The fourth Sunday of Lent was traditionally a break from the austere rigors of the season, and on that day boys living away from home, such as apprentices or students, were allowed to return home to visit their mothers. It was customary for them to bring a simnel—a highly spiced fruitcake—as a present. The visit was termed “going a-mothering,” and on this occasion the mother bestowed a blessing upon her child.
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Sunday, March 26, 2028
Died
- Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) –
- Walt Whitman (poet) –
- Sarah Bernhardt (actress) –
- Margaret Millar (Canadian author) –
- Jan Sterling (star of Hollywood’s film noir movies in the 1940s and 1950s) –
- Paul Hester (drummer) –
- Paul Dana (race car driver) –
- Harry Wesley Coover Jr. (inventor of Super Glue) –
- Geraldine Ferraro (in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major U.S. party ticket) –
Born
- Robert Frost (American poet and 4-time Pulitzer Prize winner; was born in San Francisco, California) –
- Tennessee Williams (playwright) –
- Gen. William Westmoreland (military commander) –
- Bob Elliot (comedian) –
- Sandra Day O'Connor (first female U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
- Leonard Nimoy (actor) –
- Alan Arkin (actor) –
- James Caan (actor) –
- Bob Woodward (journalist) –
- Diana Ross (singer) –
- Steven Tyler (musician; lead singer of Aerosmith) –
- Vicki Lawrence (actress) –
- Martin Short (actor) –
- Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels) –
- Kenny Chesney (country singer) –
- Keira Knightley (actress) –
Events
- Congress created the Territory of Orleans –
- North West Company merged with Hudson’s Bay Company –
- An estimated 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in Owens Valley, California –
- Seattle Metropolitans became first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup –
- Popeye statue unveiled during spinach festival, Crystal City, Texas –
- Deadly dynamite explosion in quarry, Sandts Eddy, Pennsylvania –
- The U.N. Security Council met for the first time in New York –
- Dr. Jonas Salk announced development of polio vaccine –
- Perpetrators of the Great Train Robbery were convicted in London –
- North Vietnamese took Hue (Vietnam War) –
- Groundbreaking took place in Washington, D.C., for a memorial to honor American armed forces members killed in Vietnam –
- The U.S. government sold its 85% ownership of Conrail, one of the nation’s largest rail systems, and earned $1.6 billion in one of the largest stock offerings in history –
- The post-perestroika Soviet Union held its first nationwide multiparty, multicandidate elections –
- A 2-pound 5-ounce yellow hybrid bass was caught in the Kiamichi River of Oklahoma –
- Melissa macro computer virus released, disrupting systems worldwide –
- A 12-pound walleye was caught with fly tackle in Manistee River, Michigan –
Weather
- Nineteen inches of snow, Chicago, Illinois –
- 28.76” barometric pressure, Omaha, Nebraska –
- The temperature at Allakaket, Alaska, was 69 degrees below zero F –