A look at History - March 3

1845 - Florida became the 27th state in the United States.

1845 - The U.S. Senate passed legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time.

1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics.

1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.

1913 - A women's suffrage march in Washington D.C. was attacked by angry onlookers while police stood by. The march occurred the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Many of the 5,000 women participating were spat upon and struck in the face as a near riot ensued. Secretary of War Henry Stimson then ordered soldiers from Fort Myer to restore order.

1918 - Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

1931 - The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem.

Birthday - Railroad car builder George Pullman (1831-1897) was born in Brocton, New York. He improved railroad sleeping accommodations, developing the folding upper berth and lower berth designs. His company went on to become the biggest railroad car building organization in the world.

Birthday - Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell and his father were involved in teaching deaf persons to speak. Bell developed an interest in the vibrating membrane as a method of electrically transmitting sounds. His very first sentence spoken on the newly invented telephone on March 10, 1876, was to his assistant, "Mister Watson, come here, I want you."

Birthday - Mine! 1979

How did we celebrate...

camping of course!

Some of our trip can be found here!