Daily Calendar for Thursday, March 20, 2014

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Henrik Ibsen (poet & playwright) – 1828
Charles William Eliot (educator) – 1834
Ozzie Nelson (actor) – 1906
Sir Michael Redgrave (actor) – 1908
Jack Barry (game show host) – 1918
Carl Reiner (actor & director) – 1922
Ray Goulding (comedian) – 1922
Fred Rogers (educator, minister, host of children’s television show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) – 1928
Jerry Reed (actor) – 1937
Bobby Orr (hockey player) – 1948
William Hurt (actor) – 1950
Carl Palmer (musician) – 1950
Spike Lee (director) – 1957
Holly Hunter (actress) – 1958
Christy Carlson Romano (actress) – 1984

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published – 1852
American Bell Telephone Co. was organized – 1880
The first Farm Bureau in U.S. formed in Binghamton, N.Y. – 1911
First U.S. figure skating championship in international style took place in New Haven, Connecticut – 1914
Physicist Alfred Einstein submitted his theory of general relativity to the journal Annalen der Physik. – 1916
The first flight between England and South Africa was completed by Col. H.A. van Rejneveld and Maj. C.J. Brand of the South African Air Force – 1920
British troops captured Japanese-held Mandalay (WWII) – 1945
USS Midway launched, Newport News, Virginia – 1945
The peace treaty restoring Japanese sovereignty was ratified by U.S. Senate, ending American occupation of Japan – 1952
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in a civil ceremony in Gibraltar – 1969
Communications satellite NATO 1 launched – 1970
Libby Riddles of Teller, AK, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Race, from Anchorage to Nome – 1985
Skier Lauren Woolstencroft won her 5th gold medal of the Winter Paralympic Games – 2010
A magnitude-7.6 earthquake located 120 miles east of Acapulco shook southern Mexico – 2012