Subj : This Day In History
To   : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Thu Mar 11 2021 06:00 am

  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
                             Registered to Omicron Theta 
 
                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
03/11/1544 Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) 
03/11/1549 Henry L Spieghel, merchant/writer 
03/11/1654 Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer 
03/11/1683 Giovanni Veneziano, composer 
03/11/1726 Louise-Florence d'�pinay, France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms) 
03/11/1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) 
03/11/1754 Juan Mel‚ndez Vald‚s, Spanish lawyer/poet 
03/11/1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer 
03/11/1793 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer 
03/11/1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
03/11/1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discovered Neptune 
03/11/1812 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887 
03/11/1812 Pieter Bluss‚ van Old-Alblas, liberal minister of Finance 
03/11/1812 William Vincent Wallace, composer 
03/11/1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 187 

03/11/1822 Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 
03/11/1822 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancers/choreographer (Don Quiotte) 
03/11/1827 Septimus Winner, composer 
03/11/1832 Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde proof) 
03/11/1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 
03/11/1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 
03/11/1860 Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library) 
03/11/1863 Wobbe de Vries, linguist 
03/11/1876 Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations) 
03/11/1876 David W˜nkoop, revolutionary socialist 
03/11/1879 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer 
03/11/1879 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation) 
03/11/1884 Jan Lemaire, writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet) 
03/11/1885 Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min) 
03/11/1890 Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer 
03/11/1892 Raoul Walsh, US director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry) 
03/11/1892 Wladyslaw Else, Polish general (WW I, WW II) 
03/11/1897 Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park Calif, composer (New Musical Resource 

03/11/1898 Dorothy Gish, stage/silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm) 
03/11/1899 Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72) 
03/11/1903 Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post) 
03/11/1904 Maurits Wertheim, writer (Isaac De Fuentes) 
03/11/1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer 
03/11/1907 Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot) 
03/11/1907 Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab) 
03/11/1908 Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orch leader (Lawrence Welk Show) 
03/11/1909 Ljubica Maric, composer 
03/11/1910 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist 
03/11/1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat 
03/11/1912 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas) 
03/11/1913 John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill) 
03/11/1913 Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist 
03/11/1914 Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act) 
03/11/1916 [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76) 
03/11/1917 Y G”ran Schildt, Finnish art historian/writer (Solb†ten) 
03/11/1919 Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader 
03/11/1920 D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers) 
03/11/1920 Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways) 
03/11/1920 Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University) 
03/11/1921 Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo) 
03/11/1921 F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel) 
03/11/1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77) 
03/11/1922 Thom Kelling, singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha) 
03/11/1923 A Louise Brough Clapp, Okla, tennis player (4 time Wimbeldon champ) 
03/11/1923 Ad [Adrianus C] de Besten, literary (River Basin) 
03/11/1923 Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy 
03/11/1923 Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes) 
03/11/1925 James Miskin, QC/recorder of London 
03/11/1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer 
03/11/1926 Patricia Tindaole, England, architect 
03/11/1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader 
03/11/1927 Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College) 
03/11/1927 Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist 
03/11/1927 Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?) 
03/11/1927 Ron Todd, british trade unionist 
03/11/1928 Albert Salmi, Bkln NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue) 
03/11/1928 Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No) 
03/11/1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer 
03/11/1930 David Gentleman, designer/painter 
03/11/1931 Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank) 
03/11/1931 Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post), owns FOX-TV Network 
03/11/1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game) 
03/11/1933 Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California 
03/11/1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher 
03/11/1934 Joep Straesser, composer 
03/11/1934 Keith Speed, British MP 
03/11/1934 Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time 

03/11/1934 Tina Louise, NYC, marooned with Gilligan & Mary Ann (or 02110) 
03/11/1936 Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-  ) 
03/11/1938 Malcolm Keith Speed, biritish high court judge 
03/11/1942 Peter Eyre, actor (Hedda) 
03/11/1944 Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love) 
03/11/1945 Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On) 

03/11/1945 Timothy Mason, consultant (British Arts Council) 
03/11/1945 Tricia O'Neal, Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II) 
03/11/1946 Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice) 
03/11/1947 Dominique Sanda, Paris, actress (Inheritance, Beyond Good & Evil) 
03/11/1947 Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player 
03/11/1948 George Kooymans, guitarist/singer: Golden Earring 
03/11/1949 Richard de Bois, drummer/producer 
03/11/195- Nina Hartley, XXX actress (Dyke Bar 2, Call Girls, Adultery) 
03/11/1950 Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989) 
03/11/1952 Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 
03/11/1952 Susan Richardson, Coatesville Pa, actress (Susan-8 is Enough) 
03/11/1955 [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel) 
03/11/1956 Curtis L Brown Jr, Elizabethtown NC, astronaut (STS 47, sk: STS 66) 
03/11/1961 Bruce Watson, rocker (Big Country-Wonderland) 
03/11/1961 Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/11/ 222 Elagabalus, emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered 
03/11/ 638 Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies 
03/11/1486 Albrecht III Achilles, monarch of Brandenburg, dies at 71 
03/11/1715 John-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80 
03/11/1772 George Reuter, composer, dies at 63 
03/11/1786 Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Swiss poet, dies at 28 
03/11/1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 4 

03/11/1807 Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 42 
03/11/1826 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66 
03/11/1833 Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71 
03/11/1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed] dies in Allen County, Indiana 
03/11/1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 
03/11/1897 Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58 
03/11/1897 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies 
03/11/1907 Nikola Petkow, premier Bulgaria, murdered 
03/11/1908 Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83 
03/11/1919 Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36 
03/11/1921 Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (double territory), dies 
03/11/1925 Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78 
03/11/1937 Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61 
03/11/1941 Walford Davies, composer, dies at 71 
03/11/1944 Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies 
03/11/1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 
03/11/1949 Henri-Honor‚ Giraud, French genl/parliament leader, dies at 70 
03/11/1949 Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76 
03/11/1951 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 
03/11/1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies 
03/11/1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer, dies at 83 
03/11/1957 Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 
03/11/1959 Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 
03/11/1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 
03/11/1965 James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 
03/11/1967 Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies 
03/11/1969 John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris], author (Chrysalids), die 

03/11/1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 
03/11/1971 Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64 
03/11/1971 Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at  

03/11/1972 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 6 

03/11/1975 Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59 
03/11/1975 Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65 
03/11/1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74 
03/11/1979 Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88 
03/11/1982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 
03/11/1984 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 
03/11/1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74 
03/11/1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74 
03/11/1989 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish politician, dies 
03/11/1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41 

03/11/1992 Heinz K�hn, PM (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 
03/11/1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48 
03/11/1992 Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 
03/11/1993 Dino Bravo, WWF wrestler, shot to death at 44 
03/11/1993 Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies 
03/11/1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/11/ 417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome 
03/11/ 537 Goths lay siege to Rome 
03/11/ 843 Icon worship officially repaired in Aya Sofia Constantinople 
03/11/1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 
03/11/1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X 
03/11/1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 
03/11/1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 
03/11/1702 1st London daily newspaper 
03/11/1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 
03/11/1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC 
03/11/1791 Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent 
03/11/1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 
03/11/1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 
03/11/1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair 
03/11/1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 
03/11/1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 
03/11/1851 The opera 'Rigoletto' is produced (Venice) 
03/11/1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution 
03/11/1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee 
03/11/1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC 
03/11/1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) 
03/11/1867 The opera 'Don Carlos' is produced (Paris) 
03/11/1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ 
03/11/1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US 
03/11/1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass) 
03/11/1893 A Charlois discovers asteroids #360 Carlova & #361 Bononia 
03/11/1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 
03/11/1904 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon (Man) Wheat Kings in 2 for Stanley Cup 

03/11/1905 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage (Kenora) Thisles for Stanley Cup 
03/11/1907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #637 Chrysothemis 
03/11/1917 British troops conquer Baghdad 
03/11/1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #890 Waltraut 
03/11/1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 
03/11/1918 Save the Redwoods League founded 
03/11/1919 General strike in Germany becomes bloody 
03/11/1921 M Wolf discovers asteroid #949 Hel 
03/11/1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis govt begins 
03/11/1924 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1021 Flammario 
03/11/1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 
03/11/1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh 
03/11/1927 1st golden gloves tournament 
03/11/1928 Netherlands-Belgium 1 to 1 radio report of Han Hollander begins 
03/11/1930 Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 
03/11/1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 
03/11/1935 Bank of Canada opens 
03/11/1936 German troops occupies Republic land 
03/11/1938 German troops enter Austria 
03/11/1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ 
03/11/1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill 
03/11/1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 

03/11/1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 
03/11/1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra 
03/11/1942 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1656 Suomi 
03/11/1943 Nazi militia storms Netherlands 
03/11/1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 
03/11/1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 
03/11/1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) 
03/11/1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 
03/11/1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting 
03/11/1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 
03/11/1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 
03/11/1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show '21' 
03/11/1959 'Raisin in the Sun,' 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 
03/11/1959 Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' opens on Broadway 
03/11/1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovisie Songfestival with 'One Bit' 
03/11/1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus 
03/11/1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each) 
03/11/1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 
03/11/1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 
03/11/1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out 
03/11/1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) 
03/11/1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmittin 

03/11/1968 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 12nd strng quartet 
03/11/1970 Iraq Ba'th-party recognizes Kurd nation 
03/11/1974 Rhino Store gives people 5› to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album 
03/11/1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 
03/11/1977 Muslis hold 130 hostages in Wash DC 
03/11/1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed 
03/11/1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game 
03/11/1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins 
03/11/1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname 
03/11/1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion 
03/11/1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 
03/11/1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 
03/11/1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 
03/11/1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seaso 

03/11/1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 
03/11/1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule 
03/11/1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point 
03/11/1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire 
03/11/1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence 
03/11/1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records 
03/11/1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile 
  
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