Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2019. There are 285 days left in the year.
1610 — King James I addresses English House of Commons
1697 — Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 — Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1790 — Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1804 — French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1824 — Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1843 — Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today
1914 — U.S. ladies figure skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1918 — During WWI Germany launches Somme offensive