March 15 Events

2011 Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council
2011 Florida's Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, and County commissioner Natacha Seijas are ousted in recall elections
2010 According to Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, relations between the U.S. and Israel are the worst in 35 years
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
1998 "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater New York City
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs. Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20'
1991 Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner
1987 New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater New York City
1981 Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker
1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick

March 14 Events

2011 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Dr.John, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Neil Diamond into its Hall of Fame
2011 The Tokyo Stock Exchange falls more than five percent on the first day of trading following the 2011 Sendai earthquake
2010 No reports of damage or casualties are reported after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits central Japan
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E. Sullivan Award
1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater New York City after * performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
1991 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 Michael Secrest (U.S.) completes 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-C mission
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay
1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (U.S.S.R.)
1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)
1980 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct

March 13 Events

2011 Over 200,000 people are evacuated from Japan as fear of nuclear contamination from the power plants grows
2011 Japan estimates over 46,000 structures were damaged in the 9.0 magnitude earthquake
2010 Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP
1994 Cuba Godding, Jr. (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east U.S.
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S.
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (U.S.) begins 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)
1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)
1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1981 NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris

March 12 Events

2011 Analysts report a nuclear meltdown may be occurring at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; a state of emergency is declared at five plants
2011 Following the earthquake and tsunami, Japan deploys 50,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel in search and rescue efforts
2010 Residents of Mogadishu are instructed to leave the war zone after more than 50 are killed in three days of violence
1998 "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS)
1995 Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs. Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs S American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)

March 11 Events

2011 Sendai, a major 9.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture; 10-meter high tsunami's are produced near its epicenter, reaching land through the Pacific ocean
2011 Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant suffers a radiation leak after the earthquake; thousands of nearby residents are evacuated
2010 The second day of conflict between Somali government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu results in more than 20 civilian deaths
2006 Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague
2004 At least 170 die in train bombings in Madrid
1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by the Queen
1997 San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs. Australia, World Cup
1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup
1995 -36.8 degrees F (-38.2 degrees C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67 degrees N
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S.
1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first
1990 16th People's Choice Awards
1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence
1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC

नवृत्ती..पण चटका लावणारी

बंगळूर। दि. ९ वृत्तसंस्था
कारकीर्दीतीाल शेवटीची कसोटी खेळून द्रविड परत पॅव्हेलियनमध्ये चालला आहे. संघातील सहकारी बॅट वर करून त्याला सलामी देत आहेत. अख्खे स्टेडियम टाळयांच्या गजरात त्याला मानवंदना देत आहेत.. पण द्रविडच्या वाटयाला असा दिमाखदार सोहळा आलाच नाही.
कारकीर्दीतची सुमारे १५ वर्ष मैदानावर रक्ताचे पाणी केल्यानंतरही द्रविडला मैदानाबाहेर बंद हॉलमध्ये निवृत्तीची घोषणा करावी लागते, यासारखे दुर्देव त्याचे नाही.
द्रविडच्या आजच्या निवृत्तीने गांगुलीने नवृत्ती घेतली ते दिवस नक्कीच सगळयांना आठवले असतील. २00८ साली ऑस्ट्रेलियाविरुद्ध मालिकेनंतर गांगुलीने संन्यास घेतला होता. चौथ्या कसोटीत धोनीने गांगुलीकडे काही काळासाठी नेतृत्वही दिले होते. खेळ संपल्यानंतर गांगुलीला टीम इंडियाने खांद्यावर घेत मैदानावर फिरवले.
टीम इंडियाची भिंत. असलेल्या द्रविडच्या नशिबी मात्र हे अविस्मरणीय क्षण नव्हते.. ही भिंत अनेक वेळ भारताची इभ्रत राखण्यासाठी खंबीरपणे एकाकी उभी राहिली. आणि शेवटही तशीच उभी राहिली.. एकाकी.

March 10 Events

2011 Lawmakers successfully pass the vote to remove nearly all collective bargaining from Wisconsin state employees
2011 The 14th Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan exile movement, plans to retire within days
2010 Three men are detained in relation to the theft of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos' corpse, December 11, 2009
2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit
1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St. Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and 'Color Me Badd' win
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
1990 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS)
1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
1990 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1990 Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1990 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer