MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2010

Today is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2010. There are 283 days left in the year.

1743 _ George Frederic Handel's oratorio ``Messiah" premieres in London

1775 _ Patrick Henry proclaims ``Give me liberty or give me death"

1794 _ Josiah Pierson patents a ``cold-header" (rivet) machine

1839 _ First recorded use of ``OK" [all correct] (Boston's Morning Post)

1840 _ Draper takes first successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype)

1857 _ Elisha Otis' first elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)

1858 _ Streetcar patented (Eleazer A. Gardener of Philadelphia)

1880 _ Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)

1919 _ Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy

1983 _ U.S. President Ronald Reagan introduces ``Star Wars" plan (SDI)