Today in History
Listings for Friday, March 11, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1780 A.L. Crelle --1855
- 1903 Lawrence Welk
- 1926 Ralph Abernathy
- 1931 Rupert Murdoch
- 1934 Sam Donaldson
Events:
- Zeta Bo”tid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
- 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
- 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
- 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
- 1892 First public game of basketball.
- 1938 Germany invades Austria.
- 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill with England.
- 1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
- 1960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
- 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko.
That's all for today.