Today is Thursday, March 18, the 77th day of 2010. There are 288 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1554 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower of London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion.

1766 - Great Britain repeals the Stamp Act, after Americans decried that taxation without representation was tyranny.

1776 - George Washington's troops occupy Boston, Massachusetts, after evacuation of British in American Revolutionary War.

1813 - Hamburg, Germany, is occupied by Russians following patriotic outbreak in city against French.

1848 - Revolution breaks out …