This years theme: “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation,” is a way to celebrate all conservation efforts, from intergovernmental to local scale.
Today is also I Want You to be Happy Day. I can think of nothing else that will make you more happy than to continue reading this posting, or perhaps finding me a new job that pays something.
I know that would make me very happy.
March 3, 1933 -
W.C. Fields classic short, The Fatal Glass of Beer, premiered on this date.
In Fields' first sound film, The Golf Specialist there is a wanted poster of Fields which shows him in his Fatal Glass of Beer costume. It evidently was taken from an earlier stage presentation of the classic Fields sketch.
March 3, 1972 -
Elton John released the song Rocket Man, (officially titled Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time), on this date.
The inspiration for Bernie Taupin's lyrics was the short story The Rocket Man, written by Ray Bradbury. The sci-fi author's tale is told from the perspective of a child, whose astronaut father has mixed feelings at leaving his family in order to do his job. It was published as part of the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951.
March 3, 1985 -
ABC-TV unleashed Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd and the crew from the Blue Moon Detective Agency onto an unsuspecting world, when it premiered the pilot episode of Moonlighting on this date.
Bruce Willis was the very last of about 3,000 actors to audition for the role of David Addison, Jr. (Have a good thought for Bruce while you watch this today.)
March 3, 2008 -
Chumbawamba break the record for longest album title with their 160-word release The Boy Bands Have Won...
March 3, 2010 -
Tim Burton fanciful retelling of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, and Mia Wasikowska is released.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp worked hard to give the Mad Hatter more depth and presence than in past portrayals. In fact, the pair swapped sketches and themes for the character prior to creating this new version. This movie marks the seventh time Johnny Depp has worked under the direction of Tim Burton, and the sixth time for Helena Bonham Carter.
Another book from the back shelves of The ACME Library
Today in History -
March 3, 1861 -
Russian Tsar, Tzar, Czar Alexander II issued a manifest and ends feudal control of serfs as part of a program of westernization.
The Russian serf lived a hopeless life of back-breaking labor and desperate poverty. Their oppression, which continued even after their liberation, caused riots, assassinations, and literature. Finally they had the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to make the serfs equal to everyone else, and it worked.
The American surfdom can only be blamed for the Beach Boys and Annette Funicello.
March 3, 1863 -
The National Conscription Act was signed, forcing all men between 20 and 45 years of age into the draft lotteries. Except for rich bastards, who could buy their way out for $300, or hire another man to serve in his place.
March 3, 1875 -
The opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet, opened in Paris at the Opera-Comique, despite intense controversy surrounding its opening. The story was considered too salacious for the general public, and Bizet had trouble getting even one actress to agree to play the title role.
This was Bizet's only hit opera, as he died suddenly at the age of 37, three months later.
March 3, 1876 -
The Kentucky Meat Shower took place on this date in 1876, during which what appeared to be flakes of red meat measuring approximately 5 by 5 centimetres (2 in × 2 in) fell from the sky near the settlement of Rankin in Bath County, Kentucky.
The incident sparked plenty of wild theories about how it happened. To this day, there's no 100% certain explanation.
But you know your ole pal the doc, I'll go with the vulture vomit.
March 3, 1879 -
Politician Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina was sworn in as the second African American congressman in December 1870. (The first being Hiram Revels.) He was the first black presiding officer of the House of Representatives.
Rainey served a total of four terms in Congress until this date in 1879, establishing a record of length of service for a black Congressman that was not surpassed until that of William L. Dawson of Chicago in the 1950s.
March 3, 1887 -
Anne Mansfield Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of Helen, their blind and deaf 6 year old daughter on this date.
March 3, 1902 -
Sarah Rector was born on this date. Who is Sarah Rector, you ask? An impoverished African American member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, at the age of 11 she became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government.
Sarah avoided hundreds of attempts to scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “Richest colored girl in the world.” She lost the majority of her wealth in the Great Depression, as did many wealthy Americans. Sarah married twice, had three sons and died in 1967 at the age of 65.
March 3, 1923 -
The first issue of Time magazine, created by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce (the first weekly news magazine in the United States), was published on this date. It featured on its cover, Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
March 3, 1931 -
The lyrics to said drink song are -
To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee,
A few sons of harmony sent a petition,
That he their inspirer and patron would be,
When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian:
Voice, fiddle aud flute, no longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot!
And besides I'll instruct you like me to entwine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.
I believe drinking heavily is the key here.
Perhaps we can hand out laminated cards before each game.
March 3, 1931 -
...Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie....
On the same day President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional act adopting The Star-Spangled Banner, as the national anthem, Cab Calloway recorded the classic Minnie The Moocher.
It became the first million-selling jazz album.
March 3, 1934 -
John Dillinger escaped from an escapeproof jail in Crown Point Indiana, using a wooden pistol he carved himself. It's his second escape.
Remember, J. Edger was just months away from slicing up the corpse of Dillinger for his own personal collection.
March 3, 1959 -
An embittered and confused Lou Costello roused himself from his hospital bed to mutter, Fuck you Abbott, Who's on first now, coughs up bloody phlegm and died on this date.
Bud Abbott, ten years older than Lou, smiled to himself, lit a cigars and lived another 15 years to spite his former partner.
March 3, 1969 -
Apollo 9, the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module.
It carried astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made 151 Earth orbits over 10 days. The mission was the second manned launch of a Saturn V rocket.
March 3, 1991 -
Three white police officers had proceeded to beat Rodney King beyond what was necessary to use force to control him. Moreover, these three officers had reported that the bruises, cuts, and/or scrapes they gave King were minor in nature. The beating by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department of Rodney King is captured on video, the video then appeared on television news which angered many of the public especially those in the African American community who believed the police brutality was racially motivated.
Four LAPD officers were eventually tried in a state court for the beating but were acquitted. The announcement of the acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
On a personal note: Happy Birthday Cara
And so it goes.
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