Today is Thursday, March 11, the 70th day of 2010. There are 295 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1965, the Reverend James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Alabama.

In 1990, Lithuania's parliament proclaimed the restoration of the Baltic republic's pre-Second World War independence from the Soviet Union, the first Soviet republic to break away.

Thought for Today

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love." — David McCullough, American historian.