TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010

Today is Tuesday, March 9, the 68th day of 2010. There are 297 days left in the year.

1497 _ Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation,

1522 _ Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit

1562 _ Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1697 _ Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West Europe

1796 _ Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais

1822 _ Charles M. Graham of New York patents artificial teeth

1839 _ Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours

1842 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Nabucco" premieres in Milan

1962 _ U.S. advisors in South Vietnam join the fight

1974 _ Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended