Today is Friday, March 21, the 81st day of 2008. There are 285 days left in the year.
1349 _ 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1804 _ French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1857 _ Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1868 _ First U.S. professional women's club, Sorosis, is founded in New York
1871 _ Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1935 _ Persia officially renamed Iran
1951 _ 2,900,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea
1961 _ Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club
1965 _ Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL
1975 _ Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years