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March 3-10

This Week in History
Heartaches

Patsy ClineMARCH 5, 1963 - Country music sensation Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash. Cline was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice, which she credits to a serious throat infection she suffered as a child. Her best known hits include "Walkin' After Midnight", "I Fall to Pieces" and "She's Got You" but her signature song was "Crazy," which she recorded in 1961. On the day of her death Cline had been performing at a benefit show in Kansas City, Kansas. After the show she boarded a Piper Commanche bound for Nashville, flown by her manager Randy Hughes, along with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. The plane flew into severe weather 90 miles west of Nashville, and according to Cline's wristwatch, crashed at 6:20 p.m. in a forest outside of Camden Tennessee. She was thirty years old

Hello Operator

MARCH 7, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the first telephone. Bell's patent covered "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically." Another inventor named Elisha Gray filed a patent application for a telephone the same day as Bell and there is debate as to who filed first. Furthermore, there are allegations that Bell may have stolen Gray's design. Three days after his patent was issued, Bell succeeded in getting his telephone to work.

A Formidable Foe

MARCH 8, 1983 - President Ronald Reagan delivered an address at a meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals in which he referred to Communist state as "the focus of evil in the modern world." The speech, which quickly became known as the "Evil Empire Speech," was delivered at a time when Congress was debating a resolution in support of a nuclear freeze, a doctrine supported by the Soviet Union that would have prevented the deployment of American missiles in Europe. President Reagan was a stalwart opponent to the nuclear freeze and decided to use his presidential bully pulpit on the topic. The speech electrified dissidents behind the Iron Curtain and appalled Reagan's domestic opposition, including much of the press. The speech has gone down in history as one of Reagan's most influential addresses.

Engaged in Steely Battle

MARCH 9, 1862 - The Battle of Hampton Roads during the Civil War featured the first battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor and the Merrimac. Fought over two days the battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy tMonitor v Merrimaco break a Union blockade. On the first day the Merrimac (which had been renamed the CSS Virginia) was able to destroy two Union ships and threaten a third, the USS Minnesota, which had run aground. However darkness and falling tide forced an intermission in the battle. The Merrimac returned the next morning to finish off the Minnesota only to find that during the night the USS Monitor had arrived and had taken a position to defend the Minnesota. The two ironclads fought for about three hours, with neither being able to inflict significant damage on the other, and the duel ended indecisively. The battle received worldwide attention and immediately revolutionized naval warfare, ending the age of wooden-hulled ships.

"Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omni- potence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world."

-President Ronald Reagan
decrying Communism


Heath is Watching

Prager University

The Bigger the State,
the Smaller the Citizen

by Dennis Prager
prageruniversity.com
History Quiz

Who wrote Patsy Cline's signature song Crazy?
 
A. June Carter Cash
B. Roger Miller
C. Willie Nelson
D. Dottie West

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