TODAY IN HISTORY-SUNDAY MARCH 20, 2011

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Today is Sunday, March 20, the 79th day of 2011. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 6:21 p.m. Eastern time.

Today in History Highlight in History: On March 20, 2003, U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait. AP Photo
On this date in: 1413 England's King Henry IV died. 1727 Sir Isaac Newton - physicist, mathematician and astronomer - died in London. 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his Hundred Days rule. 1816 The Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions. 1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway. 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was published. 1969 Rock musician John Lennon of the Beatles married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients. 1990 Namibia became an independent nation, marking the end of 75 years of South African rule. 1993 An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Warrington, England, killing two boys, aged 12 and 3. 1995 A doomsday cult released sarin nerve gas in five Tokyo subway stations, killing 12 people and injuring more than 5,500.  Read the original AP story AP Photo/Chikumo Chiaki 1996 A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. (They are serving life without parole.) 1997 Liggett Group settled 22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry markets cigarettes to teenagers and agreeing to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive. 2004 The U.S. military charged six soldiers with abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.		Today's Birthdays: Director Spike Lee turns 54 years old today. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Name Profession Age Carl Reiner Director, producer 89 Hal Linden Actor ("Barney Miller") 80 Brian Mulroney Former Canadian prime minister 72 Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Famer 63 William Hurt Actor 61 Carl Palmer Rock musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) 61 Kathy Ireland Model 48 Liza Snyder Actress ("Yes, Dear") 43 Michael Rapaport Actor 41 Actress Holly Hunter turns 53 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Thought for Today: "Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment." — Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), British author (1913-1995)
DAILY PRAYER

Almighty God, the giver of wisdom, without whose help resolutions are vain, without whose blessing study is ineffectual, enable me, if it be thy will, to attain such knowledge as may qualify me to direct the doubtful and instruct the ignorant, to prevent wrongs, and terminate contentions; and grant that I may use that knowledge which I shall attain, to thy glory and my own salvation.