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MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009

Today is Monday, March 16, the 75th day of 2009. There are 290 days left in the year. 1190 ― Jews of York England commit mass suicide rather than submit to baptism 1521 ― Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1621 ― Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, Mass. 1827 ― First U.S. black newspaper, ``Freedom's Journal," begins publishing 1850 ― Nathaniel Hawthorne's ``Scarlet Letter" published 1941 ― Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize 1945 ― U.S. defeats Japan at Iwo Jima 1955 ― President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1977 ― U.S. President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland 1978 ― Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, five killed

Mar 15, 2009

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009

Today is Saturday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2009. There are 293 days left in the year. 1558 ― Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1689 ― Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen 1900 ― U.S. currency goes on gold standard 1916 ― Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 1941 ― Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1951 ― During Korean War, U.S./U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1953 ― Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party 1954 ― Braves Henry Aaron homers in his first exhibition game 1971 ― The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes 1995 ― First time 13 people in space

Mar 13, 2009

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009

Today is Friday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2009. There are 293 days left in the year. 1519 _ Cortez lands in Mexico 1852 _ Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly 1868 _ Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1921 _ Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1925 _ Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution 1950 _ General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) 1951 _ Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany 1961 _ Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37) 1965 _ Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds 1991 _ Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)

Mar 12, 2009

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2009

Today is Thursday, March 12, the 71st day of 2009. There are 294 days left in the year. 1622 _ Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint 1642 _ Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand 1917 _ Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1930 _ Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile (321-km) march protesting British salt tax 1933 _ FDR conducts his first ``fireside chat" 1947 _ President Truman introduces Truman Doctrine to fight communism 1951 _ Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1958 _ British Empire Day is renamed ``Commonwealth Day" 1977 _ Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel 1994 _ Church of England ordains first 33 women priests

Mar 11, 2009

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009

Today is Wednesday, March 11, the 70th day of 2009. There are 295 days left in the year. 1302 _ Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1669 _ Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 _ First English daily newspaper, ``Daily Courant," is published 1851 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Rigoletto" premieres in Venice 1918 _ Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1966 _ Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1968 _ Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for ``(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" 1981 _ Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet's second term begins 1985 _ Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1997 _ Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir. Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

Mar 10, 2009

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009

Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2009. There are 296 days left in the year. 241 B.C. _ Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships 418 _ Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 1624 _ England declares war on Spain 1849 _ Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. President to do so 1876 _ First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1880 _ Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare & religious activity 1893 _ New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before 1926 _ Run on Belgian banks 1959 _ Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet 1982 _ President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

Mar 9, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009

Today is Monday, March 9, the 68th day of 2009. There are 297 days left in the year. 1497 _ Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation, 1522 _ Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1562 _ Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1796 _ Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1902 _ Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna 1918 _ Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1945 _ Japanese proclaim the ``independence" of Indochina 1959 _ Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold 1961 _ First animal returned from space, dog named Blackie, aboard Sputnik 9 1963 _ Beatles began first British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez

Mar 8, 2009

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009

Today is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2009. There are 299 days left in the year. 1857 _ Baseball decides nine innings constitutes an official game, not nine runs 1876 _ Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1902 _ Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch, Transvaal 1917 _ First jazz record ``Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, N.J. 1925 _ American Negro Congress organizes 1936 _ Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland 1944 _ Japans begins offensive in Burma 1945 _ Yugoslavia government of Tito forms 1989 _ Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book ``The Satanic Verses" 1997 _ Five sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Mar 6, 2009

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009

Today is Friday, March 6, the 65th day of 2009. There are 300 days left in the year. 1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam 1799 _ Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine 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 1865 _ President Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball 1926 _ China asks for a seat in the Security council 1955 _ Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' ``Waiting for Godot" 1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K.

Mar 5, 2009

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009

Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2009. There are 301 days left in the year. 1461 ― Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses 1770 ― Boston Massacre, British troops kill five in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes first black to die for American freedom 1807 ― First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1868 ― Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould 1900 ― American Hall of Fame is founded 1933 ― Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9 percent -17.2 million votes) 1933 ― FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday 1946 ― Winston Churchill's ``Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton. Mo.) 1953 ― Josef Stalin's death announced 1974 ― ``Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances

Mar 4, 2009

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