Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1943  On this day in history nazi Militia forms in Netherlands   

1944  On this day in history dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested   

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

1945  1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs on this day in history.   

1945  On March - 11 flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death   

1947  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 on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45   

1948  On this day in history jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed   

1948  1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) on March - 11.   

1949  Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1950  On March - 11 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 this day in history 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)   

1954  On this day in history uS Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics   

1955  On this day in history alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

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

1956  On this day in history sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83   

1957  Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1958  Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" on March - 11.   

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

1959  On March - 11 the new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.   

1959  On this day in history "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens   

1959  On March - 11 haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76   

1960  Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1962  On this day in history will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79   

1963  Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain on this day in history.   

1963  On March - 11 mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies   

1965  Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto on this day in history.   

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

1965  James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered on March - 11.   

1966  On March - 11 military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out   

1967  On March - 11 pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)   

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1544  Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born on this day in history.   

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

1549  Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) was born on this day in history.   

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

1654  On this day in history birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  On this day in history birth of giovanni Veneziano, composer   

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

1731  On this day in history birth of robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)   

0222  On March - 11 death of varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

0638  On this day in history sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies   

0859  Death of Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr on this day in history.   

1198  Death of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) on this day in history.   

1486  On March - 11 albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71   

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

1575  On March - 11 death of matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)   

1602  On March - 11 death of emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer