Today is Wednesday, March 7, the 67th day of 2012. There are 299 days left in the year.
1138 ― Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1573 ― Turkey and Venice sign a peace treaty
1774 ― British close the port of Boston to all commerce
1778 ― Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1852 ― Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1876 ― Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1906 ― The Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1921 ― The Red Army under Trotsky attacks sailors of Kronstadt
1925 ― American Negro Congress organizes
1933 ― Game of "Monopoly" invented
1936 ― Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1944 ― Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 ― Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1962 ― Beatles make their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1971 ― Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
1977 ― Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1991 ― Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1995 ― New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty