Today is Monday, March 15, the 74th day of 2010. There are 291 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in Russia together with his son. On the same day, a provisional government succeeded under Prince Georgi Lvov and with Pavel Miliukov as foreign minister.

In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

Thought for Today

"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust." — E.B. White, American author and humorist (1899-1985).