Today is the third of March. An important day in my life, for it marks my birth, and so much more…

March 3…

1263 – Hugh of Saint Cher dies; he reputedly compiled the first Bible concordance, and divided the Hebrew and Greek Testaments into chapters.

1812 – The US passed its first foreign aid bill after the earthquake in Venezuela.

1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born.

1863 – President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the National Academy of Sciences.

1887 – Helen Keller begins lessons with Anne Sullivan.

1913 – Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.

1919 – Peter Abrahams, the great South African author was born.

1939 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the autocratic rule of British India.

1959 – Ira Glass of NPR’s “this American Life” was born

1960 – Pope John 23rd named seven new cardinals, including Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi (First Japanese Cardinal), Archbishop Rufino J. Santos (First Filipino Cardinal), and Bishop Laurian Rugambwa (First African Cardinal).

1973 – The American Indian Movement (AIM) set up a tepee south of Wounded Knee, SD on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to begin negotiations between the AIM and Federal authorities.

1991 – An amature video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representative, beginning a period lasting until 2006, where all the highest political offices were occupied by women.

1969 – Dwight J. Friesen was born… yes, today I my birthday. Yip, I’m 55 years old!

Peace, dwight