Page 7: Historical Events In March - 11

1943  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands on March - 11.   

1944  On March - 11 dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested   

1944  Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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

1945  Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death on March - 11.   

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 March - 11.   

1947  Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1950  On this day in history florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78   

1951  On March - 11 philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66   

1953  An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches on this day in history.   

1953  1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) on March - 11.   

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

1955  On March - 11 alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

1956  Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship on March - 11.   

1956  On March - 11 sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83   

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

1959  On this day in history haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76   

1960  On March - 11 pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus   

1960  On March - 11 roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76   

1962  Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 on March - 11.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history james Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

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 this day in history.   

1549  Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer was born on this day in history.   

1549  On this day in history birth of henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)   

1596  On this day in history birth of isaac Elsevier, book publisher   

1654  On this day in history birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

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 this day in history.   

1731  Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) was born on this day in history.   

0222  Death of Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½ on March - 11.   

0638  On this day in history sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies   

0859  On this day in history 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  Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 on March - 11.   

1514  On this day in history death of donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)   

1575  On March - 11 death of matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)   

1602  Death of Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer on March - 11.