Today is March 27 2015

National Spanish Paella Day: More
Spanish rice dish.

• National Joe Day: More
  Celebrate anyone whose name has Joe in it, like Jo, Joey, Joseph, Josephine, Johanna, Joann, Jodie or Joe.
• Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day: More
• World Theatre Day (WTD): More
  Since 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). Each year a notable person shares thoughts on the theme 'Theatre and a Culture of Peace'.
• VIAGRA DAY: More
  FDA approves Viagra on this day in 1998.
• Daffodil Day: More
  'Daffodil Day is the biggest and longest running fundraising day for the Irish Cancer Society, Ireland’s national cancer charity.'
• Go Spotty Day: More
  Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand awareness day. 'The idea is to get everyone wearing something spotty or dotty to get people thinking about melanoma and checking their skin for ‘spots’ or signs that could lead to melanoma later on in life.'
• Wear A Hat Day: More
  'The Premier Brain Tumour Awareness event in the UK; helping to support long-term, life-saving research helping move us ever CloserToACure'
• Red Puppy Appeal: More
  In New Zealand, a fund raiser for the puppies that will one day be guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired.

• In 1794, The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
  From Wikipedia: 'The United States Congress authorized the original six frigates of the United States Navy with the Naval Act of 1794 on March 27, 1794, at a total cost of $688,888.82. These ships were built during the formative years of the United States Navy, on the recommendation of designer Joshua Humphreys for a fleet of frigates powerful enough to engage any frigates of the French or British navies yet fast enough to evade any ship of the line'.
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• In 1836, During the Texas Revolution, the Goliad massacre occurs. On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army executes 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Goliad massacre, set in the town of Goliad on March 27, 1836, was the killing of Republic of Texas soldier-prisoners and their commander, James Fannin, during the Texas Revolution by the Mexican Army under orders from General and President of Mexico Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Despite the protests for clemency by General José de Urrea, the massacre was reluctantly carried out by Lt. Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla.'
  
  'On February 12, 1836, Colonel James Fannin took most of the men to defend Presidio La Bahía at Goliad, which he renamed Fort Defiance.
  
  'On March 19, General Urrea had quickly advanced and surrounded 300 men in the Texian Army on the open prairie, near La Bahia (Goliad). The two-day Battle of Coleto ensued, with the Texians holding their own on the first day. However, the Mexicans would receive overwhelming reinforcements and heavy artillery. In this critical predicament, Colonel Fannin and the majority of the men voted to surrender the Texian forces on March 20. Led to believe that they would be released into the United States, they were returned to the fort at Goliad, now their prison'.
  
  ''On March 22, William Ward and the Georgia Battalion (80 men plus Ward) surrendered after escaping from the Battle of Refugio. About 26 men were retained at Victoria as laborers, but 55 of the prisoners were marched into Goliad, on March 25.
  
  ' The Mexicans took the Texians back to Goliad, where they were held as p risoners at Fort Defiance (Presidio La Bahia). The Texans thought they would likely be set free in a few weeks. General Urrea departed Goliad, leaving Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla in command. Urrea wrote to Santa Anna to ask for clemency for the Texians.[ Under a decree passed by the Mexican Congress on December 30 of the previous year, armed foreigners taken in combat were to be treated as pirates and executed. Urrea wrote in his diary that he " ...wished to elude these orders as far as possible without compromising my personal responsibility." Santa Anna responded to this entreaty by repeatedly ordering Urrea to comply with the law and execute the prisoners. He also had a similar order sent directly to the "Officer Commanding the Post of Goliad". This order was received by Portilla on March 26, who decided it was his duty to comply despite receiving a countermanding order from Urrea later that same day.
  
  The next day, Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, Colonel Portilla had between 425 and 445 Texians marched out of Fort Defiance in three columns on the Bexar Road, San Patricio Road, and the Victoria Road, between two rows of Mexican soldiers; they were shot point blank, survivors were clubbed and knifed to death'.
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• In 1841, Paul R. Hodge tests first steam-powered fire engine.
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• In 1855, Abraham Gesner patents kerosene.
  From Wikipedia: 'Kerosene, also known as lamp oil, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid widely used as a fuel in industry and households. Its name derives from Greek: ????? (keros) meaning wax, and was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a genericized trademark. It is sometimes spelled kerosine in scientific and industrial usage. The term "kerosene" is common in much of India, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
  
  ' 'In 1846, Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner gave a public demonstration in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island of a new process he had discovered. He heated coal in a retort, and distilled from it a clear, thin fluid that he showed made an excellent lamp fuel. He coined the name "Kerosene" for his fuel, a contraction of keroselaion, meaning wax-oil. The cost of extracting kerosene from coal was high.
  
  ' Gesner moved to Newtown Creek, Long Island, New York. There, he secured backing from a group of businessmen. They formed the North American Gas Light Company, to which he assigned his patents'.
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• In 1866, Andrew Rankin patents the urinal.
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• In 1905, New technology allows fingerprints to be used as evidence in trials.
  From Wikipedia: 'A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.[1] The recovery of fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science. Fingerprints are easily deposited on suitable surfaces (such as glass or metal or polished stone) by the natural secretions of sweat from the eccrine glands that are present in epidermal ridges. These are sometimes referred to as "Chanced Impressions".'
  
  'Jan Evangelista Purkyne or Purkinje (1787–1869), a Czech physiologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Breslau, published a thesis in 1823 discussing 9 fingerprint patterns, but he did not mention any possibility of using fingerprints to identify people.[69] In 1840, following the murder of Lord William Russell, a provincial doctor, Robert Blake Overton, wrote to Scotland Yard suggesting checking for fingerprints but the suggestion, though followed up, did not lead to their routine use by the police for another 50 years.[70] Some years later, the German anatomist Georg von Meissner (1829–1905) studied friction ridges,[71] and five years after this, in 1858, Sir William James Herschel initiated fingerprinting in India. In 1877 at Hooghly (near Calcutta) he instituted the use of fingerprints on contracts and deeds to prevent the then-rampant repudiation of signatures[72] and he registered government pensioners' fingerprints to prevent the collection of money by relatives after a pensioner's death.[ Herschel also fingerprinted prisoners upon sentencing to prevent various frauds that were attempted in order to avoid serving a prison sentence.
  
  'In the United States, Dr. Henry P. DeForrest used fingerprinting in the New York Civil Service in 1902, and by 1906, New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner Joseph A. Faurot, an expert in the Bertillon system and a finger print advocate at Police Headquarters, introduced the fingerprinting of criminals to the United States.'.
  
  'The Scheffer case of 1902 is the first case of the identification, arrest and conviction of a murderer based upon fingerprint evidence. Alphonse Bertillon identified the thief and murderer Scheffer, who had previously been arrested and his fingerprints filed some months before, from the fingerprints found on a fractured glass showcase, after a theft in a dentist's apartment where the dentist's employee was found dead. It was able to be proved in court that the fingerprints had been made after the showcase was broken.[80] A year later, Alphonse Bertillon created a method of getting fingerprints off smooth surfaces and took a further step in the advance of dactyloscopy'.
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• In 1915, Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  From Wikipedia: 'Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. She was twice forcibly isolated by public health authorities and died after a total of nearly three decades in isolation'.
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• In 1945, Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record, It's Only a Paper Moon.
  From Wikipedia: '"It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song written by Harold Arlen and published in 1933, with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose. It was written originally for an unsuccessful Broadway play called The Great Magoo, set in Coney Island. It was subsequently used in the movie Take a Chance, in 1933, and Paul Whiteman recorded a successful version, sung by Peggy Healey. But its lasting fame stems from recordings by popular artists during the last years of World War II, when versions by from recordings by popular artists during the last years of World War II, when versions by Ella Fitzgerald and the Nat King Cole Trio became popular. It has endured as a vehicle for improvisation by many jazz musicians'.
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• In 1957, At the 29th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Around the World in 80 Days
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  Best Actor is Yul Brynner for 'The King and I'
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  Best Actress is Ingrid Bergman for 'Anastasia'
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  Best Supporting Actor is Anthony Quinn for 'Lust for Life'
  Best Supporting Actress is Dorothy Malone for 'Written on the Wind'
  Best Song is Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)' from 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
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• In 1964, The 'Good Friday Earthquake', the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
  From Wikipedia: 'The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 P.M. AST on Good Friday, March 27. Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 139 deaths.
  
  Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake was the most powerful recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful recorded in world history. Soil liquefaction, fissures, landslides, and other ground failures caused major structural damage in several communities and much damage to property. Anchorage sustained great destruction or damage to many inadequately earthquake engineered houses, buildings, and infrastructure (paved streets, sidewalks, water and sewer mains, electrical systems, and other man-made equipment), particularly in the several landslide zones along Knik Arm. Two hundred miles southwest, some areas near Kodiak were permanently raised by 30 feet (9.1 m). Southeast of Anchorage, areas around the head of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood and Portage dropped as much as 8 feet (2.4 m), requiring reconstruction and fill to raise the Seward Highway above the new high tide mark.
  
  In Prince William Sound, Port Valdez suffered a massive underwater landslide, resulting in the deaths of 30 people between the collapse of the Valdez city harbor and docks, and inside the ship that was docked there at the time. Nearby, a 27-foot (8.2 m) tsunami destroyed the village of Chenega, killing 23 of the 68 people who lived there; survivors out-ran the wave, climbing to high ground. Post-quake tsunamis severely affected Whittier, Seward, Kodiak, and other Alaskan communities, as well as people and property in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. Tsunamis also caused damage in Hawaii and Japan. Evidence of motion directly related to the earthquake was reported from all over the earth.
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• In 1973, At the 45th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, The Godfather
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  Best Actor is Marlon Brando for 'The Godfather'
  Best Actress is Liza Minnelli for 'Cabaret'
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  Best Supporting Actor is Joel Grey for 'Cabaret'
  Best Supporting Actress is Eileen Heckart for 'Butterflies Are Free'
  Best Song is The Morning After from 'The Poseidon Adventure'
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• In 1977, Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Tenerife airport disaster was a fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s on Sunday, March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. The crash killed 583 people, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history. As a result of the complex interaction of organizational influences, environmental preconditions, and unsafe acts leading up to this aircraft mishap, the disaster at Tenerife has served as a textbook example for reviewing the processes and frameworks used in aviation mishap investigations and accident prevention'.
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• In 1995, At the 67th Academy Awards:
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  Best Picture is, Forrest Gump
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  Best Actor is Tom Hanks for 'Forrest Gump'
  Best Actress is Jessica Lange for 'Blue Sky'
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  Best Supporting Actor is Martin Landau for 'Ed Wood'
  Best Supporting Actress is Dianne Wiest for 'Bullets over Broadway'
  Best Song is Can You Feel the Love Tonight from 'The Lion King'
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Tomorrows food holiday will be: 'National Spanish Paella Day'. Spanish rice dish. Two key ingredients, other than the rice are saffron and olive oil. It originated as a dish created by field-hands for lunch. They would cook the rice and then add what was handy, such as rabbit or even snails.
[The Hankster says] I think there is a veggie version also, or at least make mine with snails on the side (where they will stay).

If there is a Joe sound in your name, tomorrow is for you. Tomorrow is 'National Joe Day'. Celebrate anyone whose name has Joe in it, like Jo, Joey, Joseph, Josephine, Johanna, Joann, Jodie or Joe.
[The Hankster says] I'm waiting for my name day, but I can't seem to find a day set aside for Hankster, and I can't publish the other names people call me.

All you CW fans put on your thinking cap. Tomorrow is 'Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day'.
[The Hankster says] There are many. How about '80 Proof Bottle Of Tear Stopper', 'Am I Double Parked By The Curbstone Of Your Heart?', 'At The Gas Station Of Love, I Got The Self Service Pump', 'Bubba Shot The Jukebox', 'Don't Strike A Match To The Book Of Love' and way, way too many more.

Tomorrow's awareness days:
- 'Daffodil Day'. 'Daffodil Day is the biggest and longest running fundraising day for the Irish Cancer Society, Ireland’s national cancer charity.'
- 'Go Spotty Day'. Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand awareness day. 'The idea is to get everyone wearing something spotty or dotty to get people thinking about melanoma and checking their skin for ‘spots’ or signs that could lead to melanoma later on in life.'
- 'Wear A Hat Day'. 'The Premier Brain Tumour Awareness event in the UK; helping to support long-term, life-saving research helping move us ever CloserToACure'
- 'Red Puppy Appeal'. In New Zealand, a fund raiser for the puppies that will one day be guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired.
- 'World Theatre Day (WTD)'. Since 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). Each year a notable person shares thoughts on the theme 'Theatre and a Culture of Peace'.

Allegra Huston once said 'Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.'
[The Hankster says] I will be generous of spirit and get on with it. But, I will first suck you into the drama of March 27 in the past. Just don't dwell on it.

In 1794, The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

In 1836, During the Texas Revolution, the Goliad massacre occurs. On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army executes 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.

In 1841, Paul R. Hodge tests first steam-powered fire engine.

In 1846, Mexican forces lay siege to Fort Texas, launching the Mexican-American War.

In 1855, Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

In 1866, Andrew Rankin patents the urinal.

In 1905, New technology allows fingerprints to be used as evidence in trials.

In 1915, Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

In 1945, Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record, It's Only a Paper Moon.

In 1957, At the 29th Academy Awards,
- Best Motion Picture is 'Around the World in 80 Days'.
- Best Actor is Yul Brynner for 'The King and I'.
- Best Actress is Ingrid Bergman for 'Anastasia'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Anthony Quinn for 'Lust for Life'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Dorothy Malone for 'Written on the Wind'.
- Best Original Song is 'Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)' from 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.

In 1964, The 'Good Friday Earthquake', the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

In 1973, At the 45th Academy Awards,
- Best Picture is 'The Godfather'.
- Best Actor is Marlon Brando for 'The Godfather'.
- Best Actress is Liza Minnelli for 'Cabaret'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Joel Grey for 'Cabaret'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Eileen Heckart for 'Butterflies Are Free'.
- Best Original Song is 'The Morning After' from 'The Poseidon Adventure'.

In 1977, Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.

In 1995, At the 67th Academy Awards,
- Best Picture is 'Forrest Gump'.
- Best Actor is Tom Hanks for 'Forrest Gump'.
- Best Actress is Jessica Lange for '''- Blue Sky'.
- Best Supporting Actor is Martin Landau for 'Ed Wood'.
- Best Supporting Actress is Dianne Wiest for 'Bullets over Broadway'.
- Best Original Song is 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' from 'The Lion King'.

No. 1 song

• Stop! In the Name of Love - The Supremes: More
  'Eight Days a Week' has been displaced by 'Stop! In the Name of Love', which will hold the no. 1 spot until Apr 3 1965, when 'Can't You Hear My Heartbeat', 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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• 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
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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