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1963, The Beatles release their first album

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 22, the 81st day of 2024. There are 284 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 22, 1963, The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone record label. Also on this date: In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) In 1894, ice hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played, in which the Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Ottawa ...

1965, civil rights activists begin march from Selma to Montgomery

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 21, the 80th day of 2025. There are 285 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama — ...

1995, sarin gas attack in Tokyo subway

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 20, the 79th day of 2025. There are 286 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were opened on five separate subway trains in a domestic terror attack by members ...

2003, Bush announces Iraq invasion

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 19, the 78th day of 2025. There are 287 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 19, 2003, in a televised address, President George W. Bush announced that coalition forces had begun an invasion of Iraq. (Bush would declare ...

1879, Albert Einstein is born

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2025. There are 292 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany. Also on this ...

2013, Francis becomes first non-European pope in over 1,250 years

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2025. There are 293 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 13, 2013, Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope, choosing the papal name Francis. He was the first pontiff from the Americas, and the first ...