Today is Friday, March 11, the 70th day of 2011. There are 295 days left in the year.
537 ― Goths lay siege to Rome
1302 ― Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1665 ― New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 ― Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 ― First English daily newspaper, ``Daily Courant," is published
1851 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
1918 ― Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1953 ― An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to six safety catches
1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1997 ― Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II