TODAY is Tuesday, March 28, the 87th day of 2006. There are 278 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE:

In 1834, the US Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

In 1969, the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington at age 78.

In 1994, absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at age 81.

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“Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.” — Pierre Corneille, French dramatist and poet (1606-1684).