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MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010

Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year. 1722 _ Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1854 _ U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan 1858 _ Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) 1911 _ International Women's Day (first celebrated) 1917 _ Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St. Petersburg) 1930 _ Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1934 _ Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1942 _ Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma 1983 _ President Reagan calls the USSR an ``Evil Empire" 1994 _ Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces

Mar 7, 2010

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010

Today is Saturday, March 6, the 65th day of 2010. There are 300 days left in the year. 1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam 1831 _ Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1836 _ 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13-day fight 1836 _ HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia 1853 _ Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``La Traviata" premieres in Venice 1921 _ Police in Sunbury, Pa., issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee 1964 _ Liz Taylor's third divorce (Eddie Fisher) 1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K. 1978 _ Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia 1981 _ Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News"

Mar 5, 2010

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010

Today is Friday, March 5, the 64th day of 2010. There are 301 days left in the year. 1558 _ Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes 1616 _ Copernicus' ``de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1623 _ First American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1651 _ South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm 1807 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1933 _ Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9 percent-17.2 million votes) 1943 _ Anti fascist strikes in Italy 1946 _ Winston Churchill's ``Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton, Mo.) 1953 _ Josef Stalin's death announced 1991 _ Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait

Mar 4, 2010

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010

Today is Thursday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2010. There are 302 days left in the year. 1152 _ Frederik I. Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 1793 _ President Washington's second inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1841 _ Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1881 _ Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", 1st case together 1895 _ Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1923 _ Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) 1924 _ ``Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 1994 _ Four Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 1997 _ President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

Mar 3, 2010

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010

Today is Wednesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2010. There are 303 days left in the year. 78 _ Origin of Saka Era (India) 1861 _ Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1875 _ Georges Bizet's opera ``Carmen" premieres (Paris, France) 1919 _ Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1943 _ U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea 1955 _ Elvis Presley makes his first TV appearance 1956 _ Morocco gains independence from France (anniversary of throne) 1974 _ World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris, France (346 die) 1991 _ Los Angeles police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video, providing causes for a big riot later 1991 _ Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18

Mar 2, 2010

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010

Today is Tuesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2010. There are 304 days left in the year. 1807 _ Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1855 _ Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia 1874 _ Baseball batter's box is officially adopted 1923 _ Time magazine debuts 1925 _ Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage 1933 _ ``King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy NYC 1946 _ Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam 1962 _ Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game 1965 _ ``Sound Of Music" opens 1969 _ Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die)

Mar 1, 2010

MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010

Today is Monday, March 1, the 60th day of 2010. There are 305 days left in the year. 1 B.C. _ Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 1872 _ Yellowstone becomes world's first national park 1919 _ Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1934 _ Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1940 _ 12th Academy Awards: ``Gone with the Wind," Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh win 1945 _ FDR announces success of Yalta Conference 1947 _ International Monetary Fund began operations 1954 _ U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1961 _ President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 1978 _ Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery

Feb 28, 2010

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Today is Saturday, February 27, the 58th day of 2010. There are 307 days left in the year. 1844 _ Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 1938 _ Britain and France recognize Franco government in Spain 1950 _ General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China 1956 _ Elvis Presley's releases ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1957 _ Mao's speech ``On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" 1967 _ Pink Floyd release their first single ``Arnold Layne" 1974 _ ``People" magazine begins sales 1990 _ Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts (Valdez) 1991 _ Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is liberated 1992 _ Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

Feb 26, 2010

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Today is Friday, February 26, the 57th day of 2010. There are 308 days left in the year. 1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1848 _ Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto" 1923 _ Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) 1930 _ First red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC) 1936 _ Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's ``Volkswagen" 1936 _ Military coup in Japan 1941 _ Two fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO 1952 _ P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1983 _ Michael Jackson's ``Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks 1993 _ Second-tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, seven die

Feb 25, 2010

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Today is Thursday, February 25, the 56th day of 2010. There are 309 days left in the year. 1803 _ 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Philanderer" premieres in London 1910 _ Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1919 _ League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1926 _ Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1926 _ Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords 1932 _ Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1956 _ Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1969 _ Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album 1988 _ South Korea adopts constitution

Feb 24, 2010

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