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Today In History - March 11 |
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March 11, 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts and kills 15,000 people |
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On This Date in History |
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537 Goths lay siege to Rome 843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 1302 Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X 1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising 1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes 1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C. 1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent 1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1823 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1824 U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution 1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris 1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey 1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes the North East U.S. 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1918 Save the Redwoods League founded 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins 1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh 1927 1st golden gloves tournament 1930 President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 1935 Bank of Canada opens 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra 1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 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 U.S. Tennis Open 1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" 1958 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 1959 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit" 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet 1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" 1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation 1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 97 performances 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album 1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic 1985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 1986 12th People's Choice Awards 1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons 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 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire 1990 16th People's Choice Awards 1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence 1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International 1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records 1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first 1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN 1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S. 1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1726 Louise-Florence Depinay 1731 Robert Treat Paine 1754 Juan Melendez Valdes 1793 Jan F. Willems 1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick 1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier 1812 James Speed 1812 Pieter Blusse van Oud-Alblas 1818 John Wilkins Whitfield 1819 Henry Tate 1819 Marius Petipa 1822 Allison Nelson 1832 Franz Melde 1832 William Ruffin Cox 1840 Edmund Kirby, Jr. 1846 Antonio C. G. Crespo 1860 Thomas Hastings 1863 Andrew Stoddart 1863 Wobbe de Vries 1876 Carl Ruggles 1876 David Wijnkoop 1879 Niels Bjerrum 1884 Jan Lemaire 1885 Malcolm Campbell 1890 Vannevar Bush 1892 Raoul Walsh 1892 Wladyslaw Anders 1897 Henry Dixon Cowell 1898 Dorothy Gish 1902 Josef Martin Bauer 1903 Dorothy Schiff 1903 George Dickinson 1904 Cornelis Jan Bakker 1904 Maurits Wertheim 1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar 1907 Eleni Gatzoyiannis 1907 Helmuth J. von Moltke 1907 Jessie Matthews 1907 Margaret Herbison 1908 Lawrence Welk 1909 Ljubica Maric 1910 Robert H. G. Havemann 1911 Alan Gifford 1911 Fitzroy Maclean 1912 Robert Clifford Latham 1912 Xavier Montsalvatge 1913 John Jacob Weinzweig 1913 Thomas Gray 1915 Karl Krolow 1915 Vijay Hazare 1916 Harold Wilson 1917 GE Goran Schildt 1919 Mercer Ellington 1920 D. J. Enright 1920 Henry Marking 1920 Kenneth Dover 1921 Astor Piazzolla 1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain 1922 Thom Kelling 1922 Vinnette Carroll 1923 A Louise Brough Clapp 1923 A X Gwerder 1923 Morschi Mirando 1923 Terry Alexander 1925 James Miskin 1926 Adrienne Keith Cohen 1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu 1926 Patricia Tindaole 1926 Ralph Abernathy 1927 Alan Betts 1927 Raymond Jackson 1927 Robert Mosbacher 1927 Ron Todd 1928 Albert Salmi 1928 Peter Roger Hunt 1929 Erskine Childers 1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal 1929 Jackie McGlew 1930 David Gentleman 1931 Peter Walters 1931 Rupert Murdoch 1932 Nigel Lawson 1932 Valerie French 1933 Terry J. Hatter, Jr. 1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos 1934 Joep Straesser 1934 Keith Speed 1934 Sam Donaldson 1934 Sydney Burke 1936 Antonin Scalia 1937 John Ward 1938 Malcolm Keith Speed 1942 Peter Eyre 1944 Ric Rothwell 1945 Harvey Mandel 1945 Timothy Mason 1945 Tricia O'Neal 1946 Brigitte Fossey 1947 Dominique Sanda 1947 Geoffrey Hunt 1947 Mark Stein 1948 George Kooymans 1949 Richard de Bois 1950 Bobby McFerrin 1950 Jerry Zucker 1952 Douglas Adams 1952 Susan Richardson 1956 Curtis L. Brown, Jr. 1961 Bruce Watson 1961 Mike Percy 1962 Peter Berg 1965 Eric Jelen 1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov 1966 Ralph Tamm 1966 Steve Reed 1967 Andrew Zesers 1967 Bill Houlder 1968 John Barrowman 1968 Lisa Loeb 1969 Dan Lacroix 1969 John Fina 1970 Brett Liddle 1970 Evgeniy Koreshkov 1971 Bob Kronenberg 1971 Jiri Vykoukai 1971 Marta Lovera Parquet 1971 Martin Rucinsky 1971 Johnny Knoxville 1972 Carl Greenwood 1972 Chris Shelling 1972 Jamal Duff 1973 Kennedy Otieno 1973 Mike Mihelic 1973 Sammie Brennan 1973 Tony Veland 1974 Billy Granville 1974 David Cameron 1974 Kevin Donovan 1975 Cedric Henderson 1975 Shawn Springs |
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