Heartaches
MARCH 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
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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.
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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
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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 t o
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
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"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
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History Quiz
Who wrote Patsy Cline's signature
song Crazy?
A. June Carter Cash
B. Roger Miller
C. Willie Nelson
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History Quiz Winner
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