SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 84th day of 2012. There are 282 days left in the year.

1721 _ Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburg Concerts

1898 _ First automobile sold

1906 _ ``Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1930 _ Planet Pluto named

1949 _ Walter & John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of ``Treasure of Sierra Madre")

1958 _ Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1960 _ U.S. appeals court rules novel, ``Lady Chatterley's Lover", not obscene

1962 _ Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys

1976 _ Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military

1989 _ Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska