TODAY is Wednesday, March 29, the 88th day of 2006. There are 277 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE:

In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware.

In 1790, the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, was born in Charles City County, Virginia.

In 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (Calley ended up spending three years under house arrest.)

In 1974, eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The guardsmen were later acquitted.)

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“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.” — Amelia Edith Barr, American author and journalist (1831-1919).