March 11
1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution.
1862 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1888 - A torrential rain storm 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 and the cause of more than 400 deaths.
1918 - What were believed to be the first confirmed U.S. cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 soldiers would die. (The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.)
1930 - William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill, which provided war supplies to countries fighting the Axis during World War II.
1942 - As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, where he vowed on March 20, “I shall return” — a promise he kept more than 2 1/2 years later.
1954 - The U.S. Army charged that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., and his subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee. (The confrontation culminated in the famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.)
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At age 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.
1990 - A newly elected parliament in Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female U.S. attorney general.
1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2002 - Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims six months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
2004 - More than 200 people were killed and and over 1,400 were injured when bombs exploded in Madrid train stations in Spain; al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks.
2006 - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial; he was 64.
2010 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency.
2011 - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure to eliminate most union rights for public employees, a proposal which had provoked three weeks of protests.
2011 - Japan is hit by an enormous 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggers a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country's north, about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. Cooling systems in one of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station fail shortly after the earthquake, causing a nuclear crisis.
2012 - Sixteen Afghan villagers — mostly women and children — were shot dead as they slept by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2020 - The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.
2021 - In his first prime-time address, President Joe Biden pledged to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines by May. Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that he said would help defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health; Americans would receive up to $1,400 in direct payments, along with extended unemployment benefits.
Birthdays
26 - Chase Crawford (actor)
29 - Jodie Comer (actress)
29 - Anthony Davis (basketball player)
29 - Sarah Moliski (actress)
30 - Jude Demorest (actress)
38 - Rob Brown (actor)
39 - Melissa Rycroft (TV personality)
40 - Thora Birch (actress)
41 - LeToya Luckett (singer)
41 - David Anders (actor)
43 - Benji Madden (singer)
43 - Joel Madden (singer)
51 - Johnny Knoxville (reality star/actor)
53 - Terrence Howard (actor)
53 - Pete Droge (singer)
54 - Lisa Loeb (singer)
55 - John Barrowman (actor)
57 - Wallace Langham (actor)
60 - Jeffrey Nordling (actor)
60 - Peter Berg (actor)
61 - Elias Koteas (actor)
67 - Nina Hagen (singer)
70 - Susan Richardson (actress)
71 - Cheryl Lynn (singer)
72 - Bobby McFerrin (singer)
76 - Mark Metcalf (actor)
77 - Tricia O'Neil (actress)
88 - Sam Donaldson (news reporter)
91 - Rupert Murdoch (media mogul)
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Today in Sports History - March 11
1924 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Ottawa Senators to win the NHL championship.
1978 - Bobby Hull (Winnipeg Jets) joined Gordie Howe by getting his 1,000th career goal.
1979 - Randy Holt (Los Angeles Kings) was penalized nine times for 67 minutes in the first period of a game against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1981 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1986 - The NFL adopts their first instant replay rule.
1990 - Jennifer Capriati, 13 years old, played her first professional tennis match.
1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
2004 - Major league baseball banned THG. The health policy advisory committee of management and the players' association unanimously determined that THG builds muscle mass.
2020 - The NBA suspends its season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19.
1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution.
1862 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1888 - A torrential rain storm 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 and the cause of more than 400 deaths.
1918 - What were believed to be the first confirmed U.S. cases of a deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46 soldiers would die. (The worldwide outbreak of influenza claimed an estimated 20 to 40 million lives.)
1930 - William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill, which provided war supplies to countries fighting the Axis during World War II.
1942 - As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, where he vowed on March 20, “I shall return” — a promise he kept more than 2 1/2 years later.
1954 - The U.S. Army charged that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., and his subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee. (The confrontation culminated in the famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.)
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At age 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.
1990 - A newly elected parliament in Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - Janet Reno won unanimous Senate confirmation to be the first female U.S. attorney general.
1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2002 - Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims six months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
2004 - More than 200 people were killed and and over 1,400 were injured when bombs exploded in Madrid train stations in Spain; al-Qaeda took responsibility for the attacks.
2006 - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial; he was 64.
2010 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency.
2011 - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure to eliminate most union rights for public employees, a proposal which had provoked three weeks of protests.
2011 - Japan is hit by an enormous 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggers a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country's north, about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. Cooling systems in one of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station fail shortly after the earthquake, causing a nuclear crisis.
2012 - Sixteen Afghan villagers — mostly women and children — were shot dead as they slept by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2020 - The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.
2021 - In his first prime-time address, President Joe Biden pledged to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines by May. Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that he said would help defeat the virus and nurse the economy back to health; Americans would receive up to $1,400 in direct payments, along with extended unemployment benefits.
Birthdays
26 - Chase Crawford (actor)
29 - Jodie Comer (actress)
29 - Anthony Davis (basketball player)
29 - Sarah Moliski (actress)
30 - Jude Demorest (actress)
38 - Rob Brown (actor)
39 - Melissa Rycroft (TV personality)
40 - Thora Birch (actress)
41 - LeToya Luckett (singer)
41 - David Anders (actor)
43 - Benji Madden (singer)
43 - Joel Madden (singer)
51 - Johnny Knoxville (reality star/actor)
53 - Terrence Howard (actor)
53 - Pete Droge (singer)
54 - Lisa Loeb (singer)
55 - John Barrowman (actor)
57 - Wallace Langham (actor)
60 - Jeffrey Nordling (actor)
60 - Peter Berg (actor)
61 - Elias Koteas (actor)
67 - Nina Hagen (singer)
70 - Susan Richardson (actress)
71 - Cheryl Lynn (singer)
72 - Bobby McFerrin (singer)
76 - Mark Metcalf (actor)
77 - Tricia O'Neil (actress)
88 - Sam Donaldson (news reporter)
91 - Rupert Murdoch (media mogul)
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Today in Sports History - March 11
1924 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Ottawa Senators to win the NHL championship.
1978 - Bobby Hull (Winnipeg Jets) joined Gordie Howe by getting his 1,000th career goal.
1979 - Randy Holt (Los Angeles Kings) was penalized nine times for 67 minutes in the first period of a game against the Philadelphia Flyers.
1981 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1986 - The NFL adopts their first instant replay rule.
1990 - Jennifer Capriati, 13 years old, played her first professional tennis match.
1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
2004 - Major league baseball banned THG. The health policy advisory committee of management and the players' association unanimously determined that THG builds muscle mass.
2020 - The NBA suspends its season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19.
