Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2009. There are 286 days left in the year.
1815 _ Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1890 _ German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic's chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck
1942 _ General MacArthur vows, ``I shall return"
1944 _ Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, explodes
1952 _ 24th Academy Awards: ``American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1954 _ First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pa.)
1969 _ Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 _ U.S. President Nixon proclaims he would end Vietnam war in 1970
1991 _ Michael Jackson signs $65-million, six-album deal with Sony records
1995 _ Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured