Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (March 10, 1940 – March 19, 2026)

On Thursday March 19, 2026, Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii
after experiencing a medical emergency and soon died. 

Norris was a martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author. He
held black belts in karate, taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian
jiu-jitsu, and judo.

After serving in the U.S.Air Force as an Air Policeman , he won
numerous martial arts championships and later founded his
own discipline, Chun Kuk Do.

Norris began working in Hollywood as a martial arts instructor
for celebrities before making his screen debut with a
minor role in The Wrecking Crew (1968).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Norris was a devout Christian and the author of several
Christian-themed books.

In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party met
to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into
the western territories.

The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the
“tyranny” of President Andrew Jackson, had shown itself
incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery.

With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska
Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the Missouri
Compromise and allowed slave or free status to be decided
in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs dissolved.

Illustration depicting the first Republican convention held
at Lafayette Hall in Pittsburgh on Feb. 22, 1856. It shows
two views, one of hall’s exterior, one of interior during proceedings.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 
was published on this day in 1852.

The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so
widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in
1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this
big war.”

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)