Spacetime for the week of 3/07/07
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
By Ed Bushnell
March 7
1644 – Massachusetts establishes the first bicameral (two-chamber) legislature in the United States.
1778 – Capt. James Cook first sights the Oregon Coast.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
March 8
1979 – The first extraterrestrial volcano is discovered, on Jupiter’s satellite Io.
1983 – IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0.
1983 – President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an “Evil Empire.”
March 9
1954 – The first color television commercial airs, for Castro Cleaners in NYC.
1954 – Edward R. Murrow first criticizes Sen. Joseph McCarthy on the air.
1961 – Blackie, the first dog in space, returns safe and sound on Sputnik 9.
March 10
1791 – John Stone patents the pile driver.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln becomes the only future U.S. President to apply
for a patent, for a device that would lift boats over shoals, but the
invention is never manufactured.
1969 – James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murdering Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 11
1986 – It is one million days since the founding of Rome, which took place on April 21, 753 B.C.
1997 – The ashes of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
1997 – Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II.
March 12
1970 – The U.S. lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
1982 – PLO Chief Yassar Arafat appears on “Nightline.”
1987 – “Les Miserables” opens on Broadway.
March 13
1913 – The Kansas legislature approves the censorship of motion pictures.
1961 – Pablo Picasso, 79, marries his model Jacqueline Rocque, 37.
1965 – Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds.
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