This Week in History

MARCH 19

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato was born.

1931 – Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.

1953 – The Academy Awards were first televised.

MARCH 20

Casey Brouder was born.

Robert Intelisano was born.

Michael Fiore was born.

1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to fly a hot-air balloon nonstop around the world.

2003 – Ground troops entered Iraq and a second round of air strikes against Baghdad was launched.

MARCH 21

Gee Linares was born.

Eddie Carroll was born.

Michael Millard was born.

1963 – Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum-security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.

1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

MARCH 22

Ray Corrigan was born.

Siobhan Fitzgerald was born.

Shannon McFadden was born.

Mary Ellen Connolly was born.

Virginia Connolly was born.

Mary Ann Minson was born.

1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, legalizing the sale of beer and wine.

MARCH 23

Theresa Lanzon was born.

Robin Shapiro was born.

Joann Byrne was born.

Madison Lyman was born.

1775 – Patrick Henry declared, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

1806 – Lewis and Clark began their return journey east.

MARCH 24

Tara Stackpole was born.

Jeffrey Williams-Maisonet was born.

1958- Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.

1989 – In one of the worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into the Prince William Sound.

MARCH 25

1634 – Maryland was founded by settlers sent by the late Lord Baltimore.