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 Today's
highlight in history:
On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.
On this date:
In 1849, Zachary Taylor took the oath of office at his presidential inauguration.
In 1868, the Senate was organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted.
In 1908, actor Rex Harrison was born in Lancashire, England.
In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power.
In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., that also claimed the life of pilot Randy Hughes (Cline's manager).
In 1970, a nuclear nonproliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.
In 1977, President Carter took questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in program moderated by Walter Cronkite.
In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.
Ten years ago: Details of President Clinton's deposition testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against him were published in The Washington Post, prompting an angry denunciation from the president for the news leak. NASA scientists said enough water was frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps, one day, a human colony.
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Five years ago: In a blunt warning to the United States and Britain, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Russia said they would block any attempt to get U.N. approval for war against Iraq. Thousands of students around the U.S. walked out of classes to protest a possible war. A suicide bus bombing in Haifa, Israel, killed 14 Israelis and an American teenager. A Kuwaiti policeman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 2002 attack that wounded two U.S. soldiers on a Kuwaiti desert highway. Comedian George Miller died in Los Angeles (his age is given variously as 53 or 61).
One year ago: A suicide car bomber turned a venerable Baghdad book market into a deadly inferno, killing some three dozen people. Nine U.S. soldiers died in two separate incidents north of Baghdad. President Bush, facing criticism he'd been ignoring Latin America, said the U.S. would spend tens of millions of dollars to improve education, housing and health care across the region.
Today's birthdays: Actor James Noble is 86. Actor James B. Sikking is 74. Actor Dean Stockwell is 72. Actor Fred Williamson is 70. Actor Michael Warren is 62. Actor Eddie Hodges is 61. Singer Eddy Grant is 60. Violinist Eugene Fodor is 58. Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 56. Actress-comedian Marsha Warfield is 54. Magician Penn Jillette is 53. Actress Adriana Barraza is 52. Pop singer Teena Marie is 52. Rock singer Craig Reid is 46. Rock singer Charlie Reid is 46. Rock musician John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 38. Singer Rome is 38. Actor Kevin Connolly is 34. Actress Jill Ritchie is 34. Actress Jolene Blalock is 33. Model Niki Taylor is 33. Actor Jake Lloyd is 19.
Thought for today: "Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
-- Sir Rex Harrison, British actor (1908-1990)
[Associated Press]
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