Today is Friday, March 15th, the 75th day of the year. There are 291
days remaining until the end of the year. In the Roman calendar, March 15
was known as the Ides of March.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Irish American Heritage Month,
Music in Our Schools Month, National Craft Month, Red Cross Month,
National Peanut Month, National Women’s History Month, Social
Workers Month, National Nutrition Month,
Everything You Think is Wrong Day, Dumbstruck Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Sly Stone, 81, singer (Sly & the Family Stone)
Howard Scott, 79, guitarist/singer (War)
Jean Carne, 77, singer
Terence Trent D’Arby, 62, singer
Rockwell, 61, singer (Somebody’s Watching Me)
Mike Tomlin, 53, football coach
Will I Am, 50, singer
Young Buck, 44, rapper
Jabari Parker, 30, basketball player
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Lightnin’ [Sam] Hopkins, 113, blues singer
Ralph Macdonald, 80, percussionist (d. 2011)
Bobby Bond, 79, baseball player (father of Barry) (d. 2003)
DEATHS
Nate Dogg, 2011, rapper (b. 1969)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1827 – Freedom’s Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes.
1933 – NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination.
1947 – John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy.
1958 – Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA Midwest
region-record 56 pts.
1958 – Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff
game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1964 – Pres. Lyndon Johnson asks for a War on Poverty.
1965 – Pres. Lyndon Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody’s right
to vote.
1966 – Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
1968 – LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world”.
1988 – Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop.
1991 – 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King.
1994 – 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
HOROSCOPE
As a Pisces born on March 15th, your passion and open mindedness define you. In all matters of life, you bring intensity and passion. This explains why you will devote an endless amount of time and effort into anything that you feel are worthwhile, especially family/loved ones. While others prefer to stick to the familiar, you spend a lot of time experimenting. Since you are willing to try anything at least once, you have amassed a wide variety of interests.
