San Francisco, March 17 ( AP )

* " The Definition of Political Absurdity ", San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2007

On March 25, 1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco to major record label artists to give the event some " New Wave credibility ", in the words of the organizers.

It was followed four years later by the San Francisco International Film Festival held in March 1957 whose emphasis was on feature-length dramatic films.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

On March 4, 1887, William Randolph Hearst became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and transformed the sedate Examiner into " The Monarch of the Dailies.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

The Spanish Army Red Cross of Military Merit awarded by General Francisco Franco to Kim Philby at Salamanca town on 2nd March 1938

" Eleven year-old Dorothy Talbot of San Francisco was reported to be ascendant to the throne on March 1, 1906, when the Palace of Oz was expected to be completed.

San Francisco Opera began prerecorded video transmissions in March 2008.

The Wall Street Journal used the headline: " Generalísimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead – And His Statues Are Next " ( front page ; March 2, 2009 ).

* March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor ( The Streets of San Francisco ) ( d. 2009 )

* March 21 – The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes ; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

* March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer ( d. 2009 )

* March 2 – The longest bridge in the world, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.

* March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.

* March 17 – The Atherton Report ( private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco ) is released.

* March 1 – Marshal Francisco Solano López ' last troops are cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora.

* March 25 – 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27, 000 men and 70 cannon.

* March 9 – The first Japanese ambassador to the United States, Niimi Buzennokami, and his staff arrived in San Francisco.

* March 23 – The term American Empire is coined in San Francisco.

* March 20 – Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, California

* March 30 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter ( d. 1828 )

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.

He married secondly at Çubuklu, Bosphorus, on 1 March 1910 and divorced in 1913 Hungarian Noblewoman Marianne Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım ( Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1874-aft.

# Maria Ludovika Auguste Fredericka Therese Franziska Johanna Aloysia Nepomucena Ignatia Anna Josepha Xaveria Franziska de Paula Barbara ( b. Dresden, 14 March 1795-d. Dresden, 25 April 1796 ).

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

Berthe Morisot died of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness on March 2, 1895, in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

One of the most significant was the Conspiración de La Escalera ( Ladder Conspiracy ), which started in March 1843 and continued until 1844.

Charles Farrar Browne ( April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867 ) was a United States humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

Desi Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III in Santiago de Cuba to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II ( March 8, 1894-May 31, 1973 ) and his wife Dolores de Acha ( April 2, 1896-October 24, 1988 ).

On 4 March 2004, at a gala ceremony in London, to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the international governing body of football revealed the FIFA 100.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

* 1705 31 March – The Count de Tessé gave up the siege and retired.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

* Faul, Michel ( 2009 ), Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d ' Étienne de Jouy, Editions Seguier, France, March 2009, ISBN 978-2-84049-556-7

Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Through the efforts of a group called Société d ' Amis des Noirs, of which Raimond and Ogé were prominent leaders, in March 1790 the National Assembly granted full civic rights to the gens de couleur.