FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

Today is Friday, March 8, the 67th day of 2013. There are 298 days left in the year.

1854 ― U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan

1858 ― Leoncavallo's opera “I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)

1910 ― Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes first licensed female pilot

1911 ― International Women's Day (first celebrated)

1930 ― Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India

1934 ― Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

1958 ― William Faulkner says U.S. schools degenerated to become babysitters

1965 ― First U.S. combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1976 ― 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

1983 ― President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"