Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2011. There are 305 days left in the year.
1 B.C. ― Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
743 ― Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
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
1940 ― 12th Academy Awards: ``Gone with the Wind," Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh win
1961 ― President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
1970 ― End of U.S. commercial whale hunting
1974 ― Watergate grand jury indicts seven Presidential aides
1978 ― Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery