viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

March 11

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.

On This Date

1810Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
1888A blizzard struck the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths.
1941President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
1942As 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."
1970The album "Deja Vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was released.
1977More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed.
1978Palestinian guerrillas went on a rampage on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway, killing 34 Israelis.
1985Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko.
1990The Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence.
1993Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the nation's first female attorney general.
1993North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
1997Rock musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2002Two columns of light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
2005A 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).
2006Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his cell during his war crimes trial in The Hague.

Current Birthdays

Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia turns 75 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
Terrence Howard, Actor
Actor Terrence Howard turns 42 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1931Rupert Murdoch, Media mogul, turns 80
1934Sam Donaldson, Broadcast journalist, turns 77
1946Mark Metcalf, Actor ("Animal House"), turns 65
1950Bobby McFerrin, Singer, turns 61
1950Jerry Zucker, Director, turns 61
1952Susan Richardson, Actress ("Eight is Enough"), turns 59
1953Jimmy Iovine, Head of Interscope Records, turns 58
1954Gale Norton, Former secretary of the interior, turns 57
1955Nina Hagen, Singer, turns 56
1962Jeffrey Nordling, Actor, turns 49
1963Alex Kingston, Actress ("ER"), turns 48
1965Wallace Langham, Actor ("CSI"), turns 46
1965Jesse Jackson Jr., U.S. congressman, D-Ill., turns 46
1968Lisa Loeb, Rock singer, turns 43
1971Johnny Knoxville, Actor ("Jackass"), turns 40
1979Benji Madden, Rock musician (Good Charlotte), turns 32
1979Joel Madden, Rock musician (Good Charlotte), turns 32
1980Dan Uggla, Baseball player, turns 31
1982Thora Birch, Actress, turns 29

Historic Birthdays

51Torquato Tasso 3/11/1544 - 4/25/1595
Italian poet of the late Renaissance
76John McLean 3/11/1785 - 4/4/1861
United States Supreme Court justice; dissented in the Dred Scott decision (1857)
78Joseph Bertrand 3/11/1822 - 4/5/1900
French mathematician and educator
70Charles Eastlake 3/11/1836 - 11/20/1906
English museologist and art writer
63Sir Malcolm Campbell 3/11/1885 - 12/31/1948
English car racer
84Vannevar Bush 3/11/1890 - 6/28/1974
American electrical engineer and goverment administrator in World War II
70Dorothy Gish 3/11/1898 - 6/4/1968
American film and stage actress
72Frederick IX 3/11/1899 - 1/14/1972
Danish king; encouraged resistance against Germans in World War II
89Lawrence Welk 3/11/1903 - 5/17/1992
American bandleader and showman
79Harold Wilson 3/11/1916 - 5/24/1995
English Labor Party politician; twice prime minister

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