Today is Wednesday, March 19, the 79th day of 2008. There are 287 days left in the year.
0721 B.C. _ First recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon
1571 _ Spanish troops occupy Manila
1644 _ 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide
1831 _ First U.S. bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000)
1964 _ Sean Connery's first day of shooting on ``Goldfinger"
1965 _ Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1987 _ Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1915 _ Pluto photographed for first time (although unknown at the time)
1995 _ Five die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 _ Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix