(AP) Today’s Highlight in History: On March 11, 1985, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Konstantin U. Chernenko as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. On this date: In 1513, Giovanni de’ Medici was proclaimed pope, succeeding Julius II; he took the name Leo X. In 1888, the Blizzard of ’88, […]