DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2019. There are 282 days left in the year.
Highlights in history
• In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.
• In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked and tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
• In 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas.
• In 1988, former national security aides Oliver North and John Poindexter and businessmen Richard Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Iran-contra affair. (North and Poindexter were convicted but had their verdicts thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count under a plea bargain.)
Birthdays • 100: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
• 68: Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
• 66: Louie Anderson, comedian
• 43: Peyton Manning, former NFL quarterback
• 42: Jessica Chastain, actress
• 33: Val Chmerkovskiy, dancer
Thought for today
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." — William James, American psychologist (1842-1910)
Source: Associated Press