Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2008. There are 301 days left in the year.
1558 _ Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1616 _ Copernicus' ``de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 _ First American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 _ South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1807 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1917 _ First jazz recording for Victor Records released
1946 _ Winston Churchill's ``Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO)
1953 _ Josef Stalin's death announced
1960 _ Elvis Presley ends two-year hitch in U.S. Army
1997 _ Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame