SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2008

Today is Saturday, March 15, the 75th day of 2008. There are 291 days left in the year.

1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage

1827 - Freedom's Journal, first Black newspaper, publishes

1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence

1954 - ``CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar

1956 - ``My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances

1961 - South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth

1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty

1964 - Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton)

1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet