Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1943  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1944  On March - 11 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 March - 11.   

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

1947  On this day in history 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  Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed on this day in history.   

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

1949  Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1950  Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1956  On March - 11 louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship   

1956  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1959  The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight on March - 11.   

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

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

1959  Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1960  On March - 11 pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1962  On March - 11 will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79   

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

1963  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies on March - 11.   

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

1966  Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out on March - 11.   

1967  On this day in history pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)   

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1544  Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born on March - 11.   

1549  On this day in history birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer   

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 March - 11 birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  Giovanni Veneziano, composer was born on this day in history.   

1725  Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) was born on March - 11.   

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

0222  Death of Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½ on March - 11.   

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  On March - 11 death of marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)   

1486  On this day in history albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71   

1514  On this day in history death of donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)   

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

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