Today is Thursday, March 20, the 79th day of 2014. There are 286 days left in the year.
1345 ― Saturn-Jupiter-Marsconjunction; thought “cause of plague epidemic”
1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1852 ― Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published (Boston)
1890 ― German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1933 ― Dachau, first concentration camp, completed
1977 ― Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century
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)