The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.

 

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

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  Did you know...

... that today is the start of Optimism Month? March is

National Optimism Month; that means that negative thoughts are

not allowed. Keep a good attitude during this month - spread

those positive vibes around! :-)

 

In American’s first automobile race in 1895, the winning car had an average speed of 7 mph.


 

Hawaii is moving about 3 inches closer to Japan every year.

March 4, 1952

Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in North Hollywood, CA.

Did you know...

... that today is Jupiter Rings Day? In 1979, the Voyager 1
spacecraft got close enough to Jupiter to send back photos
that proved Jupiter has a thin system of dust rings. Jupiter
thus became the fourth planet known to be ringed; the others
are Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus.

Likewise, a newly elected president was inaugurated on March 4 as a new Congress was seated. The combination of a lame-duck president and Congress could have serious implications. For example, after Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, lame-duck President James Buchanan and a divided Congress saw seven southern states leave the Union until Lincoln took over on March 4, 1861.

Lame-duck House sessions also elected Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams as president in two races that were sent to the House in 1800 and 1824.

Another point of contention was the exact time on March 4 that a congressional session ended.

A spat in 1851 started by a senator from Mississippi, Jefferson Davis, led to a Senate resolution marking 11:59 a.m. on March 4 as the end of a Congress and 12 p.m. as the start of a new Congress. (The House, as a habit, didn’t meet on March 4 at the time.)

Before then, some people considered the stroke of Midnight on March 3 as the end of Congress’s two-year term.

The Senate’s website describes a regular scene where the Senate doorkeeper would move the minute hand on the chamber’s official clock as members debated about time.

The drama over March 4 every year ended when the 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933. Part of the amendment eliminated an extended lame-duck Congress. The new amendment set January 3 as the starting day of a new Congress and January 20 as inauguration day for the president. The previous congressional and presidential terms ended just before the new terms began.

But not to be forgotten are some other March 4 events, such as President Lincoln’s two inaugural addresses and President Franklin Roosevelt’s address in 1933. One infamous inaugural was on March 4, 1829, when President Andrew Jackson’s supporters stormed the White House and had to be lured away with the promise of free liquor.

 

1790 The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.

March 6, 1857

 In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.

 

Did you know...

... that today is Aspirin Trademark Day? In 1899, the Bayer

Company trademarked the name aspirin for the medicine

developed by German chemist Friedrich Hoffman. Aspirin, also

known as acetylsalicylic acid, was included in the medicine

kits of the astronauts who went to the moon!

 

 Today in history: March 7

President Carter, in 1977, met with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, paving the way for the Camp David Accords

By West Wing Reports | 8:05am EST

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and President Jimmy Carter, leave the Oval Office after a meeting in March 1977.

March 7

 

On this day. 1977: In a meeting that paved the way for the Camp David peace talks, President Carter welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the White House. Carter told Rabin, his successor, Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, that Mideast peace was a top priority. In November of that year, Sadat made his historic journey to Israel for talks with Begin, leading to the Camp David Accords. Sadat would be murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in 1981. Rabin — prime minister again in 1995 — would also be murdered by an Israeli fundamentalist who was opposed to the Mideast peace process.

 

Quote of the day

 

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." -Jimmy Carter

 

Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw

March 8, 1917

Russia's February Revolution (so called because of the Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg.

 

Did you know...

... that today is the anniversary of the Fight of the Century?

In 1971, in New York City's Madison Square Garden, Joe Frazier

beat Muhammad Ali in a 15-round unanimous decision that

allowed him to keep his world heavyweight boxing championship.