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MUSICAL OPENED BROADWAY ON THIS DAY IN 1956
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw‘s 1913 play Pygmalion.
The musical’s 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to
that time and was followed by a hit London production. Rex Harrison
and Julie Andrews starred in both productions.
CONSTRUCTION ON HIGHEST TUNNEL IN 1968
On March 15, 1968, construction started on the north tunnel of
the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnel on Interstate 70 in
Colorado, some 60 miles west of Denver.
Located at an elevation of more than 11,000 feet, the project was
an engineering marvel and became the world’s highest vehicular
tunnel when it was completed in 1979. Four months after opening,
one million vehicles had passed through the tunnel; today, some
10 million vehicles drive through it each year.
CELEBRATE, TODAY IS NATIONAL PI DAY
Larry Shaw (1939 – 2017) the founder of Pi Day, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant
π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since
3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π, and it
was first celebrated in the United States. It was founded in
1988 by Larry Shaw a physicist at the San Francisco science
museum, the Exploratorium. Celebrations often involve eating
pie or holding pi recitation competitions. In 2009, the United
States House of Representatives supported the designation
of Pi Day.
MAN OF MANY THEORIES BORN ON THIS DAY
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.
E = mc2
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