THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010

Today is Thursday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2010. There are 302 days left in the year.

1152 _ Frederik I. Barbarossa elected Roman-German king

1793 _ President Washington's second inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1841 _ Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1881 _ Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", 1st case together

1895 _ Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin

1923 _ Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1924 _ ``Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1994 _ Four Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1997 _ President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research