Today is Thursday, March 29, the 89th day of 2012. There are 277 days left in the year.
1798 ― Republic of Switzerland forms
1827 ― 20,000 attend Ludwig van Beethoven’s burial in Vienna
1848 ― Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1852 ― Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1936 ― Nazi propaganda claims 99 percent of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1951 ― ``King & I" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1,246 performances
1971 ― Chilean President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 ― First Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1985 ― Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1994 ― Serbs and Croats signed a ceasefire to end the war in Croatia