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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008

Today is Wednesday, March 19, the 79th day of 2008. There are 287 days left in the year. 0721 B.C. _ First recorded lunar eclipse; Location, Babylon 1571 _ Spanish troops occupy Manila 1644 _ 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1831 _ First U.S. bank robbery (City Bank, New York/$245,000) 1964 _ Sean Connery's first day of shooting on ``Goldfinger" 1965 _ Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies 1987 _ Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds) 1915 _ Pluto photographed for first time (although unknown at the time) 1995 _ Five die by poison gas in Japanese subway 1995 _ Arizona begins using new area code 520 outside of Phoenix

Mar 18, 2008

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008

Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. 0731 _ St. Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1902 _ Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record 1944 _ Nazi Germany occupies Hungary 1945 _ 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin 1962 _ Algerian War ends after seven years of fighting (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees 1966 _ General Suharto forms government in Indonesia 1967 _ Beatles' ``Penny Lane" single goes No. 1 1972 _ People's Rebublic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China 1977 _ Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S. 1995 _ Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17-month NBA retirement

Mar 17, 2008

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008

Today is Monday, March 17, the 77th day of 2008. There are 289 days left in the year. 0455 _ Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 1521 _ Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1580 _ Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam 1753 _ First official St Patrick's Day 1804 _ Johann von Schiller's ``Wilhelm Tell" premieres 1861 _ Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1894 _ U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. 1917 _ Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne 1932 _ German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter 1959 _ Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India

Mar 16, 2008

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2008

Today is Saturday, March 15, the 75th day of 2008. There are 291 days left in the year. 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage 1827 - Freedom's Journal, first Black newspaper, publishes 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence 1954 - ``CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar 1956 - ``My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances 1961 - South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth 1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty 1964 - Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton) 1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet

Mar 14, 2008

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2008

Today is Friday, March 14, the 74th day of 2008. There are 292 days left in the year. 1558 _ Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor 1689 _ Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen 1939 _ Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia 1951 _ During Korean War, U.S.-U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1953 _ Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party 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

Mar 13, 2008

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008

Today is Thursday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2008. There are 293 days left in the year. 1519 _ Cortez lands in Mexico 1634 _ Academie Francaise opens 1639 _ Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1656 _ Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam 1868 _ Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial 1884 _ Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins 1921 _ Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China 1979 _ European Monetary System is established, ECU created 1981 _ Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca 1991 _ Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)

Mar 12, 2008

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008

Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2008. There are 294 days left in the year. 417 _ St. Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1365 _ University of Vienna founded 1737 _ Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1848 _ 2nd republic established in France 1945 _ Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1945 _ New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment 1951 _ Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1964 _ Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam 1977 _ Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel 1998 _ ``Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

Mar 11, 2008

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2008

Today is Tuesday, March 11, the 71st day of 2008. There are 295 days left in the year. 537 _ Goths lay siege to Rome 1302 _ Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 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 1968 _ Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for ``(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" 1982 _ Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC 1987 _ Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point 1990 _ Lithuania declares its Independence 1997 _ Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

Mar 10, 2008

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2008

Today is Monday, March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year. 418 _ Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 1624 _ England declares war on Spain 1629 _ King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1862 _ Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar 1910 _ China ends slavery 1927 _ Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes 1945 _ Japan declares Vietnam independence 1960 _ USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing 1972 _ USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1982 _ President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

Mar 9, 2008

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008

Today is Saturday, March 8, the 68th day of 2008. 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) 1916 _ U.S. invades Cuba for third time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime 1917 _ Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg) 1930 _ Babe Ruth signs two-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankees, wrongly predicts ``No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" 1945 _ International Women's Day is first observed 1983 _ President Reagan calls the USSR an ``evil empire" 1991 _ Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and two American soldiers it captured 1994 _ 20th People's Choice Awards

Mar 7, 2008

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