Today is Monday, March 11, the 70th day of 2013. There are 295 days left in the year.
537 ― Goths lay siege to Rome
1302 ― Romeo & Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1702 ― First English daily newspaper, “Daily Courant,” is published
1810 ― Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1851 ― Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1918 ― Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1966 ― Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1967 ― Pink Floyd releases their first song (Arnold Layne)
1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1997 ― Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II