Today is Monday, March 12, the 72nd day of 2011. There are 294 days left in the year.
1642 ― Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand
1848 ― Second Republic established in France
1912 ― Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane
1930 ― Mohandas Gandhi begins 200-mile (321-km) march protesting British salt tax
1945 ― New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1945 ― The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day
1951 ― Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1963 ― Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1977 ― Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1984 ― National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51-week strike