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Monday March 24, 2014 This is the 83rd day of the year, with 282 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: herbs and spices Herbs are fragrant leaves used fresh or dried for flavoring food, while spices are flavoring substances obtained from other parts of the plant such as the seeds, fruits, bark, roots, etc. Spices come mostly from plants that grow in warm places. Medieval monasteries were known for their cultivation of many different kinds of herbs: bay, garlic, rosemary, and other aromatic leaves were used to flavor the monks' food and to make medicines and ointments for healing the sick. The word herb comes via Old French from Latin herba, which meant "growing vegetation, green plants, grass."
Holidays Feast day of St. Dunchad, St. Hildelith, St. Macartan, St. Aldemar, St. Simon of Trent, St. William of Norwich, St. Catherine of Vadstena, and St. Irenaeus of Sirmeum.
Events 1401 - Tamerlane the Great captured Damascus in Syria.
1664 - Roger Williams was granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island.
1765 - Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.
1883 - Long-distance telephone service was started between Chicago and New York.
1900 - Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1934 - The Philippines were granted independence, which did not take effect until July 4, 1946.
1955 - Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opened on Broadway.
1958 - Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army.
1976 - The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by the country's military.
1989 - The supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking eleven million gallons of crude, the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
1999 - NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. The NATO offensive came in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against the Kosovar Albanians.
Births 1494 - Georgius Agricola, German scholar, scientist known as the "Father of Mineralogy."
1834 - John Wesley Powell, geologist, explorer, Director of U.S. Geological Survey.
1855 - Andrew Mellon, American financier, philanthropist, Secretary of the Treasury.
1887 - Fatty (Roscoe) Arbuckle, American actor.
1902 - Thomas E. Dewey, prosecutor, New York governor, two-time presidential candidate.
Deaths 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, after 44 years of rule; King James VI of Scotland then ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch.
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