This Week in History

MARCH 23

Theresa Lanzon was born.

Robin Shapiro was born.

Joann Byrne was born.

Madison Lyman was born.

Michael “Mickey” Layden 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- Rock ‘n’ roll star 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 Prince William Sound.

MARCH 25

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

MARCH 26

Marisa O’Brien was born.

Chris Owens 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 in the fighting and more than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed.

2000 – Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.

MARCH 27

Tara Walter 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.

MARCH 28

Kate Johnson was born.

Yarden Flatow was born.

1939 – The Spanish Civil War ended.

1979 – Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania occured.

MARCH 29

Grace Leahy was born.

Davina Grincevicius was born. 

Chris Howard was born.

1973 – The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.

1999 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, at 10,006.78.