Today is Saturday, March 8, the 67th day of 2014. There are 298 days left in the year. Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday at 2 a.m. locally. Clocks go forward one hour. March 8, 1979technology firm Philips demonstrated a prototype compact disc player during a press conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 1702Englands Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III. 1854U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese. 1862during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va. 1874the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:31:51 +0000