catching up March 2 - 3

March 2

1930		Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45.
		DH Lawrence manuscript reveals attitude towards women http://gu.com/p/3f478/stw
1955		Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks‘ famous arrest for the same offense.
1956		France grants independence to Morocco.
Born on March 2
1900		Kurt Weill, German-born composer (The Threepenny Opera). http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/07/arts/kurt-weill-who-dared-to-be-popular.html
1904		Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer of everything from telephones to the interior of the Boeing 707.
1904		Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss], author of numerous children’s books including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham.
1931		Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the Soviet Union. Responsible for restructuring the Soviet economy (perestroika) and openness and information (glasnost).
1942		John Irving, novelist (The World According to Garp). March 3 1939 In Bombay, Gandhi begins a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule. 1919 Boeing flies the first U.S. international airmail from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington. 1923 The first issue of Time magazine is published. It’s editor, Henry R. Luce, is just out of Yale. 1931 President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem. 1999 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton. Born on March 3 1831 George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car. 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first telephone as well as other devices. 1911 Jean Harlow, (Hell’s Angels, Dinner at Eight). 1916 Robert Whitehead, Broadway producer (Bus Stop, A Man for All Seasons). r.