SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2014

Today is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 2014. There are 298 days left in the year.

1813 ― First concerto of Royal Philharmonic

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

1858 ― Leoncavallo’s opera “I Pagliacci” is produced (Naples)

1911 ― International Women’s Day (first celebrated)

1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg)

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

1983 ― President Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire”

1995 ― Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece