Two children in the Bowery come across the body of a homeless drug addict later identified as Bobby Driscol, 31, the voice of Disney’s "Peter Pan".
According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, jesus christ’s birthday was March 28. It later became the familiar December 25 after the Romans changed it in 336.
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Harrisburg PA.
According to old beliefs jesus crucified (If only they did it right the first time.)
As part of Operation Green Mist, the U.S. Army detonates explosive warheads containing the deadly Sarin nerve agent at Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve on the big island of Hawaii. The open-air tests are kept secret for more than thirty years.
William Shatner, the great actor, birthday.
"I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this." Last words of Thomas J. Grasso, executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection:
George Eastman, the founder of Kodak Corporation, kills himself after a long illness. His suicide note states "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?"
Obese comedian John Candy dies.Mar 1 1954
The first hydrogen bomb is detonated at Bikini. Even though the bomb was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb exploded there in 1946, no islanders were evacuated this time. Almost 300 people suffered radiation exposure.
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