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The Packers sweep is an American football play popularized in the 1960s by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. It is a variation on the sweep, in which a back takes a pitch or hand-off from the quarterback and runs parallel to the line of scrimmage. This allows the offensive linemen (usually the guards) and the fullback to block defenders before the runner turns upfield. According to one estimate, the Packers sweep gained an average of 8.3 yards (7.6 m) per attempt in its first three seasons. Lombardi built his offensive game plan around running it, or threatening to run it. His teams of the 1960s won five National Football League Championships and the first two Super Bowls. Five offensive players from these teams were later elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Lombardi was elected shortly after his death in 1971. (Full article...)

Amina Gerba

• ... that Amina Gerba's (pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso?


• ... that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles, Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?


• ... that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?


• ... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?


• ... that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?


• ... that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?


• ... that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard, a planter in British Guiana, led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?


• ... that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?

Ethiopian Airlines aircraft ET-AVJ in February 2019

• Following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) with the loss of all 157 people on board, Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are grounded worldwide.


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  A severe tornado outbreak hits the Southeastern United States, with one tornado causing 23 deaths in Alabama.


• Heightened tensions remain between India and Pakistan after both countries conduct airstrikes.


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  Muhammadu Buhari is re-elected President of Nigeria.

March 14: New Year's Day (Sikhism); White Day in East Asia; Pi Day

Poster for The Mikado

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  1593 – Japanese invasions of Korea: A Korean force of 3,000 soldiers successfully defended Haengju Fortress against an invading Japanese force of 30,000 men.


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  1885 – The Mikado (poster pictured), Gilbert and Sullivan's most frequently performed Savoy opera, debuted at the Savoy Theatre in London.


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  1945 – The Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) earthquake bomb, on a strategic railway viaduct in Bielefeld, Germany.


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  1969 – Edward M. Burke, the longest-serving alderman in the history of the Chicago City Council, was sworn into office.


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  1984 – Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by Ulster Freedom Fighters in central Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Thomas R. Marshall (b. 1854) · Karl Marx (d. 1883) · Jessica Gallagher (b. 1986)