Today is St. Patrick’s Day. It commemorates the date that is traditionally believed to be the death date of Pātricius, a Roman-British prelate who served as a Bishop of the Church in Ireland in the Fifth Century. March 17 has been celebrated as a feast day in his honor throughout the Christian world since the early 1600s.
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On this day in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, Tibet, for India.
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Jerry Lewis is 90 today. In an interview published yesterday, he calls it a “monster number.”
He was already one the top comics and part of one of the top nightclub and movie duos (Martin & Lewis) when he and Dean Martin decided to add philanthropy to the act. His annual television extravaganza on behalf of MDA raised more than $2.5 billion for medical research over the course of four and a half decades.
He is one of the oddest of our great movie comics: so vulnerable and yet super-sensitive to being called vulnerable, as a kid from a tough neighborhood would be, that he masks it by being always “ON,” always ludicrous, always a step beyond silly. Which makes his characters yet more vulnerable. Here is a glimpse:
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Today is the Ides of March. Members of the Roman Senate assassinated Julius Caesar, the Dictator of the Roman Republic, on this date in 44 B.C.E.
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I discovered many islands inhabited by numerous people. I took possession of all of them for our most fortunate King by making public proclamation and unfurling his standard, no one making any resistance. The island called Juana, as well as the others in its neighborhood, is exceedingly fertile …
—Christopher Columbus’ Report on His First Voyage, March 15, 1493
From October 1492 to February 1493, Christopher Columbus and his expedition members explored the Caribbean, kidnapped about two dozen indigenous people as specimens, and grabbed birds, plants, and interesting rocks (gold) as other sorts of specimens. On this date in 1493, the expedition arrived back in Spain and Columbus dashed off a report in Spanish to the King and Queen of Spain, which was sent to Rome to be translated into Latin and printed. A copy from 1493 currently sits in the collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (video below the fold):
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