Today is Monday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2009. There are 283 days left in the year.
1743 _ George Frideric Handel's oratorio ``Messiah" premieres in London
1775 _ Patrick Henry proclaims ``Give me liberty or give me death"
1835 _ Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales in the Andes
1839 _ First recorded use of ``OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1858 _ Streetcar patented (Eleazer A. Gardner of Philadelphia)
1903 _ Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1919 _ Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1925 _ Tennessee becomes first state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1942 _ U.S. moves native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1972 _ Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars