On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born, the son of a
Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s
theories of special and general relativity drastically altered
human understanding of the universe, and his work in
particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum
mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) has
appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned
eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon.
He has received numerous awards including two Academy
Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and
a Screen Actors Guild Award.
As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have
grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only
five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award
for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received
a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II.
Caine as Batman’s butler Alfred.
2000
On March 13, 1865, with the main Rebel armies facing long
odds against much larger Union armies, the Confederacy,
in a desperate measure, reluctantly approved the use of
Black troops.
The situation was bleak for the Confederates in the spring
of 1865. The Yankees had captured large swaths of Southern
territory, General William T. Sherman’s Union army was tearing
through the Carolinas, and General Robert E. Lee was trying
valiantly to hold the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia,
against General Ulysses S. Grant’s growing force.
Adrian Joseph Cronauer was an American radio personality
and United States Air Force Sergeant, whose experiences as
an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during
the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam
starring Robin Williams as Cronauer (below).
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1987
On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps of the United States
Army began training dogs for the newly established War Dog
Program, or “K-9 Corps.”Well over a million dogs served on both
sides during World War I, carrying messages along the complex
network of trenches and providing some psychological comfort
to the soldiers.
The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin,
an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in
1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film
debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hell’s River.
As the first bona fide animal movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the
little-known German Shepherd breed famous across the
country.
