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Today In Time
by observer Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:42 pm
In honour of all our Irish members (and the lovers of green beer!) - thought it was time to post!
WEARIN’ O’ THE GREEN DAY
In 432 A.D., Bishop Patrick left his home in England and returned to the country where he had once been enslaved. His purpose was to introduce Christianity to the Irish people. Many legends were told about Patrick, including the most famous, that he had charmed all the snakes into the sea, ridding Ireland of them. He was so loved that he was made the patron saint of all of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland on his feast day, March 17th, since the year 461. Today, Saint Patrick’s Day is still a legal, national holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Irish people have traveled to all parts of the world bringing their holiday with them. In 1762, those who came to New York formed the first of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parades; an annual event ever since. This year, 125,000 marchers walk the two-mile green stripe down NYC’s famed Fifth Avenue, with another 2,000,000 watching them, the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade anywhere.
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
1577 - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold.
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1765 - First Canadian St. Patrick's Day celebrated by Irish troops serving in the British Army at Quebec.
1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal
1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1967 - Snoopy and Charlie Brown, of the comic strip Peanuts, made the cover of LIFE magazine.
1969 - Golda Meir, a Milwaukee high school teacher, was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
BIRTHDAYS
1919 - Nat ‘King’ Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) - jazz pianist, bandleader: King Cole Trio; songwriter: Straighten Up and Fly Right; actor: St. Louis Blues; singer: Mona Lisa, Too Young, Unforgettable, Pretend, Ballerina, Ramblin’ Rose, The Christmas Song; actor: Cat Ballou; first black entertainer to host a national TV show; father of singer, Natalie Cole; died Feb 15, 1965)
1964 - Rob Lowe - actor: St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, Suddenly, Last Summer, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Contact, Atomic Train, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The West Wing
WEARIN’ O’ THE GREEN DAY
In 432 A.D., Bishop Patrick left his home in England and returned to the country where he had once been enslaved. His purpose was to introduce Christianity to the Irish people. Many legends were told about Patrick, including the most famous, that he had charmed all the snakes into the sea, ridding Ireland of them. He was so loved that he was made the patron saint of all of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland on his feast day, March 17th, since the year 461. Today, Saint Patrick’s Day is still a legal, national holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Irish people have traveled to all parts of the world bringing their holiday with them. In 1762, those who came to New York formed the first of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parades; an annual event ever since. This year, 125,000 marchers walk the two-mile green stripe down NYC’s famed Fifth Avenue, with another 2,000,000 watching them, the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade anywhere.
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
1577 - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold.
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1765 - First Canadian St. Patrick's Day celebrated by Irish troops serving in the British Army at Quebec.
1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal
1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1967 - Snoopy and Charlie Brown, of the comic strip Peanuts, made the cover of LIFE magazine.
1969 - Golda Meir, a Milwaukee high school teacher, was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
BIRTHDAYS
1919 - Nat ‘King’ Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) - jazz pianist, bandleader: King Cole Trio; songwriter: Straighten Up and Fly Right; actor: St. Louis Blues; singer: Mona Lisa, Too Young, Unforgettable, Pretend, Ballerina, Ramblin’ Rose, The Christmas Song; actor: Cat Ballou; first black entertainer to host a national TV show; father of singer, Natalie Cole; died Feb 15, 1965)
1964 - Rob Lowe - actor: St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, Suddenly, Last Summer, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Contact, Atomic Train, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The West Wing
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