Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2007. There are 292 days left in the year.

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In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

In 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

In 1980, a Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a US amateur boxing team.

In 1991, the “Birmingham Six”, Irishmen wrongly convicted of the 1974 bombing of pubs in Birmingham, England, by Irish republican guerrillas, were freed after 16 years in prison.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Civilisation is the progress towards a society of privacy.” — Ayn Rand, American author (1905-1982).