Today is Wednesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2013. There are 286 days left in the year.
1627 ― France and Spain signs accord for fighting Protestantism
1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1852 ― Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1934 ― Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany
1952 ― U.S. Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1968 ― President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money
1969 ― Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1981 ― Argentine ex-President Isabel Peron sentenced to eight years
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)