TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 11
0537 The Goths lay siege to Rome.
1302 Romeo & Juliet’s wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1665 New York approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1702 The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper is published.
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1811 Ned Ludd leads a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization.
1824 The U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Seneca Indian Ely Parker becomes the first Indian to lead the Bureau.
1861 The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution.
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1888 A torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888, the most famous snowstorm in American history. It caused more than 400 deaths.
1901 U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world’s richest man.
1904 After 30 years of drilling, the north tunnel under the Hudson River was holed through. The link was between Jersey City, NJ, and New York, NY
1905 The Parisian subway is officially inaugurated.
1907 President Teddy Roosevelt induces California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1930 President Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the Lend-Lease Act which authorizes the act of giving war supplies to the Allies.
1966 Three men are convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
1969 Levi-Strauss starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
1973 An FBI agent is shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce’s Album
1982 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev is named the new Soviet leader.
1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.
1990 Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to declare its independence
1992 Former U.S. President Nixon said that the Bush administration was not giving enough economic aid to Russia.
1993 Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female U.S. Attorney General.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1998 The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.
2004 191 people die as several bombs explode on Madrid commuter trains
2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
2018 China’s National People’s Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life
2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
