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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011

Today is Friday, March 11, the 70th day of 2011. There are 295 days left in the year. 537 ― Goths lay siege to Rome 1302 ― Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1665 ― New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1669 ― Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 ― First English daily newspaper, ``Daily Courant," is published 1851 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Rigoletto" premieres in Venice 1918 ― Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1953 ― An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to six safety catches 1985 ― Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1997 ― Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

Mar 10, 2011

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2011

Today is Thursday, March 10, the 69th day of 2011. There are 296 days left in the year. 241 B.C. ― Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships 418 ― Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 1624 ― England declares war on Spain 1629 ― King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1862 ― U.S. issues first paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000) 1876 ― First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) 1880 ― Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity 1910 ― China ends slavery 1982 ― President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya 1985 ― World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)

Mar 9, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011

Today is Wednesday, March 9, the 68th day of 2011. There are 297 days left in the year. 1497 ― Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation, 1522 ― Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1562 ― Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1697 ― Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe 1791 ― George Hayward, U.S. surgeon, first to use ether 1796 ― Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais 1822 ― Charles M. Graham of New York patents artificial teeth 1842 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Nabucco" premieres in Milan 1918 ― Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1959 ― Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold

Mar 8, 2011

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 8, the 67th day of 2011. There are 298 days left in the year. 1854 ― U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan 1858 ― Leoncavallo's opera ``I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) 1911 ― International Women's Day (first celebrated) 1930 ― Babe Ruth signs two-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankees, G.M. Ed Barrow wrongly predicts ``No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" 1930 ― Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1957 ― Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1965 ― First U.S. combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines) 1979 ― China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam 1983 ― President Reagan calls the USSR an ``Evil Empire" 1994 ― Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces

Mar 7, 2011

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011

Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2011. There are 299 days left in the year. 1530 ― King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church 1876 ― Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 1912 ― Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole 1917 ― First jazz record ``Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, N.J. 1927 ― Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan 1962 ― Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio 1986 ― Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist 1988 ― Jim Abbott, one-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award 1989 ― Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book ``The Satanic Verses" 1997 ― Five sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Mar 6, 2011

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011

Today is Saturday, March 5, the 64th day of 2011. There are 301 days left in the year. 1558 _ Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes 1616 _ Copernicus' ``de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1623 _ First American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1807 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1868 _ Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould 1924 _ Frank Carauna, becomes first to bowl two successive perfect 300 games 1933 _ Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9 percent-17.2 million votes) 1943 _ Anti fascist strikes in Italy 1946 _ Winston Churchill's ``Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton, Mo.) 1953 _ Josef Stalin's death announced 1984 _ U.S. accuses Iraq of using poison gas

Mar 4, 2011

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011

Today is Friday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2011. There are 302 days left in the year. 1861 ― Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; first time U.S. has five former Presidents living 1895 ― Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1923 ― Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) 1924 ― ``Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1933 ― FDR inaugurated as 32nd President, pledges to pull U.S. out of depression and says, ``We have nothing to fear but fear itself" 1949 ― Security Council of U.N. recommends membership for Israel 1966 ― John Lennon says, ``We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" 1985 ― War veterans returned to the ``Bridge over the River Kwai" 1997 ― Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks 1997 ― President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

Mar 3, 2011

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011

Today is Thursday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2011. There are 303 days left in the year. 78 ― Origin of Saka Era (India) 1861 ― Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1875 ― Georges Bizet's opera ``Carmen" premieres (Paris France) 1878 ― Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) 1887 ― Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1923 ― U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague 1955 ― Elvis Presley makes his first TV appearance 1974 ― World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die) 1991 ― Los Angeles Police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1992 ― President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

Mar 2, 2011

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2011. There are 304 days left in the year. 1498 ― Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island 1807 ― Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1855 ― Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia 1903 ― Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City 1923 ― Time magazine debuts 1925 ― Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage 1946 ― Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam 1949 ― Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes first nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452-miles in 94 hours 1958 ― First surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days 1991 ― U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq

Mar 1, 2011

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2011. There are 305 days left in the year. 1 B.C. ― Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 743 ― Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 1872 ― Yellowstone becomes world's first national park 1919 ― Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1934 ― Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1940 ― 12th Academy Awards: ``Gone with the Wind," Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh win 1961 ― President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 1970 ― End of U.S. commercial whale hunting 1974 ― Watergate grand jury indicts seven Presidential aides 1978 ― Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery

Feb 28, 2011

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