MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2008

Today is Monday, March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year.

418 _ Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

1624 _ England declares war on Spain

1629 _ King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

1862 _ Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar

1910 _ China ends slavery

1927 _ Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes

1945 _ Japan declares Vietnam independence

1960 _ USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing

1972 _ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1982 _ President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya