Today is Thursday, March 17, the 78th day of 2016. There are 288 days left in the year.
1776 —British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1845 — Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1847 — Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Macbeth” is produced (Florence)
1870 — Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1906 — President Theodore Roosevelt uses term “muckraker”
1921 — Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1926 — Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 —U.S. government doesn’t sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 —General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel