It's National Cocktail Day, but since we are all currently on PAUSE in NY,
A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop. - Tom Frieden
(Not to bum people out but) today is World Tuberculosis Day, commemorating the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the cause of Tuberculosis, the TB bacillus.
(also it is supposed to remind people that tuberculosis still remains an epidemic in much of the world.)
Today is also National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day - a day to enjoy this tasty combination of chocolate and fruit. Chocolate lovers who like raisins, find the combination simply irresistible. Kids find them irresistible, too.
Just make sure nobody owns a rabbit (or a guinnea pig, believe me, we know from personal experience) at the home where you are enjoying those Raisinets (TM).
March 24, 1939 -
... There's no doubt about it in my mind. Or perhaps I should say, in my imagination. For that's where crimes are conceived and where they're solved... in the imagination....
Although Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are the stars of the film, 20th Century Fox was unsure whether the film would be a hit or not, therefore Richard Greene, already a well-established star, was given top billing, while Rathbone and Bruce were billed second and fourth respectively. After the massive box office success of the first film, Rathbone and Bruce received top billing in the thirteen films which followed.
Oh Watson, the needle!
March 24, 1951 -
Scent-Imental Romeo, another funny Looney Tunes short starring Pepé Le Pew, was released on this date.
This is the only Golden Age Pepe Le Pew cartoon in which Pepe does not continue chasing the cat (nor catches her) in the end.
March 24, 1973 -
Pink Floyd released the album Dark Side of the Moon, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, on this date.
I wonder how it did on the charts?
March 24, 2005 -
NBC-TV allowed us to follow the goings on at Dunder Mifflin when The Office, starring Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and B.J. Novak premiered on this date.
John Krasinski and B.J. Novak went to high school together. They went to Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts, and they both graduated in 1997. They were even on the same little league baseball team.
Today's Moment of Zen
Today in History:
March 24, 1401 -
Tamerlane conquered Damascus on this date. Tamerlane (Timur the Lane) was a descendant of Ghenghis Khan, and one of the greatest Tater leaders ever, expanding the Mongol empire from the Pacific to the Mediterranean.
Tamerlane is best remembered for having built pyramids out of human skulls, owing to a faulty understanding of architecture which no one ever had the courage to correct.
Feel free to bring this up at the next cocktail party you attend, perhaps tonight, while you are celebrating National Cocktail day.
March 24, 1603 -
Tudor Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen," died on this date. She had reigned from 1558-1603 and claimed never to have had a date.
Scottish King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became King James I of England in the union of the crowns.
March 24, 1874 -
Harry Houdini, Erik Weisz (Ehrich Weiss) magician, escape artist, performed his first trick when he escaped from his mother's womb in Budapest on this date.
He is still working on perfecting his final trick of coming back from the dead.
March 24, 1895 -
Arthur Murray, American dancer who founded dance schools, was born on this date.
He proved to millions of Americans that they have no innate sense of rhythm.
March 24, 1944 -
76 Allied officers escaped Stalag Luft 3 on this date. In 1949 Paul Brickall wrote The Great Escape. The story of Jackson Barrett Mahon, an American fighter pilot, and the Allied POW escape from Stalag Luft III in Germany during WW II.
The 1963 film The Great Escape starred Steve McQueen, directed by John Sturges, was based on the true story.
March 24, 1958 - (Please note, you are about to see Elvis, stripped to the waist, in his skivvies. Should you need healing of any sort, please press one of your sweaty hand upon the screen and the other ever dampening palm upon your afflicted region.)
Elvis Aron Presley entered the United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee (serial number 53 310 761), on this date, and then spent three days at the Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Reception Station.
March 24, 1975 -
Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies, featuring a Scotsman in a kilt battling a vicious black pudding with his bagpipes on this date.
After 25 minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant. (And the address where they can send her check.)
March 24, 1989 -
Cold Fusion was announced 31 years ago on this date.
He ran the Valdez into a well-charted reef at Prince William sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. An estimated 250,000 seabirds were killed.
Oops
And so it goes
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