Saturday, the 7th of March, 2015 is the 66th day in 2015 and in the 10th calendar week.
General Events:
Alexander Graham Bell Day
March 7, 2015 in Nova Scotia, Canada
Alexander Graham Bell Day was established in 2005 by a legislative Act of 2005, issued in Canadian province Nova Scotia. The day of the celebration coincides with the day, when Bell received the patent for his invention of the first telephone in 1879. The inventions of Alexander Graham Bell are worth to be honored. He developed Visible Speech, that allowed deaf people learn speaking, but his most notable invention was telephone.
Alexander Bell was very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Invention of telegraph by Samuel Morse made the instantaneous communication between two distant points almost possible, but it was limited to the number of messages, that could be transmitted, and required a hand-delivery of message. Bell improved telegraph in a device, in which he combined the aspects of telegraph and record player. This allowed everyone to speak and hear each other from a distance.
Working telephone was successfully tested for the first time on March 10, 1876, three days after obtaining a patent. Bell spoke the famous sentence to his assistant Thomas Watson ” Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”.
Where is Alexander Graham Bell Day ?
Nationwide Nova Scotia, Canada
National Sockmonkey Day
March 7, 2015 in the USA
A sock monkey is a toy made from socks fashioned in the likeness of a monkey. These stuffed animals are a mixture of folk art and kitsch in the culture of the United States and the culture of Canada.
The beloved sock monkey is easily recognizable, cute, silly, and soft, but where did it originate? According to Bonnie Krauss Connelly’s book, Everything’s Coming up Sock Monkeys!: Art, History and Business of the American Sock Monkey, the classic toy’s beginnings can be traced back to Rockford, Illinois, where Swedish immigrant John Nelson settled in 1852:
http://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/2014/12/monkeying-around-with-sock-monkeys/Where is the event?
Nationwide USA
National Crown Roast of Pork Day
March 7, 2015 in the USA
March 7th celebrates National Crown Roast of Pork Day, an “unofficial” National holiday. It would be the day to set a nice table and prepare a feast with a crown roast of pork.
To make a crown roast of pork, a pork loin is formed into a circle with the ribs pointing upwards forming the peaks of a crown. Often they are held together with twine. It is then seasoned and often times stuffed, roasted and served, making a beautiful centerpiece on the table. The ends of the bones may be given a paper-frill treatment for added decoration.
If you have never made a crown roast of pork, there are many different recipes for you to choose from. Have fun looking through them and enjoy National Crown Roast of Pork Day!
Where is National Crown Roast of Pork Day?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 7th March:
321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire
1530 – King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s church
1778 – Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1798 – The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic
1848 – In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1857 – Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1906 – Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 – Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1917 – Russian February Revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] with strike at Putilov factory in Petrograd
1926 – 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1933 – Game of “Monopoly” invented
1945 – Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1948 – The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule
1965 – Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1973 – Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1984 – The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua
1991 – Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1994 – ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1996 – 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1996 – The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed
1997 – 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country’s constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
2005 – Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women’s voting rights in Kuwait
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