By The Associated Press
- Today is Sunday, March 25, the 84th day of 2001. There are 281 days left in the year.

- On March 25, 1911: In a tragedy that galvanized America's labor movement, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.

- In 1634: Maryland was founded by Engllish colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
- In 1865: During the Civil War, Confedderate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.
- In 1894: Jacob Coxey began leading ann army of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
- In 1913: The home of Vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
- In 1918: French composer Claude Debusssy died in Paris.
- In 1947: A coal mine explosion in Cenntralia, Ill., killed 111.
- In 1957: The Treaty of Rome establishhed the European Economic Community.
- In 1965: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
- In 1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following June.
- In 1994: American troops completed thheir withdrawal from Somalia.
- In 1990: Eighty-seven people, most off them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.
- In 1995: Mike Tyson was released fromm the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant.
- In 1999: NATO aircraft and missiles bblasted targets in Yugoslavia for a second night, directing much of their fire on Kosovo, where fighting raged between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Tuesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2001. There are 286 days left in the year.

- On March 20, 1852: "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, was first published.

- In 1413: England's King Henry IV diedd.
- In 1727: Physicist, mathematician andd astronomer Sir Isaac Newton died in London.
- In 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte entered PParis, beginning his Hundred Days rule.
- In 1816: The Supreme Court affirmed iits right to review state court decisions.
- In 1896: U.S. Marines landed in Nicarragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution.
- In 1899: Martha Place, of Brooklyn, bbecame the first woman to be executed in the electric chair, put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.
- In 1956: Union workers ended a 156-daay strike at Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
- In 1969: John Lennon married Yoko Onoo in Gibraltar.
- In 1976: Kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup.
- In 1987: The Food and Drug Administraation approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients.
- In 1990: Namibia became an independennt nation, marking the end of 75 years of South African rule.
- In 1995: In Tokyo, 12 people were killled, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains.
- In 1999: Bertrand Piccard of Switzerlland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Sunday, March 18, the 77th day of 2001. There are 288 days left in the year.

- On March 18, 1959: President Eisenhowwer signed a bill approving the statehood of Hawaii.

- In 1766: Britain repealed the Stamp AAct.
- In 1837: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
- In 1909: Einar Dessau of Denmark usedd a shortwave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what is believed to be the first broadcast by a ham radio operator.
- In 1931: Schick Inc. marketed the firrst electric razor.
- In 1937: More than 400 people, mostlyy children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.
- In 1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Musssolini met at Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany's war against France and Britain.
- In 1962: France and Algerian rebels aagreed to a truce.
- In 1965: The first spacewalk took plaace as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.
- In 1974: Most of the Arab oil-produciing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
- In 1990: Thieves made off with 11 valluable paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
- In 1995: The United States Catholic CConference's administrative board criticized a Republican welfare reform plan, saying it would hurt poor children and could push women to have abortions.
- In 1999: The Kosovar Albanian delegattion signed a U.S.-sponsored peace accord following talks in Paris. The Clinton administration warned NATO would act against Serb targets if Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic didn't accept the agreement.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Thursday, March 15, the 74th day of 2001. There are 291 days left in the year.

- On March 15, 1919: The American Legioon was founded, in Paris.

- In 44 B.C.: Julius Caesar was assassiinated by Brutus, Cassius and other Roman notables.
- In 1493: Christopher Columbus returneed to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
- In 1767: The seventh president of thee United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.
- In 1820: Maine became the 23rd state..
- In 1875: Pope Pius IX appointed the RRoman Catholic Archbishop of New York, John McCloskey, as the first American cardinal.
- In 1913: President Wilson held the fiirst open presidential news conference.
- In 1964: Actress Elizabeth Taylor marrried actor Richard Burton in Montreal. It was her fifth marriage, his second.
- In 1965: Addressing a joint session oof Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee American's right to vote.
- In 1975: Greek shipping magnate Aristtotle Onassis died near Paris at the age of 69.
- In 1990: The Israeli government of Prrime Minister Yitzhak Shamir lost a vote of confidence in the Knesset after Shamir refused to accept a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
- In 1995: President Clinton issued an executive order formally blocking a $1 billion contract between Conoco and Iran to develop a huge offshore oil tract in the Persian Gulf.
- In 1999: Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCaartney, Billy Joel and Dusty Springfield were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Monday, March 12, the 71st day of 2001. There are 294 days left in the year.

- On March 12, 1912: Juliette Gordon Loow founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.

- In 1664: New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II granted land to his brother James, the Duke of York.
- In 1925: Chinese revolutionary leaderr Sun Yat-sen died.
- In 1930: Indian leader Mohandas Gandhhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.
- In 1933: President Roosevelt delivereed the first of his radio fireside chats, telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
- In 1938: German troops entered Austriia as part of the Anschluss, or union of the two countries.
- In 1939: Pope Pius XII was crowned inn ceremonies at the Vatican.
- In 1940: Finland and the Soviet Unionn concluded an armistice during World War II. (Fighting between the two countries flared again the following year.)
- In 1947: President Truman establishedd what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist communism.
- In 1969: Paul McCartney married Lindaa Eastman in London.
- In 1980: A Chicago jury found John Waayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death. He was executed in 1994.)
- In 1990: Vice President Quayle met inn Santiago, Chile, with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who promised to peacefully relinquish power to Violeta Chamorro, the U.S.-backed candidate who had won Nicaragua's presidential election.
- In 1995: World leaders wound up a weeek-long summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, committing themselves to fighting poverty, but differing on how to do so.
- In 1999: Hungary, Poland and the Czecch Republic joined NATO.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Sunday, March 11, the 70th day of 2001. There are 295 days left in the year.

- On March 11, 1942: As Japanese forcess continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, vowing that he'd return. (He kept that promise nearly three years later.)

- In 1810: Emperor Napoleon of France wwas married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
- In 1861: The Confederate convention iin Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.
- In 1888: A blizzard struck the northeeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.
- In 1930: Former President and Chief JJustice William Howard Taft was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- In 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevvelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries.
- In 1954: The U.S. Army charged that WWisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his subcommittee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee.
- In 1965: The Rev. James Reeb, a whitee minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
- In 1977: More than 130 hostages held in Washington D.C. by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
- In 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev was chosenn to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko.
- In 1990: The Lithuanian parliament vooted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence.
- In 1995: President Clinton nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
- In 1999: The House voted to conditionnally support President Clinton's plan to send U.S. troops to Kosovo if a peace agreement was reached.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Thursday, March 8, the 67th day of 2001. There are 298 days left in the year.

- On March 8, 1854: Commodore Matthew PPerry made his second landing in Japan. Within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.

- In 1702: England's Queen Anne ascendeed the throne upon the death of King William III.
- In 1874: The 13th president of the Unnited States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y.
- In 1917: Russia's February Revolutionn (so called because of the Old Style calendar used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg.
- In 1917: The U.S. Senate voted to limmit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- In 1930: The 27th president of the Unnited States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington.
- In 1942: The Japanese captured Rangooon, Burma, during World War II.
- In 1944: U.S. bombers resumed bombingg Berlin.
- In 1965: The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam.
- In 1986: Four French television crew members were abducted in west Beirut. A caller claimed Islamic Jihad was responsible. (All four were eventually released.)
- In 1990: Opening arguments were heardd in the Iran-Contra trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter.
- In 1995: Two United States diplomats were killed, one injured, when their car was ambushed as they were driving to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
- In 1999: New York Yankees baseball sttar Joe DiMaggio died at age 84 in Hollywood, Fla.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2001. There are 299 days left in the year.

- On March 7, 1850: In a speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

- In 1849: Horticulturist Luther Burbannk was born in Lancaster, Mass.
- In 1875: Composer Maurice Ravel was bborn in Cibourne, France.
- In 1876: Alexander Graham Bell receivved a patent for his telephone.
- In 1911: The United States sent 20,0000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
- In 1926: The first successful trans-AAtlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London.
- In 1936: Adolf Hitler ordered his trooops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles.
- In 1945: During World War II, U.S. foorces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged Ludendorff Bridge.
- In 1965: A march by civil rights demoonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
- In 1975: The Senate revised its filibbuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
- In 1990: Health and Human Services Seecretary Louis Sullivan announced the government would propose a more informative food-labeling system that would require the disclosure of the fat, fiber and cholesterol content of nearly all packaged foods.
- In 1994: The Supreme Court ruled thatt parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered fair use that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
- In 1995: New York Gov. George Pataki signed a death penalty bill into law.
- In 1999: Movie director Stanley Kubriick died in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2001. There are 300 days left in the year.

- On March 6, 1836: The Alamo in San Anntonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces following a 13-day siege.

- In 1834: The city of York in Canada wwas incorporated as Toronto.
- In 1857: In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
- In 1933: A nationwide bank holiday deeclared by President Roosevelt went into effect.
- In 1935: Retired Supreme Court Justicce Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington, D.C.
- In 1944: U.S. heavy bombers staged thhe first American raid on Berlin during World War II.
- In 1957: The former British African ccolonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
- In 1981: Walter Cronkite, the princippal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News," signed off the air for the last time.
- In 1987: 189 people died when the Briitish ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
- In 1990: The Soviet parliament overwhhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
- In 1995: The Republican-controlled Hoouse took up business-backed legislation to alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of the proposals were too extreme. (The House passed the measure the following day.)
- In 1999: The emir of Bahrain (Sheik IIsa bin Salman Al Khalifa), a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died at 65.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Sunday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2001. There are 302 days left in the year.

- On March 4, 1789: The Constitution off the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum.)

- In 1791: Vermont became the 14th statte.
- In 1829: An unruly crowd mobbed the WWhite House during the inaugural reception for President Jackson.
- In 1837: The Illinois legislature graanted a charter to Chicago.
- In 1861: Abraham Lincoln was inauguraated as president.
- In 1902: The American Automobile Assoociation began in Chicago.
- In 1925: President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was broadcast live on 21 radio stations coast-to-coast.
- In 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt was innaugurated as president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression.
- In 1952: Then actor Ronald Reagan andd Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, Calif.
- In 1989: Time and Warner Communicatioons announced plans to merge into the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate.
- In 1990: Voters in the Soviet republiics of Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine participated in local and legislative elections, resulting in notable gains for reformists and nationalists.
- In 1995: President Clinton, in his weeekly radio address, said spending cuts proposed by congressional Republicans would gut safe-school and anti-drug programs needed to protect children.
- In 1999: Outraging Italian authoritiees, a military jury in North Carolina cleared a Marine pilot of charges he was flying recklessly when his jet sliced through a ski gondola cable in the Alps, sending 20 people plunging to their deaths.

By The Associated Press
- Today is Friday, March 2, the 61st day of 2001. There are 304 days left in the year.

- On March 2, 1877: Republican Rutherfoord B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

- In 1793: The first president of the RRepublic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va.
- In 1836: Texas declared its independeence from Mexico.
- In 1899: President McKinley signed a measure creating the rank of Admiral of the Navy for Admiral George Dewey.
- In 1899: Mount Rainier National Park in Washington was established.
- In 1917: Puerto Ricans were granted UU.S. citizenship.
- In 1923: Time magazine made its debutt.
- In 1939: The Massachusetts legislaturre voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect.
- In 1949: An American B-50 Superfortreess, the Lucky Lady II, landed at Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop round-the-world flight.
- In 1977: The House of Representativess adopted a code of ethics.
- In 1990: More than 6,000 drivers wentt on strike against Greyhound Lines. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations and fired the strikers).
- In 1995: The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off to study the far reaches of the universe.
- In 1999: Texas Governor George W. Bussh announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee; Singer Dusty Springfield died at her home west of London at age 59.