Today is Saturday, March 12, the 71st day of 2011. There are 294 days left in the year.
1587 ― English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1642 ― Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand
1917 ― Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1930 ― Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
1933 ― FDR conducts his first ``fireside chat"
1938 ― Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1945 ― New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1947 ― President Truman introduces ``Truman Doctrine” to fight communism
1951 ― Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1967 ― Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority