TODAY’S HISTORY

1861: Italy — excluding Rome and Venice — was unified as a nation under King Victor Emmanuel II.

1905: Franklin D. Roosevelt married distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt.

1950: Physics researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, announced the creation of californium, the radioactive 98th element.

1958: The United States launched the first solar-powered satellite, the Vanguard 1.

1995: The FDA licensed Varivax, the first chicken pox vaccine.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Gottlieb Daimler (18341900), engineer/ inventor; Paul

Green (1894-1981), playwright; Bobby Jones (1902-1971), golfer; Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), civil rights activist; Nat King Cole (1919-1965), singer; Kurt Russell (1951-), actor; Gary Sinise (1955-), actor; Rob Lowe (1964-), actor; Billy Corgan (1967-), singersongwriter; Mia Hamm (1972-), soccer player; Hozier (1990-), singer-songwriter; John Boyega (1992-), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Gottlieb Daimler is credited with building the first internal combustion motorcycle in 1885.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2005, six Major League Baseball players, including All-star sluggers Sammy Sosa and Mark Mcgwire, appeared before a congressional hearing on steroid use.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” — Bayard Rustin

TODAY’S NUMBER: 13 — elements in the periodic table that were identified before the year A.D. 1.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (March 13) and first quarter moon (March 21).