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Birthday March 11, 1544 Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet |
Birthday March 11, 1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind |
Birthday March 11, 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune |
Birthday March 11, 1885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min |
Birthday March 11, 1898 Dorothy Gish, silent film Actress (Orphans of the Storm) |
Birthday March 11, 1903 Lawrence Welk is born |
Birthday March 11, 1903 Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles) |
Birthday March 11, 1903 Dorothy Schiff, (NY Post) |
Birthday March 11, 1914 Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act) |
Birthday March 11, 1916 Sir Harold Wilson, (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76) |
Birthday March 11, 1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader |
Birthday March 11, 1931 Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia |
Birthday March 11, 1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist |
Birthday March 11, 1934 Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent |
Birthday March 11, 1934 Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann |
Birthday March 11, 1936 Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice |
History March 11, 1702 1st London daily newspaper |
History March 11, 1779 Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
History March 11, 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise |
History March 11, 1818 Frankenstein published |
History March 11, 1847 John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County - Ind |
History March 11, 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery - adopts constitution |
History March 11, 1861 Confederate constitution adopted |
History March 11, 1862 Lincoln shuffles the Union command |
History March 11, 1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville - NC |
History March 11, 1867 Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts |
History March 11, 1884 Gunslinger Ben Thompson dies |
History March 11, 1888 Blizzard struck NE US - 400 die |
History March 11, 1888 Great Blizzard of '88 hits East Coast |
History March 11, 1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield - Mass) |
History March 11, 1901 Newspaper reports signing of so-called Chief Tokohama |
History March 11, 1918 First cases reported in deadly influenza epidemic |
History March 11, 1930 Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington |
History March 11, 1938 Germany invades Austria |
History March 11, 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease |
History March 11, 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill |
History March 11, 1942 MacArthur leaves Corregidor |
History March 11, 1942 Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia |
History March 11, 1942 MacArthur leaves the Philippines |
History March 11, 1947 Truman thanks Herbert Hoover for aiding post-WWII reconstruction |
History March 11, 1953 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams) |
History March 11, 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21 |
History March 11, 1960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus |
History March 11, 1967 Heavy battle rages during Operation Junction City |
History March 11, 1977 Rings of Uranus are discovered |
History March 11, 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko |
History March 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed Chernenko |
History March 11, 1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
History March 11, 1989 COPS debuts on Fox |
History March 11, 1989 COPS makes TV debut |
History March 11, 1990 Lithuania proclaims its independence |
History March 11, 2004 Terrorists bomb trains in Madrid |
History March 11, 2009 Toyota sells 1 millionth hybrid in U.S. |