Today in History
11 March
Juan Melendez Valdes
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Robert Treat Paine
"Rigoletto" - Giuseppe Verdi
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| 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 | ||
| 1544 Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born | ||
| 1549 Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer was born |
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| 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 The first English daily newspaper to meet with some success, The Daily Courant, was launched near Fleet Street in London. | ||
| 1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) was born | ||
| 1754 Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet | ||
| 1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) | Juan Melendez Valdes |
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| 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 | ||
| 1819 Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) | ||
| 1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair | ||
| 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile | ||
| 1845 In New Zealand, further Maori uprisings broke out against British rule. | ||
| 1851 The first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was given in Venice. | ||
| 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution | ||
| 1862 Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief | ||
| 1863 Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist was born | ||
| 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) | ||
| 1890 Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer was born | ||
| 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed | |
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| 1899 Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72) was born | ||
| 1917 General Maude with 50,000 British and Indian troops marched into Baghdad, capturing 9,000 Turkish prisoners. | ||
| 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia | ||
| 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed | ||
| 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis governament begins | ||
| 1926 Irish statesman Eamon de Valera resigned as head of Sinn Fein; he later formed the Fianna Fail party. | ||
| 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein | ||
| 1930 William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. | ||
| 1935 Bank of Canada opens | ||
| 1935 Hermann Goering officially created the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. | ||
| 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country | Robert Treat Paine |
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| 1941 The U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill, which enabled Britain to borrow money to buy additional food and arms during World War II. | ||
| 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 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed | ||
| 1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches | ||
| 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus | ||
| 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain | ||
| 1964 Raul Leoni was inaugurated as president of Venezuela. | ||
| 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto |
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| 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 | ||
| 1970 The Japanese Consul-General in Sao Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, was kidnapped by Brazilian revolutionaries. | ||
| 1973 Hector J. Campora won the first presidential election to be held in Argentina since 1965. | ||
| 1973 Gaullists and their allies retained an absolute majority in the second ballot of the French general election. | ||
| 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted | "Rigoletto" - Giuseppe Verdi |
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| 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 Chilean President Augusto Pinochet was sworn in for an eight-year term as president. | ||
| 1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC | ||
| 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo. | ||
| 1985 The Egyptian Al-Fayed brothers won control of the House of Fraser in London and thus gained control of the department store Harrods. | ||
| 1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange | ||
| 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire | ||
| 1990 The Lithuanian Parliament proclaimed the restoration of the Baltic Republic's pre-World War II independence from the Soviet Union. Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control. | ||
| 1994 Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei, following in his father's footsteps, was sworn in as Chile's president. | ||
| 1994 Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar and his government were ousted by parliament in a vote of no-confidence. | ||
| 1995 Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, arrived in New York. | ||
| 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament | ||
| 1995 A lone gunman shot dead Burundi's Energy and Mines Minister Ernest Kabushemeye in the nation's capital, Bujumbura. | ||
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