That day: 146 killed in the heat of the Triangle factory
2006 country music singer and guitarist Buck Owens, who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos, died in his sleep of a heart attack at age 76 in Bakersfield, California Owens and pioneering group what would be called the Bakersfield sound after his adopted city with songs like Act Naturally and I have a tiger by the tail from 1969, he also co-hosted the TV show Hee Haw with Roy Clark.
2001 Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for things changed the movie Wonder Boys Dylan performed the song and accepts the Oscar satellite due to the fact he was on tour across Australia since the time he won the Oscar, Dylan took on tour with him and presides shows perched atop his amplifier.
1999 Cal Ripken Sr., who spent 36 years in the organization of the Baltimore Orioles as a player, scout, coach and manager, dies of lung cancer at age 63 in Baltimore, Maryland in 1987, Ripken is became the first - and only - father to manage two son, Billy Ripken and future hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. at the same time in the major leagues.
1996 The veterinarian of the European Union banned the export of British beef Committee and its by-products due to the mad cow ban would last for 10 years before being lifted on 1 May 2006.
1995 Boxer Mike Tyson is released from prison after serving three years for violating the age of 18 years Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, in an Indianapolis hotel room July 19, 1991.
1991 At the 63rd Academy Awards, Whoopi Goldberg made history by winning Best Actress for her performance in Ghost The victory made him the first black actress since Hattie McDaniel in 1939 to win an Academy Award Dances with Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, otherwise dominated the ceremony, winning seven Oscars, including best Picture and best director.
1984 Singer and actress Katharine McPhee, who gained fame as the runner-up fifth season of American Idol in 2006, was born in Los Angeles Her 2007 eponymous debut album debuted at No. 2 on the graph album Billboard 200 She has appeared in films including rabbit House and Shark Night 3D, and TV shows, including major roles in smash and Scorpio.
1983 While performing the song Billie Jean when recording for Motown 25 television special yesterday, today and forever, Michael Jackson performs the moonwalk for a live audience for the first time he's seen here in 1984 during a visit to the White House.
1982 race car driver Danica Patrick, the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing, was born in Beloit, Wisconsin Patrick is the only woman to win a race in the IndyCar Series and holds the highest ranking 3 by a woman at the Indianapolis 500 17 February 2013, she became the first woman to win a pole position in the history of the NASCAR Sprint Cup, for the Daytona 500 2013.
1979 The first orbiter fully functional space shuttle, Columbia, comes to John F Kennedy Space Center to be ready for its first launch.
1976 Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko is left born in Semipalatinsk Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, the Soviet Union The younger brother of heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko right retirement, Wladimir is the longest reigning IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion in the story with the most title defenses for organizations he and his brother held every major heavyweight championship belt before Vitali retired in 2012.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid nephew, who had a history of mental illness, was beheaded the following June
A 1972 Boston Garden, Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks joined Gordie Howe to become the second player in the National Hockey League to score 600 career goals.
1971 hockey player Cammi Granato, one of the first women to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, was born in Downers Grove, Illinois Granato was captain of the women's hockey team in the United States who won a medal gold at 1998 winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and a silver medal at the Olympic winter Games 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah She is also the younger sister of the former player of the NHL Tony Granato.
1971 Basketball player Sheryl Swoopes, the first player to sign in the WNBA at its creation in 1997, was born in Brownfield, Texas Swoopes won three Olympic gold medals, is a WNBA MVP three times and led the Houston Comets to the first four WNBA titles from 1997 to 2000.
1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first bed-in for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton They stay in bed until March 31, inviting journalists in their hotel room all days between 9 am and 9 p m.
1968 The 58th and final episode of the Monkees TV show airs the show, which made stars of the pre-Fab Four Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork, lasted two seasons and won two Emmy Awards in 1967.
1965 Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, known for her role in Sex and the City and two film adaptations, was born in Nelsonville, Ohio Parker, who made his debut in the 1982 TV series Square Pegs short, is also known for roles in movies such as Footloose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, tHe Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, distance and non-launch strikes.
1965 civil rights led by Martin Luther King Jr. complete their four days, March 50-mile Selma, Alabama, the state capital in Montgomery for the King Voting Rights delivered the speech How long, not long on the steps of State Capitol Building Alabama.
1962 Actress Marcia Cross, best known for his roles in the television series Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives, was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts a tornado hit Tinker AFB in Oklahoma meteorologists based noticed similarities between weather conditions that day and March 20, when the base had been hit by a another tornado, and has published forecasts, which was verified when a tornado struck the base of the party.
1947 Songwriter Elton John, the Grammy winner best known for its more than 50 Top 40 hits, including Rocket Man, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Candle in the wind and Can You Feel the Love Tonight, was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on Pinner, Middlesex, England's candle in the wind 1997, a version of the song he recorded a tribute to Princess Diana, is the best selling single in the history of both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 .
1943 Actor Paul Michael Glaser, known for playing Detective David Starsky in the 1970s television series Starsky and Hutch, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1942 singer Aretha Franklin, who earned the nickname Queen of the soul with songs like I Never Loved a Man the Way I love you, You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, thinks, Chain of Fools and Respect, born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1942 Actor and writer Richard O Brien was born Richard Smith in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England O Brien is best known for writing both Rocky Horror Picture Show and music scene it was founded on and play Riff Raff in the movie .
1938 singer-songwriter and actor Hoyt Axton, best known for writing songs like Joy to the World, Never Been to Spain, Dollar US Dollar and the pusher, was born in Duncan, Oklahoma Axton also appeared in films including the Black Stallion and Gremlins and made cameos on several TV series in the 1970s and 80s, died of a heart attack at the age of 61 Oct. 26, 1999.
1934 Masters golf tournament first, then known as the Augusta National Invitational, finished his final round with Horton Smith became the inaugural champion Bobby Jones has been put in the first tournament.
1934 feminist and editor Gloria Steinem, who became nationally recognized as a leader in women's liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s, was born in Toledo, Ohio Steinem has been a columnist for New York magazine and the magazine Ms co -based and women s media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voice of women in the media.
1928 The astronaut Jim Lovell, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which has suffered a critical failure on the way to the Moon, but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and Mission control, was born in Cleveland, Ohio Lovell was also the pilot control module Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit and received the Medal of honor of Congress space and the presidential Medal of freedom.
1918 French composer Claude Debussy, one of the most important figures associated with Impressionist music, died of rectal cancer at age 55 in Paris, France.
1918 Howard Cosell, the best known and probably the most controversial sports broadcaster in the history of the medium, was born Howard William Cohen in Winston-Salem, North Carolina Cosell, which was a Monday night football broadcaster since its inception in 1970 to 1984 would mainly become known for its windy personality, presumptuous, his friendship with boxer Muhammad Ali and his feuds with other sportswriters He died of a heart embolism at the age of 77 years April 23, 1995 .
1913 More than 360 are killed and 20,000 houses were destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood Dayton, Ohio In the days before the flood, nearly 11 inches of rain fell in the Great Miami River watershed on the ground already saturated, causing the river and its tributaries to overflow from the existing series of levees failed, flooding the downtown Dayton with water up to 20 feet deep.
1911 in New York, the clothing 146 workers, most of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women, are killed in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company owners of the company will then be indicted on charges of manslaughter because some of the employees had been locked behind the doors of the factory, causing them to jump from the eighth, ninth and 10th floors in the streets below the owners were finally acquitted, but lost a civil trial in 1913 and were ordered to pay 75 per deceased victim fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, who fought for better working conditions for workers in sweatshops.
1908 Director, editor and writer David Lean, best known for big screen epics like the bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and a passage to India, was born in Croydon, Surrey, England Lean won the Academy 11 call for nominations in his career, winning best director for the bridge over the river Kwai in 1963, and in 1958 for Lawrence of Arabia He died at the age of 83 April 16, 1991.
1901 Mercedes Daimler is introduced to the five-day week of racing Nice in Nice, France The car, named after the daughter of businessman Emile Jellinek, dominated the field and reached speeds of over 86 km / h Jellinek inspired the new four -cylinder car when he offered to buy an unprecedented 30 Daimler cars if they could create a model with a more powerful engine and the name after his daughter.
1894 Coxey Army, the first significant American protest in March, from Massillon, Ohio, Washington, DC Unemployed workers, led by entrepreneur Ohio Jacob Coxey, marched to protest against unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893 and to pressure the government to create jobs involving the construction of roads and other public works improvements They arrived in Washington on April 30, but the March leaders were arrested for walking on the grass of the Capitol of the United States and the protest quickly dwindled.
1807 in Swansea, Wales becomes the first transport rail passengers in the world He then moved horse power steam locomotion, Swansea horse drawn and railway Mumbles, then known as the Railway name Oystermouth, and finally converted into electric trolleybuses, before closing in January 1960.
1807 Slave Trade Act becomes law, the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself Many supporters of the law thought it would lead to the death of slavery, but it was only much later that slavery itself was effectively abolished in the photo is a medallion created as part of a campaign by the British Anti-slavery Society in the late 1790s.
1199 Richard I, known as Richard the Lion Heart, is struck by a bolt crossbow in his left shoulder by the neck while fighting France The wound quickly became gangrenous, leading to his death on April 6.
A D 421 Legend Venice is based at noon, with the dedication of the first church, San Giacomo photo to the Rialto island.
On this day 25 March, March, the best-known writing, Bridge on the River Kwai.
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