HISTORY MOMENTS

The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history:

On March 24, 1931, Governor C. Ben Ross named M.C. Bailey of Moscow to replace R.E. Thomas as State Game Warden. The Governor reported, "The game department will cease being political and will go on a strictly business basis."

The Appaloosa was designated and declared to be the State Horse of Idaho on March 25, 1975.

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death."

Gitzon Borglum was born on March 25, 1867, in St. Charles, Idaho. Although Borglum is commonly known for his four massive 60 foot heads of the presidents in the South Dakota Hills, his largest undertaking occurred 12 years earlier in the Stone Mountains near Atlanta, Georgia, where in 1915, he began a project honoring the Confederacy. Borglum was nearly done with the Mount Rushmore memorial when he died in March of 1941. Prior to his death, he had outlined the methods of completing the project to his son, Lincoln, who finished the work.

On March 29, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians. They became the first U.S. civilians to suffer the death penalty in an espionage trial and were executed in June of 1953.