Today is Monday, February 28, the 59th day of 2011. There are 306 days left in the year.
1066 ― Westminster Abbey opens
1646 ― Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
1692 ― Salem witch hunt begins
1749 ― First edition of Henry Fielding’s' ``Tom Jones" published
1917 ― Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1922 ― Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1933 ― Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1956 ― Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1981 ― China throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
1983 ― Final TV episode of ``MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch