wider Muslim world. Among other things, Istanbul's Fatih district, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge and Fatih Mosque are named after him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/timeline-tv-series-on-the-middle-ages-in-tv-newscast-format-2-dvd-se2.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1746: #BOTD: #HBD! Francisco Goya, Spanish-French romantic painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era (d. April 16, 182) is #born Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes to a lower-middle-class family in 1746, in Fuendetodos in Aragon. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of his time. He studied painting from age 14 under Jose Luzan y Martinez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773; their life was characterised by an almost constant series of pregnancies and miscarriages, and only one child, a son, survived into adulthood. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace. He was guarded, and although letters and writings survive, little is known about his thoughts. He suffered a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 which left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, and contrast with his social climbing. He was appointed Director of the Royal Academy in 1795, the year Manuel Godoy made an unfavorable treaty with France. In 1799 Goya became Primer Pintor de Camara, the highest rank for a Spanish court painter. In the late 1790s, commissioned by Godoy, he completed his La maja desnuda, a remarkably daring nude for the time and clearly indebted to Diego Velazquez. In 1801 he painted Charles IV of Spain and His Family, also influenced by Velazquez. In 1807 Napoleon led the French army into the Peninsular War against Spain. Goya remained in Madrid during the war which seems to have affected him deeply. Although he did not vocalise his thoughts in public, they can be inferred from his Disasters of War series of prints (although published 35 years after his death) and his 1814 paintings The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808. Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate and his own mental and physical health. His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819-1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in 1824 to retire to the French city of Bordeaux, accompanied by his much younger maid and companion, Leocadia Weiss, who may or may not have been his lover. There he completed his La Tauromaquia series and a number of other, major, canvases. Following a stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side, and suffering failing eyesight and poor access to painting materials, he died in Bourdeax and was buried there in the Cemetery Of The Chartreuse on April 16, 1828 aged 82. His remains were later repatriated to Spain in 1888 and re-interred in The Royal Chapel O)f St. Anthony Of La Florida in Madrid. Famously, the skull was missing, a detail the Spanish consul immediately communicated to his superiors in Madrid, who wired back, "Send Goya, with or without head." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/images-of-christ-pictorial-representation-of-jesus-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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March 30. 1810: #BOTD: #HBD! Pablo Fanque, British equestrian performer and circus proprietor whose circus was popular in Victorian Britain for 30 years, a period that is regarded as the golden age of the circus, becoming the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain, best known since 1967 for being mentioned in The Beatles song "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!" on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (d. May 4, 1871) is #born William Darby in Norwich, England, United Kingdom. Little is known about Pablo Fanque's early life. Darby was apprenticed at age 11 to circus proprietor William Batty and made his first known appearance in a sawdust ring in Norwich on December 26, 1821, as "Young Darby." His acts included equestrian stunts and rope walking] Thomas Frost, in Circus Life and Circus Celebrities, wrote, "We find Batty in 1836 at Nottingham, with a company which included Pablo Fanque, a negro rope-dancer, whose real name was William Darby ..." Once established as a young adult, William Darby changed his professional name to Pablo Fanque. It appears that Fanque or his contemporaries often considered "Pablo" to be his surname. Fanque made a highly successful London debut in 1847. Describing Fanque and his performance, The Illustrated London News wrote:"Mr. Pablo Fanque is an artiste of colour, and his steed ... we have not only never seen surpassed, but never equalled ... Mr. Pablo Fanque was the hit of the evening. The steed in question was Beda, the black mare that Fanque had bought from Batty. That the horse attracted so much attention was testament to Fanque's extraordinary horse training skills." Sounding almost as grand as the boasts of Fanque's own broadside posters, The Illustrated London News said, "Mr. Pablo has trained [his black mare] to do the most extraordinary feats of the 'manege' (horseriding), an art hitherto considered to belong only to the French and German professors of equitation, and her style certainly far exceeds anything that has ever yet been brought from the Continent." In the 30 years that Fanque operated his own circus (sometimes in partnership with others), he toured England, Scotland, and Ireland, but he performed mostly in the Midlands and the Northern England counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and what is now Greater Manchester. Among the many cities he visited were Birmingham, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Chester, Chesterfield, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Norwich, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Rotherdam, Ryde, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Wakefield, Wigan, Wolverhampton, and Worcester. In Scotland, his circus visited Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Paisley. In Edinburgh, in 1853, there was a Pablo Fanque's Amphitheatre on Nicolson Street at the current site of Edinburgh Festival Theatre. In Ireland, Fanque's circus performed at Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Ballinasloe, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Clonmel, among other places. In Cork, in 1850, Fanque built an amphitheatre on the site of the former Theatre Royal, where the current General Post Office stands (built in 1877). His circus also performed at the Donnybrook Fair in 1850, five years before the centuries' old fair was discontinued. "Fanque's children joined his circus. One of his sons performed under the name Ted Pablo ..." They performed with the most popular acts of the business, including Young Hernandez (1832-1861), the great American rider, and the clown Henry Brown (1814-1902)." In the autumn of 1861, famous English prizefighter Jem Mace toured with Fanque's circus. In 1869, the front cover of Illustrated London News reported on a near-tragedy at a performance of Pablo Fanque's Circus in Bolton. Tightrope walker Madame Caroline stumbled on the rope, and hung suspended by her hands 60 feet (18 m) in the air. The rope was lowered a few feet and, at the exhortation of men who had amassed below, Madame Caroline let go to fall safely into the hands of the crowd. While some contemporary reports did not refer to Fanque's African ancestry, other reports noted that he was "a man of colour," or "a coloured gentleman," or "an artiste of colour." (These suggest he was of mixed race, with partial European ancestry as well.) In 1905, many years after Fanque's death, the chaplain of the Showmen's Guild wrote, "In the great brotherhood of the equestrian world there is no colour-line." He was commenting on Fanque's success in Victorian England despite being of mixed race. In 1967, John Lennon, in composing The Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," borrowed liberally from an 1843 playbill for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal. Lennon bought the poster from an antique shop in Sevenoaks, Kent, while shooting a promotional film for the song, "Strawberry Fields Forever", in Knole Park. Tony Bramwell, a former Apple Records employee, recalled, "There was an antique shop close to the hotel we were using in Sevenoaks. John and I wandered in and John spotted this Victorian circus poster and bought it." The poster advertises a performance in Rochdale and announces the appearance of "Mr. J. Henderson, the celebrated somerset thrower" and "Mr. Kite" who is described as "late of Wells's Circus." Lennon modifies the language, singing instead, "The Hendersons will all be there/Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair/What a scene!" The title "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is taken verbatim from the poster. The Mr. Kite referenced in the poster was William Kite, who is believed to have performed in Fanque's circus from 1843 to 1845. The "Benefit for Mr. Kite" was one of many benefits that Pablo Fanque held for performers in his circus, for others in the profession (who had no regular retirement or health benefits), and for community organizations. Fanque was a member of the Order of Ancient Shepherds, a fraternal organization affiliated with the Freemasons. It assisted families in times of illness or death with burial costs and other expenses. Fanque married Susannah Marlaw, the daughter of a Birmingham buttonmaker. They had two sons, one of whom was named Lionel. On 18 March 1848, his wife died in Leeds at an accident in the building where the circus was performing. Their son was performing a tightrope act before a large crowd at the Amphitheatre at King Charles Croft. The 600 people seated in the gallery fell with its collapse, but Susannah Darby was the only fatality. In June 1848, widower Fanque married Elizabeth Corker, a circus rider and daughter of George Corker of Bradford. Corker was 22 years old. With Corker, Fanque had two more sons, George (1854-1881) and Edward Charles "Ted" (1855-1937). Both joined the circus. Ted, known as Ted Pablo, also achieved acclaim as a boxer. A daughter, Caroline Susannah, died aged 1 year and 4 months and is buried in the same plot as Susannah and William, as recorded on the gravestone. The 1861 census records Fanque as living with a woman named Sarah, 25, who is described as his wife. In 1871, just before he died, census records show him living again with his wife Elizabeth and his two sons, in Stockport. A wood-engraving of Pablo Fanque upon his horse from the March 20, 1847 issue of the Illustrated London News (captioned, ASTLEY'S:--MR. PABLO FANQUE, AND HIS TRAINED STEED) appears on the cover of the 2003 book "Black Victorians, Black Victoriana", edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. Fanque is also mentioned in the 1974 song "Ritz" by the band Cockney Rebel. In 2018, Pablo Fanque House, a student accommodation block near his birthplace in Norwich, opened. Pablo Fanque died aged 61 of bronchitis at the Britannia Inn at 22 Churchgate in Stockport, England. In the funeral procession to Woodhouse Lane Cemetery, Leeds, a band marched ahead of Fanque's hearse playing the "Dead March". Fanque's favourite horse followed, along with four coaches and mourners. Fanque is buried next to his first wife Susannah Darby. Woodhouse Lane Cemetery is now St. George's Field and part of the University of Leeds campus. While the remains of many of the 100,000 graves and monuments have been relocated, the monument that Fanque erected in his wife's memory, and a smaller modest monument in his memory still stand. On October 8, 2010, as part of Light Night ceremony, the Leeds University Union unveiled a blue plaque commemorating Pablo Fanque's final resting place. 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March 30, 1867: The United States: The History Of The United States: The Territorial Expansion of the United States (The Territorial Evolution Of The United States): The Alaska Purchase (Russian: Prodazha Alyaski, "The Sale Of Alaska"): -- Alaska is purchased from Russia for 7.2M USD, about 2-cent per acre, by United States Secretary Of State William H. Seward. The Alaska Purchase was a treaty ratified by the United States Senate, and signed by President Andrew Johnson. Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, fearing that it might be seized if war broke out with the United Kingdom. Russia's primary activities in the territory had been fur trade and missionary work among the Native Alaskans. The land added 586,412 square miles of new territory to the United States. Reactions to the purchase in the United States were mostly positive; some opponents called it "Seward's Folly" and "Seward's Icebox" (after Secretary Of State William H. Seward), while others praised the move for weakening both the UK and Russia as rivals to American commercial expansion in the Pacific region. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was renamed the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union as a state in 1959. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alaska-at-war-dvd-wwii-invasion-by-japan.html

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March 30, 1870: The Reconstruction Era (Reconstruction): The Constitution Of The United States: The Reconstruction Amendments: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): The Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution (Amendment XV): -- Denying a citizen the right to vote by federal and state governments based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is prohibited when, after surviving a difficult ratification fight and opposition from Democrats until it was duly ratified on February 3, 1870, and despite the Democrats' fight to prevent its ratification being certified, The Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution is duly certified as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments and becomes part of the United States Constitution on March 30, 1870. In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws, but the election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency in 1868 convinced a majority of Republicans that protecting the franchise of black male voters was important for the party's future. On February 26, 1869, after rejecting more sweeping versions of a suffrage amendment, Congress proposed a compromise amendment banning franchise restrictions on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude. The amendment created a split within the women's suffrage movement over the amendment not prohibiting denying the women the right to vote on account of sex. United States Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly. From 1890 to 1910, most black voters in the South were effectively disenfranchised by new state constitutions and state laws incorporating such obstacles as poll taxes and discriminatory literacy tests, from which white male voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of whites-only primaries and violent intimidation by white groups also suppressed black participation. In the twentieth century, the Court began to interpret the amendment more broadly, striking down grandfather clauses in Guinn v. United States (1915) and dismantling the white primary system in the "Texas primary cases" (1927-1953). Along with later measures such as the Twenty-fourth Amendment, which forbade poll taxes in federal elections, and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966), which forbade poll taxes in state elections, these decisions significantly increased black participation in the American political system. To enforce the amendment, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal oversight of elections in discriminatory jurisdictions, banned literacy tests and similar discriminatory devices, and created legal remedies for people affected by voting discrimination. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/sold-down-the-river-black-liberty39s-loss-after-civil-war-dvd-mp4-394.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1892: #BOTD: Erhard Milch, German field marshal and war criminal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I (d. January 25, 1972) is #born in Wilhelmshaven, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, German Empire. During World War II, he was in charge of aircraft production; his ineffective management resulted in the decline of the German air force and its loss of air superiority as the war progressed. He was convicted of war crimes during the Milch Trial held before the U.S. military court in 1947 and sentenced to life imprisonment; he was released in 1954. Milch was the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Imperial German Navy. The Gestapo would later investigate Milch multiple times due to his Jewish heritage, and he was only saved from being classifed as a Jew by the Nazi regime, and thereby being sent to a concentration death camp, by the continual intervention of his superior officer, Reichsmarschall Herman Goering. Erhard Milch lived out the remainder of his life in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, where he died of heart disease as the last living Luftwaffe field marshal, aged 79. He is buried at the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetary) in Luneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-the-luftwaffe-dvd.html

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March 30, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Don Hollenbeck, CBS newscaster, commentator, and associate of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly (d. June 22, 1954) is #born Donald Hollenbeck was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hollenbeck's first assignment was to the Nebraska State Journal in 1926. During World War II, he was assigned to the foreign staff of NBC in London in March 1943. From there he went to Algiers just in time to take a place with the British troops landing at Salerno, Italy in September. He went in with the second wave -- the assault wave which took the full force of German shells, and later made a number of battle-action recordings which were broadcast to the United States. During the conquest of southern Italy, Hollenbeck moved northward with the troops and was one of the first correspondents to begin broadcasting from Naples when the Army Signal Corps set up transmitters for the correspondents. But at Salerno he was stricken with malaria, then with jaundice and ordered back home. Hollenbeck was at one time employed by the newspaper PM, a liberal-leaning daily newspaper published in New York City by Ralph Ingersoll from June 1940 to June 1948 founded and financed by millionaire department store magnate Chicago Marshall Field III. PM garnered accusations of being sympathetic to Communism even though it was critical of the Soviet Union for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and of the American Communist Party for supporting it. The newspaper published work by authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Erskine Caldwell, photographers like Weegee and Margaret Bourke-White, and cartoonists like Dr. Seuss, Crockett Johnson and Walt Kelly. It accepted no advertising, and dedicated itself to preventing "the little guy from being pushed around."[ It ended up becoming a target for anti-communists, and went out of business in 1948. Because of this affiliation, Hollenbeck was a target for McCarthy-supporting columnist Jack O'Brian, whose attacks appeared in the New York Journal American and other newspapers in the Hearst newspaper chain. Hollenbeck also worked for the Office of War Information (OWI), NBC and ABC, once subbing on short notice for Orson Welles over Welles' scheduled Sunday ABC news commentary program, before joining CBS in 1946. The move to CBS followed his firing by ABC's New York flagship radio station WJZ; after listening repeatedly over a six-month period to a musical commercial for Marlin razors that immediately preceded his 7 a.m. newscast, Hollenbeck told his listeners: "The atrocity you have just heard is no part of this show." Murrow had Hollenbeck work on the innovative media-review program, CBS Views the Press, over the radio network's flagship station, WCBS. Hollenbeck discussed Edward U. Condon, Alger Hiss, and Paul Robeson. In the early 1950s, Hollenbeck worked both for CBS Television and flagship WCBS-TV. The first newsman WCBS-TV viewers saw after Murrow's March 9, 1954, documentary on Joe McCarthy was Hollenbeck, who told the viewers he wanted "to associate myself with what Ed Murrow has just said, and say I have never been prouder of CBS." That prompted O'Brian in the Hearst newspapers (including the flagship Journal-American) to step up his criticism of CBS and especially of Hollenbeck, who, despite his news experience under pressure situations, was a sensitive man. Don Hollenbeck died in his Manhattan apartment most likely of suicide aged 49 by fuel gas inhalation caused by his stove and oven having been turned on but not lit, allowing gas to fill his apartment; consequently, Hollenbeck's death was ruled a suicide. Reasons that it might have been suicide include health problems, depression, a broken marriage, and frequent published attacks by Jack O'Brian, a Hearst columnist and supporter of Joseph McCarthy. Don Hollenbeck is buried in Wyuka Cemetery in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. In the 1976 film Network after being fired as president of the news division in the fictional UBS network, Max Schumacher (William Holden) is packing his belongings and finds an old picture taken when he and Howard Beale (Peter Finch) worked at CBS and notes that Hollenbeck is in the picture. In 1986, Hollenbeck was played by Harry Ditson in the HBO original production Murrow. In 2005, Hollenbeck was later played by Ray Wise in the film Good Night, and Good Luck, which was centered on Murrow and CBS News in their 1950s campaign against McCarthy. One of the film's sub-plots included Hollenbeck's suicide following continued printed attacks by Jack O'Brian. He was portrayed through the film as a broken man, as a result of his wife leaving him and the false allegations by O'Brian that he was a "pinko" communist-sympathizer who deliberately biased his news reports. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-history-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (d. September 16, 1996) is #born in Boston, Massachusetts into a prosperous family long involved in Republican politics. McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was an expert in foreign and defense policy, serving as United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966. He was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. Despite his career as a foreign-policy intellectual, educator, and philanthropist, he is best remembered as one of the chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. McGeorge Bundy died of a heart attack at the age of 77 in the town of his birth, Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-cuban-missile-crisis-at-the-brink-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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March 30, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and filmmaker is #born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. His career spans over six decades and he has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay - winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again for Reds. Eight of the films he produced earned 53 Academy nominations. In 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty was nominated for 18 Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007. Among his Golden Globe-nominated films are his screen debut Splendor in the Grass (1961), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998), and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing, and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-tv-pilots-6-laughmakers-dobie-gillis-paul-revere-dean-jone6.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Chuck Leonard, African American Golden Gloves boxing champion, Vietnam War veteran, first African American disc jockey to work on a mainstream radio station, radio personality at WABC 770AM, known as 77 WABC, in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s, whose deep voice and smoothness resonated across 38 states for 14 years at ABC, Museum Of Television And Radio inductee (d. August 12, 2004) is #born Charles Wesley Leonard in Chicago, Illinois. During his over 40-year career in broadcasting, Leonard worked virtually every shift and played all styles of music at stations including WWRL, WABC, WXLO, WRKS, WBLS, WQEW, WNSW-AM and WJUX. Leonard began his broadcasting career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as program director of college radio WPGU, while majoring in journalism. After graduation, Leonard worked briefly for the Washington Evening Star (his boss was Carl Bernstein), while working part-time at WEBB, Baltimore. Leonard moved to WWRL (R & B) in New York in June 1965, doing the night shift. Leonard was at WWRL for just seven weeks, before WABC (AM) deejay Dan Ingram heard him and convinced WABC to hire him. He was the first African-American broadcast personality on a major market Top 40 station. Leonard began at ABC's flagship New York radio station, Musicradio 77 WABC (AM), under program director Rick Sklar in 1965. He broke the color barrier for all who followed - the first African-American to cross over from black R & B radio to (then-mostly white) mass-appeal radio. Leonard began in the 11 p.m. to midnight slot, and continued working late nights and Sundays at the station until November 27, 1979. He did the 10:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. shift following "Cousin" Bruce Morrow and later George Michael. He also gladly handled weekend and fill-in work. Leonard was the host of "Sneak Preview," a five-minute Monday-through-Saturday evening program on ABC's American Contemporary Radio Network, which featured newly released songs. He stayed at WABC until 1979, before moving to WXLO and WRKS. Leonard moved to WXLO on May 12, 1980. At WRKS-FM (98.7 KISS-FM), Leonard did mornings ("The Wake-up Club") and afternoons in the 1980s. At WBLS-FM, New York, Leonard played R & B from 7-11 p.m. He always kept ties with WBLS, working weekends, fill-ins and overnights. At WQEW-AM, New York, Leonard played popular standards from the American songbook prior to the station flipping to Radio Disney. At WNSW-AM 1430, he played popular standards, and at WJUX-FM 103.1 "Jukebox Radio", Leonard did afternoon drive. For WCBS-FM, Leonard did occasional fill in work, including on Christmas Day. He was heard on the Radio Greats weekends. He did not work full-time at WCBS-FM because he was a full-time employee for WBLS. CBS-FM welcomed Leonard to fill in any time he could. Leonard joined Sirius Satellite Radio, where he was heard on both the Swing Street and Soul Review channels. Chuck Leonard died in Manhattan, New York City of lung cancer, aged 67. He was survived by his wife, Pam, and two daughters, Kyra and Diana. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30-31, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Air Warfare Of World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II: European Air Operations During The Battle Of Europe: The Bombing Of Nuremberg In World War II: The Nuremberg Raid (The Nuremberg Raid Of March 30-31, 1944): -- Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg during the overnight of March 30-31, 1944, 95 were shot down and 11 crash-landed on the way home to their bases, more than 700 men went missing with as many as 545 of them dead, and more than 160 became prisoners of war, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of World War II. In Nuremberg itself the attack was classified as "moderately severe"; further damage was incurred in the eastern neighboring towns of Rothenbach An Der Pegnitz, Behringersdorf and Lauf An Der Pegnitz. During the Second World War, Nuremberg was the headquarters of Wehrkreis (military district) XIII, and an important site for military production, including aircraft, submarines and tank engines. A subcamp of Flossenburg concentration camp was located here, and extensively used slave labour. The city was severely and extensively damaged in Allied strategic bombing raids from 1943 to 1945. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/air-power-original-1950s-tv-series-walter-cronkite-4-dv19504.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive: The Liberation Of Danzig: -- Polish and Soviet forces liberate the heavily damaged city of Danzig (Gdansk), the city which served as Adolf Hitler's pretext for starting the Second World War to begin with. As the Soviet Army advanced in 1944, German populations in Central and Eastern Europe took flight, resulting in the beginning of a great population shift, and after the final Soviet offensives began in January 1945, hundreds of thousands of German refugees converged on Danzig, many of whom had fled on foot from East Prussia, some tried to escape through the city's port in a large-scale evacuation involving hundreds of German cargo and passenger ships. Some of the ships were sunk by the Soviets, including the Wilhelm Gustloff after an evacuation was attempted at neighbouring Gdynia. In the process, tens of thousands of refugees were killed. The city also endured heavy Allied and Soviet air raids. Those who survived and could not escape had to face the Soviet Army's large-scale rape and looting. In line with the decisions made by the Allies at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the city was integrated with Poland. The remaining German residents of the city who had survived the war fled or were expelled to postwar Germany, and the city was repopulated by ethnic Poles; up to 18 percent (1948) of them had been deported by the Soviets in two major waves from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union, such as the eastern portion (Kresy) of pre-war Poland. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

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March 30, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Eric Clapton, English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter is #born Eric Patrick Clapton in Ripley, Surrey, England. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009. In the mid-1960s Clapton left the Yardbirds to play with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed the power trio Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop". After Cream broke up, he formed blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech. Clapton's solo career began in the 1970s, where his work bore the influence of the mellow style of J. J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded with Derek and the Dominos; and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded with Cream. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which was featured on his Unplugged album. Clapton has been the recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He has received four Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In his solo career, Clapton has sold more than 130 million records worldwide. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eric-clapton-1987-documentary-melvyn-bragg-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Johnnie Walker (DJ), English radio disc jockey and broadcaster who began his career in 1966 on pirate radio station Swinging Radio England before joining Radio Caroline, then joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969 and BBC Radio 2 in 1998 (d. December 31, 2024) is #born Peter Waters Dingley in Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England. From 2009 to 2024, Peter Waters Dingley MBE presented Sounds of the 70s on Radio 2 on Sunday afternoons and The Radio 2 Rock Show on Friday nights from 2018 to 2024. Walker began broadcasting as a disc jockey in May 1966, on offshore ("pirate") radio station Swinging Radio England, and later on Radio Caroline. In 1967, when the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act of 1967 forced the pirate stations to move out of British waters, three presenters continued to broadcast on Caroline until March 1968 from the coast of the Netherlands: Walker, Robbie Dale, and Ross Brown. Walker's theme tune was Duane Eddy's 1960 hit "Because They're Young". More than 40 years later, he would use the song as the intro for his Radio 2 drivetime show. Walker joined BBC Radio 1 in April 1969 and presented a two-hour Saturday show from 2 to 4 pm. A year later, in 1970, he presented a one-hour weekday morning slot from 9 to 10 am. He moved to the 1 pm - 3 pm weekday early afternoon show in 1971, which went out from noon to 2 pm in 1973. The show featured the music quiz "Pop the Question" and a Tuesday chart rundown. The new weekly chart was published from research figures provided by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB). In July 1976, Walker had a dispute with BBC management concerning the music he played, which it was said did not fit into the station's daytime music line-up. He left Radio 1 and moved to the United States, where he stayed for five years. During this time, he worked for radio stations KSAN in San Francisco, KPFA in Berkeley, California, in January 1981, and WHFS in Bethesda, Maryland. Walker returned to the UK in the early 1980s and in 1982 presented Radio West's evening show The Modern World. In September 1983 he joined Wiltshire Radio, presenting the 11 am - 2 pm slot. He was subsequently heard on GWR, which was formed from the merger of Radio West and Wiltshire Radio. On January 17, 1987, Walker re-joined Radio 1, presenting the Saturday afternoon show The Stereo Sequence. In October 1988, Walker was one of the original presenters on the new BBC local station in London, BBC GLR. In 1990, Walker joined newly-launched BBC Radio 5, presenting This Family Business three days a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 am to 12.30 pm. In 1997, in addition to his Classic Gold shows, Walker presented documentaries on BBC Radio 2 and filled in for other presenters. In April 1998, Walker was given his own weekly show on Radio 2 on Saturdays from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Walker told listeners in June 2003 that he was suffering from cancer. He ended his show by stating that he was beginning treatment and would be taking time off to recover, and played "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel. Stuart Maconie filled in for him in his absence. Walker returned to the show on 1 March 2004: his first record was Eric Clapton's "Hello Old Friend". Walker and Clapton were born on the same day, and Walker later presented a Radio 2 show to celebrate the fact that they were both turning sixty. He was appointed an MBE in the 2006 New Year Honours. On October 6, 2024 Walker announced on Radio 2 that in the light of his health issues, he had decided to bring his career to a close after 58 years, and that his last show would be on October 27; his last episode of The Rock Show aired on Radio 2 on Friday October 25, with Walker choosing Bruce Springsteen as his Rock God; that show was taken over therfeafter by Shaun Keaveny. Rod Stewart sent an audio message saying "I have to thank you my man, thank you from the bottom of my heart for playing not only my songs, but the Faces and just about every other rock band in the world on your wonderful show over the years." On October 27, on Radio 2's Sounds Of The 70s, the very last record he played on his very last radio show was Judy Collins' 1970 version of "Amazing Grace"; that show was taken over therfeafter by Bob Harris. That same day, Radio Caroline's Ray Clark broadcast a 20 minute interview with Walker, in which he reminisced about his early days with pirate radio and his subsequent career. Walker died at his home in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England on New Years Eve 2024 at the age of 79, and was announced by the BBC that same day. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. His death was announced on air on BBC Radio 2 by Bob Harris at the start of his New Year's Eve Sounds Of The 70s afternoon show. Helen Thomas, head of Radio 2, said: "Everyone at Radio 2 is heartbroken about the passing of Johnnie, a much loved broadcasting legend." BBC director general Tim Davie described Walker as a "pop radio pioneer and champion of great music", adding: "No-one loved the audience as much as Johnnie, and we loved him back." His widow Tiggy said that she "couldn't be more proud" of how Johnnie kept broadcasting until shortly before his death. "He remained his charming, humorous self to the end, what a strong amazing man. It has been a rollercoaster ride from start to finish," she commented and added: "And if I may say - what a day to go. He'll be celebrating New Year's Eve with a stash of great musicians in heaven. One year on from his last live show. God bless that extraordinary husband of mine who is now in a place of peace." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

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Today, March 30, 2026

March 30, 1950: #BOTD: #HBD! Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian (d. October 14, 2022) is #born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland. Anthony Robert McMillan OBE gained worldwide recognition in the 2000s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series. He was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In 1990, Coltrane received the Evening Standard British Film Award - Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In 2011, he was honoured for his "outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards. Coltrane started his career appearing alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco. His comedic abilities brought him roles in The Comic Strip Presents (1982-2012) series (in 1993 he directed and co-wrote the episode "Jealousy" for series 5). In 1987, he starred in the BBC miniseries Tutti Frutti with Thompson, for which he received his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination. Coltrane then gained national prominence starring as criminal psychologist Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker, a role which saw him receive the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996. In 2006, Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, voted by the public. In 2016, he starred in the four-part Channel 4 series National Treasure alongside Julie Walters, a role for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination. Coltrane appeared in the films Mona Lisa and Nuns on the Run and as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. He also appeared in the films Henry V, Let It Ride, Danny, the Champion of the World, Ocean's Twelve, The Brothers Bloom, Great Expectations, and Effie Gray, and provided voice acting roles in the animated films The Tale of Despereaux and Brave. Robbie Coltrane died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland of a complex of multiple organ failure complicated by sepsis, a lower respiratory tract infection, and heart block, aged 72. He had also been diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and had been ill for two years prior to his death. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were scattered at Washington Square Park, New York City. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-movie-life-of-george-handmade-films-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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

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March 30, 1965: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The 1965 United States Embassy In Saigon Bombing: -- A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. The attack occurred when a Vietnamese policeman began arguing with the driver of a car parked in front of the embassy but the driver refused to leave and then another Viet Cong member drove up alongside the car and fired on the policeman. Quickly following the brief exchange of fire, the car, which contained 300 pounds of plastic explosives, detonated in front of the embassy killing two Americans, one female CIA employee, Barbara Robbins and another American, as well as 19 Vietnamese and one Filipino serving in the U.S. Navy along with injuring 183 others. The U.S. Congress appropriated 1M USD to reconstruct the embassy in a new location following the attack, and although retaliatory raids on North Vietnam were suggested, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson refused. Following the attack, South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do posthumously decorated Barbara Robbins and the Filipino navy serviceman with the Medal Of Honor First Class. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30: Take A Walk In The Park Day: -- A yearly encouragement for all of us to invest in our health without spending any money! Who doesn't like spending some quiet time in nature? All you have to do is wear some comfortable shoes, find a walking partner (or not), and go for a peaceful walk in one of your preferred parks. Did you know that there are 423 national park sites in the U.S.? Taking a leisurely stroll in the park is a fantastic way to clear your mind of everyday worries and appreciate the natural beauty around you. Take a Walk in the Park Day was founded to reconnect people with Mother Nature. We all are familiar with the numerous benefits of walking, it also has many therapeutic effects on our health. But these benefits are often overlooked. According to new research, individuals who regularly visit parks are reported to have better mental- and physical health. There were also some studies conducted that proved that people living near parks got along better with different people. Researchers found that people living in apartment buildings with views of trees were less aggressive as compared to those living in concrete buildings with no views to look at. We all live in tighter spaces, which makes us interact less with nature. Due to this, our physical, spiritual, and social well-being is affected to a greater extent. In the past, people have mostly lived outdoors, in forests and jungles. Now, the times have changed and it will keep on changing, so parks will always be a kind of antidote to our busy and crowded lives. This is something that we should think about on this refreshing day. Consider parks as lifesavers, they are blessings of nature to be enjoyed by the whole community. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/in-the-suburbs-life-in-suburbia-films-dvd.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30: National Folding Laundry: -- Yes, we're serious! That growing pile of clothes you haven't folded yet, the one that's sitting on your chair in the room, on your bed, or that you haven't even taken it out of the dryer yet - it's time to iron those clothes, fold them up neatly, and put them back in your closet where they belong. Or if they have not been used in 12 months, pack them up and donate them to charity. Get the whole family involved and let's fold all our laundry. What do you think of when you hear the word 'laundry'? A washer and dryer? While it's an accurate mental image, laundry refers to any form of washing and cleaning of clothes and other textiles, along with drying and ironing them. It has been around for as long as clothes have existed. Laundry was first done in flowing water bodies, letting the water carry away the materials, which could cause stains and smells. Agitation also helped remove dirt, so clothes were rubbed, twisted, or slapped against flat rocks. The dirt may have also been beaten out with a wooden implement like a bat or a club. Wooden or stone scrubbing surfaces set up near a water supply were eventually replaced by portable rub boards and soon by factory-made washboards. The wet clean clothes were then hung up on poles or clotheslines to be dried. Laundry was also done in a communal setting in villages across Europe. These places were called washhouses and the job of doing the laundry was done by women who did it for the whole family. Washerwomen would do the laundry of other people for money. These wash-houses became important cultural places for women who could gather there, meet other women and chat about everything under the sun. In the modern era of work, work, work, and everyone running to their activities, the laundry often gets washed and then forgotten somewhere in a pile. National Folding Laundry Day is dedicated to this often-hated task. So get the family in on it and get it over and done in a jiffy. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/groucho-marx-and-marx-brothers-mp3-dvd-all-known-radio-show3.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30: World Bipolar Day: -- An annual observance held on the birthday of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh - one of the most influential artists in the history of Western art. His creativity was paralleled with his mental illness and he was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder dramatically affects the mood and may result in episodes of depression and elation, which can affect one's health, productivity, and relationships. World Bipolar Day educates and promotes the spread of information on bipolar disorder through international collaborative efforts. ========= March 30, 1853: #BOTD: #HBD! Vincent Van Gogh, post-impressionist painter and illustrator, generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt (d. July 29, 1890) is #born Vincent Willem van Gogh in Groot Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853. During his short (10-year) painting career he produced over 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings, but sold only one during his lifetime. In 1987, the sale of his painting Irises brought 53.9M USD, the highest price ever paid for a work of art up to that time. During his life, Van Gogh suffered from despair and bouts of mental illness, at one point cutting off part of his own left ear. dies in Auvers-sur-Oise, France aged 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound he received two day's prior (July 27, 1890). He is buried at Auvers-Sur-Oise Town Cemetery in Auvers-Sur-Oise, Ile-De-France (Paris), France. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/to-paint-the-stars-the-life-amp-mind-of-vincent-van-gogh-dvd.html

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March 30: International Day Of Zero Waste: -- As an annual campaign, the International Day Of Zero Waste seeks to amplify and grow the efforts put into not only protecting the environment but also reducing food insecurity and while improving the health and well-being of everyone who shares the planet! The International Day Of Zero Waste was officially established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2022 and its first celebration was in March 2023. This day is now celebrated annually to promote public awareness across the globe about the need for more zero-waste initiatives as they work toward sustainable development. Working to address the unsustainable practices in production and consumption, this event is supported by the United Nations along with many other environmental organizations, non-profits, sustainable businesses, and more. Other events that are celebrated along a similar theme as International Zero Waste Day are Zero Waste Week in March, Zero Emissions Day on September 21, and International E-Waste Day on October 14. Taking care of the earth and its natural resources is the job of every person who occupies our planet! Check out a few ideas for getting involved with the United Nations' International Day Of Zero Waste: 1) Minimize Consumption: -- Every person, family, business, or school can use International Day Of Zero Waste to take stock of the ways they consume without thinking. Ask some of these questions to get started: What opportunities might there be to cut down on fuel by running errands all at once or carpooling with a coworker? Is it possible to eliminate single-use products like throw-away paper plates or plastic forks? What about the simple idea of using cloth shopping bags instead of plastic ones? Or using beeswax cloths instead of plastic wrap? 2) Reuse and Repurpose: -- This is just the right time for consumers and businesses to get into the habit of thinking more carefully about the products they use. Get creative with ways to invest in sustainable habits like making use of refillable water bottles, coffee cups, and straws. Consider cooking more carefully with fresh produce (not packaged in plastic), while repurposing vegetable scraps for broth and composting the rest. All it takes is a bit of clever thinking and looking at things differently before throwing them in the garbage can. 3) Advocate for Better Zero Waste Policies and Practices: Anyone can use their voices for International Day Of Zero Waste by speaking up against wasteful practices and promoting sustainable businesses. Consumers can show support through the places they spend their money and citizens can show support for good eco-policies by the places they give their votes! 4) Shop Second Hand: -- For furniture, household items, clothing, and sporting equipment, consider shopping second-hand. This also works for cars, kids' toys, electronics, and more! Not only does buying used or refurbished extend the life of an existing item and keep it out of the landfill, but it also means there is less waste coming from the factories that make new products. Plus, going vintage is just super cool these days! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/propaganda-posters-cd-jpg-images.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30: National Pencil Day: -- The perfect moment to explore these old writing tools! This simple instrument has meant so much to mankind. It allows people to express themselves, helps them find their creativity, and supports all kinds of scribbles and doodles. Did you know that one pencil can write up to 45,000 words? Pencils have been used for ages, and have gone through many changes in terms of their design, but have you ever wondered who came up with the brilliant idea of attaching an eraser to a pencil? Well, Hymen Lipman was the man behind this great discovery and was responsible for making our lives easier. We celebrate this day to honor this superb creation. Who would have thought that a graphite core closed inside a wooden casing could perform such numerous and extremely important tasks? Before the invention of the pencil as we know it, people still wrote, only, they used things like a fine brush of camel hair or the stylus (ancient Romans). Back in the 1st century B.C., the Greek poet Philip of Thessaloniki wrote about 'leaden writing instruments'. Pencils are one of the first writing tools and they are known to have originated in the 16th century when the world discovered graphite. This crystallized form of carbon was found somewhere around 1565 or even earlier, near Keswick, England. Legend says a storm uprooted a tree here, and clinging to the tree roots was a shiny black substance - graphite! There is no evidence that this is how graphite was discovered; what we do know is that this site was transformed into a commercial graphite mine a few decades later. This is around the time people began using a piece of graphite wrapped in a string to write. 18th-century German chemist A. G. Werner was responsible for naming it 'graphite', from the Greek word 'graphein,' which means 'to write'. In the early days after the discovery, local shepherds were the only ones using graphite to mark their sheep. Because it looked so much like lead, people would call it plumbago - the Latin word for lead, i.e., 'plumbus' - or even 'black lead'. This connotation stuck to graphite, and consequently, pencils too. After Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner published his drawing of a strip of graphite inside a tube of wood, the 'pencil' began to spread throughout Europe. Britain still had a monopoly over pencil making, and graphite, at this time. By 1794, however, France was cut off from this supply of pencils due to their war with Britain. Thus, French engineer Nicolas-Jacques Conte was responsible for inventing 'Crayons Conte', which was low-quality graphite mixed with clay, shaped into rods, and baked. Continental pencil makers no longer needed to rely on the British for pencils. Conte's invention spurred more innovation in the world of pencil making. Germany, France, America - each country conducted their own experiments, and pencil making became commonplace around the globe. These pencils were great, but the wood around was not. In fact, it was often of low quality. Soon, people hit upon the idea of painting pencils to mask the quality of the wood. Only the fanciest pencils went unpainted. And then, at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, an Austro-Hungarian pencil company unveiled a new luxury pencil - which was painted yellow. It was named Koh-I-Noor after the largest and best diamond in the world. Because of this, yellow came to be associated with quality, and many other pencil makers picked up this color to adorn their pencils. Even today, the U.S. paints pencils and other writing instruments yellow to represent quality. And what about, the mistakes people made while writing? Before there were erasers, people would rub out mistakes using balled-up lumps of old bread. Then, in 1770, a clergyman-chemist named Joseph Priestley noticed the gum harvested from trees in South America was very good at removing pencil marks. Because people had to rub to remove the marks, this gum was named 'rubber'. Germany gave birth to the mass-production of pencils, with companies like Faber-Castell, Staedtler, and Lyra that produced pencils in bulk. In Massachusetts, the Dixon Ticonderoga Company began manufacturing pencils in the 19th century. By the late 19th century, pencils were widely being used in the U.S. The most famously used wood for pencils was red cedar because of its aroma and quality. On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman patented the 'modern pencil.' It was a wooden graphite pencil with a rubber eraser attached, which he later sold to Joseph Reckendorfer for $100,000. Since then, the manufacturing of pencils hasn't stopped and there are billions of pencils being made and sold around the world. There are so many types of pencils including graphite pencils, charcoal pencils, grease pencils, and watercolor pencils. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-business-films-1910s1960s-3-dual-laye191019603.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30: National "I Am In Control" Day: -- March 30, 1981: United States Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: The Attempted Assassination Of Ronald Reagan: -- The 40th U.S. President, Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. White House Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and police officer Thomas Delahanty were also wounded. All three survived, but Brady suffered brain damage and was permanently disabled; Brady's death in 2014 was classified by the medical examiner as a homicide because it was ultimately caused by this injury, though in January 2015, federal prosecutors announced that they would not charge Hinckley with Brady's death. Reagan's Secretary Of State Alexander Haig, took control of the situation and, while answering questions in a press briefing uttered the famous words, "I am in control." In a press briefing immediately following, Reagan's Secretary Of State Alexander Haig asserted "I am in control", ostensibly to calm the media by assuring them that the government was functioning well in the absence of the president and the vice president. His stated intention was to declare that he was in control of the government decisions until the vice president returned. His remarks are considered now as then controversial; it appeared that he was trying to assume authority he did not have, and was trying to take the place of the both the president and the vice president. An embarrassed Haig later walked back his statement and declared that he had no such intentions, and that he was trying to take responsibility for the executive branch of the government until President Reagan and the vice president returned. The West Wing theater where the press briefing took place, located between the workspace assigned to the White House press corps and the office of the press secretary, has been renamed The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Hinckley's motivation for the attack was to impress actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley had developed an obsession with Foster after watching one of her films. Reagan was hit by a .22 Long Rifle bullet that ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the left underarm, breaking a rib, puncturing a lung, and causing serious internal bleeding. Although "close to death" upon arrival at George Washington University Hospital, Reagan was stabilized in the emergency room, then underwent emergency exploratory surgery. He recovered and was released from the hospital on April 11. No formal invocation of presidential succession took place, although Secretary Of State Alexander Haig stated that he was "in control here" while Vice President George H. W. Bush, who was in Fort Worth, Texas at the time of the shooting, returned to Washington. A federal judge subpoenaed Foster to testify at Hinckley's trial, and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of attempting to assassinate the president. Hinckley remained confined to a psychiatric facility. On September 10, 2016, Hinckley was released from institutional psychiatric care. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ronald-reagan-dvd-tv-biography.html

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March 30, 1840: #DOTD: #RIP: Beau Brummell, English fashion designer, fashion icon, and socialite, best remembered as the original and preeminent example of a dandy in Regency England and ever since, for many years the arbiter of men's fashion, whose influence is still felt today (b. June 7, 1778) #dies at the age of 61, penniless and insane from syphilis, at Le Bon Sauveur Asylum on the outskirts of Caen. He is buried at Cimetiere Protestant, Caen, France. He had been rapidly running out of money and growing increasingly slovenly in his dress; his long-unpaid Calais creditors forced him into debtors' prison in 1835, and it was only through the charitable intervention of his friends in England was he able to secure his release later that year. Beau Brummell was born George Bryan Brummell on Downing Street, London, England, the younger son of Jane (nee Richardson), daughter of the Keeper of the Lottery Office, and William Brummell), a confectioner in Bury Street, St. James's, later Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Lord North. Beau Brummell's name is still associated with style and good looks, and it has been given to a variety of modern products to suggest their high quality. The modern standard suit, also known as a lounge suits and business suits, is largely and directly decended from his style of dress. An entire literature was founded upon his manner and witty sayings which has persisted to this day. At one time he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled, and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-romantic-spirit-tv-series-all-14-episodes-5-dual-layer-d145.html

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March 30, 1985: #DOTD: #RIP: James Cagney, American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film (b. July 17, 1899) #dies of a heart attack at his Dutchess County farm in Stanford, New York, on Easter Sunday 1986; he was 86 years old. A funeral Mass was held at St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. The eulogy was delivered by his close friend, Ronald Reagan, who was also the President of the United States at the time. His pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who had hoped to play Cagney on Broadway), actor Ralph Bellamy, and director Milos Forman. Governor Mario M. Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch were also in attendance at the service. Cagney is interred in a crypt in the Garden Mausoleum at Cemetery Of The Gate Of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York. He was born James Francis Cagney Jr. in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His biographers disagree as to the actual location: either on the corner of Avenue D and 8th Street, or in a top-floor apartment at 391 East 8th Street, the address that is on his birth certificate. His father, James Francis Cagney Sr. (1875-1918), was of Irish descent. At the time of his son's birth, he was a bartender and amateur boxer, although on Cagney's birth certificate, he is listed as a telegraphist. His mother was Carolyn Elizabeth (nee Nelson; 1877-1945); her father was a Norwegian ship's captain, and her mother was Irish. Jimmy Cagney his greatest impact in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and White Heat (1949), and was typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles said of Cagney, "[he was] maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera", and Stanley Kubrick considered him to be one of the best actors of all time. In his first professional acting performance, Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the revue Every Sailor, in 1919. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925. He secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. After rave reviews, Warner Bros. signed him for an initial 500 USD a week, three-week contract to reprise his role; this was quickly extended to a seven-year contract. Cagney's seventh film, The Public Enemy, became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Notable for a famous scene in which Cagney pushes a grapefruit against Mae Clarke's face, the film thrust him into the spotlight. He became one of Hollywood's biggest stars and one of Warner Bros.' biggest contracts. In 1938, he received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, for Angels with Dirty Faces, for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan. In 1942, Cagney won the Oscar for his energetic portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He was nominated a third time in 1955 for Love Me or Leave Me. Cagney retired from acting and dancing in 1961 to spend time on his farm with his family. He came out of retirement 20 years later for a part in the movie Ragtime (1981), mainly to aid his recovery from a stroke. Cagney walked out on Warner Bros. several times over the course of his career, each time returning on much improved personal and artistic terms. In 1935, he sued Warner for breach of contract and won. This was one of the first times an actor prevailed over a studio on a contract issue. He worked for an independent film company for a year while the suit was being settled-and established his own production company, Cagney Productions, in 1942, before returning to Warner four years later. In reference to Cagney's refusal to be pushed around, Jack L. Warner called him "the Professional Againster". Cagney also made numerous morale-boosting troop tours before and during World War II and was president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/blood-on-the-sun-1945-dvd-jimmy-cagney-wwii-m1945.html

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March 30, 1985: #DOTD: #RIP: Harold Peary, American actor, comedian and singer in radio, films, television and animation (b. July 25, 1908) #dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, California. He was born Jose Pereira de Faria in San Leandro, California, to Portuguese parents. His most memorable role is as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, which began as a supporting character on radio's Fibber McGee and Molly introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. The character proved to be so popular with audiences by 1941 that Peary got his own immensely popular radio situation comedy show, The Great Gildersleeve, the first known spin-off hit in American broadcasting history. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. In Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and antagonist of Fibber McGee. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character went by several aliases on Fibber McGee and Molly; his middle name was revealed to be "Philharmonic" on October 22, 1940, in episode #258, "Fibber Discovers Gildersleeve's Locked Diary". "Gildy" grew so popular that Kraft Foods, promoting its Parkay margarine, sponsored a new series featuring Peary's somewhat mellowed and always befuddled Gildersleeve as the head of his own family. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-gildersleeve-amp-honest-harold-the-homemaker-otr-mp3-dv3.html

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March 30, 1939: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: Flight Airspeed Records: -- The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph. Although it proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development, the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately 19 prototypes and pre-production examples were built. None are known to have survived the war. The reason for the He 100 failing to reach production status is mostly unknown. Officially, the Luftwaffe rejected the He 100 to concentrate single-seat fighter development on the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Following the adoption of the Bf 109 and Messerschmitt Bf 110 as the Luftwaffe's standard fighter types, the Ministry of Aviation announced a "rationalization" policy that placed fighter development at Messerschmitt and bomber development at Heinkel. Because there are no surviving examples, and since many factory documents, including all blueprints for the He 100, were destroyed during a bombing raid, there is limited specific information about the design and its unique systems. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-messerschmitt-me-262-schwalbe-262.html

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March 30, 2021: #DOTD: G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal (b. November 30, 1930) #dies at his daughter's house in Fairfax County, Virginia at the age of 90 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was born George Gordon Battle Liddy in Brooklyn, New York. G. Gordon Liddy is best known as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July to September 1971, during Richard Nixon's presidency. He was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal. Separately, along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After five of Liddy's operatives were arrested inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972, subsequent investigations of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly fifty-two months in federal prisons. Liddy later joined with (former Harvard University professor) Timothy Leary for a series of popular debates on various college campuses, and similarly worked with Al Franken in the late 1990s. Liddy served as a radio talk show host from 1992 until his retirement on July 27, 2012. His radio show as of 2009 was syndicated in 160 markets by Radio America and on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio stations in the United States. He had been a guest panelist for Fox News Channel in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a guest celebrity talent in several television shows. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-key-to-watergate-call-girl-scandal-investigation-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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March 30, 1972: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The Easter Offensive The 1972 Spring-Summer Offensive (Vietnamese: Chien Dich Xuan-He 1972), The Red Fiery Summer (Mua He Do Lua): -- The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. The Easter Offensive, officially known as The 1972 Spring-Summer Offensive by North Vietnam and NLF, or Red fiery summer as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, the regular army of South Vietnam) and the United States military between March 30, and October 22, 1972. This conventional invasion, the largest offensive operation since 300,000 Chinese volunteers had crossed the Yalu River into North Korea during the Korean War, was a radical departure from previous North Vietnamese offensives. The offensive was not designed to win the war outright but to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the ARVN as possible, to improve the North's negotiating position as the Paris Peace Accords drew towards a conclusion. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-vietnam-war-with-walter-cronkite-tv-series-3-dvd-se3.html

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March 30, 1965: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The 1965 United States Embassy In Saigon Bombing: -- A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. The attack occurred when a Vietnamese policeman began arguing with the driver of a car parked in front of the embassy but the driver refused to leave and then another Viet Cong member drove up alongside the car and fired on the policeman. Quickly following the brief exchange of fire, the car, which contained 300 pounds of plastic explosives, detonated in front of the embassy killing two Americans, one female CIA employee, Barbara Robbins and another American, as well as 19 Vietnamese and one Filipino serving in the U.S. Navy along with injuring 183 others. The U.S. Congress appropriated 1M USD to reconstruct the embassy in a new location following the attack, and although retaliatory raids on North Vietnam were suggested, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson refused. Following the attack, South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do posthumously decorated Barbara Robbins and the Filipino navy serviceman with the Medal Of Honor First Class. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

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Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 1982: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Space Shuttle Program (The Space Transportation System (STS)): Space Shuttle Mission STS-3 -- NASA's third Space Shuttle Mission, STS-3, ends with the landing of Columbia at the White Sands Space Harbor near Las Cruces, New Mexico, part of the White Sands Missile Range, the only mission to land there; it was forced to do so due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base. It was launched on March 22, 1982 at 16:00:00 UTC from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) in Merritt Island, Florida. STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission involved extensive orbital endurance testing of the Columbia itself, as well as numerous scientific experiments. STS-3 was the first shuttle launch with an unpainted external tank. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-7-the-space-shuttle-dv7.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill Withers, African American singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and producer (b. July 4, 1938) #dies from heart complications in a Los Angeles hospital on March 30, 2020, at age 81; his family announced his death four days later. The family statement read "We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband and father. A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other. As private a life as he lived close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California. Bill Withers was born William Harrison Withers Jr. in the small coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the youngest of six children. Withers recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980). Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2015. Two of his songs were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Withers worked as a professional musician for just 15 years, from 1970 to 1985, after which he moved on to other occupations. His disdain for Columbia's A & R (Artists & Repetoire) executives or "blaxperts", as he termed them, trying to exert control over how he should sound if he wanted to sell more albums, played a part in his decision to not record or re-sign to a record label after 1985, effectively ending his performing career, even though remixes of his previously recorded music were released well after his 'retirement'. Finding musical success later in life than most, at 32, he said he was socialized as a 'regular guy' who had a life before the music, so he did not feel an inherent need to keep recording once he fell out of love with the industry. After he left the music industry he said that he did not miss touring and performing live and did not regret leaving music behind. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Call To Glory: Chennault And The Flying Tigers DVD, Download, USB
Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 2018: #DOTD: Anna Chennault, Chinese journalist, war correspondent, radio broadcaster for the Voice Of America, prominent Republican member of the U.S. China Lobby, and beauty, wife of American military aviator General Claire Chennault who was best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Chinese Air Force in World War II (b. June 23, 1923) #dies of complications from a stroke she suffered in the prior December in Washington, D.C. at the age of 94. She is buried next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery. She was born Chan Sheng Mai, later spelled Chen Xiangmei, in Peking (Beijing), China. Chen received a bachelor's degree in Chinese from Lingnan University at the age of 21. She was a war correspondent for the Central News Agency from 1944 to 1948 and wrote for the Hsin Ming Daily News in Shanghai from 1945 to 1949. While visiting her sister Cynthia Chan, a U.S. Army nurse in Kunming, she met General Claire Chennault, head of the Flying Tiger group. While working as a journalist in 1944, the 21-year-old Chen interviewed General Chennault, a man who was widely viewed in China as a war hero who had protected the Chinese people from Japanese bombing since 1937. After the interview, Chen had tea with Chennault, whose gentlemanly behavior and Southern charm left her feeling "awed", as she later remembered. Chen Xiangmei and Chennault, who was 32 years her senior, married in December 1947. The Chennaults divided their time between Taipei and Monroe, Louisiana, where Anna Chennault became the first non-white person to settle into a previously all-white neighborhood; General Chennault's status as a war hero silenced objections to his Chinese wife. At the time, a law forbade non-whites from settling in the Monroe neighborhood in which General Chennault had bought his house and an anti-miscegenation law made their marriage illegal in Louisiana, but no one dared to prosecute him for bringing Anna with him into the neighborhood. Controversy surrounds Anna Chennault for the crucial role she played on behalf of Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign in seeking to delay the Vietnam War peace negotiations in order to boost Nixon's chances for victory. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-call-to-glory-chennault-and-the-flying-tigers-dvd-wwii.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The X Planes TV Documentary Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 1975: #DOTD: #RIP: Pancho Barnes, pioneer aviator and a founder of the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, the first movie stunt pilots' union, famous as the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant in the Mojave Desert, Southern California, catering to the legendary test pilots and aviators who worked nearby at what is now Edwards Air Force Base (b. 1901) dies in Boron, California; Barnes suffered from breast cancer, likely the ultimate cause of her death. She was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Antelope Valley Aero Museum's annual "Barnstormers Reunion" on April 5, 1975. However, when a friend called on March 30, 1975, she could not reach her. Her son Bill found her dead in her home, and the coroner determined that she had died nearly a week earlier. Bill obtained special permission, which was granted from the United States Air Force, to spread her ashes over the site of the Happy Bottom Riding Club. He then flew an aircraft over the site, but a crosswind came up, sweeping the ashes back into the small Cessna aircraft, to be carried aloft again. "Even in death Barnes still loved a good joy ride." Pancho Barnes was #born Florence Leontine Lowe to Thaddeus Lowe II (1870-1955) and his first wife, Florence May Dobbins, in Pasadena, California. Her life and personality were portrayed in the 1983 epic film The Right Stuff, adapted from Tom Wolfe's bestselling book of the same name. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record. Barnes raced in the Women's Air Derby and was a member of the Ninety-Nines, officially known as Ninety-Nines: the International Organization of Women Pilots, an international organization that provides networking, mentoring, and flight scholarship opportunities to recreational and professional female pilots. As of 2018, there are 155 Ninety-Nines chapters across the globe, including a 'virtual' chapter, Ambassador 99s, which meets online for those who are too busy or mobile to be in one region for long. Florence Lowe Barnes was born to a wealthy family, growing up in a huge mansion in San Marino, California. During her formative years, she attended the area's finest private schools. Her father, an avid sportsman, encouraged her to appreciate the great outdoors, and Florence became an accomplished equestrian. Her grandfather was Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who had pioneered American aviation with the establishment of the nation's first military air unit, the Army of the Potomac's balloon corps during the American Civil War. He took his granddaughter to an air show when she was 10 years old. In 1919, Florence married Reverend C. Rankin Barnes of South Pasadena, California, and they had a son, William E. Barnes. Her mother died in 1924. Having spent four months abroad in Mexico, getting caught up with revolutionaries and escaping the attention of authorities, disguised as a man, she began to use the nickname "Pancho" around this time. Barnes returned to San Marino, California, with an inheritance bequeathed to her on her parents' death. In 1928, while driving her cousin Dean Banks to flying lessons, she decided to learn to fly, and convinced her cousin's flight instructor, Ben Caitlin, a World War I veteran, of her desire that same day. She soloed after six hours of formal instruction. Barnes ran an ad-hoc barnstorming show and competed in air races. Despite a crash in the 1929 Women's Air Derby, she returned in 1930 under the sponsorship of the Union Oil Company to win the race - and break Amelia Earhart's world women's speed record with a speed of 196.19 miles per hour (315.74 km/h). Barnes broke this record in a Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship. After her contract with Union Oil expired, Barnes moved to Hollywood to work as a stunt pilot for movies. In 1931, she started the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of film industry stunt fliers which promoted flying safety and standardized pay for aerial stunt work. She flew in several air-adventure movies of the 1930s, including Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930). Barnes had extensive connections in Hollywood. Her early close friend George Hurrell (1904-1992), then eking out a living as a painter and photographer in Laguna Beach, California, would later become the legendary head of the portrait department of MGM Studios. Barnes is credited with helping Hurrell start his career in Hollywood after he took the photo she was to use on her pilot's license, introducing him to her Hollywood friends. In a short period of time, Hurrell became the most in-demand photographer in Hollywood. Barnes lost most of her money in the Great Depression. By 1935, she had only her apartment in Hollywood left. She sold it, and in March 1935 bought 180 acres (73 ha) of land in the Mojave Desert, near the Rogers dry lake bed and the nascent Muroc Field, then called March Field because it was an adjunct property of March Army Air Base at that time. On her land, Pancho Barnes built the Happy Bottom Riding Club, also known as the Rancho Oro Verde Fly-Inn Dude Ranch, a dude ranch and restaurant which catered to airmen at the nearby airfield and her friends from Hollywood. Barnes became very close friends with many of the early test pilots, including Chuck Yeager, Robert Anderson "Bob" Hoover, Walt Williams, Jack Ridley, General Jimmy Doolittle, Buzz Aldrin, North American Aviation flight test mechanic Bob Cadick, and flight test supervisor Roy Ferren. Barnes' ranch became famous for the parties and high-flying lifestyle of all the guests. After successful flight trials, the Muroc and Edwards test pilots often enjoyed some good times at the Happy Bottom Riding Club. As proprietor, Barnes would offer them a customary free steak dinner for breaking the sound barrier. A change of command in 1952, however, contributed to Barnes getting into a conflict with the United States Air Force (USAF) after General Albert Boyd, an admirer and friend of Barnes, assumed command at the base; he would thereafter berate her if her clientele came too close to military airspace and flight paths. The USAF was planning for the future of aviation, and decided it needed to build a new, super-long runway to accommodate new aircraft that were being planned to run on atomic power. That new runway would run directly across her ranch. The USAF originally offered her a price for her ranch, land, and facilities that was very close to the cost of undeveloped desert land. She requested a fair appraisal to better reflect the actual cost of replacement of her land and business, but in the midst of getting a re-appraisal, the base leadership accused her of running a house of ill-repute on her ranch. The effect of even the hint of impropriety resulted in her ranch and business being put off-limits to military personnel, and the value of her business plummeted. Barnes then filed a lawsuit against the USAF to, as she put it, "Roust out the scoundrels in the government who would perpetrate such an injustice." She knew that if she filed a lawsuit, she would have the opportunity to depose under oath the various leaders and personnel on base, and the truth would come out and clear her name. During the height of the intense court battle, in 1953, her ranch burned in a fire of mysterious origin. After the fire, the value of her ranch and business further plummeted to a level more closely reflecting the original buy-out offer from the USAF. Nonetheless, the court battle continued. Barnes was determined to receive fair value for her land and business, and to clear her name. A main contention of her case was: "My grandfather founded the United States Air Force." On that argument, the court found in her favor and she was awarded 375K USD remuneration for her property and business. Also, her name was cleared. As it turned out, the proposed runway was never built. After the government bought her out, she moved to Cantil, California, in hopes of restarting a similar dude ranch business there. It never happened. It was not until the late 1960s that Barnes once again became a commonplace figure at the base and began to be referred to as the "Mother of Edwards AFB." The wounds began to heal as Barnes reconnected with many old-timers. The officer's mess at Edwards was renamed the Pancho Barnes Room. After her death, her fourth husband, Eugene "Mac" McKendry, continued to live in Cantil and survived Barnes for many years. Son Bill Barnes died piloting a North American P-51 Mustang flying near Fox Field in Lancaster in October 1980. In 1940, she had founded Barnes Aviation of Lancaster, which Bill operated in his adult years. It remains in the general aviation business today. Her life and personality were portrayed in the 1983 epic film The Right Stuff, adapted from Tom Wolfe's bestselling book of the same name. Kim Stanley played her. She was also the subject of a heavily fictionalized 1988 TV film, Pancho Barnes, written by John Michael Hayes, directed by Richard Heffron, and starring Valerie Bertinelli. The first biography about Barnes was published in 1986, The Lady Who Tamed Pegasus: The Story of Pancho Barnes, written by Grover Ted Tate, who relied heavily upon the copyrighted autobiographical materials of Pancho Barnes. In 1996, a second biography appeared, Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes, written by Barbara Schultz. A third biography appeared in 2000, written by Lauren Kessler, The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes. PBS sponsored a documentary film, The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club, completed in 2009. In it, Kathy Bates provides the voice of Barnes. The documentary was made independently of the estate of Barnes. However, the estate gave the film makers full access to her personal papers and photographs as well as her copyrighted autobiography that are owned by the estate. The film, which chronicles Barnes' life story, was produced and written by Nick T. Spark and directed by Amanda Pope in affiliation with KOCE-TV, a PBS station in Orange County, California. The documentary won an Emmy for best arts and history documentary. Barnes' Mystery Ship #32 was for a long time located in a hangar at Mojave Airport. It was sold to a private collector and is currently in the United Kingdom, where it has been restored. Members of the Ninety-Nines and their families talk to attendees at Pancho Barnes Day, November 7, 2009. The Happy Bottom Riding Club historical site is the location for the annual USAF Test Pilot School/Edwards Air Force Base Pancho Barnes Day celebration (established in 1980). A barbecue is held and drinks are served, along with dancing and live music in remembrance of this aviation pioneer and friend. Family hour extends until approximately 9 pm, after which it is an adults-only party, perhaps in remembrance of the raucous old days of Happy Bottom Riding Club. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-x-planes-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Monarchy: British Royal Family History TV Series DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, England's Queen Mother Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, wife of King George VI. mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Countess of Snowdon Princess Margaret, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, last Empress of India (b. August 4, 1900) #dies at 15:15 GMT at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, aged of 101, seven weeks after the death of her younger daughter, Princess Margaret. Her surviving daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, was by her side. The Queen Mother had been suffering from a chest cold since Christmas 2001. At 101 years and 238 days old she was the first member of the British royal family to live past the age of 100. She was the longest-living member of the British royal family at the time of her death. Her surviving sister-in-law, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, exceeded that, dying at the age of 102 on October 29, 2004. She was one of the longest-lived members of any royal family. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was born Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon in Hertfordshire, England into a family of British nobility. She came to prominence in 1923 when she married the Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. She undertook a variety of public engagements and became known for her consistently cheerful countenance. In 1936, her husband unexpectedly became king when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Elizabeth then became queen. She accompanied her husband on diplomatic tours to France and North America before the start of the Second World War. During the war, her seemingly indomitable spirit provided moral support to the British public. In recognition of her role as an asset to British interests, Adolf Hitler is said to have called her "the most dangerous woman in Europe" because he viewed her popularity as a threat to German interests. However, before the war both she and her husband, like most of Parliament and the British public, had supported appeasement and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, believing after the experience of the First World War that war had to be avoided at all costs. After the resignation of Chamberlain, the King asked Winston Churchill to form a government. Although the King was initially suspicious of Churchill's character and motives, in due course both the King and Queen came to respect and admire him. After the war, her husband's health deteriorated and she was widowed at the age of 51. Her elder daughter, aged 25, became the new queen. From the death of Queen Mary in 1953 Elizabeth was viewed as the matriarch of the British royal family. In her later years, she was a consistently popular member of the family, even when other members were suffering from low levels of public approval. She continued an active public life until just a few months before her death. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-monarchy-3-part-british-royal-family-tv-series-dvd-mp4-u34.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, March 30, 2026
March 30, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Rosie Hamlin, American singer and songwriter who was the frontwoman of the group Rosie And The Originals, best known for the 1960 song "Angel Baby", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only 15 years old, a song overed by several other artists, including Linda Ronstadt and John Lennon, the latter citing it as one of his favorite songs sung by one of his favorite singers, a song he covered on his 1975 album "Rock 'N' Roll", the first Latina to be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the first Latina to appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1961 (b. July 21, 1945) #dies in her sleep of undisclosed causes at her home in Belen, New Mexico, aged 71. Her family confirmed she had suffered health problems in the course of her later life which prevented her from performing live. Her burial details are unknown. Rosie Hamlin was born Rosalie Mendez Hamlin in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on July 21, 1945, to a Mexian mother Ofelia Juana Mendez and a father of Anglo-American ancestry Harry Hamlin (not to be confused with the actor of the same name). She spent part of her childhood between Anchorage, Alaska and California, before her family moved to National City, California. Hamlin came from a musical family; her father and grandfather were both musicians who had backgrounds in vaudeville. Hamlin began singing with a band at 13. She wrote the lyrics for "Angel Baby" as a poem for "[her] very first boyfriend" when she was 14 years old, still attending Sweetwater High School in San Diego, California. During her childhood, Hamlin was trained to play piano. At age fifteen, Hamlin and some friends rented the only recording studio they could find within 100 miles of San Diego located in San Marcos, California, to record the song. The studio was owned by an airplane mechanic who had taken part of his hangar to make it. After taking the master to a Kresge's department store in downtown San Diego, they convinced a manager to play it in the listening booth of the store's music department. The song received positive reactions from teenage listeners, and a scout from Highland Records offered the group a recording contract, under the condition that the company take possession of the master recording, and that David Ponce be named as the author of the song, as he was the eldest member of the group. Hamlin along with her band performed six shows with Jackie Wilson at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in New York City in late 1960. "Angel Baby", which featured Hamlin's noted soprano vocals, made its radio debut in November 1960, before the group had even received their contract; the track was also played on K-Day Radio from disc jockey Alan Freed. When the group formally established a contract, Hamlin found that she was ineligible to collect record royalties from the song because she was not listed as the songwriter. This led to the group's break-up, and although Hamlin secured the copyright to her music in 1961, decades of battles over royalties followed. "Angel Baby" charted at number 5 on the Billboard Singles Chart. On March 30, 1961, Hamlin appeared with Rosie And The Originals on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing "Lonely Blue Nights", making her the first Latina to appear on the series. She married guitarist, Noah Tafolla, and they had two children (Joseph and Deborah) before they divorced. Hamlin had a third child (John) several years later. Hamlin continued to perform including performing at several revival concerts until 2002, before retiring from live performances due to advanced fibromyalgia (CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrom). Hamlin formally retired from the music industry in 1963 after her marriage to Originals guitarist Noah Tafolla. The couple had two children, Joey and Deborah. In 2001, Hamlin released Angel Baby Revisited, which features original recordings and other performances, as well as a Spanglish version of "Angel Baby," which featured lyrics that alternate between English and Spanish. She would perform revival shows in 2002, including performances at Madison Square Garden, before formally retiring from performing due to advanced fibromyalgia. Hamlin died in her sleep of undisclosed causes at her home in New Mexico, aged 71. Her burial details are not publicly disclosed. Her family confirmed she had suffered health problems in the course of her later life which prevented her from performing live. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html