Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2006. There are 299 days left in the year.

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In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

In 1945, during the Second World War II, US forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Caveat actor.” (Let the doer beware.) — Latin proverb.