This Week in History

MARCH 12

Peter Brady was born.

Brian Gillen was born.

Mitch Coutu was born.

Peter Touros was born.

Brian Flanigan was born.

1930 – Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.

1933- President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide “fireside chats” on radio.

MARCH 13

Theresa (“Terri”) Estes was born.

Argirios “Mister Softee” Kostaras was born.

Ray Otton was born.

Casey Gallagher was born.

1868 – The Senate began President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial.

2012 – The Encyclopedia Britannica discontinued its print edition after 244 years.

MARCH 14

Meaghan Edwards was born.

Mary McManus was born.

LeighAnn Cromie was born.

1964 – Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

MARCH 15

Tom Murphy was born.

44 BC – On the “Ides of March,” Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the senate house by a group of conspirators led by Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus.

MARCH 16

Jason Gibbons was born.

Rian Olivia Courtney was born.

Dorothy Sullivan was born.

Edward Sullivan was born.

John Russo was born.

1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” was published.

1968 – The My Lai massacre occurred in Viet­nam.

MARCH 17

Michael Becker was born.

1762 – The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City.

2003 – President Bush delivered an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: leave Iraq within 48 hours or face an attack.

MARCH 18

Lou Pastina was born.

Patty Magoolaghan was born.

Kristine Halligan Greene was born.

1965 – Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.

2004 – A small asteroid made the closest approach to Earth ever recorded, only about 26,500 miles away.