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Updated March 24, 2012, 2:28 pm
On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
On March 25, 1881, Bela Bartok, the Hungarian pianist who was one of the most important composers of the 20th century , was born. Following his death on Sept. 26, 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1634 Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore. 1807 Britain abolished its slave trade. 1894 Jacob S. Coxey began leading an “army” of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government. 1913 The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City. 1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. 1965 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. 1988 Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City’s so-called “preppie murder case.” 1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. 1994 American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia. 1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont. 1996 The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation. 1998 President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that “we did not act quickly enough” to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier. 2002 A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people. Current Birthdays
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Rock singer-musician Elton John turns 65 years old today.
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Actress Sarah Jessica Parker (“Sex and the City”) turns 47 years old today.
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1928 Jim Lovell, Astronaut, turns 84 1934 Gloria Steinem, Feminist author, turns 78 1940 Anita Bryant, Singer, turns 72 1942 Aretha Franklin, R&B singer, turns 70 1943 Paul Michael Glaser, Actor (“Starsky and Hutch”), turns 69 1948 Bonnie Bedelia, Actress (“Parenthood”), turns 64 1953 Mary Gross, Actress, comedian, turns 59 1958 John Ensign, Former U.S. senator, R-Nev., turns 54 1958 James McDaniel, Actor (“NYPD Blue”), turns 54 1960 Brenda Strong, Actress (“Desperate Housewives”), turns 52 1962 Marcia Cross, Actress (“Desperate Housewives”), turns 50 1964 Lisa Gay Hamilton, Actress, turns 48 1966 Tom Glavine, Baseball player, turns 46 1971 Sheryl Swoopes, Basketball player, turns 41 1979 Lee Pace, Actor (“Pushing Daisies”), turns 33 1982 Danica Patrick, Auto racer, turns 30 1984 Katherine McPhee, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 28 1987 Jason Castro, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 25 1989 Aly Michalka, Actress, singer (“Aly and AJ”), turns 23
Historic Birthdays
Bela Bartok 3/25/1881 – 9/26/1945 Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher.Go to obituary »
33 Saint Catherine of Siena 3/25/1347 – 4/29/1380
Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic and patron Saint of Italy71 Matilda Gage 3/25/1826 – 3/18/1898
American women’s rights advocate90 Stephen Luce 3/25/1827 – 7/28/1917
American founder and first president of the Naval War College89 Arturo Toscanini 3/25/1867 – 1/16/1957
Italian conductor69 William Knudsen 3/25/1879 – 4/27/1948
Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940)76 Gerald Murphy 3/25/1888 – 10/17/1964
American expatriate; befriended, with wife, writers and artists in Paris in the 1920’s83 Sir David Lean 3/25/1908 – 4/16/1991
English film director64 Simone Signoret 3/25/1921 – 9/30/1985
French stage and motion picture actress39 Flannery O’Connor 3/25/1925 – 8/3/1964
American writer61 Penelope Gilliatt 3/25/1932 – 5/9/1993
English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels
MORNING
“Jesus said unto them, If ye seek me, let these go their way.”
John 18:8Mark, my soul, the care which Jesus manifested even in his hour of trial, towards the sheep of his hand! The ruling passion is strong in death. He resigns himself to the enemy, but he interposes a word of power to set his disciples free. As to himself, like a sheep before her shearers he is dumb and opened not his mouth, but for his disciples’ sake he speaks with almighty energy. Herein is love, constant, self-forgetting, faithful love. But is there not far more here than is to be found upon the surface? Have we not the very soul and spirit of the atonement in these words? The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, and pleads that they must therefore go free. The Surety is bound, and justice demands that those for whom he stands a substitute should go their way. In the midst of Egypt’s bondage, that voice rings as a word of power, “Let these go their way.” Out of slavery of sin and Satan the redeemed must come. In every cell of the dungeons of Despair, the sound is echoed, “Let these go their way,” and forth come Despondency and Much-afraid. Satan hears the well-known voice, and lifts his foot from the neck of the fallen; and Death hears it, and the grave opens her gates to let the dead arise. Their way is one of progress, holiness, triumph, glory, and none shall dare to stay them in it. No lion shall be on their way, neither shall any ravenous beast go up thereon. “The hind of the morning” has drawn the cruel hunters upon himself, and now the most timid roes and hinds of the field may graze at perfect peace among the lilies of his loves. The thunder-cloud has burst over the Cross of Calvary, and the pilgrims of Zion shall never be smitten by the bolts of vengeance. Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless his name all the day, and every day.
EVENING
“When he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mark 8:38If we have been partakers with Jesus in his shame, we shall be sharers with him in the lustre which shall surround him when he appears again in glory. Art thou, beloved one, with Christ Jesus? Does a vital union knit thee to him? Then thou art today with him in his shame; thou hast taken up his cross, and gone with him without the camp bearing his reproach; thou shalt doubtless be with him when the cross is exchanged for the crown. But judge thyself this evening; for if thou art not with him in the regeneration, neither shalt thou be with him when he shall come in his glory. If thou start back from the black side of communion, thou shalt not understand its bright, its happy period, when the King shall come, and all his holy angels with him. What! are angels with him? And yet he took not up angels–he took up the seed of Abraham. Are the holy angels with him? Come, my soul, if thou art indeed his own beloved, thou canst not be far from him. If his friends and his neighbours are called together to see his glory, what thinkest thou if thou art married to him? Shalt thou be distant? Though it be a day of judgment, yet thou canst not be far from that heart which, having admitted angels into intimacy, has admitted thee into union. Has he not said to thee, O my soul, “I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness?” Have not his own lips said it, “I am married unto thee, and my delight is in thee?” If the angels, who are but friends and neighbours, shall be with him, it is abundantly certain that his own beloved Hephzibah, in whom is all his delight, shall be near to him, and sit at his right hand. Here is a morning star of hope for thee, of such exceeding brilliance, that it may well light up the darkest and most desolate experience.
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
– Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Updated March 23, 2012, 2:28 pm
On March 24, 1989, one of the nation’s worst oil spills occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.
Go to article »On March 24, 1874, Harry Houdini, the Hungarian-born magician and escape artist, was born. Following his death on Oct. 31, 1926, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1765 Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. 1882 German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. 1883 Long-distance telephone service was inaugurated between Chicago and New York City. 1955 “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway. 1958 Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. 1973 The album “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd was released. 1977 Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named archbishop of Munich and Freising in Germany. 1999 NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia – the first time the alliance had attacked a sovereign country. 2001 Apple Computer Inc.’s operating system Mac OS X went on sale. 2002 Halle Berry became the first African-American performer to win a best actress Oscar, for her work in “Monster’s Ball.” 2005 The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from the parents of Terri Schiavo to have a feeding tube reinserted into the severely brain-damaged woman. Current Birthdays
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Actor Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) turns 39 years old today.
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Actress Jessica Chastain turns 35 years old today.
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1926 Dario Fo, Nobel Prize winning playwright, turns 86 1939 Bob Mackie, Fashion designer, turns 73 1947 Christine Gregoire, Governor of Washington, turns 65 1948 Lee Oskar, Rock musician (War), turns 64 1949 Nick Lowe, Rock singer, turns 63 1951 Tommy Hilfiger, Fashion designer, turns 61 1953 Louie Anderson, Comedian, turns 59 1954 Robert Carradine, Actor, turns 58 1954 Donna Pescow, Actress, turns 58 1960 Kelly LeBrock, Actress, turns 52 1962 Star Jones, TV personality, turns 50 1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, Actress, turns 42 1974 Alyson Hannigan, Actress (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), turns 38 1976 Peyton Manning, Football player, turns 36 1984 Chris Bosh, Basketball player, turns 28 1990 Keisha Castle-Hughes, Actress (“The Whale Rider”), turns 22
Historic Birthdays
Harry Houdini 3/24/1874 – 10/31/1926 American magician and escape artist.Go to obituary »
61 Georgius Agricola 3/24/1494 – 11/21/1555
German scholar and scientist known as the “father of mineralogy”72 Rufus King 3/24/1755 – 4/29/1827
American founding father; helped frame the Constitution64 Thos.Spencer Baynes 3/24/1823 – 5/31/1887
English editor of 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica62 William Morris 3/24/1834 – 10/3/1896
English designer, craftsman and poet82 Andrew Mellon 3/24/1855 – 8/26/1937
American financier, philanthropist and secretary of the treasury86 Emile Fabre 3/24/1869 – 9/25/1955
French playwright and administrator of the Comedie-Francaise71 Edward Weston 3/24/1886 – 1/1/1958
American photographer46 Fatty Arbuckle 3/24/1887 – 6/29/1933
American silent film actor60 Wilhelm Reich 3/24/1897 – 11/3/1957
Austrian psychologist68 Thomas E. Dewey 3/24/1902 – 3/16/1971
Governor of New York (1943-55); and unsuccessful presidential contender (1944,48)25 Clyde Barrow 3/24/1909 – 5/23/1934
American small-time robber
