WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008

Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2008. There are 294 days left in the year.

417 _ St. Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1365 _ University of Vienna founded

1737 _ Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy

1848 _ 2nd republic established in France

1945 _ Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

1945 _ New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment

1951 _ Communist troops driven out of Seoul

1964 _ Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam

1977 _ Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

1998 _ ``Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC