Historical Events In March - 11

1943  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands on March - 11.  

1944  Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested on March - 11.  

1944  Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 on March - 11.  

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

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

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  Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1948  Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed on March - 11.  

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

1949  On this day in history juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76  

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

1951  On this day in history philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66  

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 this day in history.  

1953  On March - 11 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  On this day in history louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship  

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 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 March - 11.  

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  Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1965  On this day in history indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1549  On March - 11 birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer  

1549  Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) was born on March - 11.  

1596  Isaac Elsevier, book publisher was born on March - 11.  

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

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

1725  On this day in history birth of henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)  

1731  Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 March - 11.  

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

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

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

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