THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

Today is Thursday, March 20, the 79th day of 2014. There are 286 days left in the year.

1345 ― Saturn-Jupiter-Marsconjunction; thought “cause of plague epidemic”

1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1852 ― Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published (Boston)

1890 ― German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

1933 ― Dachau, first concentration camp, completed

1977 ― Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century

1969 ― Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

1981 ― Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron sentenced to eight years

1995 ― Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured

1996 ― U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka mad cow disease)