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Today is the 76th day of 2013 and the 87th day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1861, Italy -- excluding Rome and Venice -- was unified as a nation under King Victor Emmanuel II.

In 1905, Franklin D. Roosevelt married distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1950, physics researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, announced the creation of californium, the radioactive 98th element.

In 1995, the FDA licensed Varivax, the first chicken pox vaccine.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), engineer/inventor; Paul Green (1894-1981), playwright; Bobby Jones (1902-1971), golfer; Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), civil rights activist; Nat King Cole (1919-1965), singer; Kurt Russell (1951- ), actor; Gary Sinise (1955- ), actor; Rob Lowe (1964- ), actor; Mia Hamm (1972- ), soccer player.

TODAY'S FACT: Gottlieb Daimler is credited with building the first internal combustion motorcycle in 1885.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2005, six Major League Baseball players, including All-Star sluggers Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, appeared before a congressional hearing on steroid use.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity upon him." -- Bayard Rustin

TODAY'S NUMBER: 10 -- elements in the periodic table that were identified before the year A.D. 1.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (March 11) and first quarter moon (March 19).

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Today is the 75th day of 2013 and the 86th day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1836, the Republic of Texas approved a constitution.

In 1945, U.S. military forces declared the island of Iwo Jima secure after 25 days of fighting.

In 1988, Lt. Col. Oliver North and Vice Adm. John Poindexter were indicted on charges of conspiracy during the Iran-Contra affair.

In 1998, mass trials began in Rwanda for roughly 125,000 suspected perpetrators of the country's 1994 genocide.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: James Madison (1751-1836), fourth U.S. president; Pat Nixon (1912-1993), former first lady; Jerry Lewis (1926- ), comedian; Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003), U.S. senator; Chuck Woolery (1941- ), game show host; Erik Estrada (1949- ), actor; Gore Verbinski (1964- ), filmmaker; Lauren Graham (1967- ), actress; Blake Griffin (1989- ), basketball player.

TODAY'S FACT: World War I pitted three first cousins -- Great Britain's King George V, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and Russia's Czar Nicholas II -- against one another.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1994, figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into the conspiracy to attack rival Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." -- James Madison

TODAY'S NUMBER: 400 -- current inhabitants (all Japanese soldiers) of the island formerly known as Iwo Jima. Japan formally reverted to the island's prewar name, Iwo To, in June 2007, prompted by the release of the Clint Eastwood movies "Letters From Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Fathers" earlier that year.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (March 11) and first quarter moon (March 19).

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Today is the 74th day of 2013 and the 85th day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 44 B.C., Roman emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent 4,800 U.S. troops into Mexico to capture revolutionary Pancho Villa.

In 1985, the computer manufacturing company Symbolics registered the first Internet domain name.

In 1989, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was established.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh U.S. president; Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933- ), U.S. Supreme Court justice; Judd Hirsch (1935- ), actor; Phil Lesh (1940- ), musician; Sly Stone (1943- ), musician; Bobby Bonds (1946-2003), baseball player; Mike Tomlin (1972- ), football coach; Eva Longoria (1975- ), actress; William "will.i.am" Adams (1975- ), rapper/record producer.

TODAY'S FACT: The salary of the chief justice of the United States was $4,000 in 1789. Chief Justice John Roberts' salary is currently $217,400.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1962, the NBA's Wilt Chamberlain became the first and only player to score 4,000 points in a single season.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

TODAY'S NUMBER: 2 -- Ranking of "The Godfather," which opened this day in 1972, on the 2007 edition of the American Film Institute's best American movies list. "Citizen Kane" ranked No. 1.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (March 11) and first quarter moon (March 19).