Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year.
1722 _ Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1854 _ U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
1858 _ Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)
1911 _ International Women's Day (first celebrated)
1917 _ Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg)
1930 _ Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 _ Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1942 _ Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1983 _ President Reagan calls the USSR an ``Evil Empire"
1994 _ Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces