March 11th

• 1425

  Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies according to the Low Chronology.

• 1669

  Mt Etna's largest recorded eruption kills 15,000 in Sicily.

• 1744

  Sotheby's holds its first auction in London, selling books.

• 1882

  Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association formed in Princeton, NJ.

• 1892

  First public basketball game played in Springfield, MA.

• 1897

  Meteorite explodes over New Martinsville, WV, causing damage but no injuries.

• 1941

  FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill to aid Britain's war effort.

• 1958

  B-47 drops a nuclear bomb in SC; bomb lacks nuclear capsule.

• 1957

  Charles Van Doren loses on 'Twenty-One', later revealed to be rigged.

• 2004

  Terrorist bombs on Madrid's rail network kill 190.

• 2011

  9.0 quake near Sendai, Japan triggers tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster.

• 2020

  Smallest dinosaur discovered in amber reported in 'Nature'.

• 1302

  Romeo and Juliet's marriage day according to Shakespeare.

• 1702

  The Daily Courant, first regular English newspaper, published.

• 1867

  Great Mauna Loa in Hawaii erupts.

• 1888

  'Blizzard of '88' begins, over 400 die.

• 1901

  J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, making Carnegie the world's richest man.

• 1904

  North tunnel under Hudson River holed through after 30 years. View Post →

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• 1969

  Levi-Strauss starts selling bell-bottomed jeans.

• 1986

  Popsicle shifts from twin-stick to one-stick model.