Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, March 28, the 87th day of 2007. There are 278 days left in the year.

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In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.

In 1979, the US’ worst nuclear accident occurred at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A partial meltdown of one of the reactors forced the evacuation of residents after radioactive gas leaked into the atmosphere.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.” — T.S. Eliot, American-Anglo poet and critic (1888-1965).