The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

Special Days

by Dessa Rodeffer
Quill Editor/Publisher

8 March 2000

Did you know that March 8, 1913 the First U.S. Income Tax began?

And you and I are asking .."Why?"

"Why, would legislatures pass a law for income tax when the colonists worked so hard to move away from the British taxation?

I believe they were more disgusted about laws and taxation without their representation, something that doesn't set to well with any of us. We all like to have a say in the rules that are going to govern us.

It is interesting that March 8th is also International Working Women's Day.... a day to celebrate the fact that women can work and contribute to the work force and get paid for it.

We know, of course, that women have been working for years, most of the time behind the scenes as the silent partners of many successful men. My mother was one of them, and yours was probably, too.

Girls will be interested in knowing, as well as their mothers, that March 9, 1959, was the Barbie Doll Debuts.

March 9 George Burns died at the age of 100 in 1996.

March 10, Employee Appreciation Day, was very busy with many causes. On that day in March of 1862, the first paper money was issued in the U.S.. On that day in 1876 the telephone was invented and in 1880 the Salvation Army was founded.

March 11 is Johnny Appleseed Day. This was also the day that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824.

March 12, the Girl Scouts of America was founded in 1912 , and in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt conducted the first Presidential "Fireside Chat". Also, it is the birthday of baseball player Daryl Strawberry (1962)

March 13 is Good Samaritan Day and also the day Earmuffs were patented in 1887. The Larry King Show premiered in 1983, and best of all, I was born on my Grandmother Odessa's birthday.

March 14 is "Organize Your Home Office Day," and the birthdays of famous people such as our local doctor, Robert Pogue, and Albert Einstein (Einstein was in 1879). Of course, Doc Pogue was actually born at midnight, the 13th, and his mother got to choose which day he was born. I think there is enough margin of error that he could actually be a March 13th baby, but oh well, who can argue with a mother who gave him birth.

Just to throw in a few other March birthdays:

Alexander Graham Bell 3/1847
Rex Harrison 5/1908,
Michelangelo 6/1475,
Lawrence Welk 11/1903,
Andrew Jackson 15/1767
James Madison 16/1751
Nat King Cole 17/1919
Grover Clevland 18/1837
Wyatt Earp 19/2000
Johann Sebastian Bach 21/1685
Joan Crawford 23/1904
Howard Cosell 25/1920
Sam Walton 29/1918

Soon we will be adding another generation of names to this list of significant people.

Doesn't it make you wonder what significant events will be happening in this new millennium?