Today is Tuesday, March 11, the 70th day of 2014. There are 295 days left in the year.
1302 ― Romeo & Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1702 ― First English daily newspaper, “Daily Courant,” is published
1810 ― Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1851 ― Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1918 ― Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1942 ― First deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1967 ― Pink Floyd releases their first song (Arnold Layne)
1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 ― 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 B.C.
1997 ― Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II