Today is Monday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2004. There are 284 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
In 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)
On this date:
In 1882, Congress outlawed polygamy.
In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.
In 1933, during Prohibition, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
In 1972, Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It fell three states short of the 38 needed for approval.)
In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of The Flying Wallendas high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1988, both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of a sweeping civil rights bill.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Karl Malden is 92. Pantomimist Marcel Marceau is 81. USA Today founder Allen H. Neuharth is 80. Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim is 74. Actor William Shatner is 73. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is 70. Singer-guitarist George Benson is 61. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 56. Actress Fanny Ardant is 55. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 52. Country singer James House is 49. Actress Lena Olin is 49. Singer-actress Stephanie Mills is 47. Actor Matthew Modine is 45. Actress Kellie Williams is 28. Actress Reese Witherspoon is 28. Rock musician John Otto (Limp Bizkit) is 27.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Saturday, March 20, 2004.
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