Moments in Time – March 7, 2018

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• On March 25, 1774, the British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million (in today’s dollars) worth of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773.
• On March 22, 1894, the first championship ice hockey series for Lord Stanley’s Cup is played in Montreal, Canada. Since 1962, only one trophy has been used, making the Stanley Cup the only trophy in major sports that is not reproduced each year.
• On March 19, 1931, in an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times of the Great Depression and stem the drop in population, the Nevada legislature votes to legalize gambling. A year later it legalized divorce.
• On March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army. He had registered for the draft in 1953, but received an education deferment (and missed the end of the Korean War). Later he received another deferment because he was filming the movie “King Creole.”
• On March 20, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson notifies Alabama’s Gov. George Wallace that he will call up the Alabama National Guard to supervise a planned civil-rights march to protest voting discrimination against Selma’s black population.
• On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter informs a group of American athletes that, in response to the December 1979 Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the United States will boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It is the only time the U.S. has boycotted the Olympics.
• On March 23, 1999, bestselling author Thomas Harris delivers his 600-page manuscript for his new novel, “Hannibal,” to Delacorte press, more than 10 years after he had promised the book. It was his third novel featuring serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter.

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