March 20: American film director Spike Lee was born 51 years ago (1957)

March 19: Bruce Willis born in Idar-Oberstein, Germany (1955)

March 18: Justice Scalia won't recuse self from Cheney case (2004)

March 17:  Congress holds hearings on steroids in baseball (2005)

March 16: U.S. military academy at West Point established (1802)

March 15: Maine becomes twenty-third state (1820)

March 14: Minnesota Twins outfielder Kirby Puckett is born in Chicago (1960)

March 13: Pop music pioneer Neil Sedaka was born (1939)

March 12: BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza City by radical Islamist gunmen (2007)

March 11: Synchronized bombing attack on Madrid's train system kills 191

March 10: Alexander Graham Bell completes first successful telephone call (1876)

March 9: Mattel’s Barbie doll goes green (2007)

March 8: Iraqis approve interim constitution (2004)

March 7: 'Bloody Sunday' occurs in Selma, Alabama (1965)

March 6: Walter Cronkite retires as anchor of CBS Evening News (1981)

March 5: Santana High School is the site of school shooting (2001)

March 4: Missouri Sen. David Rice Atchison claims to be 'president for a day' (1849)

March 3: 'The Star Spangled Banner' becomes the U.S. national anthem (1931)

March 2: U.S. military launches Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan (2002)

March 1: Supreme Court abolishes capital punishment for juvenile offenders (2005)

Feb. 29: Hattie McDaniel becomes first African American to win Oscar (1940)

Feb. 28: Egypt and United States restore diplomatic relations (1974)

Feb. 27: President H.W. Bush declares victory in the Persian Gulf War (1991)

Feb. 26: Terrorists drive van full of explosives into garage of New York City's World Trade Center (1993)

Feb. 25: Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali, becomes world heavyweight boxing champion (1964)

Feb. 24: Buckingham Palace announces ill-fated engagement (1981)

Feb. 23: Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned a sheep (1997)

Feb. 22:   U.N. Security Council approves tribunal to punish those responsible for atrocities in former Yugoslavia (1993)

Feb. 21: Malcolm X shot dead at New York rally (1965)

Feb. 20: Ranger 8 slams into surface of the moon (1965)

Feb. 19: Roosevelt relocates Japanese-Americans (1942)

Feb. 18: California Supreme Court overturns death penalty (1972)

Feb. 17: Nixon departs for historic visit to China (1972)

Feb 16: First 911 phone system inaugurated in Haleyville, Alabama (1968)

Feb. 15: President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escapes assassination (1933)

Feb. 14: Jacqueline Kennedy gives televised White House tour  (1962)

Feb. 13:   Laser-guided U.S. missiles kill Iraqi civilians (1991)

Feb. 12:   Two English 10-year-olds beat two-year-old James Bulger to death (1993)

Feb. 11: Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seize power in Iran (1979)

Feb. 10:   Mike Tyson convicted of rape (1992)

Feb. 9: The Beatles invade America (1964)

Feb. 8: The Orangeburg Massacre in S.C. (1968)

Feb. 7: A record-breaking walk in space (1984)

Feb 6: Reggae great Bob Marley is born in Jamaica (1945)

Feb. 5: Kimba Wood withdrew her name from consideration for Attorney General after it was revealed that she had hired an illegal immigrant (1993)

Feb. 4: Civil rights icon Rosa Louise Parks, nee McCauley, is born in Tuskegee, Alabama (1913)

Feb 3: President of Princeton and former president Woodrow Wilson dies (1927)

Feb 2:    Abscam scandal made public (1980)

Feb. 1:    The Greensboro sit-in  (1960)

Jan. 31:    The life and death of Jackie Robinson (1919)

Jan. 30: Mahatma Gandhi's assassination (1948)

Jan. 29: Exxon Valdez skipper goes to trial (1990)

Jan. 28: Space shuttle explodes after launch (1986)

Jan. 27: Iranian hostage crisis comes to an end (1981)

Jan. 26:  President Bill Clinton denies having had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky (1998)

Jan. 25: Charles Manson convicted of the murder of seven, including actress Sharon Tate (1971)

Jan. 24: Ted Bundy is executed for the murder of two Florida State University students (1989)

Jan. 23: Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl is abducted in Pakistan (2002)

Jan. 22: Madeleine Albright confirmed as nation's first female secretary of state (1997)

Jan. 21: Lorena Bobbit acquitted (1994)

Jan. 20:  Audrey Hepburn dies at 63 (1993)

Jan. 19: President Bill Clinton admits to making false statements under oath (2001)

Jan. 18: Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to being the so-called Boston Strangler, is convicted (1967)

Jan. 17: Bill Clinton answers questions of lawyers for Paula Jones, who accused him of sexual harassment (1998)

Jan. 16: U.S. starts Desert Storm in an effort to drive Iraq out of Kuwait (1991)

Jan. 15: Woman gets life for shooting at President Ford (1976)

Jan. 14: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio get married (1954)

Jan. 13: Subway shooter is sentenced in NYC (1989)
Jan. 12: Congress OKs use of force against Iraq for invading Kuwait (1991)
Jan. 11: The first woman flies solo across the Pacific (1935)
Jan. 10: First U.N. General Assembly meets in London (1946)
Jan. 9: Surveyor spacecraft lands on moon (1968)
Jan. 8: Bush vomits, faints at state dinner in Tokyo (1992)
Jan. 7: Blizzard paralyzes parts of Northeast (1996)

Jan. 6: Edgar Ray Killen arrested for murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi (2005)
Jan. 5:  Wesley Dodd is executed by hanging (1993)
Jan. 4: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon suffers debilitating stroke (2006)
Jan. 3: Manuel Noriega surrenders (1990)
Jan. 2: U.S. troops land in Bosnia (1996)
Jan. 1: 12 of then 15 countries in the European Union distributed Euro currency (2002)
Dec. 31: Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigns (2004)

Dec. 30: Vatican officially recognizes Israel (1993)
Dec. 29: Former Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the more than 1 million Cambodians who died under their party's rule (1998)
Dec. 28: Police shooting in Miami sparks race riots (1982)
Dec. 26: Child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey found murdered in parents' basement (1996)
Dec. 25: Comedy actor, director, and musician Charlie Chaplin dies in his sleep
Dec. 24: Members of Apollo 8 mission read sections of the Bible live on tv (1968)

Dec. 23: Mad cow disease in the U.S. (2003)

Dec. 21: Bomb explodes on Pan Am flight over Scotland, killing 270 people (1988)

Dec. 20:  U.S. invades Panama to depose dictator Manuel Noriega (1989)

Dec. 19: President Clinton's impeachment (1998)

Dec. 18: Chris Farley dies of an overdose (1997)

Dec. 17: North American leaders sign NAFTA treaty (1992)

Dec. 16: Colin Powell nominated first black Secretary of State (2000)

Dec. 15: Iraqis cast ballots in nation-wide elections (2005)

Dec. 14: American Indian tribe elects first female chief (1985)

Dec. 13: UN Security Council chooses Kofi Annan (1996)

Dec. 12:  Legendary singer Frank Sinatra is born (1915)

Dec. 11:   The Kyoto climate protocol is introduced (1998)

Dec. 10:   Arafat, Peres and Rabin receive Nobel Peace Prize (1994)

Dec. 9:   President Clinton asks Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders to resign

Dec. 8:   Former Beatle John Lennon shot dead (1980)

Dec. 7: Massive earthquake shakes Armenia; 25,000 killed (1988)

Dec. 6: Former coup plotter Chavez elected in Venezuela (1998)

Dec. 5: Walt Disney, Pioneer of cartoons, films and theme parks, is born (1901)

Dec. 4: AP reporter Terry Anderson released by Hezbollah after more than six years in captivity in Lebanon (1991)

Dec. 3:   Leak at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, kills about 20,000 (1984)

Dec. 2: Barney Clark undergoes the first artificial heart transplant (1982)

Dec. 1:   Amy Fisher sentenced for shooting the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco (1992)

Nov. 30:    Bill Clinton becomes first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland (1995)

Nov. 29: U.N. passes resolution calling for partition of Palestine (1947)

Nov. 28:   Thatcher steps down as U.K. prime minister (1990)

Nov. 27: Moscone and Milk killed in San Francisco (1978)

Nov. 26:   Britain's queen becomes a taxpayer (1992)

Nov. 25:   Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair (1986)

Nov. 24:   Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

Nov. 23: U.N War Crimes Tribunal puts Slobodan Milosevic on trial for genocide (2001)

Nov. 22:   President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed (1963)

Nov. 21: Boutros Boutros-Ghali elected U.N. secretary-general (1991)

Nov. 20:   Princess Diana admits adultery (1995)

Nov. 19:   Anwar Sadat vists Israel (1977)

Nov. 18:   Mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (1978)

Nov. 17:   Washington sniper convicted of murder (2003)

Nov. 16: The new U.S. Secretary of State (2004)

Nov. 15:   Hu Jintao becomes China's new leader (2002)

Nov. 14:   Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate (1979)

Nov. 13: Bus segregation laws ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court (1956)

Nov. 12:   Ramzi Yousef found guilty of planning 1993 WTC attack (1997)

Nov. 11:   Yasser Arafat dies in Paris (2004)

Nov. 10:   The trial of au pair Louise Woodward (1997)

Nov. 9:   Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit America (1985)

Nov. 8:   John F. Kennedy becomes president after having been the first to take part in a televised debate (1960)

Nov. 7:   George W. Bush becomes president (2000)

Nov. 6:   'The Comeback Kid' Bill Clinton is elected (1996)

Nov. 5:   Ronald Reagan battles Alzheimer's disease (1994)

Nov 4:   The hostage crisis in Iran (1979)

Nov 3:   Susan Smith is arrested for murdering her two children (1994)

Nov 2:   Velma Barfield becomes first women to be executed (1984)

Nov 1: Clarence Thomas becomes Supreme Court Justice (1991)

Sept 30:   Author Truman Capote is born (1924)

Sept 29:    Magic Johnson back on the court (1992)

Sept 28:   Legendary musician, Miles Davis dies (1991)

Sept 27:   $100 bill gets a facelift (1995)

Sept 26:   Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate (1960)

Sept 25:   Hurricane Rita's destruction (2005)

Sept 24:   Little Rock Central High School integrates (1957)