WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

MARCH 1, 1445 – Sandro Botticelli is born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi in Florence, Italy.

MARCH 1, 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before magistrates at the Salem Witch Trials.

MARCH 1, 1914 – Ralph Ellison is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

MARCH 1, 1944 – Michael D'Abo is born in Surrey, England.

MARCH 2, 1904 – Dr. Seuss is born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts.

MARCH 2, 1931 – Tom Wolfe is born in Richmond, Virginia.

MARCH 2, 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

MARCH 2, 1942 – Lou Reed is born in Brooklyn, New York.

MARCH 2, 1943 – Elaine Brown is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MARCH 2, 1949 – Cookie Mueller is born Dorothy Karen Mueller in Baltimore, Maryland.

MARCH 2, 1963 – Alvin Youngbood Hart is born Gregory Edward Hart in Oakland, California.

MARCH 3, 1911 – Jean Harlow is born Harlean Harlow Carpenter in Kansas City, Kansas.

MARCH 3, 1951 – Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner record Rocket 88 at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

MARCH 4, 1678 – Vivaldi is born Antonio Lucio Vivaldi in Venice, Italy.

MARCH 4, 1776 – The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights during the Siege of Boston.

MARCH 4, 1967 – Evan Dando is born in Essex, Massachusetts.

MARCH 4, 1973 – Harmony Korine is born in Bolinas, California.

MARCH 5, 1770 – Crispus Attucks is fatally shot by British troops during The Boston Massacre.

MARCH 5, 1853 – Howard Pyle is born in Wilmington, Delaware.

MARCH 5, 1929 – JB Lenoir is born in Monticello, Mississippi.

MARCH 6, 1475 – Michelangelo is born in Caprese, Italy.

MARCH 6, 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

MARCH 6, 1967 – Glenn Greenwald is born in Queens, New York.

MARCH 7, 1877 – Ida Rauh is born in New York City, New York.

MARCH 7, 1942 – Activist Lucy Parsons dies in a Chicago house fire.

MARCH 7, 1944 – Townes Van Zandt is born in Fort Worth, Texas.

MARCH 7, 1946 – Peter Wolf is born in Bronx, New York.

MARCH 7, 1957 - The Tuneweavers record Happy, Happy Birthday Baby at Boston's Ace Studios.

MARCH 8, 1958 – Gary Numan is born in London, England.

MARCH 8, 1979 – Philips unveils the CD (Compact Disc).

MARCH 9, 1842 – Gold is discovered at Rancho San Francisco, California, six years before the California Gold Rush.

MARCH 9, 1942 – John Cale is born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

MARCH 10, 1955 – Gary Louris is born in Toledo, Ohio.

MARCH 10, 1956 – The MIT Rock & Roll Riot takes place.

MARCH 10, 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

MARCH 11, 1932 – The death of Booming Ben marks the extinction of Heath Hens.

MARCH 11, 1955 – Nina Hagen is born in East Berlin, Germany.

MARCH 12, 1922 – Jack Kerouac is born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac in Lowell, Massachusetts.

MARCH 12, 1976 – Hisham Bharoocha is born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

MARCH 12, 1979 – Pete Doherty is born in Hexham, England.

MARCH 12, 2009 – Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to scamming $18 billion making Wall Street history.

MARCH 13, 1892 – Janet Flanner is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

MARCH 13, 1929 – Bunny Yeager is born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

MARCH 13, 1933 – Banks in the United States of America begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a bank holiday.

MARCH 14, 1879 – Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany.

MARCH 14, 1923 – Diane Arbus is born in New York City, New York.

MARCH 14, 1994 – Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

MARCH 15, 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

MARCH 15, 1912 – Lightnin' Hopkins is born Sam John Hopkins in Centerville, Texas.

MARCH 15, 1943 – Sly Stone is born in Denton, Texas.

MARCH 15, 1968 - Ugly Radio is Dead! WBCN is born with its first official rock and roll broadcast.

MARCH 16, 1936 – Fred Neil is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

MARCH 16, 1939 – From Prague Castle, Adolf Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

MARCH 16, 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker is born in Oneonta, New York.

MARCH 16, 1981 – Danny Brown is born Daniel Dewan Sewell in Detroit, Michigan.

MARCH 17, 1886 – Wilbur Daniel Steele is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.

MARCH 17, 1932 – Dick Curless is born in Fort Fairfield, Maine.

MARCH 17, 1938 – Rudolph Nureyev is born in Irkutsk, Russia.

MARCH 17, 1941 – The National Gallery of Art opens its doors in Washington, D.C.

MARCH 17, 1948 – William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina.

MARCH 18, 1877 – Edgar Cayce is born in Beverly, Kentucky.

MARCH 18, 1883 – Josephine Hopper is born in New York City, New York.

MARCH 18, 1970 – Queen Latifah is born Dana Elaine Owens in Newark, New Jersey.

MARCH 18, 1970 – The United States Postal Service Wildcat Strike begins.

MARCH 18, 1986 – Lykke Li is born in Ystad, Sweden.

MARCH 19, 1936 – Ursula Andress is born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland.

MARCH 19, 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns from the PTL Club in the wake of a lascivious sex scandal.

MARCH 20, 1936 – Lee Scratch Perry is born in Kendal, Jamaica.

MARCH 20, 1940 – Mary Ellen Mark is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MARCH 20, 2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day..

MARCH 21, 1872 – Neith Boyce is born in Franklin, Indiana.

MARCH 21, 1880 – Hans Hofmann is born in Bayern, Germany.

MARCH 21, 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio.

MARCH 22, 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts sign a peace treaty with Wampanoag Massasoit.

MARCH 22, 1929 – Yayoi Kusama is born in Nagano, Japan.

MARCH 23, 1907 – Alexander Iolas is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

MARCH 23, 1944 – Ric Ocasek is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

MARCH 23, 1968 – Damon Albarn is born in London, England.

MARCH 23, 1972 – Reggie Watts is born in Stuttgart, Germany.

MARCH 23, 1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.

MARCH 24, 1832 – Mormon leader Joseph Smith is tarred and feathered in Hiram, Ohio.

MARCH 24, 1874 – Harry Houdini is born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary.

MARCH 24, 1897 – Wilhelm Reich is born in Dobzau, Ukraine.

MARCH 24, 1935 – Carol Kaye is born in Everett, Washington.

MARCH 25, 1881 – Bela Bartok is born in Sannicolau Mare, Romania.

MARCH 25, 1894 – Coxey's Army departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..

MARCH 25, 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers in New York City, New York.

MARCH 25, 1925 – Flannery O'Connor is born in Savannah, Georgia.

MARCH 25, 1931 – An incident between black and white youths aboard a southern train sparks the notorious Scottsboro Boys trial in Scottsboro, Alabama.

MARCH 25, 1942 – Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

MARCH 26, 1812 - A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term gerrymander to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.

MARCH 26, 1874 – Robert Frost is born in San Francisco, California.

MARCH 26, 1911 – Tennessee Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi.

MARCH 26, 1942 – Erica Jong is born in New York City, New York.

MARCH 26, 1944 – Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan.

MARCH 27, 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of the Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

MARCH 27, 1879 – Edward Steichen is born in Bivange, Luxembourg.

MARCH 27, 1926 – Frank O'Hara is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

MARCH 27, 1963 – Quentin Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee.

MARCH 28, 1907 – Irving Lazar is born in Brooklyn, New York.

MARCH 28, 1979 – The nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor unfolds outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

MARCH 29, 1940 – Astrud Gilberto is born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

MARCH 29, 1961 – Amy Sedaris is born in Endicott, New York.

MARCH 29, 2004 – The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

MARCH 30, 1853 – Vincent Van Gogh is born in Zundert, Netherlands.

MARCH 30, 1937 – Warren Beatty is born in Richmond, Virginia.

MARCH 30, 1939 – Detective Comics #27 is released, introducing Batman.

MARCH 30, 1949 – Lena Lovich is born in Detroit, Michigan.

MARCH 31, 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.

MARCH 31, 1913 – The Vienna Concert Society loses its collective mind at a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence.

MARCH 31, 1955 – Angus Young is born in Glasgow, Scotland.