This Week in History
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.
Virginia Connolly was born.
Mary Ann Minson was born.
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.
MARCH 26
Marisa O’Brien was born.
Kelly Byrnes was born.
Katrina Visco was born.
1827 – Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56 in Vienna, Austria.
1945 – The battle of Iwo Jima ended; about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured and more than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed.
2000 – Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
MARCH 27
Tara Walter was born.
Casey Vitale was born.
1884 – The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York.
2001 – A federal judge ruled that the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy was invalid, a ruling that later would be reversed in an appeal.
