March 11

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[edit] Births

• 1950 - Jerry Zucker
• 1952 - Douglas Adams; Writer.

[edit] Deaths

• 222 - Roman emperor Elagabalus (also known as Heliogabalus) (b. c. 203) and his mother Julia Soaemias (b. 180), killed by the Praetorian Guard
• 1759 - John Forbes, British general in the French and Indian War (b. 1710)
• 1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist, (b. 1774)
• 1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, social reformer, founder of NSPCC, (b. 1839)
• 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• 1931 - F.W. Murnau, director, (b. 1888)
• 1955 - Alexander Fleming, biologist (b. 1881)
• 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer, (b. 1888)
• 1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
• 1969 - John Wyndham, author, (b. 1903)
• 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, novelist, (b. 1889)
• 1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, television pioneer, (b. 1906)
• 1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader
• 1972 - Frederick Brown, author (b. 1906)
• 1983 - Donald McLean, spy
• 1996 - Vince Edwards, American actor
• 2002 - James Tobin, economist, (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Bill Cameron, journalist, (b. 1943)

[edit] Events

• 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
• 1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
• 1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
• 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
• 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
• 1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
• 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
• 1900 - Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
• 1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
• 1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
• 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
• 1959 - In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
• 1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
• 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
• 1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
• 1977 - 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
• 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
• 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
• 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Cease Fire declared.
• 1989 - The television show COPS premires.
• 1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
• 1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
• 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• 1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
• 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
• 2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
• 2005 - Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau and deputy Hoyt Teasley are all murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect being Brian Nichols who surrendered to police on the 12th.Dreamcasters vs the ying yong Battle the Draemcasters win.the battle countinues the next day until the War is over on March 15th at 8:15.