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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010

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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)