First Day of Spring
WORLD Storytelling Day
NATIONAL Alien Abductions Day
NATIONAL Proposal Day [go ahead, pop the question]
NATIONAL Ravioli Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1841 Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
1916 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity
1933 The Nazis open their first concentration camp, at Dachau, near Munich
1942 Gen MacArthur vows "I shall return"
1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
2003 (9:34 pm, 19 March EST) the military invasion of Iraq began
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