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Today in History ~ March 11
Independence Restitution Day in Lithuania
Events0537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
0843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia, Constantinople
1302 - Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare (?)
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici becomes Pope Leo X
1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, killing 15,000
1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1795 - Battle at Kurdla, India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1824 - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 - Abraham Lincoln relieves George B. McClellan from his position as General-in-Chief of the Federal Armies [H]
1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1888 - The famous "Blizzard of '88" a four-day snowstorm, struck the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths. More than 200 people died in New York City alone.
1917 - British troops occupy Baghdad
1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 - The first cases of the Spanish influenza were reported in the United States. By 1920, the virus had killed as many as 22 million people worldwide, 500,000 in the United States alone.
1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed
1927 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1930 - William Howard Taft became the first president of the United States to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis. [H]
1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 - General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia ("I have departed.") [H]
1942 - Japanese troops land on North Sumatra
1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 - Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 - Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1959 - The Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1971 - FCC states that television networks ABC, NBC and CBS must have a limited three-hour nightly program service now called 'Prime Time'. Prime Time would begin in September of 1971.
1977 - More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
1978 - Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash, DC
1982 - Protesting his innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23 years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion in the wake of his ABSCAM conviction.
1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1990 - The Lithuanian Parliament declared the Baltic republic free of the Soviet Union and called for negotiations to make secession a reality.
1990 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet stepped down as president of Chile, making way for an elected civilian leader for first time since the 1973 coup.
1991 - Six Arab guerrillas were killed by Israeli troops during a two-hour gun battle near Tirat Zvi.
1992 - Five-time top contender Martin Buser won the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska in record time.
1992 - Members of the U.N. Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of "cheat and retreat" from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human rights; Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying his country was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
1993 - Janet Reno won unanimous Senate approval to become the first female U.S. Attorney General.
1996 - The Whitewater trial of Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and two former associates of Bill and Hillary Clinton opened in Arkansas.
1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space, along with those of drug guru Timothy Leery
1997 - In a startling turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of campaign financing that would include a look at huge "soft money" donations.
1997 - Senate confirmation hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began.
1997 - Rock star Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2001 - One of the worst weeks in Wall Street history began with a 436.37-point, or 4.1 percent, decline in the Dow Jones industrial average. By week's end, all the major indexes were down six percent.
2001 - Masked Zapatista rebels urged passage of an Indian rights bill after riding triumphantly into the heart of Mexico's capital in a march supported by the president and welcomed by 75,000 cheering supporters.
Birthdays Today
1544 - Torquato Tasso (Italian poet: Jerusalem Delivered [Conquered], Aminta, Apologia)
1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune)
1832 - Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test)
1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1892 - Raoul Walsh, NYC, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry)
1903 - Lawrence Welk (bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater)
1919 - Mercer Ellington (bandleader, songwriter: Blue Serge, Things Ain't What They Used to Be; owned Mercer record label, led brother's band after Duke Ellington's death and for Sophisticated Ladies)
1921 - Vince Boryla (basketball)
1923 - A. Louise Brough (tennis champion: U.S. Open [1947], Australian Open [1950], Wimbledon [1948, 1949, 1950, 1955])
1930 - Troy Ruttman (auto racer: youngest winner of Indianapolis 500 [1952])
1931 - Valerie French (Harrison) (actress: Jubal, The 27 Day)
1932 - Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician: trio: Three Compositions of New Jazz)
1934 - Sam Donaldson (newsman: ABC News, This Week with David Brinkley; former ABC White House correspondent)
1935 - Nancy Kovack (actress: Diary of a Madman, Frankie and Johnny)
1943 - Robert Plager (hockey)
1945 - Doc Ellis (baseball) (Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher)
1946 - Jim Niekamp (hockey)
1948 - Cesar Geronimo (baseball) (Houston Astros outfielder)
1948 - Jim McMillian (basketball)
1950 - Bobby McFerrin (pianist, jazz musician, songwriter, singer: improvisational solo: all voices and imitates instruments)
1950 - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
1950 - Windlan Hall (football: Minnesota Vikings safety: Super Bowl XI)
1952 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1952 - Rod Derline (basketball)
1956 - Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
Famous deaths
0222 - Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18
0638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem
1845 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], dies in Allen County, Indiana
1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1965 - Rev. James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1996 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
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