TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013

Today is Tuesday, March 19, the 78th day of 2013. There are 287 days left in the year.

721 B.C. ― First recorded lunar eclipse; location, Babylon

1644 ― 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide

1682 ― Nationally Council accept independence of French church

1775 ― Four people buried by avalanche for 37 days, three survive (Italy)

1859 ― Charles Francois Gounod's opera “Faust" premieres in Paris, France

1918 ― Congress authorizes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1945 ― Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree”; destruction of German facilities

1964 ― Sean Connery’s first day of shooting on “Goldfinger”

1994 ― 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands

1994 ― Largest omelet (1,383-ft.) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan