MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010

Today is Monday, March 29, the 88th day of 2010. There are 277 days left in the year.

1795 _ Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna

1798 _ Republic of Switzerland forms

1804 _ Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti

1827 _ 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethoven's burial in Vienna

1848 _ Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

1936 _ Nazi propaganda claims 99 percent of Germans voted for Nazi candidates

1951 _ ``King & I" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1,246 performances

1971 _ Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines

1971 _ Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's first sexology professor

1989 _ Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering