Hal and Annabelle are proud to
Announce the birth of

Prescott Chandler

7 lbs 6 oz 21 inches

Born M�rch 2, 2001 at 10:22 pm
Kapiolani Medical Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
Delivered by
Dr. Cheryl Leialoha

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Birthday Board: March 2 1793 - Sam Houston (fought for Texas' independence from Mexico; President of Republic of Texas; U.S. Senator; Texas governor) 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish-born inventor laid the foundation for modern communications with his work on the telephone, telegraph, and voice recording) 1904 - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham) 1909 - Mel Ott (baseball: consecutive batting record of walks in a row [7]: New York Giants, June 16-18, 1943) 1917 - Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnez y de Acha III) (bandleader, singer: Babalu; actor: I Love Lucy; married to Lucille Ball; co-owner of Desilu Productions; introduced 3-camera sitcom technique) 1919 - Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley) (Academy Award-winning actress: The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many- Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno) 1942 - John Irving (American writer John Irving is born in Exeter, New Hampshire) 1944 - Lou Reed (Firbank) (singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground; solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley's Girl; I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony) 1950 - Karen Carpenter (drummer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Carpenters: Best New Artist, Group w/Vocal: Close to You [1970], We've Only Just Begun, Top of the World, Please Mr. Postman) 1952 - Laraine Newman (comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live) 1955 - Jay Osmond (singer: group: The Osmond Brothers) 1956 - John Cowsill (singer: group: The Cowsills: The Rain, The Park and Other Things, We Can Fly, Hair, Indian Lake) 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi) (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer) Chart Toppers: March 2 1958 Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry At the Hop - Danny & the Juniors Oh Julie - Crescendos Don't - Elvis Presley 1967 Baby I Need Your Lovin' - Johnny Rivers Georgy Girl - The Seekers Tiny Bubbles - Don Ho Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones 1976 Theme from S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage Take It to the Limit - The Eagles 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon Good Hearted Woman - Waylon & Willie 1985 Careless Whisper - Wham! featuring George Michael California Girls - David Lee Roth Can't Fight this Feeling - REO Speedwagon Baby Bye Bye - Gary Morris 1998 Justice Department files antitrust brief against Microsoft The Justice Department declared an antitrust war on Microsoft on this day in 1998. The department filed a court brief alleging that Microsoft's Windows 95 licensing requirements violated the terms of a 1995 settlement and that its practice of bundling its Web browser with Windows 95 stifled competition. 1986 AQUINO RESTORES CIVIL RIGHTS: When Corazon Aquino took her oath of office as president of the Philippines, her election was still being disputed by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. However, anti-Marcos sentiment was overpowering, and President Ronald Reagan's administration was forced to shift its support to Aquino's government. While the Marcoses fled to Hawaii, Aquino prepared to bring to trial the conspirators in the assassination of her husband, Benigno. The full restoration of civil rights became the first public declaration of the former housewife's regime on March 2, 1986. 1972 Pioneer 10 Launched to Jupiter Pioneer 10, the world�s first outer-planetary probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Jupiter, the solar system�s largest planet. On December 3, 1973, after successfully negotiating the asteroid belt and a distance of 620 million miles, Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter, and sends back to earth the first close-up images of the spectacular gas giant. On June 14, 1983, the NASA spacecraft leaves the solar system and radios back the first scientific data on interstellar space. NASA officially ends the Pioneer 10 project on March 31, 1997, with the spacecraft having traveled a distance of some six billion miles. Headed in the direction of the Taurus constellation, Pioneer 10 will pass within three light years of another star--Ross 246--in the year 34,600 A.D. Bolted to the probe�s exterior wall is gold-anodized plaque, six by nine inches in area, that displays a drawing of a human man and woman, a star map marked with the location of the sun, and another map showing the flight path of Pioneer 10. The plaque, intended to seen by intelligent life forms elsewhere in the galaxy, was designed by astronomer Carl Sagan. 1946 Ho Chi Minh Elected President of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese Communist leader, is elected the first president of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Near the end of World War I, Ho Chi Minh emigrated to France, where in 1920 he became a founding member of the French Communist Party. He later traveled to the Soviet Union, where he became a Comitern member and studied revolutionary tactics. Returning to East Asia in the mid-1920s, he set about organizing revolutionaries in China, and with the outbreak of World War II, returned to his Vietnamese homeland. He organized a Vietnamese independence movement--the Viet Minh--and raised a guerilla army to oppose the Japanese occupation of Vietnam. On September 2, 1945, just hours after the Japanese signed their unconditional surrender in World War II, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam, hoping to prevent the French from reclaiming their former colonial possession. In 1946, he was elected president of Vietnam, but in the same year, he hesitantly accepted the French demand that Vietnam exist as an autonomous state within the French Union. Nevertheless, fighting between Vietnamese nationalists and the French broke out soon afterwards, and in 1949, the French named Bao Dai emperor of all Vietnam. In the same year, with military and economic assistance of newly Communist China, Ho Chi Minh began a war of resistance against French and Southern Vietnamese forces, who were armed largely by the U.S. In 1954, the French suffered a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam, prompting the division of Vietnam along the seventeenth parallel at the conference of Geneva. Ho Chi Minh became president of North Vietnam and set about organizing a Communist guerrilla movement in the South, known as the Viet Cong, or the National Liberation Front. Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong successfully opposed a series of ineffectual U.S.-backed South Vietnam regimes and beginning in 1963, withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States. Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, and six years later, the two Vietnams were reunified as an independent Communist nation. 1807 Congress Abolishes the African Slave Trade The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country." The first shipload of African captives to North America arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, in August of 1619, but for most of the seventeenth century, European indentured servants were far more numerous in the North American British colonies than African slaves. However, after 1680, the flow of indentured servants sharply declined, leading to an explosion in the African slave trade. By the middle of the eighteenth century, slavery could be found in all thirteen colonies and was at the core of the Southern colonies' agricultural economy. By the time of the American Revolution, the English importers alone had brought some 3,000,000 captive Africans to the Americas. After the war, as slave labor was not a crucial element of the Northern economy, most Northern states passed legislation to abolish slavery. However, in the South, the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 sharply increased the need for slave labor, and tension arose between the North and the South as the slave or free status of new states was debated. In 1807, with a self-sustaining population of over four million slaves in the South, some Southern congressmen joined with the North in voting to abolish the African slave trade effective January 1, 1808. Nevertheless, the widespread trade of slaves within the South was not prohibited, and illegal trade of African slaves to Brazil and Cuba continued until the 1860s. By 1865, over twelve million Africans had been shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, and some one million of these individuals had died from mistreatment during the voyage. In addition, an estimated three million Africans died in slave wars and forced marches directly resulting from the Western Hemisphere's demand for African slaves.