Sunday, March 27, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 27
1958:Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union after the ouster of Nikolai Bulganin. He will be ousted in 1964.

1912: First lady Helen Taft and Japan's Viscountess Chinda plant two Yoshino cherry trees in Washington, D.C., as part of Japan's gift of 3,000 trees to the United States. The District still celebrates the trees every year with the Cherry Blossom Festival.

1997: Dexter King, a son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., meets in a prison hospital with James Earl Ray, who was convicted in the assassination. The dying Ray tells King, "I had nothing to do with the shooting of your father." King replies: "I believe you."
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