Bethel Daily Briefing: Thursday, March 1, 2012

TODAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012

WEATHER from The National Weather Service 

Thursday: Rain and sleet likely before 9am, then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 40. North wind between 6 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Little or no snow accumulation expected. 

Thursday Night: A chance of rain, mixing with snow after 9pm, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northeast wind between 3 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

QUOTE OF THE DAY from Brainy Quotes 

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. Ogden Nash

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Westport Downtown Merchants Association invites submissions in any media for ART ABOUT TOWN, a month-long event designed to provide artist exhibition opportunities in the windows of stores and restaurants throughout Westport, CT’s vibrant downtown shopping district. All art must be for sale, juried.

Entry Deadline: Friday, March 16th.  Opening Night – Thursday, May 24.  Art remains on display until June  17. For Further Information, Click

On Saturday, March 10, 2012 CAI-CT presents its Annual Condo / HOA Conference and Expo at The Aqua Turf Club located at 556 Mulberry Street in Southington, CT. The event begins at 8:30 a.m. with special breakfast meetings for Presidents and Property Managers of local condominiums and Home Owners Associations (HOAs).  For more information, click

New Business? Planning an event? Proud of someone? New baby in the family? Send in your announcements and we will let the world know!

MUNICIPAL MEETINGS:

Energy Conservation meeting 7 pm, Room A, Municipal Center

Board of Education Subcommittee Meetings 7 pm, Room E, Municipal Center

Bethel Fire Department 8 pm, 38 South Street

GARDENING HINTS from Down Garden Services 

This is the best time to add farmyard manure or compost to the garden as the nutrients will be present for the new growth. If added in the autumn a lot of the "goodness" is leached away over the winter, particularly the nitrogen.

TODAY IN HISTORY from On This Day

 1498 - Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique on his way to India. 

1562 - In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The event started the First War of Religion. 

1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged. 

1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 

1790 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. census. 

1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state. 

1864 - Louis Ducos de Hauron patented a machine for taking and projecting motion pictures. The machine was never built. 

1867 - Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. 

1869 - Postage stamps with scenes were issued for the first time. 

1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park. 

1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter. 

1907 - In Odessa, Russia, there were only about 15,000 Jews left due to evacuations. 

1907 - In Spain, a royal decree abolished civil marriages. 

1907 - In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau. 

1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. 

1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May. 

1937 - U.S. Steel raised workers’ wages to $5 a day. 

1937 - In Connecticut, the first permanent automobile license plates were issued. 

1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations. 


1949 - Joe Louis announced that he was retiring from boxing as world heavyweight boxing champion. 

1950 - Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. 

1954 - The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 

1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives. 

1961 - The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President Kennedy. 

1969 - Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from major league baseball. 

1971 - A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the Vietnam War claimed responsibility. 

1974 - Seven people were indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in. The charge was conspiring to obstruct justice. 

1987 - The Boston Celtics defeated Detroit 112-102 to post their 2,235th NBA win. 

1987 - S&H Green Stamps became S&H Green Seals. The stamps were introduced 90 years earlier. 

1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors. 

1993 - The U.S. government announced that the number of food stamp recipients had reached a record number of 26.6 million. 

1994 - Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in an effort to placate Palestinians over the Hebron massacre. 

1995 - The European Parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed biotechnology companies to patent new life forms. 

1995 - Yahoo! was incorporated. 

2003 - In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17, 2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had surrendered and pled innocent in connection to the theft. The mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion. 

2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War. 

Have an announcement or an interesting bit of news?  Let us know! 

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