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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012

Today is Friday, March 23, the 83rd day of 2012. There are 283 days left in the year. 1743 ― George Frederic Handel's oratorio ``Messiah" premieres in London 1775 ― Patrick Henry proclaims ``Give me liberty or give me death" 1839 ― First recorded use of ``OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1891 ― First jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall 1903 ― Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1919 ― Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy 1972 ― Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars 1983 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan introduces ``Star Wars"-plan (SDI) 1987 ― West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns 1994 ― Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored

Mar 22, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012

Today is Thursday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2012. There are 284 days left in the year. 1457 ― Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book 1622 ― First Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va.; 347 slain 1733 ― Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) 1888 ― English Football League established 1903 ― Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1922 ― British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to six years in prison 1963 ― Beatles release first album, ``Please Please Me" 1968 ― Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone 1977 ― Indira Gandhi resigns as prime minister of India 1990 ― ``Les Miserables" opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston, Mass.

Mar 21, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012

Today is Wednesday, March 21, the 81st day of 2012. There are 285 days left in the year. 1349 ― 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt, Germany 1610 ― King James I addresses English House of Commons 1697 ― Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe 1804 ― French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1857 ― Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die 1935 ― Persia officially renamed Iran 1951 ― 290,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea 1961 ― Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club 1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. 1975 ― Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3,000 years

Mar 20, 2012

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012

Today is Tuesday, March 20, the 90th day of 2012. There are 276 days left in the year. 1815 ― Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1890 ― German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 1954 ― First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Penn.) 1969 ― Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar 1969 ― U.S. President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 1989 ― Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation 1991 ― Michael Jackson signs $65-million six-album deal with Sony records 1995 ― Dow-Jones hits 4,083.68 (record) 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)

Mar 19, 2012

MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012

Today is Monday, March 19, the 79th day of 2012. There are 287 days left in the year. 721 B.C. ― First recorded lunar eclipse; location, Babylon 1571 ― Spanish troops occupy Manila 1644 ― 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1682 ― Nationally Council accept independence of French church 1915 ― Pluto photographed for first time (although unknown at the time) 1931 ― Nevada legalizes gambling 1945 ― 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1945 ― Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree: destruction of German facilities 1995 ― Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers 1996 ― Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

Mar 18, 2012

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012

Today is Saturday, March 17, the 77th day of 2012. There are 289 days left in the year. 1521 ― Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1845 ― Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1847 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's opera ``Macbeth" is produced (Florence) 1861 ― Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1894 ― U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US 1942 ― General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1957 ― Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philippines dies in a plane crash 1959 ― Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1966 ― U.S. sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean 1988 ― Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

Mar 16, 2012

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012

Today is Friday, March 16, the 76th day of 2012. There are 290 days left in the year. 1521 ― Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1850 ― Nathaniel Hawthorne's ``Scarlet Letter" published 1935 ― Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty 1945 ― U.S. defeats Japan at Iwo Jima 1955 ― President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1968 ― My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die 1972 ― John & Yoko are served with deportation papers 1988 ― Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North and Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair 1991 ― Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade 1995 ― Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendment, formally abolishes slavery

Mar 15, 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012

Today is Thursday, March 15, the 75th day of 2012. There are 291 days left in the year. 1493 ― Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage 1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) 1907 ― Finland is first European country to give women the right to vote 1908 ― First performance of Maurice Ravel's ``Rapsodie Espagnole" 1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1937 ― First blood bank is established (Chicago, Ill.) 1957 ― Third nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) 1964 ― Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton) 1968 ― LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix ``most spectacular guitarist in the world" 1969 ― Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (hundreds dead) 1988 ― NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK 1999 ― Pluto again becomes outermost planet

Mar 14, 2012

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012

Today is Wednesday, March 14, the 74th day of 2012. There are 292 days left in the year. 1900 ― U.S. currency goes on gold standard 1901 ― First performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A 1939 ― Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 1951 ― During Korean War, U.S./U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1965 ― Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1967 ― JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1971 ― The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 1983 ― OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years 1992 ― Soviet newspaper ``Pravda" suspends publication 1995 ― First time 13 people in space

Mar 13, 2012

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012

Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2012. There are 293 days left in the year. 1519 ― Cortez lands in Mexico 1634 ― Academie Francaise opens 1781 ― Sir William Herschel sees ``comet" (really discovered Uranus) 1921 ― Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1933 ― Banks reopen 1935 ― Driving tests introduced in Great Britain 1951 ― Israel demands DM6.2 billion compensation from Germany 1961 ― Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37) 1965 ― Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds 1979 ― European Monetary System is established, ECU created

Mar 12, 2012

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