Today in History for 14th March 2018:
Historical Events
1922 – KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1948 – Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
1971 – Barbra Streisand appears on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS TV
1987 – Providence, with Billy Donovan’s 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1993 – 14th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
2017 – World’s oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
Famous Birthdays
1823 – Roswell S. Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Worthington, Ohio (d. 1887)
1882 – Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1969)
1908 – Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1913 – Witold Rudzinski, composer
1919 – Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1946 – Jasper Carrott, English comedian (Jane and the Lost City, Detectives)
Famous Deaths
1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1933 – Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
1986 – Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1995 – John Peters Humphrey, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate, dies at 89
1997 – Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer (Jacob the Liar), dies at 59
2009 – Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.’s third wife. (b. 1943)