Historical Events In March - 11

1943  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands on March - 11.   

1944  Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested on this day in history.   

1944  On March - 11 hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62   

1945  On March - 11 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs   

1945  Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death on this day in history.   

1947  On March - 11 ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.   

1947  On March - 11 victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45   

1948  On March - 11 jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed   

1948  On this day in history 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)   

1949  On March - 11 juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76   

1950  On this day in history florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78   

1951  Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 on March - 11.   

1953  An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches on March - 11.   

1953  On March - 11 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)   

1954  On March - 11 uS Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics   

1955  On March - 11 alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

1956  Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship on this day in history.   

1956  On March - 11 sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83   

1957  Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 on March - 11.   

1958  On March - 11 charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"   

1959  The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight on this day in history.   

1959  On this day in history the new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.   

1959  On March - 11 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens   

1959  On this day in history haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76   

1960  On this day in history pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus   

1960  On March - 11 roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76   

1962  Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1963  Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain on March - 11.   

1963  On this day in history mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies   

1965  Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto on March - 11.   

1965  On March - 11 julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music".   

1965  On this day in history james Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

1966  Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out on this day in history.   

1967  Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) on March - 11.   

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1544  On March - 11 birth of torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)   

1549  Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer was born on March - 11.   

1549  On March - 11 birth of henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)   

1596  Isaac Elsevier, book publisher was born on this day in history.   

1654  On March - 11 birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  Giovanni Veneziano, composer was born on March - 11.   

1725  On March - 11 birth of henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)   

1731  On March - 11 birth of robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)   

0222  On this day in history death of varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

0638  Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies on March - 11.   

0859  On March - 11 death of eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr   

1198  Death of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) on March - 11.   

1486  Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1514  Death of Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) on March - 11.   

1575  Death of Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520) on this day in history.   

1602  Death of Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer on this day in history.