FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011

Today is Friday, March 11, the 70th day of 2011. There are 295 days left in the year.

537 ― Goths lay siege to Rome

1302 ― Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

1665 ― New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

1669 ― Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

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

1953 ― An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to six safety catches

1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

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