Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2008. There are 294 days left in the year.
417 _ St. Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1365 _ University of Vienna founded
1737 _ Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1848 _ 2nd republic established in France
1945 _ Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 _ New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1951 _ Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1964 _ Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1977 _ Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1998 _ ``Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC