TODAY IN HISTORY

Thursday, March  20, 2014 AP 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. 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.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: Actor-writer-director Carl Reiner turns 92 years old today. AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Name Profession Age Hal Linden Actor ("Barney Miller") 83 Brian Mulroney Former Canadian prime minister 75 Bobby Orr Hockey Hall of Famer 66 William Hurt Actor 64 Carl Palmer Rock musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) 64 Holly Hunter Actress 56 Kathy Ireland Model 51 Liza Snyder Actress ("Yes, Dear") 46 Michael Rapaport Actor 44 Director Spike Lee turns 57 years old today. AP Photo/Peter Kramer