TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2008

Today is Tuesday, March 11, the 71st day of 2008. 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

1851 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Rigoletto" premieres in Venice

1918 _ Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1968 _ Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for ``(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"

1982 _ Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC

1987 _ Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point

1990 _ Lithuania declares its Independence

1997 _ Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II