Good morning and welcome to the Question of the Day for Sunday, March 1, 2015. In Wales, today is St. David’s Day, a national holiday. St. David is the patron saint of Wales.
If today is your birthday, you were born under the sign of Pisces. Famous people who share your birth date include composer Frédéric Chopin, English biographer and critic Lytton Strachey, bandleader Glenn Miller, actor/director Raymond St. Jacques, actors David Niven, Robert Conrad and Javier Bardem, writer Ralph Waldo Ellison, singers Harry Belafonte, and Justin Bieber, baseball commissioner Pete Rozelle, rocker Roger Daltrey and actress Catherine Bach.
Today’s Question:
Do you believe in ghosts? Maybe.
Have you or anyone you know ever had a supernatural or paranormal experience? Someone I know.If so, please share it. I'd rather not.
Bonus Question:
Do you remember the first electronic game you ever played? What was it? Never played electronic games.
What video, online or computer games do you play now? I play solitaire on the computer.
Just For Fun:
Have you been putting something off? Yes, getting rid of some stuff I don't need. What is it, and why haven’t you gotten it done? Clothes, a couple of aquariums that were hubby's. Sentimental reasons.
Today in History:
743 – Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited.
1260 – Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus.
1382 – Maillotin uprising against taxes in France.
1565 – City of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil founded by Portuguese solder Estácio de Sá.
1587 – Puritan English parliamentary leader Sir Peter Wentworth confined in Tower of London.
1591 – Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French King Henry IV.
1642 – Georgeana (York), Maine, becomes the first incorporated American city.
1790 – First U.S. census authorized.
1803 – Ohio becomes 17th U.S. state.
1845 – U.S. President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas.
1847 – Michigan becomes the 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty.
1854 – S.S. City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again.
1864 – Rebecca Lee (U.S.) bcomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree.
1867 – Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later).
1872 – Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park.
1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1890 – First U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (
Study in Scarlet) published.
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1913 – U.S. federal income tax takes effect via the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
1916 – Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic.
1919 – The March 1st, or Samil, Movement begins in Korea as a demonstration of resistance to Japanese occupation.
1920 – Austria becomes a kingdom again under Adm. Horthy.
1932 – Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son Charles Jr. is kidnapped; found dead May 12.
1933 – Bank holidays declared in six U.S. states to prevent runs on banks.
1936 – Hoover Dam completed.
1937 – U.S. Steel raises workers’ wages to $5 a day.
1941 – First U.S. commercial FM station goes on the air in Nashville, TN.
1942 – Baseball rules that players in the military can’t play while on furlough.
1942 – U.S. suffers major naval defeat in the three-day battle of Java Sea; Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati Airport in Java.
1946 – British government nationalizes and takes control of the Bank of England after 252 years.
1953 –Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954 –U.S. explodes Castle Bravo, 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, at Bikini Atoll – the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the U.S.
1955 – Israel assault on Gaza kills 48.
1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1961 – U.S. President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1968 – NBC television network announces that the cancelled series “Star Trek” will return.
1970 – End of U.S. commercial whale hunting.
1973 – Robyn Smith becomes the 1st female jockey to win a major race (later she will become Mrs. Fred Astaire).
1975 – Colour television transmission begins in Australia.
1978 – Charles Chaplin’s coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1982 – Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data.
1994 – U.S. Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro.
2007 – Tornadoes swarm across the southern U.S., killing at least 20, including eight at a high school in Enterprise, AL.
Word of the Day:
pontificate]/pahn-TIF-uh-kayt/
1. a: to officiate as a pontiff. b: to celebrate a pontifical mass.
2: to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way
“Stan loves to hear himself talk and will often pontificate on even the most trivial issues.”
Quote of the Day:
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” – Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Today is
St. David’s Day (Wales)
National Pig Day - Oink Oink!
Peanut Butter Lover’s Day
National Fruit Compote Day
National Horse Protection Day
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