18 March History and Importance of The Day

GLOBAL RECYCLING DAY

The power of the Seventh Resource must be recognized by leaders around the world, through seven concrete changes:

Focus on international legislation and agreements.
Support, and campaign for,  free sustainable trade of recyclable materials to ecologically sound companies across the globe.
Educate, from grass roots up, the public on the critical necessity of recycling.
Agree to a common language of recycling.
To make recycling a community issue, supporting schemes and initiatives which help households and businesses provide Seventh Resource materials for repurposing.
Work with the industry to encourage ‘design for recycling’ in the repurposing of materials – reducing waste, integrating ‘end-of-life’ planning at design stage.
Support innovation, research and initiatives that foster better recycling practices and technology.

https://www.globalrecyclingday.com/about/


1974 - The five-month-old Arab oil embargo against the U.S. was lifted.  In the U.S., the embargo had caused long lines at gas stations, prices soared 300 percent amid shortages and a government ban on Sunday gas sales.

Birthday

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) the 22nd and 24th U.S. president. . He was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms and was also the only president to be married in the White House.


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Updated 17 March 2018, 18 March 2013

15 March History and Importance of The Day

World Disabled Day

World Consumer Rights Day

Hungary National day



44 B.C. - Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate chamber in Rome by Brutus and fellow conspirators.

1744 French King Louis XV declared war on Britain

1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/62396.html

1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)

1906 Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered

2016 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1

Birthday

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) the 7th U.S. President.  Jackson gained fame as a hero during the War of 1812. He helped in the formation of the new Democratic Party and became the first man from an impoverished background to be elected President, serving from 1829 to 1837.





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23 March History and Importance of The Day

World Meteorological Day
http://www.wmo.int/worldmetday/
http://www.rmets.org/world-meteorological-day-23rd-march-what-it

Pakistan National day



1775 - Patrick Henry ignited the American Revolution with a speech before the Virginia convention in Richmond, stating, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

2011 Death of Popular film actress Elizabeth Taylor

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History of Films

23 March English Films History

21 March History and Importance of The Day

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

World Poetry Day

International Day Nowruz

World Down Syndrome Day

International Day of the Forest and the Tree - World Forestry Day

Namibia National day



1918 - During World War I, the Second Battle of the Somme began. The battle began with a five-hour artillery barrage followed by a rush of German troops. The offensive lasted until April 6th and resulted in the Germans gaining about 35 miles of territory. Allied and German casualty figures for both battles approached 500,000.

March 21, 1943 - A suicide/assassination plot by German Army officers against Hitler failed as the conspirators were unable to locate a short fuse for the bomb which was to be carried in the coat pocket of General von Gersdorff to ceremonies Hitler was attending.

2006 - Co-founder of the social media network Jack Dorsey composed the first message: “just setting up my twttr”.  Twitter Foundation Day


Birthday
Organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Germany. His output included thousands of compositions. Among his best known work are The Brandenburg Concertos for orchestra, The Well-Tempered Clavier for keyboard, the St. John and St. Matthew passions, and the Mass in B Minor.



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4 March History and Importance of the Day

World Day of the fight against sexual exploitation



1681 - King Charles II of England granted a huge tract of land in the New World to William Penn to settle an outstanding debt. The area later became Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1789 - The first meeting of the new Congress under the new U.S. Constitution took place in New York City.

March 4, 1830 - Former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts. He was the first ex-president ever to return to the House and served eight consecutive terms.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln took office.

March 4, 1933 - Newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office and delivered his first inaugural address.   Attempting to restore public confidence during the Great Depression,he  stated, "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."


4 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

3 March History and Importance of the Day

Bulgaria National day

1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1865 – Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

Birthdays

Railroad car builder George Pullman (1831-1897), USA.  He improved railroad sleeping accommodations, developing the folding upper berth and lower berth designs. His company went on to become the biggest railroad car building organization in the world.

1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group

Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

3 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Day in India History  -  3 March  http://thehistoryindia.blogspot.com/2012/12/3-march-day-in-history-of-india-and.html

20 March History and Importance of The Day

International Day of Happiness

World Oral Health Day

http://www.worldoralhealthday.com/

Tunisia National day

Birthday

American psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990).  He pioneered theories of behaviorism and developed the Skinner box, a controlled environment for studying behavior.


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20 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

11 March History and Importance of The Day

World Day of Muslim Culture


1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" was published

1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 - The 'Spanish' influenza first reached America as 107 soldiers become sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. One quarter of the U.S. population eventually became ill from the deadly virus, resulting in 500,000 deaths. The death toll worldwide approached 22 million by the end of 1920.

March 11, 1941 - During World War II, the Lend-Lease program began allowing Britain to receive American weapons, machines, raw materials, training and repair services. Ships, planes, guns and shells, along with food, clothing and metals.

1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina.  It created a crater 75 feet acrosss, but fortunately,  the nuclear core did not detonate, due to 6 safety catches.


Birthday
British prime minster and statesman Harold Wilson (1916-1995).









11 March Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

12 March History and Importance of The Day

Birthday of WWW

Mauritius National day



1609 - The island of Bermuda was colonized by the British after a ship on its way to Virginia was wrecked on the reefs.

March 12, 1888 - A Great Blizzard struck the northeastern U.S. The storm lasted 36 hours with snowfall totaling over 40 inches in New York City due to which over 400 persons died.

March 12, 1938 - Nazis invaded Austria.

12 March 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee presented his paper on the concept of Word Wide Web. Hence this is the birthday of WWW.
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html


1994 - The Church of England ordained 32 women as its first female priests.

1999 - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic became full-fledged members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Birthday

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938). Following World War I, he led the Turkish revolution and became Turkey's first president.

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12 March 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee presented his paper on the concept of Word Wide Web. Hence this is the birthday of WWW.
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

31 March History and Importance of The Day

1774 Start of American Independence War against Britain

1889 Eiffel Tower opened
         http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/March-31.html
1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC, was founded. Unemployed men and youths were organized into quasi-military formations and worked outdoors in national parks and forests.

1991 - The Soviet Republic of Georgia, birthplace of Josef Stalin, voted to declare its independence from Soviet Russia. Following the vote in Georgia, Russian troops were dispatched from Moscow under a state of emergency.

Birthday
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was born in Austria. Considered the father of the symphony and the string quartet, his works include 107 symphonies, 50 divertimenti, 84 string quartets, 58 piano sonatas, and 13 masses. Mozart was his friend and Beethoven was a pupil.

Boxing champion Jack Johnson (1878-1946).  He was the first African American to win the heavyweight boxing title.

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30 March History and Importance of The Day

1858 - Pencil with attached eraser was  patented by Hyman L Lipman
1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre)
1953 - Einstein announced revised unified field theory
1972 - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1981 - Newly elected President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest while walking toward his limousine in Washington, D.C., following a speech inside a hotel. The president was then rushed into surgery to remove a 22-caliber bullet from his left lung. The president soon recovered from the surgery and returned to his duties.

Birthday

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). He was a Postimpressionist painter, generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. During his short (10-year) painting career he produced over 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings, but sold only one during his lifetime. In 1987, the sale of his painting Irises brought $53.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art up to that time.


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29 March History and Importance of The Day

Birthday
John Tyler (1790-1862) the 10th U.S. President. He became president upon the death of William H. Harrison and served from 1841 to 1845.



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28 March History and Importance of The Day

1979 - Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurred. Uranium in the reactor core overheated due to the failure of a cooling valve. A pressure relief valve then stuck causing the water level to plummet. The accident resulted in the release of radioactive steam into the atmosphere. It created a debate  over the necessity and safety of nuclear power plants.


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27 March History and Importance of The Day

Viagra Day
1998 FDA approved use of Viagra


1977 - The worst accident in the history of civil aviation occurred as two Boeing 747 jets collided on the ground in the Canary Islands, resulting in 570 deaths.


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26 March History and Importance of The Day

Bangladesh National day



1979 - The Camp David Accord ended 30 years of warfare between Israel and Egypt. Prime Minster Menachem Begin of Israel and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the treaty of mutual recognition and peace, fostered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Birthday
American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983).  His works featured Southern settings and include; The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana, and two Pulitzer Prize winning plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

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25 March History and Importance of The Day

International Day of Victims of Slavery

Greece National day


1807 - The British Parliament abolished the slave trade following a long campaign against it by Quakers and others.


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24 March History and Importance of The Day

World Tuberculosis Day
http://www.worldtbday.org/
http://www.stoptb.org/events/world_tb_day/
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/events/worldtbday/default.htm



1934 - The Philippine Islands in the South Pacific were granted independence by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after nearly 50 years of American control.

1989 - One of the largest oil spills in U.S. history occurred as the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound off Alaska, resulting in 11 million gallons of oil leaking into the natural habitat over a stretch of 45 miles.

Birthday
Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was born in Hungary. He came to the U.S. with his family as an infant. He began as a Coney Island magician and became a world famous escape artist, known for escaping from chains, handcuffs, straightjackets, locked boxes and milk cans filled with water.



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History of Films

24 March English Films History

24 March Telugu Films History

22 March History and Importance of The Day

World Water Day
http://nraonid.blogspot.com/2012/04/world-water-day-22nd-march.html
http://www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/home/en/
http://waterday.org/
http://www.un.org/en/events/waterday/


Beatles release their first album

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19 March History and Importance of The Day

1953 - First time Oscar awards function was shown was telecast on NBC
           http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-academy-awards-telecast-on-nbc

2003 - USA launched attack on Iraq
           http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-in-iraq-begins



Birthdays

William Bradford (1589-1657), England. He sailed aboard the Mayflower during its 66-day voyage from Plymouth, England to Massachusetts in 1620. The small ship carried over 100 passengers and a crew of 30. It  on Cape Cod. The Mayflower Compact was drawn up there as a form of government. Bradford became the first governor of the new Plymouth Colony, serving a total of 30 years, and was largely responsible for its success.

Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (1813-1873). He arrived at Cape Town, Africa, in 1841 and began extensive missionary explorations. In his later years, he sought the source of the Nile River.


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17 March History and Importance of The Day

National Day of Northern Ireland - St. Patrick's Day - St Patrick is patron saint of  Ireland


1776 - Early in the American Revolutionary War the British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege conducted by Patriots. The event is still commemorated in Boston as Evacuation Day.


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