Today is Sunday, March 22, the 81st day of 2026. 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 ...

Today is Saturday, March 21, the 80th day of 2026. 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 — this time under the escort of ...

Today is Thursday, March 19, the 78th day of 2026. There are 287 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush announced in a televised address that coalition forces had begun an invasion of Iraq. (Bush would declare victory just over five weeks later in ...

Today is Wednesday, March 18, the 77th day of 2026. There are 288 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 18, 1925, nearly 700 people died when the Tri-State Tornado struck southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana; it remains the deadliest single tornado in ...

Today is Monday, March 16, the 75th day of 2026. There are 290 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in two hamlets of Son My village, in ...

Today is Tuesday, March 17, the 76th day of 2026. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day. Today in history: On March 17, 1992, white South Africans voted 68.7% to 31.3% to end over 40 years of apartheid in a national referendum. (Voters of all races were allowed to ...