Today is Monday, March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year.
418 _ Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1624 _ England declares war on Spain
1629 _ King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1862 _ Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1910 _ China ends slavery
1927 _ Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes
1945 _ Japan declares Vietnam independence
1960 _ USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1972 _ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 _ President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya