On this day in History - Mar 11

• 0222 - Roman emperor Heliogabalus (b. c. 203) and his mother Julia Soaemias (b. 180), die, killed by the Praetorian Guard .
• 1482 - Tomás Torquemada es nombrado Inquisidor de España.
• 1502 - Persia: Ismail I Safi funda la dinastía safaví.
• 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
• 1514 - hBramante (Donato D'Angelo) dies (b. 14). Italian architect, the greatest architect of the High Renaissance.
• 1526 - Carlos I de España contrae matrimonio en Sevilla con Isabel de Portugal.
• 1537 - Fernão Mendes Pinto partiu para a Índia
• 1539 - Os reis de Portugal e do Guzurate assinaram um contrato de paz .
• 1542 - Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, primer gobernador de nombramiento real de Asunción, hace su entrada en esta ciudad.
• 1544 - Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento, Kingdon of Naples (b. 1595). Italian poet., the greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance.
• 1560 - Colocación de la primera piedra de la catedral de Cuzco (Perú).
• 1596 - Isaac Elsevier was born (d. 8 Oct 1651). Dutch book publisher.
• 1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
• 1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
• 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
• 1754 - Meléndez Valdés was born at Ribera del Fresno (d. 1817). Spanish lawyer and poet.
• 1769 - Por ordem de D. José I, a praça de Mazagão, em Marrocos, é abandonada sendo a sua população transferida para o Brasil em Setembro seguinte, onde funda a Vila Nova de Mazagão, na Amazónia.
• 1778 - Tratado do Pardo, que põe termo à Guerra existente na América do Sul, entre Portugal e a Espanha. Portugal cede as ilhas de Fernão Pó e Ano Bom.
• 1785 - John McLean was born (d. 1861). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1810 - O imperador francês, Napoleão Bonaparte, casou com Maria Luisa, arquiduquesa da Áustria.
• 1811 - Nace Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-descubridor de Neptuno.
• 1821 - Assassinato do Czar Paulo I da Rússia.
• 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 1842 - Nace Leandro N. Alem, caudillo radical, jurisconsulto, legislador y diplomático argentino.
• 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
• 1846 - Gonçalves Crespo was born (d. 1883). Portuguese poet.
• 1847 - Johnny Appleseed dies (b. 1774). Pioneer, agronomist.
• 1851 - Estreia da ópera Rigolleto de Verdi, no Teatro La Fenice, de Veneza.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
• 1867 - hace erupción en volcán Great Mauna Loa, en Hawaii.
• 1867 - Se estrena la ópera "Don Carlos", de Verdi, en París.
• 1870 - August Leopold Crelle, matemático alemão.
• 1871 - Como consecuencia de la epidemia de fiebre amarilla, se habilita en Buenos Aires el cementerio de la Chacarita.
• 1876 - Carl Ruggles was born (d. 1971). Composer.
• 1876 - David Wijnkoop was born. Dutch revolutionary socialist
• 1885 - Malcolm Campbell was born (d. 1948). Grand Prix race car driver.
• 1880 - Harry H. Laughlin was born (d. 1943). American eugenicist.
• 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 1890 - Vannevar Bush was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 1974). American engineer and politician.
• 1892 - Raoul Walsh was born (d. 1980). American film director
• 1897- A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
• 1898 - Dorothy Gish was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark was born (d. 1972).
• 1900 - Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
• 1903 - Lawrence Welk was born (d. 1992). American musician
• 1903 - Ronald Syme was born (d. 1989). New Zealand classicist and historian.
• 1907 - Helmut von Moltke was born (d. 1945). Jurist.
• 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh dies (b. 1839). American activist, social reformer, founder of NSPCC.
• 1910 - Robert Havemann was born (d. 1982). Chemist.
• 1910 - Nascimento de Jacinta Marto, pastorinha de Fátima.
• 1911 - Por primera vez se eleva un aeroplano en el aeródromo de Cuatro vientos (Madrid).
• 1914 - Una sufragista daña el cuadro de Velázquez "La Venus del espejo" de la National Gallery.
• 1915 - Revolución de México. Zapata y sus hombres entran en la capital azteca, de la que huye el general Obregón.
• 1915 - Hans Peter Keller was born (d. 1988). Writer.
• 1915 - Karl Krolow was born (d. 21 Jul 1999). German lyricist and essayist.
• 1916 - Harold Wilson was born (d. 1995). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.
• 1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
• 1918 - In Portugal is decreted universal suffrage/ O governo dirigido por Sidónio Pais decreta o sufrágio universal, ao permitir o voto aos iletrados do sexo masculino. As restrições ao voto serão restabelecidas após a queda do Sidonismo.
• 1919 - Mercer Ellington was born (d. 1996). Musician, composer.
• 1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen was born. Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero dies (b. 1865). Colombian astronomer.
• 1921 - Astor Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata (d. 1992). Argentine composer.
• 1921 - Frank Harary was born (d. 2005). American mathematician.
• 1922 - José Luis López Vázquez was born. Actor.
• 1926 - Eamon de Valera funda na Irlanda o partido Fianna Fail.
• 1926 - Ralph David Abernathy was born in Linden, Alabama. African American civil rights leader
• 1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
• 1927 - Joachim Fuchsberger was born. Actor.
• 1930 - Em Lisboa, foi fundada a Casa do Algarve .
• 1931 - El boxeador español de los pesos pesados Paulino Uzcudum vence por K.O. al californiano Kennedy.
• 1931 - F.W. Murnau dies (b. 1888). Director.
• 1931 - Rupert Murdoch was born. Publisher, entrepreneur .
• 1934 - Sam Donaldson was born. Reporter .
• 1936 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy was born (d. 1990). Civil rights leader.
• 1936 - Antonin Scalia, was born, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court .
• 1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
• 1940 - Alberto Cortez was born. Argentine singer.
• 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
• 1942 - Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o presidente Getulio Vargas decreta o confisco de bens de imigrantes alemães e italianos no Brasil.
• 1948 - Dominique Sanda was born. Actress.
• 1950 - Bobby McFerrin was born. Singer.
• 1950 - Jerry Zucker was born, producer, director, writer.
• 1952 - Douglas Adams was born (d. 2001). Science fiction/comedy novelist .1954 - Nascimento de Tetê Espíndola (Terezinha Maria Miranda Espíndola), em Campo Grande - MS (veja o site oficial), cantora da MPB.
• 1955 - Nina Hagen was born. German singer.
• 1955 - Alexander Fleming dies (b. 1881). Scotish biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine / Morte de Alexander Fleming, grande cientista escocês e gênio da humanidade, em Londres-Inglaterra (conheçam a Descoberta de Penicilina).
• 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd dies (b. 1888). American explorer.
• 1957 - Se establece la colonia Esperanza, en la provincia de Santa Fe.
• 1959 - In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
• 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun became the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
• 1959 - Nina Hartley was born. Pornographic film actress .
• 1960 - Lanzamiento del cohete estadounidense Pioner V con el objetivo de llegar a Venus en cuatro meses.
• 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, naturalista, zoólogo, cientista, explorador e escritor estadunidense (n. 1884).
• 1964 - Shane Richie was born. British actor.
• 1964 - Raúl Leoni asume la Presidencia de Venezuela en sustitución de Rómulo Betancourt.
• 1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, was born, British television presenter.
• 1965 - Violencia racista en Alabama (EEUU). Asesinato de un reverendo.
• 1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power .
• 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
• 1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
• 1967 - Pink Floyd presenta su primera canción.
• 1967 - Geraldine Farrar dies (b. 1882). American soprano .
• 1968 - Lisa Loeb was born. Singer.
• 1969 - John Wyndham dies (b. 1903). British author.
• 1969 - Rafael Caldera toma posesión de la Presidencia de Venezuela.
• 1970 - O Cônsul-Geral japonês em São Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi, é seqüestrado por revolucionários brasileiros.
• 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner dies (b. 1889). American novelist.
• 1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, dies, television pioneer, (b. 1906) .
• 1971 - Johnny Knoxville, was born ("Jackass"), television personality.
• 1972 - Frederick Brown, dies (b. 1906), sci-fi author (Martians Go Home).
• 1973 - El partido peronista obtiene casi el cincuenta por ciento de los votos en las elecciones argentinas.
• 1973 - Hector J. Campora vence a primeira eleição presidencial ocorrida na Argentina desde 1965.
• 1973 - Los franceses dan la victoria a los partidarios del general Charles de Gaulle.
• 1974 - Bobby Abreu, was born, Major League Baseball All-Star .
• 1975 - Presumível tentativa de golpe de Estado de oficiais afectos ao general Spínola. A derrota deste grupo vai radicalizar a acção política do MFA, levando à política de nacionalizações e da reforma agrária, à institucionalização do MFA e à criação do Conselho da Revolução.
• 1975 - Acusado de una supuesta conjura militar, el general portugués Spinola busca refugio político en Brasil.
• 1977 - El Gobierno Español, presidido por Adolfo Suárez, aprueba una amnistía total.
• 1977 - 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
• 1977 -Roman Polanski charged with rape : French film director Roman Polanski is charged with raping a 13-year- old girl in Hollywood.
• 1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV dies (b. 1893). American geologist and paleontologist.
• 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
• 1978 - El Gobierno decide el ingreso de España en la OTAN.
• 1978 - Morreu o escritor e historiador português Francisco Oliveira Martins.
• 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
• 1978 - Didier Drogba was born. Ivory Coast footballer
• 1979 - Benji Madden was born. ("Good Charlotte"), band .
• 1979 - Joel Madden, was born, ("Good Charlotte"), band .
• 1980 - Muere el director de orquesta, violinista y compositor popular argentino Julio De Caro.
• 1981 - Augusto Pinochet inicia um mandato de oito anos como presidente do Chile.
• 1981 - David Anders was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Lee Evans was born. American football player .
• 1982 - Thora Birch was born. American actress .
• 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader succeeding to Konstantin Chernenko
• 1986 - se cumplen 1.000.000 de días desde la fundación tradicional de Roma, el 21 de abril del 753 A.deC.
• 1989 - Veinticuatro jefes de Estado firman la Declaración de La Haya para crear, dentro de la ONU, una autoridad mundial que proteja el medio ambiente.
• 1989 - Anton Yelchin was born. Russian-born actor
• 1990 - Patricio Aylwin asume la presidencia de Chile y pone fin a dieciséis años de dictadura militar.
• 1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1973.
• 1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
• 1993 - A Coréia do Norte retira-se do Tratado de Não-Proliferação Nuclear. O país se recusa a permitir a inspeção de sua produção de armas nucleares por oficiais Ocidentais.
• 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• 1993 - Manuel da Fonseca dies. Portuguese writer.Morre o escritor português Manuel da Fonseca (n. em Santiago do Cacém em 15 Out 1911).
• 1994 - Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, seguindo os passos de seu pai, toma posse na Presidência da República do Chile, substituindo Patrício Aylvin, primeiro líder da redemocratização do país.
• 1994 - El democristiano Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle accede a la presidencia de Chile.
• 1994 - Em Paris, Fernanda Ribeiro sagra-se campeã europeia dos 3 000 mil metros em pista coberta.
• 1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
• 1997 - O músico e ex- Beatle Paul McCartney recebe o título de Cavaleiro do Império Britânico da rainha Elizabete II.
• 1998 - Pinochet jura como senador y provoca una escalada de violencia .
• 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 2002 - James Tobin dies (b. 1918). American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
• 2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
• 2004 - Madrid suffered a series of terrorist attacks when 10 bombs, detonated by Islamist militants, exploded on four trains at three different rail stations, killing 191 people and injuring some 1,800 others./ Atentado em Madrid -Espanha, contra comboios de passageiros, que deixaram mais de 190 mortos e cerca de 1800 feridos.
• 2005 - In Brussels airport, 56 Iranian monarchist protesters sit in an airliner for 16 hours to protest against the Islamic government of Iran. Police later remove them from the plane
• Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.
• Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day
• Zambia - Youth Day