SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2010

Today is Saturday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2010. There are 293 days left in the year.

1519 _ Cortez lands in Mexico

1634 _ Academie Francaise opens

1639 _ Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1933 _ Banks reopen

1947 _ 19th Academy Awards: ``Best Years of Our Lives," Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win

1951 _ Israel demands 6.2 billion-Deutsch mark compensation from Germany

1961 _ Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)

1963 _ Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations

1965 _ Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

1991 _ Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and& cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)