…so once again, to meet information needs our patrons didn’t even know they had, here’s a list of historically significant March dates:
March 1, 1753. Sweden switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. If you don’t know what that means, just think of it as daylight savings time except you set your clock back 264 hours.
March 3, 1655. A Montreal physician offers North America’s first health insurance plan, proving that the Canadians really were ahead of us on health care from day one.
March 11, 537. The Goths lay siege to Rome. The siege is called off when Consul Flavius Belisarius succeeds in convincing them that Rome is out of black eyeliner and lipstick.
March 16, 1621. Samoset, a Pemaquid Indian, visits the settlers of newfound Plymouth with cries of “Welcome, Englishmen!” He clearly didn’t know trouble when he saw it.
March 17, 1756. Because Colonial Americans don’t have enough excuses to drink, New York holds its first St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.
March 19, 978. Fifteen-year-old King Edward of England is assassinated on the orders of his stepmother so the throne can go to her ten-year-old son Ethelred. So that’s a big “feh” to all you people who think helicopter parenting is something new.
March 24, 1837. In Canada, black men get the right to vote. Canadians can’t stop showing us up, can they? It’s like a compulsion with those people.
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