March 4 Fun Facts, Trivia and History |
March 4 History Highlights |
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The First Full Week in March is… |
| “Celebrate Your Name” Week. “National Consumer Protection” Week “Professional Pet Sitters” Week “Return Borrowed Books” Week |
Celebrate National Grammar Day! |
Do you love grammar? Do you get a thrill from proper punctuation and well-placed modifiers? If so, then you’re in luck! March 4 is National Grammar Day, a time to celebrate all things grammar-related. According to the Oxford Dictionaries, National Grammar Day is “an annual event that celebrates good grammar and aims to raise awareness of the importance of language education.” Here are some fun facts about National Grammar Day, established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, and give you some tips on how to celebrate! Fun Facts About National Grammar Day:
Tips on How to Celebrate National Grammar Day:
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March 4 is… |
| Hug a G.I. Day Pound Cake Day March Forth and Do Something Day National Grammar Day World Obesity Day |
March 4 Birthday Quotes |
“It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.” “My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I’m making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchise they’re going to build. And guess what? If the first movie doesn’t work there is no franchise, so I’m always concentrated on making the best, best possible movie right now.” “I build the car first then make a drawing, are you paying attention, Detroit ?” “I don’t like to lose, and that isn’t so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don’t want a football player who doesn’t take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, “Oh, well, there’s another Saturday.” The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.” |
March 4 Birthdays |
| 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (died in 1741) 1702 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (died in 1724) 1864 – David W. Taylor, American admiral, architect, and engineer (died in 1940) 1888 – Knute Rockne, American Football coach (died in 1931) 1913 – John Garfield, American actor and singer (died in 1952) 1919 – Buck Baker, American race car driver (died in 2002) 1925 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor and composer (died in 2006) 1932 – Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, American illustrator (died in 2001) 1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress 1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (died in 2014) 1948 – Chris Squire, English singer-songwriter and bass guitarist (died in 2015) 1951 – Chris Rea, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American drummer 1954 – Catherine O’Hara, Canadian-American actress 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress 1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer 1962 – Simon Bisley, English author and comic book illustrator 1965 – Paul W.S. Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter 1968 – Patsy Kensit, English model and actress 1983 – Drew Houston, American internet entrepreneur 1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress |
March 4 History |
| 1193 – Saladin [Salah ed-Din]) Yusuf ibn Ayyub (52) Kurdish sultan of Egypt and Syria (1175-1193) died. 1519 – Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. 1826 – The first chartered railroad in the US was chartered as the Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts. 1837 – The city of Chicago was incorporated. 1853 – Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to recite his inauguration address entirely from memory. The speech was 3,329 words long. 1930 – The Coolidge Dam on Gila River in Arizona was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge. 1944 – Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. March 5, 1955 – Peter Pan aired live as part of NBC’s Producer’s Showcase. 1966 – John Lennon was quoted as saying “Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink… We’re more popular than Jesus now,” in reference to religion fading in the western world. 1967 – #1 Hit March 4, 1967 – March 10, 1967: The Rolling Stones – Ruby Tuesday 1975 – The first People’s Choice Awards was shown on CBS. 1975 – People magazine was published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly. 1978 – #1 Hit March 4, 1978 – March 17, 1978: Andy Gibb – (Love Is) Thicker Than Water 1982 – Police Squad! premiered on ABC, lasting 6 episodes, but the concept was made into several very successful Naked Gun feature films 1984 – Television Academy Hall of Fame opened 1985 – Robotech premiered, in syndication. 1989 – #1 Hit March 4, 1989 – March 24, 1989: Debbie Gibson – Lost In Your Eyes 2000 – #1 Hit March 4, 2000 – March 17, 2000: Lonestar – Amazed |
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts |
| The biggest film of 1971: Billy Jack earned ~ $98,000,000 Barry Manilow wrote the jingle: “I am stuck on Band-Aids, ’cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me.” I only buy one lottery ticket at a time. That way, when I finally win the big one, I didn’t waste too much money on extra tickets I didn’t need. Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world’s almonds and 20 percent of the world’s peanuts. The Scary Statistic: Heart Disease odds: 1-in-5 The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like a pterodactyl. If someone 50 years ago was told that there would only be 8 planets, they might think something really exciting happened… What to do: Take an 81 mg aspirin daily, eat healthy foods, exercise in moderation. Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed movie character in history. Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year. What if my dreams are a connection to a different reality? #ThosePoorPeople Earl Grey was actually a Prime Minister of Great Britain during 1830-1834. I don’t really know the back of my hand that well. |
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