Today is Wednesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2010. There are 275 days left in the year.
1657 _ English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1814 _ Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris, France
1854 _ Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade
1868 _ Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1889 _ 300-meter-high Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1909 _ Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time
1918 _ First daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect
1921 _ Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1945 _ Tennessee Williams' ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York, N.Y.
1951 _ U.S. tanks exceed 38-degrees of latitude in Korea