TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2011. There are 305 days left in the year.

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

743 ― Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited

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

1961 ― President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps

1970 ― End of U.S. commercial whale hunting

1974 ― Watergate grand jury indicts seven Presidential aides

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