Today is Thursday, March 20, the 80th day of 2008. There are 286 days left in the year.
1345 _ Saturn-Jupiter-Mars conjunction, thought as ``cause of plague epidemic"
1616 _ Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 _ France and Spain signs accord for fighting Protestantism
1815 _ Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1944 _ Mount Vesuvius, Italy, explodes
1968 _ President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money
1969 _ Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 _ U.S. President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1976 _ Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1995 _ Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured