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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008

Today is Friday, March 7, the 67th day of 2008. There are 299 days left in the year. 1530 _ King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church 1876 _ Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1902 _ Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal 1925 _ American Negro Congress organizes 1962 _ Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio 1994 _ Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia 1995 _ New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty 1996 _ First surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope) 1996 _ Magic Johnson is second NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists 1997 _ Five sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Mar 6, 2008

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 66th day of 2008. There are 300 days left in the year. 1323 - Treaty of Paris 1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam 1831 _ Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1853 _ Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``La Traviata" premieres in Venice 1946 _ France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation 1964 _ Liz Taylor's third divorce (Eddie Fisher) 1967 _ Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted 1967 _ Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US 1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K. 1981 _ Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News"

Mar 5, 2008

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008

Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2008. 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 1917 _ First jazz recording for Victor Records released 1946 _ Winston Churchill's ``Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO) 1953 _ Josef Stalin's death announced 1960 _ Elvis Presley ends two-year hitch in U.S. Army 1997 _ Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame

Mar 4, 2008

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008

Today is Tuesday, March 4, the 64th day of 2008. There are 302 days left in the year. 1793 _ President Washington's second inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1841 _ Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1873 _ New York Daily Graphic, first illustrated daily newspaper in U.S., published 1895 _ Gustav Mahler's second Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1920 _ Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1944 _ First U.S. bombing of Berlin 1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 1973 _ Fifteenth Grammy Awards: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America 1995 _ Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds) 1997 _ President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

Mar 3, 2008

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008

Today is Monday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2008. There are 303 days left in the year. 1794 _ First performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 1917 _ Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates 1923 _ Time magazine publishes first issue 1931 _ ``Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem 1956 _ Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) 1966 _ Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al) 1977 _ Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms 1978 _ Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland 1991 _ Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR 1991 _ Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video

Mar 2, 2008

SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2008

Today is Saturday, March 1, 61st day of 2008. There are 305 days left in the year. 1 B.C. _ Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 1562 _ Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 Huguenots murder 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 1947 _ International Monetary Fund began operations 1954 _ U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1962 _ K-Mart opens 1970 _ End of U.S. commercial whale hunting 1974 _ Watergate grand jury indicts seven presidential aides

Feb 29, 2008

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Today is Friday, February 29, the 60th day of 2008. There are 306 days left in the year. 1908 _ Dutch scientists produce solid helium 1936 _ FDR signs second neutrality act 1940 _ ``Gone with the Wind" wins eight Oscars 1960 _ Earthquake kills one third of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds 1968 _ Beatles' ``Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy 1968 _ U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1968 _ U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada test site 1972 _ Hank Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year 1972 _ Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party 1988 _ Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations.

Feb 28, 2008

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008

Today is Thursday, February 28, the 59th day of 2008. There are 307 days left in the year. 870 _ Eighth Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople 1066 _ Westminster Abbey opens 1692 _ Salem witch hunt begins 1749 _ First edition of Henry Fieldings' ``Tom Jones" published 1759 _ Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages 1922 _ Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1924 _ U.S. begins intervention in Honduras 1942 _ Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies 1943 _ ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan 1997 _ Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in U.S.

Feb 27, 2008

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Today is Wednesday, February 27, the 58th day of 2008. There are 308 days left in the year. 1813 _ First federal vaccination legislation enacted 1844 _ Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 1900 _ Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party 1938 _ Britain and France recognize Franco government in Spain 1939 _ Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes 1956 _ Elvis Presley's releases ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1972 _ President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1974 _ ``People" magazine begins sales 1990 _ Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts (Valdez) 1992 _ Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

Feb 26, 2008

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Today is Tuesday, February 26, the 57th day of 2008. There are 309 days left in the year. 1531 _ Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000 1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1918 _ Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 1923 _ Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts) 1952 _ P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1970 _ Beatles release ``Beatles Again" aka ``Hey Jude" album 1977 _ First flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) 1980 _ Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time 1983 _ Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to No.1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks

Feb 25, 2008

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