Today is Saturday, March 21, the 80th day of 2008. There are 285 days left in the year.
1610 _ King James I addresses English House of Commons
1697 _ Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1790 _ Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as secretary of state
1826 _ Beethoven's Quartet No.13 in B flat major (Op. 130) premieres in Vienna
1857 _ Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1935 _ Persia officially renamed Iran
1939 _ Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1951 _ 29,000 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.