5 Years of Slaughter

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War Criminal George Bush

March 19th, 1947:  Today marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war that was not worth fighting, a war that has cost thousands of lives, including 3,990 US troops,  and more than half a trillion dollars! Read more…

March 19th, 1947:  Kahului Railroad Company breaks the Maui bus drivers strike by filing an injunction in court stipulating that the drivers union had not given the legally required five days notice for the strike.  Drivers struck over lack of pay and poor schedules.  Conscientiously, the drivers return to work and did not strike again.

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 19th 

  •  -721: First recorded lunar eclipse. Location, Babylon 
  • 1822: Boston, Mass incorporated as a city 
  • 1871: Chewing gum is invented 
  • 1918: Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time 
  • 1931: Nevada legalized gambling 
  • 1942: FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty 
  • 1969: The Chicago 8 are indicted in the aftermath of the Chicago Democratic convention 
  • 1973: Dean tells Nixon “There is a cancer growing on the Presidency” 
  • 1973: POW’s return from Vietnam 
  • 1984: A Mobil Oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into the Columbia River 
  • 1985: “Spin Magazine” begins publishing 
  • 2001: California officials declare a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling blackouts  
  • 2008: The swallows retun to San Juan Capistrano, CA 

BORN ON THIS DAY — March 19th

  • 1589: William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony 
  • 1610: Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
  • 1813: David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa 
  • 1821: Sir Richard Burton, explorer/translator 
  • 1848: Wyatt Earp, lawman,  
  • 1860: William Jennings Bryan,  orator/statesman 
  • 1891: Earl Warren, Governor (D)/14th supreme court chief justice 
  • 1900: (Jean) Frederic Joliot-Curie, Nobel physicist
  • 1904: John J Sirica, Watergate federal judge 
  • 1905: Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army
  • 1906: Adolf Eichman,  Nazi Gestapo officer
  • 1916: Irving Wallace, author 
  • 1925: Brent Scowcroft,  Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council
  • 1930: Ornette Coleman, jazz composer 
  • 1936: Ursula Andress, actress
  • 1946: Paul Atkinson, rock guitarist 
  • 1946: Ruth Pointer, singer 
  • 1947: Glenn Close, actress
  • 1953: Ricky Wilson, guitaris