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Events from History on March 11

1302 : Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1502 : Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 : Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 : League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 : Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 : Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1598 : Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
1649 : Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
1665 : NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 : Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 : 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1779 : US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 : Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 : Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1794 : Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1795 : Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1810 : Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1812 : Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 : 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 : US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1835 : HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1850 : Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1851 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1861 : Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 : 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
1862 : Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1862 : Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of
1864 : Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 : Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
1867 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
1867 : Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1882 : Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
1888 : Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US
1895 : Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
1901 : Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee
1901 : Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1904 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
1905 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
1910 : Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
1912 : 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly
1912 : played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1917 : British troops occupy Baghdad
1917 : Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1918 : Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 : Save the Redwoods League founded
1919 : General strike in Germany, crushed
1922 : Regina Capitals, in 2 games
1922 : Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep
1924 : 3rd term of Belgium Theunis govt begins
1924 : Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London
1926 : Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
1927 : 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 : 1st golden gloves tournament
1927 : Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
1930 : Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
1934 : Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
1935 : Bank of Canada opens
1935 : Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 : Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of
1938 : Austria; German troops also entered the country
1941 : Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ
1941 : FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 : 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 : Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 : Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 : Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 : Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 : 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 : Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 : 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1948 : Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 : Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
1948 : WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 : 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 : American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina,
1953 : the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1954 : US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1958 : Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1958 : Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
1959 : "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1959 : Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
1960 : Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1963 : Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1965 : Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 : Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1967 : Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
1968 : Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 : Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1970 : 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 : Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1972 : "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1974 : Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1974 : Rhino Store gives people 5› to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 : Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails
1975 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 : Moslems hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1978 : Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 : USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1981 : Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1982 : Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 : Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1982 : Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC
1983 : Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1983 : Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (URS)
1983 : Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
1983 : Men's Fig Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1985 : Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 : 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 : 12th People's Choice Awards
1986 : 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 : Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 : NFL adopts instant replay rule
1988 : Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1988 : œ note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by œ coin
1990 : 16th People's Choice Awards
1990 : Lithuania declares it's Independence
1991 : Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1991 : John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 : Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1993 : Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
1994 : Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1995 : -36.8øF (-38.2øC) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67øN
1995 : Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1995 : Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 : Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
1996 : Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
1996 : Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
1997 : 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1997 : Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 : Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen
1997 : SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

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