This Day in History on March 8 - History and Headlines

March 8, 1782: Gnadenhutten Massacre

By Major Dan on March 8, 2019 Crime, March 8, Military, Politics, Religion

A Brief History On March 8, 1782, people once again proved how hate can lead to innocent lives began violently taken when Ninety-six Native Americans were massacred at Gnadenhutten, Ohio, the first European settlement in Ohio. The Native Americans killed were actually fellow settlers with the German Americans that founded the town, followers of the Moravian faith, White and Native people living together with a common religion for a common purpose. So why were the Delaware Indians (also called Leni Lenape) killed by the rampaging Pennsylvania militia that carried out the massacre? Because of raids committed against White settlements by…

March 8, 1862: Battle of Hampton Roads Begins, Naval History is Made

By Major Dan on March 8, 2018 Inventions, March 8, Military

A Brief History On March 8, 1862, during the American Civil War, perhaps the most important naval battle of the war began, a battle that would see the first clash of ironclad/armored warships. The ironclad Confederate States Ship, CSS Virginia set about to break the Union blockade of the Chesapeake Bay anchorage of Norfolk, Virginia by successfully attacking the wooden US Navy ships on blockade duty, with the Union ironclad USS Monitor responding to face the Virginia the next day. Digging Deeper Union strategy for winning the Civil War centered on a blockade of the South, the Anaconda Plan put…

March 8, 2018: Your Chance to Preview Thoroughbreds

By Dr. Zar on March 5, 2018 Cinema & TV, March 8

A Brief History John Carroll University students who are drama thriller film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Thoroughbreds on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio! For your chance to get a pass, log on to FocusFeaturesScreenings.com and enter code MZTB72901. Passes are limited and seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed. Please arrive early to increase chance of entry. Digging Deeper In Thoroughbreds, childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with…

March 8, 1957: Georgia Asks Congress to Take Away Black Voting Rights

By Major Dan on March 8, 2017 March 8, Politics

A Brief History On March 8, 1957, both houses of Georgia’s state legislature passed and Governor Marvin Griffin approved a shameful resolution known as the Georgia Memorial to Congress. Digging Deeper As part of the ongoing effort by Georgia lawmakers and politicians to fight the rising tide of the Civil Rights Movement, this resolution asked the US Congress to repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, all part of an effort in the “continuing battle for segregation.” The gist of the 14th Amendment (1868) is that all citizens enjoy equal protection under the law, including equality in education. …

March 8, 1949: “Axis Sally” Goes to Prison, but “Hanoi Jane” Doesn’t?

By Major Dan on March 8, 2016 Crime, March 8, Military

A Brief History On March 8, 1949, the long and convoluted journey of Mildred Gillars temporarily came to an end. Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find Gillars, born Mildred Sisk in Maine changing her name at age 11 when her mother remarried. Moving to Conneaut, Ohio in 1916, she then attended Ohio Wesleyan University to study acting in 1918, but dropped out prior to graduation. Her cracked journey continued as she moved to New York to further her acting career, but the big break did not come. Moving to Paris in 1929 she worked as a model and ended up…