Today is March 23 2015

National Chip and Dip Day: More
National Melba Toast Day More

• National Near Miss Day: More
  Anniversary of the asteroid (4581 Asclepius) nearly missed hitting the earth in 1989. The mountain sized asteroid came within 500,000 miles of Earth.
• National Puppy Day: More
  Mar. 23 or nearest Friday or Monday.
• World Meteorological Day: More
  Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization, established in 1950.
• OK, Day: More
  First use in print meaning [oll korrect].
• Wound Awareness Week: More
  In Australia. First day of event Mar. 23-27. Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
• Hearing Week: More
  In New Zealand. First day of week event Mar. 23-29.
• Shave for a Cure Week: More
  First day of Mar. 23-29 fund raiser for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer, in New Zealand.

• In 1775, Patrick Henry delivers his famous address.
  From Wikipedia: 'Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
  
  'Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act 1765 and is remembered for his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an invested promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for independence.
  
  '"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
  
  He is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the convention to pass a resolution delivering Virginian troops for the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
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• In 1923, Frank Silver and Irving Conn release 'Yes, We Have No Bananas'.
  From Wikipedia: '"Yes! We Have No Bananas" is a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy. Sung by Eddie Cantor in the revue, the song became a major hit in 1923 (placing No. 1 for five weeks) when it was recorded by Billy Jones, Arthur Hall, Irving Kaufman, and others. It was covered later by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Spike Jones AND His City Slickers, and many more. It also inspired a follow-up song, "I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues", recorded by Billy Jones and others in 1923'.
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• In 1839, First published use of the term 'OK', a whimsical [oll korrect] (all correct).
  From Wikipedia: '"OK" (/o?ke?/; also spelled "okay", "ok", or "O.K.") is a word denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, or acknowledgment. "OK", as an adjective, can also express acknowledgment without approval. "OK" has frequently turned up as a loanword in many other languages.]
  
  'Allen Walker Read identifies the earliest known use of O.K. in print as 1839, in the March 23 edition of the Boston Morning Post (an American newspaper). The announcement of a trip by the Anti-Bell-Ringing Society (a "frolicsome group" according to Read) received attention from the Boston papers. Charles Gordon Greene wrote about the event using the line that is widely regarded as the first instance of this strain of OK, ...'.
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• In 1912, The 'Dixie Cup' was marketed.
  From Wikipedia: 'Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was concerned about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water. Luellen developed an ice-cooled water-vending machine with disposable cups, and with another Bostonian, Hugh Moore, embarked on an advertising campaign to educate the public and to market his machine, principally to railroad companies. Professor Davison's study was instrumental in abolishing the public glass and opening the door for the paper cup. Soon, the devices, which would dispense cool water for one cent, became standard equipment on trains.
  
  The Dixie Cup was first called "Health Kup", but from 1919 it was named after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York. Success led the company, which had existed under a variety of names, to call itself the Dixie Cup Corporation and move to a factory in Wilson, Pennsylvania. Atop the factory was a large water tank in the shape of a cup'.
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• In 1940, The first radio broadcast of 'Truth or Consequences' on CBS.
  From Wikipedia: 'Truth or Consequences is an American television show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (1940–1957) and later on television by Edwards (1950–1954), Jack Bailey (1954–1955), Bob Barker (1956–1975), Bob Hilton (1977–1978) and Larry Anderson (1987–1988). The television show ran on CBS, NBC and also in syndication. The premise of the show was to mix the original quiz element of game shows with wacky stunts.
  
  'Ralph Edwards stated he got the idea for a new radio program after playing the parlor game Forfeits. The show premiered on NBC Radio in March 23, 1940, and was an instant hit with listeners'.
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• In 1950, At the 22nd Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, All the King's Men
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  Best Actor is Broderick Crawford for 'All the King's Men'
  Best Actress is Olivia de Havilland for 'The Heiress'
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  Best Supporting Actor is Dean Jagger for 'Twelve O'Clock High'
  Best Supporting Actress is Mercedes McCambridge for 'All the King's Men'
  Best Song is Baby, It's Cold Outside' from 'Neptune's Daughter'
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• In 1950, First TV broadcast of 'Beat the Clock'on CBS-TV.
  From Wikipedia: 'Beat the Clock is a Goodson-Todman game show that aired on American television in several versions from 1950 to 2003.
  
  The original show, hosted by Bud Collyer, ran on CBS from 1950 to 1958 and ran on ABC from 1958 to 1961. The show was revived in syndication as The New Beat the Clock from 1969 to 1974, with Jack Narz as host until 1972, when he was replaced by the show's announcer, Gene Wood. Another version ran on CBS from 1979 to 1980 (as The All-New Beat the Clock, and later as All-New All-Star Beat the Clock), with former Let's Make a Deal host Monty Hall as host and Narz as announcer. The most recent version aired from 2002 to 2003 on PAX (now ION) with Gary Kroeger and Julielinh Parker as co-hosts. The series was also featured as the third episode of Gameshow Marathon in 2006. Ricki Lake hosted while Rich Fields announced.
  
  In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest game shows ever'.'
  
  'Contestants were required to perform tasks (called "problems") within a certain time limit which was counted down on a large 60-second clock. If they succeeded, they were said to have "beaten the Clock"; otherwise, "the Clock beat them". The show had several sponsors over its run, with the most longstanding being the electronics company Sylvania.'.
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• In 1965, NASA launches 'Gemini 3', the United State's first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
  From Wikipedia: 'Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. This was the ninth manned US spaceflight (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight Soviet flights. It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were shifted to a new control center located at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas'.
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• In 1983, President Reagan announces the 'Star Wars' project.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.
  
  'The ambitious initiative was criticized for allegedly threatening to destabilize the MAD -approach and to possibly re-ignite "an offensive arms race". SDI was nicknamed, largely in the mainstream media, as "Star Wars", after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas. In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as "Star Wars" was extremely ambitious and with existing technology not directly feasible for operational status, and that about ten more years of research was needed to learn about such a comprehensive and complex system to set up and make it fully operational.'
  
  'It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today.'.
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• In Asteroid 4581 Asclepius passes within 425,000 miles of Earth.
  From Wikipedia: '4581 Asclepius (/?'skli?pi?s/ ?-SKLEE-pee-?s) is a small asteroid of the Apollo group that makes close orbital passes with Earth. Discovered in 1989 by American astronomers Henry E. Holt (1929-) and Norman G. Thomas (1930-), Asclepius is named after the Greek demigod of medicine and healing.
  
  Asclepius passed by Earth on March 22, 1989, at a distance of 0.00457 AU (684,000 km; 425,000 mi). Although this exceeds the Moon's orbital radius, the close pass received attention at that time, especially since the asteroid passed through the exact position of Earth only six hours earlier. "On the cosmic scale of things, that was a close call," said Dr. Henry Holt. Geophysicists estimate that collision with Asclepius would release energy comparable to the explosion of a 600 megaton atomic bomb. The asteroid was discovered March 31, 1989, nine days after its closest approach to the Earth.
  
  Subsequent discoveries revealed that a whole class of such objects exists. Close approaches by objects the size of Asclepius pass by every two or three years, undetected until the start of computerized near-Earth object searches.
  
  On 2051-Mar-24 the asteroid will pass 0.0123 AU (1,840,000 km; 1,140,000 mi) from the Earth. It will be the eighth pass of less than 30 Gm in this century. JPL shows that the uncertainty region of the asteroid will cause it to mostly likely pass from 0.02 AU to 0.17 AU from the Earth in 2135'.
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• In 1998, At the 70th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Titanic
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  Best Actor is Jack Nicholson for 'As Good as It Gets'
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  Best Actress is Helen Hunt for 'As Good as It Gets'
  Best Supporting Actor is Robin Williams for 'Good Will Hunting'
  Best Supporting Actress is Kim Basinger for 'L.A. Confidential'
  Best Song is My Heart Will Go On from 'Titanic'
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• In 2001, Space station 'Mir' crashes (planned deorbit) into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
  From Wikipedia: 'Mir, (Peace) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, owned by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. Until 21 March 2001 it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station after Mir's orbit decayed. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of space.
  
  The station was launched as part of the Soviet Union's manned spaceflight programme effort to maintain a long-term research outpost in space, and following the collapse of the USSR, was operated by the new Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA). As a result, most of the station' occupants were Soviet; however, through international collaborations such as the Intercosmos, Euromir and Shuttle-Mir programmes, the station was made accessible to space travelers from several Asian, European and North American nations. Mir was deorbited in March 2001 after funding was cut off. The cost of the Mir programme was estimated by former RKA General Director Yuri Koptev in 2001 as $4.2 billion over its lifetime (including development, assembly and orbital operation)'.
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• In 2003, At the 75th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Chicago
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  Best Actor is Adrien Brody for 'The Pianist'
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  Best Actress is Nicole Kidman for 'The Hours'
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  Best Supporting Actor is Chris Cooper for 'Adaptation'
  Best Supporting Actress is Catherine Zeta-Jones for 'Chicago'
  Best Song is Lose Yourself' from '8 Mile'
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We have two food holidays tomorrow.
- 'National Chip and Dip Day'.
[The Hankster says] For me, it's Potato chips with a sour cream dip, corn chips with a bean or Queso Dip (Ro-Tel and Velveeta dip my favorite) or tortilla chips with salsa.
- 'National Melba Toast Day'. It was created for Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer, Helen Porter Mitchel by chef Auguste Escoffier, who also, you may remember created the dish Peach Melba in her name.
[The Hankster says Come to think of it, it makes a nice chip also. Maybe a cream cheese dip with it.]

I'm hungry. (note to self, remove before posting)

Tomorrow is 'National Near Miss Day'. Anniversary of the asteroid's (4581 Asclepius) near miss of hitting the earth in 1989. The mountain sized asteroid came within 500,000 miles of Earth.
[The Hankster says] Five Hundred thousand miles closer and I wouldn't be writing this post and you wouldn't be around to care.

Awareness days tomorrow.
- 'National Puppy Day'. Mar. 23 or nearest Friday or Monday. A reminder of the love they give and the love we need to give.
- 'World Meteorological Day'. Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization, established in 1950.
- 'Wound Awareness Week'. In Australia. First day of event Mar. 23-27. It concerns the Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
- 'Hearing Week'. In New Zealand. First day of week event Mar. 23-29.
- 'Shave for a Cure Week'. First day of Mar. 23-29 fund raiser for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer, in New Zealand.

Tomorrow is OK by me, and others. Tomorrow is 'OK, Day'. On this day the word was first used in publication. It was a slang term meaning [oll korrect].

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote 'It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.'
[The Hankster says] Let' see who was a hit or miss back on March 23 in the past. Who took the time and who is still explaining, why it should have worked , on some long ago, yellowed, printed pages that no one reads or believes.

In 1775, Patrick Henry delivers his famous address.

In 1923, Frank Silver and Irving Conn release 'Yes, We Have No Bananas'.

In 1839, First published use of the term 'OK'.

In 1912, The 'Dixie Cup' was marketed.

In 1940, The first radio broadcast of 'Truth or Consequences' debuted on CBS.

In 1950, At the 22nd Academy Awards,
- Best Motion Picture is 'All the King's Men'.
- Best Actor is Broderick Crawford for 'All the King's Men'.
- Best Actress is Olivia de Havilland for 'The Heiress'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Dean Jagger for 'Twelve O'Clock High'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Mercedes McCambridge for 'All the King's Men'.
- Best Original Song is 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' from 'Neptune's Daughter'.

In 1950, First TV broadcast of 'Beat the Clock'on CBS-TV.

In 1965, NASA launches 'Gemini 3', the United State's first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

In 1983, President Reagan announces the 'Star Wars' project.

In 1986, At the 6th Golden Raspberry Awards,
- Worst Picture is 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.
-- Worst Actor is Sylvester Stallone in 'Rambo: First Blood Part II' and 'Rocky IV'..
- Worst Actress is Linda Blair in 'Night Patrol, Savage Island, and Savage Streets'.
- Worst Original Song is 'Peace in Our Life' from 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'.

In 1997, At the 17th Golden Raspberry Awards,
- Worst Picture is 'Striptease'.
- Worst Actor is Tom Arnold in 'Big Bully', 'Carpool' and 'The Stupids', Franklin Laszlo and Stanley Stupid (tie) and Pauly Shore in 'Bio-Dome'.
- Worst Actress is Demi Moore in 'The Juror' and 'Striptease'.
- Worst Original Song is 'Pussy, Pussy, Pussy (Whose Kitty Cat Are You?)' from 'Striptease'.

In 1998, At the 70th Academy Awards,
- Best Picture is 'Titanic'.
- Best Actor is Jack Nicholson for 'As Good as It Gets'.
- Best Actress is Helen Hunt for 'As Good as It Gets'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Robin Williams for 'Good Will Hunting'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Kim Basinger for 'L.A. Confidential'.
- Best Original Song is 'My Heart Will Go On' from 'Titanic'.

In 2001, The Russian space station 'Mir' crashes into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. This was a controlled demolition of the station that began in 1986.

In 2002, At the 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards,
- Worst Picture is 'Freddy Got Fingered'.
- Worst Actor is Tom Green in 'Freddy Got Fingered'.
- Worst Actress is Mariah Carey in 'Glitter'.
- Worst Supporting Actor is Charlton Heston in 'Cats and Dogs, Planet of the Apes and Town and Country'.
- Worst Supporting Actress is Estella Warren in 'Driven' and 'Planet of the Apes'.

In 2003, At the 75th Academy Awards,
- Best Picture is 'Chicago'.
- Best Actor is Adrien Brody for 'The Pianist'.'
- Best Actress is Nicole Kidman for 'The Hours'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Chris Cooper for 'Adaptation'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Catherine Zeta-Jones for 'Chicago'.
- Best Original Song is 'Lose Yourself' from '8 Mile'.

No. 1 song

• Eight Days a Week - The Beatles: More
  'This Diamond Ring' has been displaced by 'Eight Days a Week', which will hold the no. 1 spot until March 27 1965, when 'Stop! In the Name of Love', takes over.

Top movie

• The Sound of Music More
  Having displaced 'The Greatest Story Ever Told', it will be there until the weekend box office of April 11 1965 when, 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadngOGKlP0', 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
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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

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Holidays Worldwide

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