Daily Calendar for Thursday, March 3, 2022
Question of the Day
Why is it that wind makes a βwhistlingβ noise as it blows βthroughβ the windows when it is very cold outside, but it makes no sound when it is warm?
It’s the wind speed that causes the whistling, not the temperature. Strong, even gale-force, winds are far more likely to occur during the winter, when it is cold. Warm weather usually brings gentler breezes—and open windows!
Advice of the Day
Well begun is half done.
Home Hint of the Day
Think twice about choosing aluminum siding if you live by the sea; corrosion is a problem in such areas.
Word of the Day
Semidiurnal Tide
A tide with one high water and one low water every half day. East Coast tides, for example, are semidiurnal, with two highs and two lows during a tidal day of approximately 24 hours.
Puzzle of the Day
What is the difference between a professor and a mosquito?
One is a mentor, and the other is a torment.
Born
- George Mortimer Pullman (industrialist; designed luxury railroad cars) β
- Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) β
- Jean Harlow (actress) β
- Arnold Newman (photographer) β
- James Montgomery Doohan (actor, linguist) β
- Perry Ellis (fashion designer) β
- Miranda Richardson (actress) β
- Herschel Walker (football player) β
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (heptathlon athlete; Olympic gold medalist) β
- Jessica Biel (actress) β
Died
- Lou Costello (actor & comedian) β
- Danny Kaye (actor) β
- Arthur Murray (dance teacher) β
- Fred Friendly (documentary producer) β
- Hank Ballard (singer and songwriter who wrote and recorded The Twist in 1958 which later was recorded by Chubby Checker) β
- James Ludlow Elliot (astronomer who discovered the rings of Uranus) β
Events
- First U.S. foreign aid bill authorized $50,000 for relief of victims of an earthquake in Venezuelaβ
- The Missouri Compromise was passed by U.S. Congress, with President James Monroe signing it on March 6. The legislation designated that Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. (Maine became a state on March 15, 1820; Missouri became a state on August 10, 1821.) β
- Florida admitted to the Union as the 27th stateβ
- Serfs were emancipated in Russiaβ
- National Academy of Sciences signed into existence by Abraham Lincoln to advise the government on scientific and technical issuesβ
- Carmen, by Georges Bizet, premiered in Parisβ
- First organized ice hockey match, Montreal, Canadaβ
- Belva Ann Bennet Lockwood became first woman to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Courtβ
- Anne Sullivan began teaching deaf/blind Helen Kellerβ
- The U.S. Steel Corp. was formedβ
- Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York, began taking prisonersβ fingerprintsβ
- The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA, was foundedβ
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and the Central Powersβ
- First international airmail delivery was made from Vancouver, BC, to Seattle, WAβ
- The Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated U.S. national anthemβ
- First annual meeting of General Wildlife Federation (later, NWF), 1937.β
- Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth, with autonomy in internal affairsβ
- First fatal jetliner accident occured when a Canadian plane crashed in Karachi, Pakistanβ
- Pioneer 4, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit Sun, launchedβ
- Apollo 9 spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedyβ
- Pierre Trudeau replaced Joe Clark as prime minister of Canadaβ
- Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world solo without stopping or refueling, safely touching down in his custom-built plane 67 hours after taking offβ
- A 50-pound 6-ounce smallmouth buffalo fish was caught in Lake Fork, Texasβ
Weather
- Savannah, Georgia, received 10 inches of snowβ
- F5 βCandlestick Parkβ tornado struck Jackson, Mississippiβ