On This Day:
Monday March 17, 2014 This is the 76th day of the year, with 289 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: onions Though the onion is thought to have been first cultivated in the Mediterranean region or central Asia as far back as 5,000 years ago, many varieties of onion grow wild in temperate climates all around the world. The onion was popular with ancient civilizations because it did not spoil in winter. Onions contain sulfuric compounds located at the root end of the bulb; these are released into the air when the onion is chopped, causing tears in the eyes of the person chopping; one way to reduce tears is to chill the onion first and to cut fast or have water running in the cutting area. Eating parsley or apples is a good way to get rid of onion breath. Onions are believed to be helpful in predicting weather: if an onion bulb has many layers, it means a tough winter may be coming.
Holidays St. Patrick's Day, commemorating his death on this day c 461-492 AD.
Feast day of St. Patrick, St. Withburga, St. Gertrude of Nivelles, St. Joseph of Arimathea, St. Paul of Cyprus, and the Martyrs of the Serapaeum.
Ireland, Northern Ireland: St. Patrick's Day (National Day).
United Nations: World Maritime Day.
Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts: Evacuation Day (of British during American Revolution).
Events 1328 - Scotland won its independence from England.
1762 - Irish soldiers serving in the British army held the first parade honoring St. Patrick, in New York City.
1776 - During the American Revolution, British forces were compelled to evacuate Boston; they fled to Nova Scotia.
1870 - The Massachusetts legislature authorized the incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary, which later became Wellesley College.
1899 - The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistance for a merchant ship off the coast of England.
1905 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, married Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1910 - The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in Lake Sebago, Maine.
1941 - The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.
1959 - The (14th) Dalai Lama fled Tibet and went to India.
1969 - Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush gave Iraq's Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country, but the ultimatum was rejected.
Births 1834 - Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler, German engineer and automobile manufacturer.
1846 - Kate Greenaway, English painter, book illustrator.
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physiologist.
1902 - Bobby Jones, American, first golfer to win the Grand Slam in professional golf.
1917 - Nat "King" Cole (Coles), American jazz pianist, bandleader, songwriter, singer.
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer who defected to United States.
Deaths 1993 - Helen Hayes, American film and theatre actress.
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