Today is Friday, March 11, the 71st day of 2016. There are 295 days left in the year.
1563 — League of High Nobles’ second protest against King Philip II
1702 — First English daily newspaper “Daily Courant” published
1794 — Royal Theatre in London’s Dury Lane opens
1824 — U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1851 — Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1861 — Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1867 — Great Mauna Loa eruption
1882 — Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in New Jersey
1888 — Great blizzard strikes northeast U.S.
1892 — First public basket