Today is Saturday, March 31, the 91st day of 2012. 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
1909 ― Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time
1920 ― British parliament accept Irish ``Home Rule"-law
1921 ― Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1933 ― German Republic gives power to Hitler
1945 ― Tennessee Williams' ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York City
1959 ― Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1967 ― Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar
1980 ― President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry