MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013

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