On This Day:
Sunday March 8, 2015 This is the 67th day of the year, with 298 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: knuckle cracking The knuckle (metacarpophalangeal joint) is surrounded by synovial fluid, a clear liquid that lubricates the joint. This fluid contains about 15% carbon dioxide in solution. When you crack your knuckles, you tug or twist the finger with a steady effort, creating a low-pressure zone within the synovial fluid. The low pressure probably draws CO2 and water vapor out of solution, creating a bubble -- which collapses instantly and the fluid crashing in from all sides makes the noise. One the gas bubble is popped, there is only a small gas bubble for 15-20 minutes until the CO2 is totally redissolved. During that time you can't crack the same knuckle again.
Holidays Feast day of St. Felix of Dunwich, St. Duthac, St. Julian of Toledo, St. Pontius of Carthage, St. Veremund, St. Senan, and St. John of God.
United Nations: International Women's Day.
Syria: Revolution Day.
Events 1765 - The British House of Lords passed the Stamp Act.
1801 - During the Napoleonic Wars, combined British and Ottoman forces successfully established a foothold in French-occupied Egypt.
1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York, a first in the U.S..
1910 - In Britain, the first man received a pilot's certificate, John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, while in France, Mme Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to be issued a pilot's license.
1913 - The Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes.
1917 - In Russia, the "February Revolution" (known as such because of Russia's then use of the Julian calendar) began when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupted in Petrograd.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1930 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi began the campaign of civil disobedience.
1950 - The USSR declared they had built an atomic bomb.
1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain.
1965 - Around 3500 Marines landed at Da Nang in South Vietnam and became the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam.
1971 - Joe Frazier, of Philadelphia, won a boxing decision over Muhammad Ali, who had been previously undefeated.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
2001 - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
Births 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice.
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author.
1879 - Otto Hahn, German, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress.
1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician best known as a founding member of the country-rock group the Eagles.
Deaths 1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor.
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer.
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States.
1971 - Harold Lloyd, American comedian and silent-film actor.
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player.
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