Today in History 03/03/17

Deaf and blind student Helen Keller (left) 'listens' to her teacher, Anne Sullivan, 1897 (© PhotoQuest/Getty Images)(1887) Teacher Anne Sullivan meets student Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan arrives in Alabama hoping to break through to a young girl who’d lost the ability to see, hear, or speak in infancy. Her pupil, Helen Keller, will respond and flourish beyond all expectations.
Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, she contracted trachoma, a highly contagious eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20.
Lived: Apr 14, 1866 – Oct 20, 1936 (age 70)
Spouse: John Albert Macy (m. 1905 – 1932)
Education: Perkins School for the Blind
Movies: Deliverance
Parents: Alice Cloesy Sullivan (Father) · Thomas Sullivan (Father)
Siblings: Mary Sullivan (Sister) · Ellen Sullivan (Sister) · James Sullivan (Brother)
Highlights
  • 1866: Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866, in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts.

  • 1880: During an 1880 inspection of the almshouse, she convinced inspector Franklin Benjamin Sanborn to allow her to leave and enroll in the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, where she began her studies on October 7, 1880.

  • 1887: Anagnos immediately recommended Sullivan for this position and she began her work on March 3, 1887 at the Kellers’ home in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

  • 1905: On May 3, 1905, Sullivan married Harvard University instructor and literary critic, John Albert Macy (1877–1932), who had helped Keller with her publications.

  • 1935: Sullivan had been seriously visually impaired for almost all of her life, but by 1935 she was completely blind in both eyes.

  • 1936: On October 15, 1936, she suffered a coronary thrombosis, fell into a coma, and died five days later on October 20 at age 70, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.

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Women marching in a parade for women's suffrage in Washington, DC, in 1913 (© Buyenlarge/Getty Images)(1913) First women’s suffrage march in Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue sees up to 8,000 women’s suffrage supporters seeking to redress gender inequality, including gaining the right to vote. The march will become a milestone in the history of women’s rights in the United States.
The woman suffrage parade of 1913, officially the Woman Suffrage Procession, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. Organized by the suffragist Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. The event was scheduled on the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded”, as the official program stated.

The woman suffrage parade of 1913, officially the Woman Suffrage Procession, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. Organized by the suffragist Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. The event was scheduled on the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded”, as the official program stated.

The march and the attention it attracted were monumental in advancing women’s suffrage in the United States. The parade is scheduled to be depicted and honored on the redesign of the United States ten-dollar bill in 2020.


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An Arabian-American Oil Company drilling rig at Rub' al Khali in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, circa 1955 (© Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)(1938) First major oil well struck in Saudi Arabia
Following many unsuccessful tries, drillers on the Dammam No. 7 oil well in al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia finally strike oil. The vast desert kingdom will turn out to be the richest known source of crude oil anywhere.
Saudi Arabian oil was first discovered by the Americans in commercial quantities at Dammam oil well No. 7 in 1938 in what is now modern day Dhahran. On January 15, 1902, Ibn Saud took Riyadh from the Rashid tribe. In 1913, his forces captured the province of al-Hasa from the Ottoman Turks. In 1922, he completed his conquest of the Nejd, and in 1925, he conquered the Hijaz. In 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was proclaimed with Ibn Saud as king. Without stability in the region, the search for oil would have been difficult, as evidenced by early oil exploration in neighbouring countries such as Yemen and Oman.
Saudi Arabian oil was first discovered by the Americans in commercial quantities at Dammam oil well No. 7 in 1938 in what is now modern day Dhahran.

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Video taken with a camcorder by George Holliday on March 3, 1991, of Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King after he was pulled over following a high-speed car chase (© KTLA Los Angeles/George Holliday/AP)(1991) Rodney King beaten by L.A. police
At 12:30 AM, police begin high-speed pursuit of a vehicle on Los Angeles’ Foothill Freeway. After the car is pulled over, what happens next to King will be caught on amateur video and enflame a city and a nation.
Rodney Glen King III was an African American taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States.
Born: Apr 02, 1965 · Sacramento, CA
Died: Jun 17, 2012 · Rialto, CA
Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
Spouse: Crystal Waters (m. 1989 – 1996) · Danetta King (m. 1985 – 1988)
Partner: Cynthia Kelley (2010 – 2012)
Parents: Odessa King (Mother) · Ronald King (Father)

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