The newly finished Vietnam Veterans memorial was opened
to it’s first visitors in Washington, D.C. on this date in 1982.

 
The United States marine Corps was formed on this date in 1775 under the
authority of the Continental Congress.

 
                      Russell Johnson

 
‘MR. WIZARD’, with host Don Herbert, premiered March 3,1951
on NBC-TV and featured Herbert and guest kid’s conducting
science experiments. Don won a Peabody award for his work
on the program which aired for 30-minutes every Saturday
morning until it was cancelled in 1965. Herbert was a General
Science and English Major at the University of Wisconson.