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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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On This Date

1810	Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
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.
1942	As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia. He subsequently vowed: "I shall return."
1970	The album "Deja Vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was released.
1977	More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed.
1978	Palestinian guerrillas went on a rampage on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway, killing 34 Israelis.
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.
1997	Rock musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2002	Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2005	A man being escorted to court for trial in Atlanta took a gun from a sheriff's deputy and went on a deadly rampage, killing four people, including a judge. (Brian Nichols was later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole).
2006	Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his cell during his war crimes trial in The Hague.

Current Birthdays

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia turns 75 years old today.

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Actor Terrence Howard turns 42 years old today.

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1931	Rupert Murdoch, Media mogul, turns 80
1934	Sam Donaldson, Broadcast journalist, turns 77
1946	Mark Metcalf, Actor ("Animal House"), turns 65
1950	Bobby McFerrin, Singer, turns 61
1950	Jerry Zucker, Director, turns 61
1952	Susan Richardson, Actress ("Eight is Enough"), turns 59
1953	Jimmy Iovine, Head of Interscope Records, turns 58
1954	Gale Norton, Former secretary of the interior, turns 57
1955	Nina Hagen, Singer, turns 56
1962	Jeffrey Nordling, Actor, turns 49
1963	Alex Kingston, Actress ("ER"), turns 48
1965	Wallace Langham, Actor ("CSI"), turns 46
1965	Jesse Jackson Jr., U.S. congressman, D-Ill., turns 46
1968	Lisa Loeb, Rock singer, turns 43
1971	Johnny Knoxville, Actor ("Jackass"), turns 40
1979	Benji Madden, Rock musician (Good Charlotte), turns 32
1979	Joel Madden, Rock musician (Good Charlotte), turns 32
1980	Dan Uggla, Baseball player, turns 31
1982	Thora Birch, Actress, turns 29

Historic Birthdays

Ralph Abernathy3/11/1926 - 4/17/1990American pastor and civil rights leader.Go to obituary »

51	Torquato Tasso 3/11/1544 - 4/25/1595 Italian poet of the late Renaissance
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