Today is Thursday, March 11, the 70th day of 2010. 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
1942 _ First deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1967 _ Pink Floyd releases their first song (Arnold Layne)
1982 _ Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
1985 _ Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 _ 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 B.C.