This day in history...

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In 1629, England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he did not call it back for 11 years.

In 1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the was with Mexico.

In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally" was convicted in Washington D.C.of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)

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In 1810, Emperor Napoleon I of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

In 1978, 37 Israelis were killed as Palestinian guerrillas went on a rampage on Tel Aviv-Haifa highway.

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In 1664, England's King Charles II granted an area of land in present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, the Duke of York.

In 1857, the opera "Simon Boccanegra," by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in Venice, Italy.

In 1930, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.

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In 1781, the plant Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.

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In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.

In 1939, the republic of Czechosovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the seperation of Slovakia.

In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

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In A.D. 461 (or A.D 493, according to other authorities), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul.

In 1776, British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.

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In 1766, Britian repeals the Stamp Act of 1765

In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years)

In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized his country's petroleum reserves and took control of foreignowned oil facilities.

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In 1859, the opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris

In 1945, during World War II, 724 people were killed when a Japanese dive bomber attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan; the ship, however, was saved.

In 1945, Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Alied hands.

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In 1625, Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I.

In 1945, during World War II, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that Germany defense on the western front had been broken.

In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.

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On March 21, 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany

In 1804, the French civil code, or the "Code Napoleon" as it was later called, was adopted.

In 1957, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan began a four day conference in Bermuda.

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In 1765,Britian enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)

In 1945, the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt

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In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.

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In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Present-day- Florida.

In 1625, Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I

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In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.

In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

In 1939, the Spanish Civil War effectively ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

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In 1918, the Royal Air Force was established in Britain.

In 1933, Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

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In 1513, Spanish explore Juan Ponce de Leon landed in present-day Florida.

In 1974, French president George Pompidou died in Paris.

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In 1946, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed by firing squad outside Manila.

In 1968,North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. repersentatives to set up preliminary peace talks.

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In 1939, Italy invaded Albania, which was annexed less than a week later.

In 1945,during World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.

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In 1932, German president Paul Von Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.

In 1957, Egypt reopened the Suez canal to all shipping traffic. (The canal had been closed due to wreckage resulting from the Sues Crisis.)

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In 1689, William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.