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On this day...
537
Goths lay siege to Rome
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1702 First London daily newspaper
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is firsst to obtain more than one
US patent
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (first female medical school)
1851 The opera "Rigoletto" is produced (Venice)
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1867 The opera "Don Carlos" is produced (Paris)
1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US
1892 First public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1927 First armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 First Golden Gloves tournament
1935 Bank of Canada opens
1938 German troops enter Austria
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
1942 General MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia
1948 First black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1953 First woman army doctor commissioned (F.M. Adams)
1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South
Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1959 "Raisin in the Sun," first Broadway play by a black
woman, opens
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20
each)
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1967 Pink Floyd releases their first song (Arnold Layne)
1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts
transmitting
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet
leader
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40 million 3 album deal with Virgin records
Birthdays which occurred on March 11th:
1544
Torquato Tasso Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta,
Apologia)
1731 Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier co-discovered Neptune
1860 Thomas Hastings NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1876 Carl Ruggles Marion MA, composer (Evocations)
1885 Malcolm Campbell first auto racer to travel 5 miles/min. (8
km/min)
1890 Vannevar Bush developed first electronic analogue computer
1897 Henry Dixon Cowell Menlo Park CA, composer (New Musical Resources)
1898 Dorothy Gish stage & silent film actress (Orphans of the
Storm)
1899 Frederick IX King of Denmark (1947-72)
1903 Dorothy Schiff publisher (NY Post)
1908 Lawrence Welk Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1911 Fitzroy Maclean British diplomat
1913 John Weinzweig Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1914 Ralph Ellison writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
1916 Sir Harold Wilson (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1920 D.J. Enright England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920 Kenneth Dover chancellor (St. Andrews University)
1923 A. Louise Brough tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1923 Terry Alexander London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
1926 Patricia Tindaole England, architect
1926 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader
1928 Albert Salmi Brooklyn NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
1930 David Gentleman designer/painter
1931 Peter Walters CEO (Midland Bank)
1931 Rupert Murdoch Australia, publisher (NY Post), owns FOX-TV Network
1932 Nigel Lawson British government official (The Power Game)
1934 Sam Donaldson El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent
1936 Antonin Scalia Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice
1938 Malcolm Keith Speed Biritish high court judge
1942 Peter Eyre actor (Hedda)
1944 Ric Rothwell drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 Timothy Mason consultant (British Arts Council)
1945 Tricia O'Neal Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
1947 Dominique Sanda Paris, actress (Inheritance, Beyond Good &
Evil)
1947 Geoffrey Hunt Australia, world-champion squash player
1947 Mark Stein Bayonne NJ, rocker (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging
On)
1948 George Kooymans rocker (Golden Earring)
1950 Bobby McFerrin singer (Don't Worry, Be Happy-1989 Grammy)
1952 Douglas Adams England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1952 Susan Richardson Coatesville PA, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
1961 Bruce Watson rocker (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 Mike Percy rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
Deaths which occurred on March 11th:
1845
John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed]
dies in Allen County, Indiana
1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1957 Richard E. Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1975 Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1979 Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1987 Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at
41
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