Today is Monday, March 24, the 84th day of 2008. There are 282 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 24, 1958, rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. (After nearly six months of basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, Presley was posted to Friedberg, West Germany; he was honorably discharged in 1960.)
On this date:
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.
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