Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1943  On March - 11 nazi Militia forms in Netherlands   

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

1944  On March - 11 hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62   

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

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  On this day in history jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed   

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

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

1950  Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 on March - 11.   

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

1954  On March - 11 uS Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics   

1955  Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

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 March - 11.   

1958  On March - 11 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  On March - 11 the new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.   

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

1959  On March - 11 haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76   

1960  Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

1963  On March - 11 somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain   

1963  Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies on this day in history.   

1965  Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto on March - 11.   

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  On March - 11 james Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

1966  On March - 11 military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out   

1967  Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) on this day in history.   

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1544  Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born on this day in history.   

1549  Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer was born on March - 11.   

1549  On March - 11 birth of henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)   

1596  On March - 11 birth of isaac Elsevier, book publisher   

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

1683  On March - 11 birth of giovanni Veneziano, composer   

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

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  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 March - 11 albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71   

1514  Death of Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) on this day in history.   

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

1602  On this day in history death of emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer