| Mar 20 – Napoleon Bonaparte begins '100 Days' ruleToday is Tuesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2007. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 8.07 pm EDT.Today's Highlight in History:On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his ''Hundred Days'' rule.On this date:In 1413, England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London.In 1828, poet-dramatist Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was first published.In 1956, union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp.In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.In 1977, voters in Paris chose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital's first mayor in more than a century.In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race.In 1987, the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS... |
