This Week in History

MARCH 9

Mary Boyle was born.

Gertrude Hendry was born.

Nicole Moriarty was born.

1841 – The Supreme Court ruled that the Amistad slaves were free.

1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as both the first Hispanic and woman to be U.S. surgeon general.

MARCH 10

John Dwinell was born.

Jo Anne Alessi was born.

1864 – U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.

1876 – The first telephone call (“Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”) was made by Alexander Graham Bell.

MARCH 11

Jeanne Ferriola was born.

Joe Miller Sr. was born.

Kristian DeRosa was born

John Courtney was born

1895 – Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. 

1942 – General Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines saying, “I shall return.”

MARCH 12

Peter Brady was born.

Brian Gillen was born.

Mitch Coutu 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 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 Encyclopaedia Britannica discontinued its print edition after 244 years.

MARCH 14

Meaghan Edwards was born.

Mary McManus 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.