March 14 isn t just Pi Day. It also has a surprising history of famous births, the death of physicist Stephen Hawking and a milestone for a daring dirigible.
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For over a century International Women’s Day has been celebrated around the world on March 8 as a day to recognize the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
From The San Diego Union, Tuesday, March, 9, 1971:
International Women’s Day Marked
International Women’s Day is 61 years old yesterday and feminists here made notations in the margins of history to commemorate the event at the downtown YWCA.
“How many of us with college degrees would recognize the names Mercy Otis Warren, Anna Ella Carrol, Harriet Tubman and Mother Jones?” Sherry Smith asked the women who sat cross-legged on overstuffed pillows.
This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 19
1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.
1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes horse race.
1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1912 – The U.S. government establishes the 8-hour workday.
1934 – Congress establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.
History of Becker College, dating to 1784 (Leicester Academy)
Telegram & Gazette Staff
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The earliest documented presence of female students at the Academy is found in the diaries of student Ruth Henshaw, who would become early 19th-century portrait artist Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom.
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John Barton of Nova Scotia and Horace Dickenson of Montreal become the first-known international students at Leicester Academy.
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First perfect game in Major League Baseball is pitched by J. Lee Richmond of the Worcester Worcesters at the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds, now the Weller Academic Center quad on the Worcester campus.
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Elliott P. Joslin, the first doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and the founder of today’s Joslin Diabetes Center, graduates.
From January to March 2022, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University will display the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection, America’s largest privately held anthology of African American art, history, and ephemera. The exhibition was announced on February 24, 2021, at Smothers Theatre in Malibu during the President s Speaker Series event featuring philanthropist and entrepreneur Bernard (MBA ’73), his wife, Shirley (MA ’76), and their son, Khalil, Kinsey in discussion about the “myth of absence” concept that has played a significant role in America’s view of African Americans and the many and often untold examples of African American achievement and contribution.