March 18

President Grover Cleveland born (1837); Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes first person to walk in space (1965); HBD Queen Latifah (1970); RIP rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry (2017).

March 17

First Saint Patrick’s Day parade held (1601); Golf legend Bobby Jones born (1902); Singer Nat King Cole born (1919); National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC (1941); HBD soccer great Mia Hamm (1972).

March 16

US Founding Father James Madison born (1751); US Military Academy is established (1802); Comedian Jerry Lewis born (1926); RIP Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf (1940); Fighting at Battle of Iwo Jima ends (1945).

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr

(May 27, 1911  – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. In 1968, Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election but lost to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon.

March 13

Uranus discovered (1781); RIP president Benjamin Harrison (1901); RIP Susan B. Anthony (1906); HBD rapper Common (1972); Pope Francis papacy begins (2013).

March 12

Girl Scouts of the USA is founded (1912); American author and poet Jack Kerouac born (1922); HBD actress and singer Liza Minnelli (1946); HBD Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) (1947); First female priests are ordained by the Church of England (1994).

March 11

Civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy born (1926); RIP Alexander Fleming, scientist who discovered penicillin (1955); Janet Reno confirmed as first female attorney general in the US (1993); 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggers tsunami and leads to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster (2011).