Today is March 5 2015

National Cheese Doodle Day: More

• National Multiple Personality Day: More
  The non-clinical day for each of us, that is in us.
• Name Tag Day: More
  Thursday of Celebrate Your Name Week
• World Book Day: More

• In 1868, The Stapler was patented in England by C H Gould. He is not the inventor of the first stapler.
  From Wikipedia: 'A stapler is a mechanical device that joins pages of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. '
  
  'In 1866, George McGill received U.S. patent 56,587 for a small, bendable brass paper fastener that was a precursor to the modern staple. In 1867, he received U.S. patent 67,665 for a press to insert the fastener into paper. He showed his invention at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continued to work on these and other various paper fasteners throughout the 1880s. In 1868 a patent was also taken out for a stapler in England by C.H.Gould. As well, also in 1868, Albert Kletzker of St Louis, MO patented a device to staple paper'.
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• In 1872, George Westinghouse patents the railroad air brake.
  From Wikipedia: 'A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium. Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse on March 5, 1868. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) was subsequently organized to manufacture and sell Westinghouse' s invention. In various forms, it has been nearly universally adopted'.
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• In 1936, The British 'Spitfire' makes its first flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton).
  From Wikipedia: 'The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries before, during and after the Second World War. The Spitfire was built in many variants, using several wing configurations, and was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. It was also the only British fighter to be in continuous production throughout the war. The Spitfire continues to be popular among enthusiasts, with approximately 53 Spitfires being airworthy, while many more are static exhibits in aviation museums throughout the World.
  
  The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928). In accordance with its role as an interceptor, Mitchell supported the development of the Spitfire's distinctive elliptical wing (designed by B.Shenstone) to have the thinnest possible cross-section; this thin wing enabled the Spitfire to have a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane. Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the development of the Spitfire through its multitude of variants.
  
  During the Battle of Britain, from July to October 1940, the Spitfire was perceived by the public to be the RAF fighter, though the more numerous Hawker Hurricane shouldered a greater proportion of the burden against the Nazi German air force, the Luftwaffe. Spitfire units, however, had a lower attrition rate and a higher victory-to-loss ratio than those flying Hurricanes because of its higher performance. Spitfires in general were tasked with engaging the Luftwaffe fighters (mainly Messerschmitt BF109E Series aircraft which were a close match for the Spitfire) during the Battle'.
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• In 1936, At the 8th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Mutiny on the Bounty
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  Best Actor is Victor McLaglen for 'The Informer
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  Best Actress is Bette Davis for 'Dangerous'
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  Best Supporting Actor is This category began with the 9th Academy Awards
  Best Supporting Actress is This category began with the 9th Academy Awards
  Best Song is Lullaby of Broadway from 'Gold Diggers of 1935'
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• In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' Speech at Fulton, Missouri.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Iron Curtain was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances ...'.
  
  'The term's use as a metaphor for strict separation can be traced to the early 19th century. It was originally a reference to fireproof curtains in theaters. Although its popularity as a Cold War symbol is attributed to its use in a speech Winston Churchill gave in March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, the term was first used in reference to the Soviet Union by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels'.
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• In 1963, Wham-O patents the 'Hula Hoop'.
  From Wikipedia: 'A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs or neck. The modern hula hoop was invented in 1958 by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr, but children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history. Hula hoops for children generally measure approximately 71 centimetres ( 28 in) in diameter, and those fo adults around 1.02 metres (40 in). Traditional materials for hoops include willow, rattan (a flexible and strong vine), grapevines and stiff grasses. Today, they are usually made of plastic tub
  
  'The hula hoop gained international popularity in the late 1950s, when a plastic version was successfully marketed by California's Wham-O toy company. In 1957, Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin, starting with the idea of Australian bamboo "exercise hoops", manufactured 1.06-metre (42 in) hoops with Marlex plastic. With giveaways and national marketing and retailing, a fad was started in July 1958; twenty-five million plastic hoops were sold in less than four months, and in two years, sales reached more than 100 million units. Carlon Products Corporation was one of the first manufacturers of the hula hoop. During the 1950s, when the hula hoop craze swept the country, Carlon was producing more than 50,000 hula hoops per day. The hoop was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1999'.
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• In 1966, The song 'Ballad of the Green Berets' hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
  From Wikipedia: '"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army. It is one of the very few songs of the 1960s to cast the military in a positive light and in 1966 it became a major hit, reaching No. 1 for five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and four weeks on Cashbox. It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 2 on Billboard's Country survey'.
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• In 1981, The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
  From Wikipedia: 'The ZX81 is a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and was designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general public. It was hugely successful and more than 1.5 million units were sold before it was eventually discontinued'.
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• In 1979, The American 'Voyager 1' spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
  From Wikipedia: 'Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Having operated for 38 years, 5 months and 24 days, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and return data. At a distance of 134 AU (2.00×1010 km) as of winter 2016, it is the farthest spacecraft from Earth and the only one in interstellar space.
  
  The probe's primary mission objectives included flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon, Titan. While the spacecraft's course could have been altered to include a Pluto encounter by forgoing the Titan flyby, exploration of the moon, which was known to have a substantial atmosphere, took priority. It studied the weather, magnetic fields, and rings of the two planets and was the first probe to provide detailed images of their moons.
  
  After completing its primary mission with the flyby of Saturn on November 20, 1980, Voyager 1 began an extended mission to explore the regions and boundaries of the outer heliosphere. On August 25, 2012, Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium. Voyager 1's extended mission is expected to continue until around 2025, when its radioisotope thermoelectric generators will no longer supply enough electric power to operate any of its scientific instruments'.
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• In 1982, The Soviet probe 'Venera 14' landed on Venus.
  From Wikipedia: 'Venera 14 (Russian: ??????-14 meaning Venus 14) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus.
  
  'After launch and a four-month cruise to Venus the descent vehicle separated from the bus and plunged into the Venusian atmosphere on March 5, 1982. After entering the atmosphere a parachute was deployed. At an altitude of about 50 km the parachute was released and simple airbraking was used the rest of the way to the surface.'
  
  'The lander had cameras to take pictures of the ground and spring-loaded arms to measure the compressibility of the soil. The quartz camera windows were covered by lens caps which popped off after descent. Venera 14, however, ended up measuring the compressibility of the lens cap, which landed right where the probe was to measure the soil.
  
  The composition of the surface samples was determined by the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, showing it to be similar to oceanic tholeiitic basalts. The lander survived 57 minutes (the planned design life was 32 minutes) in an environment with a temperature of 465 °C (869 °F) and a pressure of 94 Earth atmospheres (9.5 MPa). Telemetry had been maintained by means of the orbiting bus that carried signals from the lander's uplink antenna'.
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• In 1995, At the 21st People's Choice Awards:
  From Wikipedia: Favorite Motion Picture is 'Forrest Gump'.
  -- Favorite Comedy Motion Picture is 'The Santa Clause'.
  -- Favorite Actor In A Comedy Motion Picture is Tim Allen for 'The Santa Clause'.
  -- Favorite Actress In A Dramatic Motion Picture is Jodie Foster for 'Nell'.
  -- Favorite Actress In A Comedy Motion Picture is Whoopi Goldberg for 'Corrina, Corrina'.
  -- Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture is 'Forrest Gump'.
  -- Favorite Actor In A Dramatic Motion Picture is Tom Hanks for 'Forrest Gump'.
  -- Favorite TV Comedy is 'Home Improvement'.
  -- Favorite TV Drama is 'ER'.
  -- Favorite New TV Comedy is 'Friends'.
  -- Favorite New TV Dramatic Series is 'ER'.
  -- Favorite Male TV Performer is Tim Allen for 'Home Improvement'.
  -- Favorite Female TV Performer is Roseanne Barr for 'Roseanne'.
  -- Favorite Male Performer In A New TV Series is Anthony Edwards for 'ER'.
  -- Favorite Female Performer In A New TV Series is Ellen DeGeneres for 'Ellen'.
  -- Favorite Male Musical Performer is Garth Brooks.
  -- Favorite Female Musical Performer is Reba McEntire.
  -- Favorite Rock Group is Aerosmith.
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• In 2006, At the 78th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Crash
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  Best Actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman for 'Capote'
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  Best Actress is Reese Witherspoon for 'Walk the Line'
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  Best Supporting Actor is George Clooney for 'Syriana'
  Best Supporting Actress is Rachel Weisz for 'The Constant Gardener'
  Best Song is It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp from 'Hustle and Flow'
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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Cheese Doodle Day'.
[The Hankster says] This snack holiday celebrates the snack created by .Morrie Yohai in the 1940's and now a big seller with Wise Foods, Inc.. They are very good, but I hope Cheetos can be considered also, since my favorite is Flamin' Hot Crunchy Cheetos.

Which of your personalities will be predominant tomorrow. It will be 'National Multiple Personality Day'. This non-clinical day is for each of us, that is in us.
[The Hankster says] Please choose the one that will put up with my foolishness.

Tomorrow is the Thursday of 'Celebrate Your Name Week' It will be 'Name Tag Day'.

An awareness day tomorrow. It will be 'World Book Day'.

William Shakespeare once wrote 'If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.'
[The Hankster says] On this post we only look at the seeds that have sprouted and grown. We have the power to see if the result is good or bad, great or minuscule. Let us see, if on March 5 in the past, seeds were sown by the wise or foolish. I bet a little of both.

In 1868, The Stapler was patented in England by C H Gould. He is not the inventor of the first stapler.

In 1872, George Westinghouse patents the railroad air brake.
[The Hankster says] A great break through, since before the air brake, the various cars on a train had to be slowed and stopped by a hand brake. A very dangerous job which required brakeman to jump from car to car and set the break by turning the brake wheel.

In 1936, The British 'Spitfire' makes its first flight at the Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton.
[The Hankster says] The fighter plane that won the air war over England during WW II.

In 1936, At the 8th Academy Awards,
Best Picture is 'Mutiny on the Bounty'.
Best Actor is Victor McLaglen for 'The Informer'.
Best Supporting Actor (Award started in the 9th Academy Awards).
Best Actress is Bette Davis for 'Dangerous'.
Best Supporting Actress (Award started in the 9th Academy Awards).
Best song is 'Lullaby of Broadway' from 'Gold Diggers of 1935'.

In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' Speech at Fulton, Missouri.

In 1963, Wham-O patents the 'Hula Hoop'.

In 1966, The song 'Ballad of the Green Berets' hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1981, The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.

In 1979, The American 'Voyager 1' spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

In 1982, The Soviet probe 'Venera 14' landed on Venus.

In 1995, At the 21st People's Choice Awards,
Favorite Motion Picture is 'Forrest Gump'.
Favorite Comedy Motion Picture is 'The Santa Clause'.
Favorite Actor In A Comedy Motion Picture is Tim Allen for 'The Santa Clause'.
Favorite Actress In A Dramatic Motion Picture is Jodie Foster for 'Nell'.
Favorite Actress In A Comedy Motion Picture is Whoopi Goldberg for 'Corrina, Corrina'.
Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture is 'Forrest Gump'.
Favorite Actor In A Dramatic Motion Picture is Tom Hanks for 'Forrest Gump'.
Favorite TV Comedy is 'Home Improvement'.
Favorite TV Drama is 'ER'.
Favorite New TV Comedy is 'Friends'.
Favorite New TV Dramatic Series is 'ER'.
Favorite Male TV Performer is Tim Allen for 'Home Improvement'.
Favorite Female TV Performer is Roseanne Barr for 'Roseanne'.
Favorite Male Performer In A New TV Series is Anthony Edwards for 'ER'.
Favorite Female Performer In A New TV Series is Ellen DeGeneres for 'Ellen'.
Favorite Male Musical Performer is Garth Brooks.
Favorite Female Musical Performer is Reba McEntire.
Favorite Rock Group is Aerosmith.

In 2006, At the 78th Academy Awards, Best Picture is 'Crash'. Best Actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman for 'Capote'. Best Supporting Actor is George Clooney for 'Syriana'. Best Actress is Reese Witherspoon for 'Walk the Line'. Best Supporting Actress is Rachel Weisz for 'The Constant Gardener'. Best song is 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp' from 'Hustle and Flow'.

No. 1 song

• This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis and the Playboys: More
  'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' has been displaced by 'This Diamond Ring', which will hold the no. 1 spot until March 6 1965, when 'Eight Days a Week (The Beatles)', takes over.

Top movie

• The Greatest Story Ever Told More
  Having displaced 'My Fair Lady, (returns)', it will be there until the weekend box office of March 7 1965 when, 'The Sound of Music', takes over.

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Food Holiday:
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Exotic Winter Fruit and Leeks and Green Onions Month
National Celery Month
National Flour Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month

Other:
American Diabetes Alert Month
American Red Cross Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month
Dolphin Awareness Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
Hemophilia Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists are Artists Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Kidney Month
Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness and Training Month
Music in our Schools Month
National Athletic Trainers Month
National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
National Craft Month
National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
National Endometriosis Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Flower Month
National Kidney Month
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
National Poison Prevention Awareness Month
National Problem Gambling Awareness Month
National Professional Social Worker's Month
National Social Work Month
National Women's History Month
Red Cross Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Trisomy Awareness Month

March is:

March origin (from Wikipedia):
'The name of March comes from Latin Martius, the first month of the earliest Roman calendar. It was named for Mars, the Roman god of war who was also regarded as a guardian of agriculture and an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus. '

March 'is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere's March. '

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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago, or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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Best selling books of 1965 More

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: More
• NOAA: - National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook: More
• Listen to Old Radio Shows: (streaming mp3 with schedule) More
• NASA TV: (video feed) More
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• Public Domain eBook Links

  Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More

• Podcast: A Moment of Science. Approximately 1 minute general science facts.
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• Podcast: The Naked Scientists. Current science, medicine, space and other science
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• Podcast: Quirks & Quarks. Current science news.
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• Articles and videos: Universe Today. Current space and astronomy news.
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• Old Picture of the Day - "Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph."
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Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.

US Government Holidays

• 2015 Postal Holidays More
• 2015 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

• List of holidays by country More
• Holidays and Observances around the World More