Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2012. There are 293 days left in the year.
1519 ― Cortez lands in Mexico
1634 ― Academie Francaise opens
1781 ― Sir William Herschel sees ``comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1921 ― Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1933 ― Banks reopen
1935 ― Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1951 ― Israel demands DM6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1961 ― Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1965 ― Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1979 ― European Monetary System is established, ECU created