Today is Saturday, March 20, the 79th day of 2010. There are 286 days left in the year.
1345 _ Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction; thought ``cause of plague epidemic"
1815 _ Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1890 _ German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1942 _ General MacArthur vows, ``I shall return"
1952 _ 24th Academy Awards: ``American in Paris," Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1952 _ U.S. Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1969 _ Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 _ U.S. President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1995 _ Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 _ U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka mad cow disease)