Today is Saturday, March 1, 61st day of 2008. There are 305 days left in the year.
1 B.C. _ Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
1562 _ Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 Huguenots murder
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
1947 _ International Monetary Fund began operations
1954 _ U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1962 _ K-Mart opens
1970 _ End of U.S. commercial whale hunting
1974 _ Watergate grand jury indicts seven presidential aides