Today is Friday, March 8th, the 67th day of the year. There are 299
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Irish American Heritage Month,
Music in Our Schools Month, National Craft Month, National Nutrition
Month, National Peanut Month, National Women’s History Month, Red
Cross Month, Social Workers Month, National Bubble Week, Crochet
Week , Be Nasty Day, International Women’s Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Lester Holt, 64, journalist
Buck Williams, 64, basketball player
Shaun Gayle, 62, football player
Leon Robinson, 61, actor
Cheryl “Salt” James, 60, rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
Kenny Smith, 59, basketball player/sports announcer
Boris Kodjoe, 50, actor
Hines Ward, 48, football player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Mississippi John Hurt, 132, guitarist (d. 1966)
DEATHS
Billy Eckstine, 1993, singer (b. 1915)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1862 – St. Augustine, Florida surrenders to Union armies.
1862 – Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves.
1876 – Senate refused to seat P.B.S. Pinchbach of Louisiana.
1945 – Phyllis Mae Dailey becomes first Black nurse sworn into the Navy
Nurse Corps.
1964 – Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam.
1971 – Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight
boxing title at Madison Sq. Garden.
1971 – Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner”
1997 – 11th Soul Train Music Awards: Curtis Mayfield, Babyface win.
HOROSCOPE
Being a Pisces born on March 8th, you are well known for your intuition, sensitivity and self-sacrificing nature. Your intuition helps to guide you through all aspects of life, but especially social situations. While others struggle to pick up on emotional cues, your ability to read a person’s feelings can be considered nearly psychic. These sensitive qualities have earned you many friends, but it is your selfless nature that makes you truly special. Your friends and family can recall numerous times when you put their needs far above your own.
