Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 299 days remaining.
There are:
5 days until Daylight
Saving Time begins;
7 days until Pi
Day;
10 days until St.
Patrick's Day;
13 days until the
arrival of Spring;
25 days until April
Fools' Day;
33 days until Palm
Sunday;
34 days until First
Day of Passover;
38 days until Good
Friday;
40 days until Easter
Sunday;
41 days until US Federal
Income Tax filing day;
42 days until Last
Day of Passover;
46 days until Earth
Day;
52 days until Arbor
Day;
59 days until Cinco
de Mayo;
68 days until Mother's
Day;
83 days until Memorial
Day;
619 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,415 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.
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March organizer Amelia
Boynton, one of 600 injured on "Bloody Sunday."
On this date in 1965, a group of 600 civil rights marchers was brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama, an event that became known as Bloody Sunday.
On this date in 1985, the song and charity single recording of "We Are The World" was released. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide. I t topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest- selling American pop single in history. The first ever single to be certified multi-platinum, "We Are the World" received a Quadruple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song also won three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award. The promotion and merchandise tie-ins aided the success of "We Are the World" and raised over $63 million (equivalent to $138 million today) for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US.
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Today is also Peace Corps Day. The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act.
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A Florida man tried to run over his former boss. And, this being Florida, it was caught on video.
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Some persons born on March 7 who said interesting things:
- William Boyd (1952), Scottish novelist and screenwriter;
- Luther Burbank (1849-1926), American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science;
- Michael Eisner (1942), American businessman;
- Bret Easton Ellis (1964), American author, screenwriter, and short story writer;
- Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764-1830), French politician and aphorist;
- Robert Harris (1957), English novelist;
- John Herschel (1792-1871), English polymath;
- E.L. James (1963), English author (Fifty Shades of Grey);
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), Italian poet and novelist;
- Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (1942-2007), American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality;
- Piers Paul Read (1941), English novelist, historian and biographer; and
- Wanda Sykes (1964), American comedian, writer, actress and voice artist.
Quote of the day:
"Sins become more subtle as you grow older. You commit sins of despair
rather than lust."
-Piers Paul Read
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As if fast food restaurants don't get enough health-related criticisms, it turns out toys in Happy Meals and other fast food children's meals may contain levels of lead high enough to potentially contaminate landfills. Not to mention what it does to the kids.
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BBC tells Facebook about child porn on the network, Facebook reports BBC to police for distributing child porn. Obtained on Facebook.
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The United States Court of International Trade has ruled that the Snuggie is a blanket, and not an article of clothing. This is a big deal, because it's going to cost the U.S. a lot of money. The tariff on imported blankets is 8.5%; "pullover apparel" is taxed at 14.9%.
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Some dealmaker. The New Yorker reports that Trump helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. If true, it's a violation of the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act... and that means serious jail time.
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It's mating season for the blue-footed booby, a one-of-a-kind bird found on the Galápagos Islands. And the mating dance is something to behold.
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Alcoholics Anonymous' faith-based 12-step program dominates treatment in the United States. But researchers have debunked central tenets of AA doctrine and found dozens of other treatments more effective.
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We're late today because our Windows 10 laptop decided to start ignoring the left button of the mouse, which made it rather hard to do anything. After a couple of reboots, the button again became responsive. I keep buying more powerful machines so Windows will boot faster, and it never works. I sometimes think there's a conspiracy between hardware manufacturers and Microsoft...
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