Page 7: 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 March - 11.   

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

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

1948  Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed on this day in history.   

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  Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 on March - 11.   

1951  On March - 11 philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66   

1953  On this day in history 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 March - 11 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)   

1954  US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics on this day in history.   

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

1956  Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship on March - 11.   

1956  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 on March - 11.   

1957  On March - 11 richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68   

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

1960  Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on March - 11.   

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  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  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 this day in history.   

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

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  Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer was born on March - 11.   

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  Death of Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½ on this day in history.   

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 March - 11.   

1198  On this day in history death of marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)   

1486  Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 on March - 11.   

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