MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010

Today is Monday, March 1, the 60th day of 2010. There are 305 days left in the year.

1 B.C. _ Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome

1872 _ Yellowstone becomes world's first national park

1919 _ Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin

1934 _ Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria

1940 _ 12th Academy Awards: ``Gone with the Wind," Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh win

1945 _ FDR announces success of Yalta Conference

1947 _ International Monetary Fund began operations

1954 _ U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll

1961 _ President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps

1978 _ Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery