By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 74th day of 2024. There are 293 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the name Francis. he was the first pontiff from the Americas and the ...
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2024. There are 294 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 12, 1955, legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker died in New York at age 34.
On this date:
In 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. ...
By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, March 9, the 69th day of 2024. There are 297 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 9, 1997, rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age ...
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, March 8, the 68th day of 2024. There are 298 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 8, 1971, in the first of three fights between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Frazier defeated Ali by decision in what was billed as “The ...
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, March 7, the 67th day of 2024. There are 299 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers ...
By The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, March 6, the 66th day of 2024. There are 300 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruled 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore ...