Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2011. There are 304 days left in the year.
1498 ― Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1807 ― Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1855 ― Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1903 ― Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City
1923 ― Time magazine debuts
1925 ― Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1946 ― Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
1949 ― Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes first nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452-miles in 94 hours
1958 ― First surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
1991 ― U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq