March 31st: International Goodbye March Day

 

1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.

1909 – Construction of the RMS Titanic begins.

1943 – Christopher Walken (who was pretty hot when he was younger) is born.

1948 – Al Gore (who was also pretty good looking as a young man) is born.

1948 – Rhea Perlman is born.

1971 – American animator, screenwriter and producer Craig McCracken is born.

1971 – Ewan McGregor, my future husband, is born.

1985 – The First WrestleMania takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

1995 – Singer Selena is murdered by friend and employee Yolanda Saldívar.

March 28th? More like March Twenty-meh

 

1979 – A coolant leak at the nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island (outside of Harrisburg, PA) leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

1836 – German-American brewer Frederick Pabst founds Pabst Brewing Company, ensuring that future hipsters would never be thirsty.

1941 – American composter composer Alf Clausen is born.

1956 – “American author” April Margera is born. Take a moment to imagine a world without Bam Margera…

1975 – “American author” Kate Gosselin is born. Take a moment to imagine a world without Kate Gosselin…

1986 – Lady Gaga is born.

 

 

(Happy Birthday to Matt Harvey of the New York Mets, whose birthday was yesterday…)

no title required.

normally I find armpit hair somewhat repulsive…not this armpit hair though…

On Today’s Episode of “WTF”…

 

some cute baby animals to brighten a dreary Thursday

teehee

Via world-shaker.tumblr.com

March 19: Fantastically boring…

 

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiére record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight savings time.

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

1941 – The 99th Pursuit Squadron, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.

1962 – Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, under the Columbia Records label.

March 18th: National “Stay-Home-Hungover” day…

1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an awared for the best hockey team in Canada…it would soon become the Stanley Cup…

1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21st.

1990 -  In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favor of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.

1837 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th President of the United States is born.

1951 – Co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s, Ben Cohen, is born. My belly rejoices!

1962 – Mike Rowe, dreamboat and host of Dirty Jobs is born.

1970 – Queen Latifah is born.

1972 – Dane Cook is born.

1979 – Danneel Harris, actress and spouse of Jensen Ackles, is born. How can you NOT be jealous?

1979 – Adam Levine (Maroon 5) is born.

1982 – Adam Palley, star of Happy Endings is born.