Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1943  On this day in history nazi Militia forms in Netherlands   

1944  On March - 11 dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested   

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

1945  On March - 11 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs   

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 March - 11.   

1948  Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed on March - 11.   

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

1951  Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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  1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) on this day in history.   

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

1955  Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 on March - 11.   

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

1956  On March - 11 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  On this day in history charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"   

1959  On March - 11 the HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight   

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 this day in history.   

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

1965  Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music" on March - 11.   

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 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 March - 11.   

1654  Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer was born on March - 11.   

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

0222  On this day in history death of varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

0638  Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies on March - 11.   

0859  Death of Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr on March - 11.   

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

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

1514  On March - 11 death of donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)   

1575  On this day in history death of matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)   

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