Today in History

March 10th:
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1975 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"


... Opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
The Broadway production starring Tim Curry, opened at the Belasco Theater in New York City and ran for 45 performances, closeing on April 5th, 1975, and was revived in 2001.
Actor: Tim Curry . = Frank N. Furter

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Screenplay: Richard O'Brien. = Riff Raff

 

March 10th:
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1997 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"


Created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on WB Television Network
WILLOW:
(And TARA)
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FAITH




Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia

 

Along with Poor - XANDER
... with WILLOW


. . . And CORDELLIA . . . .





And - - - ANYA

 

March 11th:

• 1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb

Released from 15,000 ft it creates a crater 75 ft across

1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident - Wikipedia

 

March 11th:
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• 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno signs the 'Supersemar' order

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1st President of IndonesiaSukarno

The Supersemar, the Indonesian abbreviation for Surat Perintah Sebelas Maret (Order of Eleventh March), was a document signed by the Indonesian President Sukarno on 11 March 1966, giving the army commander Lt. Gen. Suharto .....
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2nd President of IndonesiaSuharto

..... authority to take whatever measures he "deemed necessary" to restore order to the chaotic situation during the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66.

Supersemar - Wikipedia

 

March 11th:
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• 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

Suharto - Wikipedia

 

March 11th:
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• 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

Former USSR leader Konstantin Chernenko died after less than a year in office.



With the rapid-fire deaths of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev had outlived his only serious competition, and he was selected to become the new leader of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

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Today in History March 11th

The Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami or the Great Tohoku earthquake, was a natural disaster that shook northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.

The disaster began when a magnitude-9 earthquake shook the region in the early afternoon, unleashing a savage tsunami.

The effects of the great earthquake, which was the strongest in Japan's recorded history, were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. Tsunami debris has continued to wash up on North American beaches years later.

 

Now that's what I call Cool, Calm and Collective = A 3 -Point turn before the on-rushing deluge

 

March 12th:

• -1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut

He is the world's first black international football player and captain
Watson won three international caps for Scotland.
His first cap came against England in London on 12 March 1881, in which he captained the side. Scotland won 6–1, which (as of 2019) is still a record home defeat for England.
A few days later, Scotland played Wales and won 5–1, Watson captaining Scotland again.
Watson's last cap came against England in Glasgow on 11 March 1882. This was a 5–1 victory again to Scotland



Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856) - Wikipedia

 

March 12th:

• 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low - Wikipedia

 

March 12th:

• 1964 Jimmy Hoffa

BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1964: Hoffa faces eight years behind bars

 

March 12th:
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• 1967 Indonesian congress strips President Sukarno of authority and names General Suharto as acting President

On 12 March 1967, the special session began. After heated debates, it agreed to strip Sukarno of his power.
On 12 March, Suharto was appointed acting president. Sukarno went into de facto house arrest in Bogor.

Transition to the New Order - Wikipedia

 

March 12th:
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• 1994 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests

As the women were ordained in alphabetical order, Angela Berners-Wilson is considered the first woman to be ordained in England.
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Today in women’s history: Church of England ordains women priests.

 

March 12th:
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• 2018 = A Posioned Umbrella

British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent


British PM Says 'Highly Likely' Russia Was Behind Nerve-Agent Attack

 

March 13th:

• 1881 Alexander II of Russia is assassinated

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Members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg

Assassination of Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia

 

March 13th:

• 1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris.

The impresario Guimet decorated the museum's stage with a statue of Siva (the Hindu God of destruction and reproduction), before which was a bowl of burning oil, employed four other dancers, and lit the whole scene in candlelight.

 

March 13th:

• 1918 Leon Trotsky gains control of the Red Army

Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia

 

March 13th:

• 1943 - Oskar Schindler

Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight

Oskar Schindler - Wikipedia

 

March 13th:

• 1954 Viet Minh General Võ Nguyên Giáp

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Opens the assault on French forces at Dien Bien Phu, northwest Vietnam
Widely considered one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century and this sometimes called the "Red Napoleon".Giáp served as the military leader of the Viet Minh resistance during World War II, fighting against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam.
A genius at logistics, Giáp laid the foundation of the Ho Chi Minh trail, recognized as one of the great feats of military engineering of the 20th century.
He is most famous though for North Vietnam's military victory over South Vietnam and their Western allies where he served as Military Minister and Chief of Staff.

Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia