On This Day: March 11 (original) (raw)
Updated March 11, 2014, 11:42 am
On March 11, 1941, President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
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On March 11, 1926, Ralph Abernathy, the American pastor and civil rights leader, was born. Following his death on April 17, 1990, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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| 1862 | During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln removed Gen. George B. McClellan as general-in-chief of the Union armies. |
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| 1888 | A blizzard struck the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths. |
| 1941 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis. |
| 1985 | Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko. |
| 1990 | The Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence. |
| 1993 | Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the nation's first female 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 | Ten bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and wounding more than 2,000 in an attack linked to al-Qaida-inspired militants. |
| 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. |
| 2012 | Sixteen Afghan villagers – mostly women and children – were shot dead as they slept, allegedly by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. |
Historic Birthdays
Ralph Abernathy 3/11/1926 - 4/17/1990 American pastor and civil rights leader.Go to obituary »
| 51 | Torquato Tasso 3/11/1544 - 4/25/1595 Italian poet of the late Renaissance |
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| 76 | John McLean 3/11/1785 - 4/4/1861 United States Supreme Court justice; dissented in the Dred Scott decision (1857) |
| 78 | Joseph Bertrand 3/11/1822 - 4/5/1900 French mathematician and educator |
| 70 | Charles Eastlake 3/11/1836 - 11/20/1906 English museologist and art writer |
| 63 | Sir Malcolm Campbell 3/11/1885 - 12/31/1948 English car racer |
| 84 | Vannevar Bush 3/11/1890 - 6/28/1974 American electrical engineer and goverment administrator in World War II |
| 70 | Dorothy Gish 3/11/1898 - 6/4/1968 American film and stage actress |
| 72 | Frederick IX 3/11/1899 - 1/14/1972 Danish king; encouraged resistance against Germans in World War II |
| 89 | Lawrence Welk 3/11/1903 - 5/17/1992 American bandleader and showman |
| 79 | Harold Wilson 3/11/1916 - 5/24/1995 English Labor Party politician; twice prime minister |