SELMA, Ala. (TND) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland
blasted legislation requiring voters to have a valid form of
identification as “discriminatory, burdensome and
unnecessary" Sunday.
SELMA, Ala. (TND) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland
blasted legislation requiring voters to have a valid form of
identification as “discriminatory, burdensome and
unnecessary" Sunday.
On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.
In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the
east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his
“New Deal”, an expansion of the federal government
as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare
and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.”
The comedic star John Candy died suddenly of a heart
attack on March 4, 1994, at the age of 43. At the time of
his death, he was living near Durango, Mexico, while
filming Wagons East, a Western comedy co-starring
comedian Richard Lewis. Lewis died recently on
February 27th.
1987
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)
Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor,
scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting
the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
in 1885.
Bell at the opening of the long-distance line
from New York to Chicago in 1892.
Melville House, the Bells’ first home in North America, now
a National Historic Site of Canada.
Bell statue by A. E. Cleeve Horne in front of the Bell
Telephone Building of Brantford, Ontario.