Today in History - March 11
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222 Mar 11,
Varius A. Bassianus (18), Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), was
murdered.
(MC, 3/12/02)
537 Mar 11, The Goths lay siege
to Rome.
(HN, 3/11/98)
638 Mar 11, Sophronius of
Jerusalem, saint, patriarch of Jerusalem, died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
843 Mar 11, Icon worship was
officially reinstated in Aya Sofia, Constantinople.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1302 Mar 11, Romeo and Juliet
were married on this day, according to Shakespeare.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1513 Mar 11, Giovanni de'
Medici became Pope Leo X. The Medici Pope Leo X led the Catholic
Church until 1521.
(OG)(MC, 3/12/02)
1544 Mar 11, Torquato Tasso,
Italian Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1566 Mar 11, The 2nd
Lithuanian statutes went into effect and upheld a democracy of
landowners. The Statute of Lithuania gave the Seimas legislative
power. The parliament had developed since Casimir ascended to the
Polish throne. It was composed of an upper chamber or Council of
Lords and assemblies of noblemen. They assembled in Vilnius or
Brest-Litovsk.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(LHC, 3/11/03)
1649 Mar 11, The peace of Rueil
was signed between the Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1665 Mar 11, A new legal code
was approved for the Dutch and English towns, guaranteeing religious
observances unhindered.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1669 Mar 11, Mount Etna in
Sicily erupted killing 15,000. [see Mar 25]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1702 Mar 11, The Daily Courant,
the first regular English newspaper was published.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1731 Mar 11, Robert Treat
Paine, Declaration of Independence signer, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1791 Mar 11, Samuel Mulliken of
Philadelphia was the 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1795 Mar 11, Battle at
Kurdla, India: Mahratten beat Moguls.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1801 Mar 11, Paul I (46), Czar
of Russia (1796-1801), was strangled in his bedroom in St.
Petersburg ending 4 years of insane rule. His son Alexander I
Pavlovich (23) succeeded him.
(PCh, 1992, p.360)(SS, 3/23/02)
1810 Mar 11, Emperor Napoleon
of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of
Austria.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1811 Mar 11, Urbain Jean Joseph
le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1811 Mar 11, Ned Ludd led a
group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization. Members of
the organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in
19th century England were known as Luddites and also "Ludds." The
movement, reputedly named after Ned Ludd, began near Nottingham as
craftsman destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their
jobs. By the following year, Luddites were active in Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, Lancashire and Leicestershire. Although the Luddites
opposed violence towards people (a position which allowed for a
modicum of public support), government crackdowns included mass
shootings, hangings and deportation to the colonies. It took 14,000
British soldiers to quell the rebellion. The movement effectively
died in 1813 apart from a brief resurgence of Luddite sentiment in
1816 following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
(HN, 3/11/01)(HNQ, 5/14/01)(WSJ, 3/29/04, p.A1)
1812 Mar 11, Citizenship was
granted to Prussian Jews.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1824 Mar 11, The U.S. War
Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A lifelong friend
and trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker rose to the top in
two worlds, that of his native Seneca Indian tribe and the white
man's world at large. He went on to become the first Indian to lead
the Bureau.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1832 Mar 11, Franz Melde,
German physicist (Melde test), was born.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1845 Mar 11, Seven hundred
Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of
Kororareka in protest at the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans,
in breach with the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1850 Mar 11, Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania opened as the 1st female medical school.
[see 1848, Oct 12, 1850]
(MC, 3/12/02)
1860 Mar 11, Thomas Hastings,
architect of the New York Public Library, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1861 Mar 11, The Confederate
convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopted a constitution.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1862 Mar 11, Pres. Lincoln
suspended General George McClellan from command of all the Union
armies so that McClellan could concentrate on the Army of the
Potomac and Richmond.
(www.civilwarhome.com/macbio.htm)
1863 Mar 11, A naval engagement
occurred between the CSS Alabama and the USS Hatteras.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1863 Mar 11, Union troops under
General Ulysses S. Grant gave up their preparations to take
Vicksburg after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1863 Mar 11, A
Lithuanian ruling group replaced a committee for the lead in an
uprising.
(LHC,3/11/03)
1865 Mar 11, General Sherman
and his forces occupied Fayetteville, N.C. Union General William
Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, "a hell of
a damn fool." At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and
disobedience of orders proved Sherman's point.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1867 Mar 11, Great Mauna Loa
volcano eruption in Hawaii.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1874 Mar 11, Charles Sumner
(63), a white civil rights leader, died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1884 Mar 11, Gen. Gordon
learned that the telegraph cable to Cairo had been cut. Khartoum
soldiers killed 5 Mahdists at Halfaya. Mahdist insurgents in return
massacred 150 men from the Khartoum garrison as they were cutting
wood.
(ON, 4/02, p.10)
1885 Mar 11, Sir Michael
Campbell, the first motorist to exceed 300 mph, was born.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1888 Mar 11-14, The famous
"Blizzard of ‘88" struck the northeastern United States, resulting
in some 400 deaths. New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington
were cut off for days.
(AP, 3/11/98)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)
1890 Mar 11, Vannevar Bush was
born. He developed the 1st electronic analogue computer.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1892 Mar 11, Raoul Walsh,
director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1899 Mar 11, Frederick IX, King
of Denmark, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1900 Mar 11, British Prime
Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace overtures offered from
Boer leader Paul Kruger.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1905 Mar 11, The Parisian
subway was officially inaugurated.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1906 Mar 11, The Simplified
Spelling Board was announced with Andrew Carnegie funding the
organization, to be headquartered in New York City. In August Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating simplified
spelling in all government administrative documents.
(Econ, 8/30/08,
p.19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board)
1907 Mar 11, President
Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese
legislation.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1908 Mar 11, Lawrence Welk,
orchestra leader, was born in Strasburg, ND.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/12/02)
1911 Mar 11, The Cadillac
Division of General Motors demonstrated the first electric self
starter, enabling women to drive alone. Charles Kettering created
the first successful electric self-starter for Cadillac. It was
introduced in the 1912 model. The perfection of the self-starter by
inventor Charles Kettering enormously expanded the market for the
automobile. Kettering, born in Londonville, Ohio, in 1876, had
invented an electric cash register motor while at the National Cash
Register Company in 1906. In 1909 he organized the Dayton
Engineering Laboratories Company, later known as Delco, and soon
made notable improvements in automobile ignition and lighting
systems. His self-starter was introduced in the 1912 Cadillac. He
founded the Charles F. Kettering Foundation dedicated to natural
science research and was co-founder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute
for Cancer Research. Kettering died in 1958.
(SMTS, 10/1/86, p.4)(F, 10/7/96, p.67)(HNQ,
3/3/99)
1917 Mar 11, British troops
occupied Baghdad.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1919 Mar 11, A general strike
in Germany was crushed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1926 Mar 11, Ralph David
Abernathy, civil rights leader, was born.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1927 Mar 11, The 1st armored
commercial car hold-up in US took place in Pittsburgh.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1929 Mar 11, Major Seagrave
broke the auto speed record in Daytona Beach. He reached an average
of 223.2 mph in a 450 horse powered Golden Arrow.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1930 Mar 11, Former President
and Chief Justice Taft was the first U.S. president to be buried in
the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
(HN, 3/11/98)(AP, 3/11/02)
1930 Mar 11, Silvio Gesell
(b.1862), German merchant and theoretical economist, died. He was an
ethical vegetarian, considered himself a world citizen and believed
Earth should belong to all people, regardless of race, gender,
class, wealth, religion. Based on his theories the Bavarian
coalmining village of Schwanenkirchen created an alternative
currency in 1931 called the wara, which obligated its holder to pay
a tax. This encouraged all users of the currency to get rid of it as
soon as possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell)(Econ, 1/24/09, p.81)
1931 Mar 11, Rupert Murdoch,
media baron, was born in Melbourne, Australia.
(WSJ, 6/5/07,
p.A20)(www.filmreference.com/film/22/Rupert-Murdoch.html)
1931 Mar 11, The USSR banned
the sale or importation of Bibles.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1941 Mar 11, President
Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act and signed into law the
Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the
Axis.
(AP, 3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1942 Mar 11, As Japanese forces
continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II Gen. Douglas
MacArthur left Corregidor in the Philippines for Australia.
MacArthur, who subsequently vowed, "I shall return," kept that
promise more than 2 1/2 years later. MacArthur relinquished command
in the Philippines to Gen’l. Jonathon Wainwright.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, p.T7)(AP,
3/11/98)(http://tinyurl.com/736ws)
1942 Mar 11, 1st deportation
train left Paris for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1942 Mar 11, Japanese troops
landed on North Sumatra.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1945 Mar 11, 1,000 allied
bombers harassed Essen with 4,662 tons of bombs.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1945 Mar 11, Flemish Nazi
collaborator Maria Huygens was sentenced to death.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Reginald Weit
became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1948 Mar 11, Jewish Agency of
Jerusalem was bombed.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1950 Mar 11, Jerry Zucker, film
director and TV producer, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0958387/)
1952 Mar 11, Douglas Adams,
British writer, (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), was born.
(HN, 3/11/01)
1953 Mar 11, F.M. Adams became
the 1st US commissioned woman army doctor.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1953 Mar 11, An American B-47
accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, however the
bomb did not go off due to 6 safety catches.
(HN, 3/11/98)(MC, 3/11/02)
1954 Mar 11, The U.S. Army
charged that Wisconsin Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his
subcommittee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to
obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former
consultant to the subcommittee. The confrontation culminated in the
famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.
(AP, 3/11/04)
1955 Mar 11, Alexander Fleming
(73), English bacteriologist (penicillin), died.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1956 Mar 11, Curtis L. Brown
Jr., astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95), was born in NC.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1957 Mar 11, Charles Van
Doren's 14-week run on the rigged NBC game show "Twenty-One" ended
as he was "defeated" by attorney Vivienne Nearing; Van Doren's take
was $129,000.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1957 Mar 11, American explorer
Richard E. Byrd died in Boston at age 68.
(AP, 3/11/07)
1958 Mar 11, A B-47 out of
Hunter AFB in Savannah, Georgia, had just leveled off at 15,000
feet, when a bomb lock failed and dropped a nuclear bomb on the
suburban neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. The bomb's high
explosives exploded on impact, wrecking a house and injuring several
people on the ground. The extent of radioactive contamination was
never revealed.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1959 Mar 11, The Lorraine
Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York City's
Ethel Barrymore Theater.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1960 Mar 11, Pioneer 5 was
launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1965 Mar 11, "I Lost It at the
Movies," a collection of film criticism by Pauline Kael, was first
published by Little, Brown and Co.
(AP, 3/11/05)
1965 Mar 11, The American navy
began inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling
to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1965 Mar 11, The Rev. James J.
Reeb (65), a white minister from Boston, died after whites beat him
during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, Three men were
convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1966 Mar 11, In Indonesia army
generals held guns to the head of Pres. Sukarno and forced him to
sign a document transferring power to Gen. Suharto.
(SFC, 12/9/00, p.A18)
1967 Mar 11, British
psychedelic group Pink Floyd released “Arnold Layne,” their 1st
single song.
(http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/arnold.htm)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
1969 Mar 11, Levi-Strauss
started to sell bell-bottomed jeans.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1970 Mar 11, Richard L.
Spencer, tenor saxophonist and lead singer for the Winstons, was
awarded a Grammy for “color Him Father.” The DC-based band had
released the song a year earlier. The B-side of the song featured an
instrumental called “Amen, Brother.” This featured a 4-bar solo by
drummer Gregory Coleman that was copied in 1986 for the first volume
of “Ultimate Breaks and Beats.” In 1988 the break was featured on
the “king of Beats,” a 6-minute collage of hip-hop beats and other
samples released by Mantronix.
(Econ, 12/17/11,
p.145)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIb1-EEWt0)
1970 Mar 11, Iraq’s Ba’ath
Party agreed to an autonomy accord with the Kurd nation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan)
1971 Mar 11, Federal
Communications Commission stated that television networks ABC, NBC
and CBS must have a limited three-hour nightly program service now
called 'Prime Time'. Prime Time began in September of 1971.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1971 Mar 11, Philo T.
Farnsworth (b.1906), inventor of television, died in Salt Lake City,
Utah. Later Prof. Donald Godfrey authored "Philo T. Farnsworth: The
Father of Television" and Evan I. Schwartz authored "The Last Lone
Inventor."
(SFC, 9/7/02,
p.D1)(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was
shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1974 Mar 11, Iraq's "Law for
Autonomy in the Area of Kurdistan" was promulgated. It stipulated
that: "The Kurdish language shall be the official language of
education for Kurds ... Kurdish shall be the official language of
education for the Kurds."
(www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/iraq/4.html)
1977 Mar 11, More than 130
hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed
after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the
negotiations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1978 Mar 11, Palestinian Arab
terrorists led by Dalal Mughrabi killed 37 people in an attack along
the Tel Aviv coastal highway. The terrorists were identified as
belonging to Fatah; 9 were killed and two captured.
(AP,
3/11/98)(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_terrorism_1970s.php)
1980 Mar 11, Marilyn McIntyre
(18) was beaten, stabbed and strangled to death at her home in
Columbus, Wis. In 2009 Curtis Forbes, a friend of her husband, was
charged with 1st degree murder based on DNA evidence.
(SFC, 3/31/09,
p.A6)(www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/11251061.html)
1980 Mar 11, In Laos US Air
Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. "Dick" Etchberger (35) used an
M-16 and a radio to call in air strikes and single-handedly held off
the attackers until helicopters arrived at Lima site 85. After
climbing into the chopper behind the others, Etchberger was fatally
wounded when enemy fire struck the aircraft. The others in the
helicopter made it to safety. In 2010 President Barack Obama
posthumously recognized Etchberger for service "beyond the call of
duty" by giving him the nation's highest military award, the Medal
of Honor.
(AP, 9/22/10)
1980 Mar 11, Julius Chan
(b.1939) succeeded Michael Somare as PM of Papua New Guinea.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Somare)
1982 Mar 11, Protesting his
innocence, Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D-N.J., resigned after 23
years in the Senate, rather than face expulsion in the wake of his
ABSCAM conviction.
(AP,
3/11/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_A._Williams)
1985 Mar 11, The Soviet Union
announced the March 10 death of its leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko.
Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him and
became general-secretary of the Communist party and the Premier of
the Soviet Union.
(TMC, 1994, p.1985)(SFEC, 12/22/96, BR p.7)(AP,
3/11/98)(HN, 3/11/98)
1985 Mar 11, Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/11/03)
1986 Mar 11, The state of
Georgia pardoned Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who had been
lynched in 1915 for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
(AP, 3/11/06)
1988 Mar 11, Pres. Reagan
directed that actions be taken to suspend trade preferences
available to Panama under the Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative.
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/031188a.htm)
1988 Mar 11, Saying, "The
people have decided," Gary Hart withdrew a second time from the race
for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. Gary Hart, former
US Senator from Colorado campaigned for the democratic nomination
for president until a photograph of himself with a woman named Donna
Rice, not his wife, appeared. She sat on his lap aboard a boat named
Monkey Business. In 1996 Hart wrote a book using Machiavelli’s "The
Prince" format. It was titled: "The Patriot: An Exhortation to
Liberate America From the Barbarians."
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.C11)(AP, 3/11/98)
1989 Mar 11, Former World Bank
head John J. McCloy, who had advised several presidents, died in
Stamford, Conn., at age 93.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1990 Mar 11, Chile’s General
Augusto Pinochet gave up power after 16 years of rule, but remained
commander of the army.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1990 Mar 11, The Lithuanian
parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore its
independence. The Supreme Council promulgated the historic document:
"On the Re-establishment of the Independent State of Lithuania."
Validity of the 1938 Constitution was briefly reinstated and the
provisional Fundamental Law was adopted. Vytautas Landsbergis was
elected president of Lithuania under the party Sajudis. Landsbergis
was elected Chairman of the Council with Bronislovas Juozas
Kuzmickas, Kazimieras Motieka and Ceslovas Stankevicius as Vice
Chairmen, with Liuvikas Sabutis as Secretary. Four governments were
formed under tenure of the Council. They were led by Kazimiera
Danute Prunskiene, Albertas Simenas, Gediminas Vagnorius and
Aleksandras Algirdas Abisala. Moscow responded with an economic
blockade that brought industry and transportation to a standstill.
In June the Lithuanians agreed to suspend independence.
(DrEE, 10/5/96, p.5)(CSOE)(HN, 3/11/98)(AP,
3/11/00)
1991 Mar 11, Secretary of State
James A. Baker the Third visited Israel, where he met with Foreign
Minister David Levy to discuss prospects for Middle East peace.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1992 Mar 11, Members of the
U.N. Security Council accused Iraq of playing a game of “cheat and
retreat” from its promises to disarm and respect its people's human
rights; Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz lashed back, saying
his country was complying with Gulf War cease-fire resolutions.
(AP, 3/11/02)
1992 Mar 11, Manuel De Dios
Unanue (48), US anti-drug journalist and former editor of El
Diario-La Prensa, was murdered by two bullets to the head in a
restaurant in the Jackson Heights section of the borough of Queens,
New York City. His death was linked to his writing critically about
the Colombian Drug Cartel.
(http://tinyurl.com/2f3c4x)
1993 Mar 11, Janet Reno was
unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be attorney general.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1993 Mar 11, Dino Bravo
(b.1948), wrestler (WWF), was shot to death in Laval, Quebec,
Canada. Bravo, born as Adolfo Bresciano, was known as the “World’s
Strongest Man.”
(www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/bravo.htm)
1993 Mar 11, North Korea
withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff
of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development
sites for inspection. It later suspended its withdrawal.
(AP, 3/11/98)(AP, 4/24/03)
1994 Mar 11, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher arrived in Beijing, the mood of his trip already
soured by a fresh government crackdown on Chinese dissidents.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1994 Mar 11, Eduardo Frei
(b.1942) began office as president of Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Ruiz-Tagle)
1995 Mar 11, President Clinton
nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Mar 11, Gerry Adams,
leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, arrived in the United
States for a St. Patrick's Day visit.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1996 Mar 11, On Wall Street,
the Dow Jones industrial average rose 110.55 to end the day at 5581
following a 171.24-point plunge the Friday before.
(AP, 3/11/01)
1996 Mar 11, Charles William
Oatley (92), electrical engineer, died. He perfected the scanning
electron microscope.
(www.tecsoc.org/pubs/history/2002/mar11.htm)
1997 Mar 11, In a startling
turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of
campaign financing that would include a look at huge "soft money"
donations.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Senate
confirmation hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, Scientists from
observatories in Chile and Australia were to announce the discovery
of a star in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Dorado that
measured some 370 times the size of the Sun. Stars of this size are
believed to be doomed to collapse and explode as supernovas.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, Rock star Paul
McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1997 Mar 11, A gunman, Allen
Griffin, in Detroit killed 3 and wounded 2 before being killed by
police after staging an robbery at the Comerica Bank on the East
Side.
(SFC, 3/12/97, p.A3)
1997 Mar 11, A nuclear fuel
reprocessing plant experienced 2 fires and an explosion 70 miles
northeast of Tokyo. There were no injuries. The chief investigator
destroyed photographs of the accident. Debris was also removed and
then replaced.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 5/1/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 11, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin reorganized the government and only kept Prime Minister
Chernomyrdin and top economic deputy Chubais.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A16)
1998 Mar 11, It was announced
that the David and Lucille Packard Foundation would give $175
million over 5 years to protect the California landscape from
over-development.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A13)
1998 Mar 11, A Florida appeals
court restored Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami after charges of voter
fraud on absentee ballots.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, The International
Astronomical Union issued an alert, saying a mile-wide asteroid
could zip very close to Earth on Oct. 26, 2028, possibly colliding
with it. But the next day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said
there was no chance the asteroid will hit Earth.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1998 Mar 11, In Los Angeles
Efren Saldivar, a respiratory care therapist, claimed to have killed
as many as 50 terminally ill patients from 1989 to 1997 at the
Glendale Adventist medical Center. He later recanted his confession.
Exhumations to verify the claims began Apr 30. In 2001 Saldivar was
arrested for the murder of 6 patients whose remains indicated that
they were murdered. In 2002 Saldivar pleaded guilty to murdering 6
patients. In 2002 Saldivar was sentenced to 6 life terms in prison
plus 15 years to life for attempted murder.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.C7)(SFC,
1/10/01, p.A5)(SFC, 3/13/02, p.A7)(USAT, 4/18/02, p.3A)
1998 Mar 11, In Chile Gen’l.
Pinochet could not be removed as head of the army until this date.
His successor would be chosen by Pres. Eduardo Frei from 5 generals
proposed by Pinochet.
(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1998 Mar 11, In Japan the Tokyo
Public Prosecutor’s Office raided the offices of the Bank of Japan.
Yasayuki Yoshizawa, director of the capital markets division, was
arrested on suspicion of leaking market moving information.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B2)
1998 Mar 11, In Moscow Marino
Yarovov (43) was boiled to death when she fell into a sinkhole of
muddy, boiling water, created from leaking underground hot water
pipes run by Mosenergo. A 10-year old boy died similarly 6 weeks
previously. His father, who tried to rescue him, died 11 days later
from severe burns.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, The House voted
219-191 to conditionally support President Clinton's plan to send
U.S. troops to Kosovo if a peace agreement was reached.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1999 Mar 11, Defense Sec.
William Cohen announced $3.2 billion in subsidized arms sales to
Egypt.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A16)
1999 Mar 11, The US Rodman
naval base in Panama was transferred to Panama.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, Pope John Paul II
met with Mohammad Khatami of Iran.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In Germany Oskar
Lafontaine, the finance minister, resigned following an apparent
power struggle with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Hans Eichel.
Governor of Hesse, was expected to succeed him.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 11, In Ecuador Pres.
Mahuad announced tax increases and other harsh measures to fight the
economic crises.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, In northern Italy
an avalanche killed 3 German skiers.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Kosovo fighting
spread as Yugoslav forces shelled villages near Prizren.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 11, Norway approved a
$57.7 million package to compensate the nation's Jews for suffering
during WW II.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 11, In Palestine at
least 85 people were injured in a 2nd day of clashes in the Gaza
Strip.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
2000 Mar 11, Storms in the US
south were blamed for at least 5 deaths.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A2)
2000 Mar 11, From Argentina it
was reported that researchers had unearthed a pack of large
predatory dinosaurs in Patagonia that dated back to about 100
million years BP.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 11, In Chile Pres.
Ricardo Lagos took power as the 1st socialist president since
Salvadore Allende.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A19)
2000 Mar 11, in Ukraine a
methane gas explosion at the Barakova mine on the eastern border
killed at least 80 workers.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.A17)
2001 Mar 11, Lawrence Summers,
former Clinton Treasury Secretary, was named as the 27th president
of Harvard. Neil Rudenstine planned to step down in June.
(WSJ, 3/12/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In England 25 new
cases of hoof-and-mouth disease were reported with outbreaks in
Scotland, Wales, Devonshire and Kent.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Indonesia
anti-Wahid students rallied in Jakarta. A plunging currency added to
the unrest on the streets.
(WSJ, 3/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 11, In Malaysia ethnic
violence between Malays and ethnic Indians continued for a 4th day.
Five people were killed in the last 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A15)
2001 Mar 11, In Mexico some
75,000-100,000 supporters filled the square of Mexico City as the
Zapatista rebels arrived. “We are here to shout for and to demand
democracy, liberty and justice.” Masked Zapatista rebels urged
passage of an Indian rights bill.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/02)
2001 Mar 11, In Spain over
100,000 people protested in Madrid against a $23 billion plan to
divert water from the Ebro river to areas in the south.
(SFC, 3/12/01, p.A14)
2002 Mar 11, At the White House
Pres. Bush outlined a “second stage of the war on terror” in an
address that marked the 6-months since the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush also unveiled a commemorative stamp to raise money to help
Sept. 11 victims "get their lives back in order."
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A1)(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, Two columns of
light soared skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary
memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2002 Mar 11, It was reported
that the US CIA and State Dept. was interviewing former Iraqi
generals for a possible overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 11, The National Book
Critics Circle (f.1974) awarded top honors to W.G. Sebald (d.2001)
for his novel “Austerlitz.” Nicholson Baker won the nonfiction
category for “Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on
Paper.” Martin Amis won the criticism category for “The War
Against Cliché.” Albert Goldbarth won the poetry category for
“Saving Lives.” Adam Sisman won the biography category for
“Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.
Johnson.”
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 11, James Tobin
(b.1918), a key Kennedy advisor and economics Nobelist (portfolio
theory, 1981), died in New Haven, Conn. He developed the ideas of
Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to
stabilize output and avoid recessions. Outside of academia, Tobin
was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange
transactions, later known as the "Tobin tax."
(WSJ, 3/13/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tobin)
2002 Mar 11, Israeli forces
swept into the Jabaliya camp in Gaza and 23 residents were killed in
heavy fighting. PM Sharon announced that Arafat was free to resume
traveling about the West Bank and Gaza.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 11, In Pakistan
Shakeel Anwar, head of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi extremist group, was
killed in a gun battle with police. He was wanted in the slaying of
38 people including a former foreign minister.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe the
polls closed. A request for a 4th day of voting was denied.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A70)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers
to end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7,
agreeing to a smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton,
an Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized
microchip transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The
18-judge world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been
approved Jul 17, 1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior
intelligence analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other
intelligence information he has seen, there is currently no
justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to
unify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after
rival Greek and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN
power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq
destroyed more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to
52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli
troops fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then
razed it, killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had
attacked an Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian
Pres. Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security
Service (FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards
and government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, Striking
Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers
to end a walkout that shut had down 18 musicals since Mar 7,
agreeing to a smaller number of musicians in the largest theaters.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, The DJIA fell 44
to 7524, the lowest level of the year, on war concerns and bad
corporate news.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R8)
2003 Mar 11, California
scientists reported that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a
family of flame retardants, were found in elevated amounts in the
breasts of Bay Area women.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A4)
2003 Mar 11, Benetton,
an Italian retailer, said it planned to attach salt-grain sized
microchip transmitters to clothing at its 5,000 stores.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.B1)
2003 Mar 11, A US Army
Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Fort Drum, NY, and 11 of 13
soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A5)
2003 Mar 11, Kofi Annan
said military action against Iraq without support of the UN security
council would be out of conformity with the UN charter. The US and
Britain considered a short extension past March 17, but rejected a
45-day deadline backed by 6 council members.
(SFC, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, The
18-judge world court was inaugurated at the Hague. It had been
approved Jul 17, 1998, by the Rome Treaty.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 11, A top
Australian intelligence adviser resigned to protest the government's
hard-line policy on Iraq. Andrew Wilkie, one of its senior
intelligence analysts argued that, based on U.S. and other
intelligence information he has seen, there is currently no
justification for a war on Iraq.
(IPS, 3/12/03)
2003 Mar 11, Talks to
unify the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed after
rival Greek and Turkish leaders failed to agree on a UN
power-sharing agreement.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Iraq
destroyed more Al Samoud 2 missiles raising the total destroyed to
52 of some 100.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Israeli
troops fired a tank shell at a 3-story apartment building, then
razed it, killing a Palestinian gunman who several hours earlier had
attacked an Israeli army patrol.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, Russian
Pres. Vladimir Putin bolstered the clout of the Federal Security
Service (FSB) by giving it control over the country's border guards
and government communications.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep
Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
(WSJ, 3/12/03, p.A1)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Supreme Court halted gay weddings in San Francisco for at least a
few months while it decides whether they are legal.
(AP, 3/12/04)(SFC, 3/12/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 11, The California
Office of Environmental Health Hazzard Assessment raised the action
level for reporting perchlorate pollution in drinking water from 4
to 6 ppb.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A8)
2004 Mar 11, In San Diego 4
Marines were killed when their small UC-35 jet crashed on landing at
Air Station Miramar.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B3)
2004 Mar 11, Canadian officials
said a "very sophisticated criminal scheme" bilked the Defense
Department of tens of millions of dollars in computer contracts over
10 years. Public Works Minister Stephen Owen said the government is
going after computer giant Hewlett Packard, the prime contractor in
$160-million worth of military computer hardware and support
services.
(AP, 3/11/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Iraq 2 American
soldiers were killed when the Humvee they were riding in struck a
homemade bomb.
(AP, 3/12/04)
2004 Mar 11, In Madrid, Spain,
a series of 10 bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick
succession at 3 stations, blowing apart four commuter trains. 191
people were killed and over 1,450 wounded. Spanish leaders were
quick to accuse Basque terrorists but a shadowy group claimed
responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda. On October 31, 2007, 3 lead
defendants were convicted of murder. Four other top suspects were
acquitted of murder but convicted of lesser charges. In all 21 of
the 28 defendants were convicted. On July 17, 2008, a Spanish court
cleared four of the 21 people charged for crimes related to the
train bombings. In 2009 7 people were indicted for helping the
bombers flee.
(WSJ, 3/12/04, p.A1)(AP, 3/13/04)(SFC, 3/13/04,
p.A1)(SFC, 3/19/04, p.A3)(AP, 3/23/08)(AP, 10/31/07)(Reuters,
7/17/08)(AP, 11/2/09)
2005 Mar 11, Pres. Bush
picked Johns Hopkins physicist Michael Griffin to lead NASA.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A8)
2005 Mar 11, The US Commerce
Dept. reported the US trade deficit for January hit $58.3 billion.
It was just below the all-time high set in Nov, 2004.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 11, Maurice Greenberg,
president and CEO of AIG Int’l. Group, transferred 1.4 million
shares of AIG stock, valued at $2.68 billion, to his wife. He
resigned March 14 amid probes of the company’s accounting.
(SFC, 4/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Crude oil futures
prices climbed over $54 a barrel after the Int’l. Energy Agency
estimated global petroleum demand would grow faster than previously
expected in 2005.
(AP, 3/13/05)
2005 Mar 11, In Georgia Brian
Nichols (33), on trial for rape, shot and killed Superior Court
Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and Deputy
Hoyt Teasley at the Fulton County Courthouse. He then killed
deferral agent David Wilhelm in Atlanta’s posh Buckhead
neighborhood. Nichols was captured the next day. In 2008 Nichols
pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. On Nov 7, 2008, Nichols
was convicted of murder. On Dec 13 he was sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
(AP, 3/12/05)(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A1)(SFC, 9/23/08,
p.A4)(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A5)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A6)
2005 Mar 11, Canada’s Jetsgo
announced in the dead of night that it was going out of business and
grounding all flights immediately as thousands of passengers
prepared to jet away for March break, one of the busiest travel
periods of the year.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Miguel Rodriguez
Orejuela, co-founder of the Cali drug cartel, was sent in handcuffs
on a plane to the US to face trial for drug trafficking and related
charges. The cartel at its peak ruled the world's cocaine industry.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Germany’s
parliament tightened laws against neo-Nazi demonstrations.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 11, In India
separatist rebels threw three grenades in the troubled state of
Assam, killing three people.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Moldova arrested
Valeriu Pasat, former defense minister, on suspicion of pocketing
$10 million during the 1997 sale of 21 MiG-29 fighter jets to the
US.
(WSJ, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 11, Nepal freed sacked
PM Sher Bahadur Deuba from house arrest, amid mounting international
pressure on the country's king to relinquish power and restore
democracy.
(Reuters, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Pakistan's highest
Islamic court threw out the acquittal of five men convicted of
raping Mukhtar Mai in 2002 on orders from a village council, saying
a lower appeals court had no jurisdiction to rule on the case.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 11, Garry Kasparov,
Russian chess master ranked No. 1 since 1984, announced his
retirement. His future plans included writing and political action,
which included a lead role in Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group
formed by liberal opposition leaders.
(SFC, 3/12/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 11, South Africa’s
Pres. Mbeki nominated Pius Langa to become chief justice when
incumbent Arthur Chaskalson retires in May. Langa would be the 1st
black to hold the office.
(Econ, 3/19/05, p.54)
2005 Mar 11, The last Syrian
troops left northern Lebanon but left behind intelligence officers
in nine offices. The UN Mideast envoy said Syria needs to produce a
timetable for a full withdrawal from the rest of Lebanon. Since 1976
some 15,000 Syrian troops were killed in the Lebanese civil war.
Lebanese protests following the Feb 14 assassination of Rafik
Hariri, later dubbed the “cedar revolution,” forced Pres. Assad to
withdraw his army after a 30-year stay.
(AP, 3/11/05)(Econ, 4/2/05, p.41)(Econ, 7/25/09,
SR p.11)
2005 Mar 11, Turkey’s state
institution over religious life issued a sermon to be preached at
some 75,000 officially registered mosques on the dangers posed to
national unity by Christian missionaries.
(Econ, 6/25/05, p.49)
2006 Mar 11, Investors began to
recoil from almost any asset class that looked risky.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.74)
2006 Mar 11, Rural house fires
in Tennessee and Indiana killed 15 members of two families, and most
of the victims were children.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Afghanistan’s
Helmand province the bodies of 2 policemen, kidnapped from their
homes a day earlier, were found beheaded and dumped in the desert. A
roadside bomb hit a police patrol in Helmand's Nad Ali district,
killing a policeman and wounding five others.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Authorities in
Central African Republic accused exiled former President Ange-Felix
Patasse of forming a rebel movement and recruiting fighters to
overthrow the government.
(AP, 3/13/06)
2006 Mar 11, Michelle Bachelet,
a Socialist pediatrician who suffered prison, torture and exile
under Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the nation's
first female president.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, A Chinese activist
who documented villagers' claims of forced abortions and
sterilizations was detained while trying to report the beating of
his cousin. Chen Guangcheng, his older brother and his cousin were
taken away in a police van and other vehicles from their home
village of Dongshigu in Shandong, as they were on their way to file
a police report.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Police stormed
France's famed Sorbonne University to dislodge students occupying
the building in protest of a new national employment measure, hours
after the demonstrators hurled furniture and ladders from the
landmark's windows.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Iran threatened to
use oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions
over its nuclear program.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Iraq at least
six people including Amjad Hameed (45), director of Iraq’s public TV
channel and a human rights activist, were killed in drive-by
shootings.
(AP, 3/11/06)(SSFC, 3/12/06, p.A10)
2006 Mar 11, Premier Silvio
Berlusconi denounced Italy's judiciary as a danger to democracy and
promised changes to the system as he tries to hold on to the
premiership in next month's election.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Jordan 2
militants were executed by hanging for the killing in Amman of a US
diplomat.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Nepalese officials
said a 15-year-old boy, whose followers believe he is the
reincarnation of Buddha, has disappeared after 10 months of
meditation in the jungle.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In the Netherlands
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic (b.1941), the so-called
"butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after
orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during his country's breakup,
was found dead in his prison cell. Milosevic spent nearly five years
at a UN detention facility in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague.
An autopsy showed that he died of a heart attack. A Dutch
toxicologist said he took unprescribed pills that neutralized heart
medication.
(SFC, 3/13/06, p.A3)(WSJ, 3/14/06, p.A1)(Econ,
3/18/06, p.83)
2006 Mar 11, In Lahore,
Pakistan, hundreds of kites filled the skies on the opening day of a
traditional spring festival, despite a ban that followed the deaths
of seven people killed by glass-coated or wire kite strings.
(AP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Sudan 5 members
of the main opposition group in eastern Sudan were arrested or
detained, in a move party officials said hindered any chance to
start long-delayed peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, Turkish and
Kurdish intellectuals gathered under tight security for a major
2-day conference in Istanbul to discuss a peaceful resolution to the
22-year-old Kurdish conflict.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 11, In Zimbabwe
lawmaker Giles Mutseyekwa of the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) and seven others were formally charged with violating
security laws. The eight were rounded up on Mar 7-8 after security
agents had arrested one of the suspects identified as Mike Peter
Hitschmann over an arms cache found at his home in Mutare.
(AFP, 3/12/06)
2006 Mar 11, Zimbabwe’s Central
Statistical Office said inflation was 782 percent for the 12 months
that ended in February. Moffat Nyoni, acting director of the
government-run Statistical Office, said prices of food and
nonalcoholic beverages rose 824 percent during that time.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2007 Mar 11, The US national
debt was reported to be approaching $9 trillion. Some $240 billion
would be spent this year paying interest on the half that’s held by
public creditors, of which China and Japan are the largest.
(SSFC, 3/11/07, p.D1)
2007 Mar 11, Most of the US
switched to daylight saving time a few weeks earlier than usual.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Halliburton CEO
Dave Lesar announced that his oil services company will soon shift
its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial
powerhouse of Dubai.
(AP, 3/13/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Hawaii a tour
helicopter crashed on Kauai and one person was killed. This was the
2nd fatal copter crash on the island in 4 days.
(SFC, 3/12/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 11, Betty Hutton
(b.1921), film star, died in Palm Springs. Her films included “Annie
Get Your Gun” (1950) and “Somebody Loves Me” (1952).
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A2)
2007 Mar 11, In Bolivia
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez called for a socialist
counterattack against the American "empire," taking his campaign to
upstage President Bush's Latin American tour to a packed gymnasium
in a poor, indigenous Bolivian city.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, In northeast China
22 miners were confirmed dead and the lives of seven others were
feared lost in a coal mine flood on the previous day. The flood
occurred in a pit belonging to the state-owned Fushun Mining Group
in the province of Liaoning.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Colombia about
150 protesters attacked riot police with rocks and metal barriers
and ripped down lampposts Bogota, just moments after President Bush
landed for a six-hour visit. Bush put fighting poverty at the top of
his agenda in Colombia and promised more aid and a trade deal for
Pres. Uribe.
(AP, 3/11/07)(WSJ, 3/12/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 11, Health Ministry
and World Health Organization officials said a 4-year-old Egyptian
boy has contracted the deadly bird flu virus, bringing to 24 the
number of Egyptians who have tested positive for the disease.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Jacques Chirac,
admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced
he will not seek a third term in elections this spring, a widely
expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative
rival who has siphoned off his political base. His popularity had
shrunk to 29% as unemployment stood at 8.6%.
(AP, 3/11/07)(Econ, 3/17/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 11, Iranian TV quoted
government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham as saying Ahmadinejad
"intends to attend a UN Security Council meeting to be held on
Iran's nuclear case in order to defend the rights of the Iranian
nation in exploiting peaceful nuclear energy."
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, At least 58 people
were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq, including 31 Shiite
pilgrims who died in a car bombing as they returned from a religious
festival.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Voters in
Mauritania went to the polls with hopes that whoever wins the first
presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the
country back into totalitarian rule.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Morocco a man
with explosives hidden under his clothes had a dispute with the
owner of an Internet café in Casablanca and a blast occurred
as the two men were coming to blows. Another man at the scene who
attempted to flee was arrested by police and found to be carrying
explosives.
(Reuters, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Palestinian gunmen
from Hamas and Fatah exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip, killing a
local militia leader and wounding seven people.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Russians voted in
scattered regional ballots marred by complaints that opposition
forces are being frozen out of the country's politics.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, In Somalia a
13-year-old boy and a woman were killed by stray bullets and five
others were injured as Ethiopian troops protecting government
installations battled with insurgents in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/12/07)
2007 Mar 11, Spain unveiled a
towering monument to those killed three years ago in the bombings
that ripped apart rush-hour commuter trains, a glass oval containing
messages of condolence written in the aftermath of Europe's worst
Islamic terror attack.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Sri Lanka's
president chided his top police officers over a new wave of
"execution-style" killings and demanded immediate action to end a
climate of terror.
(AFP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 11, Zimbabwe's main
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested as riot police
thwarted a planned mass demonstration in Harare against President
Robert Mugabe's government. Top opposition leaders were assaulted
and tortured by police who broke up a prayer meeting planned to
protest government policies. Tsvangirai suffered head injuries while
in police custody. Opposition militant Gift Tandare was killed as
police disbanded the prayer meeting. President Robert Mugabe (83)
said in an interview that he intends to stand in the country's next
presidential elections if they are held as scheduled in 2008.
(AFP, 3/11/07)(Reuters, 3/12/07)(AP, 3/19/07)
2008 Mar 11, The US Federal
Reserve and other central banks said they will pump $200 billion
into the financial markets, using the Term Securities Lending
Facility (TSLF), to help ease the strain from the credit crisis.
Wall Street rebounded with its biggest rally since 2002 at the DJIA
rose 416.66 to 12,156.81. Gas prices rose to a record national level
of $3.2272 per gallon.
(AP, 3/11/08)(SFC, 3/12/08, p.B1,B3)(Econ,
3/15/08, p.89)
2008 Mar 11, Sen. Barack Obama
picked up five more delegates than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in
Mississippi's Democratic primary.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said 26% of US teen girls are
infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease. The rate
was highest among blacks.
(AP, 3/11/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The SF Board of
Supervisors passed a law requiring chain restaurants to post
nutrition information on their menus.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.C1)
2008 Mar 11, The Pacific
Fishery Management Council said it would have to ban all salmon
fishing, due to depleted spawning, unless a request is made for an
emergency exception.
(SFC, 3/13/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, The US space
shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad to
deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a
Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In western
Afghanistan police backed by NATO-led troops killed four suspected
criminals after a spate of kidnappings and robberies. The ministry
said an Afghan soldier was killed in Kapisa province, just north of
Kabul. Taliban militants attacked a district administrative compound
in southern Zabul province, and the ensuing one-hour gunbattle left
one Taliban dead and three wounded. 5 militants set fire to the
generator, fuel tank and antenna of the tower in the Obe district of
Herat province. The tower belonged to the Areeba company. Afghan and
US-led coalition forces killed nearly a dozen suspected militants in
Helmand during a clash in Garmsir district.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Bangladesh's
military-backed government backed down from a policy to ensure equal
property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that
the move would override Islamic law.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Belgian
government and banks agreed to pay $170 million to Holocaust
survivors, families of victims and the Jewish community for their
material losses during Word War II.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, The Bank of
England said it would inject a further 10 billion pounds into money
markets amid the ongoing credit crunch.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Some 600,000 poor
Chileans will receive monthly pensions starting in July under a law
signed by President Michelle Bachelet that plugs gaps in Chile's
widely copied private pension system.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, China unveiled
plans to revamp bureaucratic government ministries and create new
agencies to help it tackle pressing issues such as nuclear energy,
food and drug safety, environmental protection and the Internet.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Thousands of
Chinese security personnel fired tear gas to try to disperse more
than 600 monks taking part in a second day of rare street protests
in Tibet.
(Reuters, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Three generals
regarded as national heroes in Croatia went on trial at the Hague,
accused of orchestrating the killing of at least 150 Serbs in a 1995
military campaign that unleashed widespread murder and pillage.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, EU regulators
cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick,
saying the acquisition won't curb competition for online ads.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, At least 42 people
were killed across Iraq. A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in
southern Iraq, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened
fire on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead. The
Pentagon said up to 90% of the foreign fighters in Iraq cross from
Syria.
(AFP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)(WSJ, 3/12/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 11, In Japan
authorities arrested in Osaka arrested Hatsue Shimizu (64) and
Yoshiko Ishii (55), two sisters, for allegedly hiding millions of
dollars worth of cash in their garage to evade inheritance taxes.
Their father, who was in the real-estate lease business, died in
2004, leaving $72.9 million to his family.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Top leaders
Malaysia's opposition-ruled states will no longer follow a longtime
affirmative action program that benefits the majority Malays, in the
wake of an election upheaval that clipped the ruling coalition's
powers.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Mexico's federal
attorney general's office announced an investigation into
allegations of corruption against Interior Secretary Juan Camilo
Mourino, a confidant of the president who holds the government's
second highest profile job.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, State media said
Mozambique's President Armando Guebuza has sacked three senior
members of his government, including his foreign minister.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, Nigerian soldiers
hunting Niger Delta gang leader Ateke Tom said they had found a huge
cache of arms and ammunition, along with an illegal pipeline used to
tap stolen oil, in a raid on one of his bases.
(AFP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Lahore,
Pakistan, massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police
headquarters and a business, killing 27 people and wounding more
than 200 others in attacks that deepened the security crisis. The
wounded included 32 girls who were hit by flying debris at a school
near the police building.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 11, Palestinian
militants in Gaza launched a rocket at the Israeli city of Ashkelon,
causing no injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of
calm.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 11, In Peru a
helicopter ferrying passengers from the La Granja copper mine owned
by the Rio Tinto Group crashed in the Andes with 10 people aboard.
The wreckage was found the next day.
(AP, 3/13/08)
2008 Mar 11, Serbia and Russia
demanded that the UN administration in Kosovo halt the transfer of
authority to the European Union, calling a handover illegal and
declaring they will never recognize the independence of the Serb
province.
(AP, 3/12/08)
2009 Mar 11, Pres. Obama signed
a $410 billion US spending bill, stuffed with earmarks, to fund the
operations of all but 3 Cabinet departments. He called it a
departure point and unveiled new rules to restrict earmarks.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, Pres. Obama signed
a bill rolling back the Bush administration restrictions on Cuban
Americans visiting relatives in Cuba.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A8)
2009 Mar 11, VP Biden announced
that Pres. Obama has chosen Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske as
the nation’s new drug czar.
(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, US authorities
deported 60 Nigerians accused of theft, credit card scams and
drug-related offences.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, A California state
study said global warming is expected to cause a rise of nearly 5
feet along the coastline and severely threatening SF Bay by 2100.
The rising waters could cost the state $14 billion of more to
safeguard the coast.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/12/09, p.A1)
2009 Mar 11, Forbes magazine
released its list of 793 of the world’s richest people. Joaquin "El
Chapo" Guzman, a suspected drug lord and Mexico's most-wanted
fugitive, made the list of billionaires with a fortune described as
"self made." He was No. 701 on the list. The list included 5
Indonesians.
(AP, 3/11/09)(SSFC, 3/15/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 11, In eastern Algeria
suspected Islamist extremists shot and killed a police officer and
wounded another in a shoot-out near Batna city. 3 armed Islamists
were killed by the security forces in Souk El-Thenine town.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, Australia said it
would provide funding to Zimbabwe's new unity government, the first
Western power to announce direct support to the new administration.
(Reuters, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, More than 30
shipping containers of ammonium nitrate fell off a ship in stormy
seas off Australia, damaging the ship's hull and leaking up to 30
tons of oil [see Mar 13]. Swire Shipping's cargo liner Pacific
Adventurer released about 200,000 liters (53,000 US gallons) of
heavy fuel oil off the coast of Queensland state as it travelled
through cyclonic weather. Australia later sought more than 18
million US dollars in compensation from a Hong Kong-based shipping
company. In August the Hong Kong-based Swire Shipping company said
it will pay Australia 25 million dollars (21 million US) in
compensation for the oil spill.
(AP, 3/11/09)(AFP, 5/6/09)(AFP, 8/8/09)
2009 Mar 11, Brazil’s Central
Bank cut its benchmark Selic rate by 1.5% to 11.25%. further cuts
were expected.
(Econ, 3/28/09, p.44)
2009 Mar 11, In Brazil a
prosecutor charged rancher Regivaldo Galvao, accused of murdering US
nun Dorothy Strang, with trying to fraudulently obtain a plot of the
rain forest that Strang had worked to protect.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 11, In eastern China
11 people were killed and 20 were injured after a blast led to the
collapse of a former factory that was housing railway workers.
Preliminary investigations revealed the collapse was triggered when
leftover aluminium powder in the building in Danyang city, Jiangsu
province ignited and exploded just after midnight.
(AFP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, French Pres.
Sarkozy announced that France will return as full-fledged member of
the 26-naqtion NATO alliance.
(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 11, German prosecutors
said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk (88)
with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as
a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his
extradition from the US.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, In southwestern
Germany Tim Kretschmer (17) dressed in black opened fire at his
former high school in Winnenden, killing 12 people. He fled the
scene and killed a 56-year-old janitor of a nearby psychiatric
hospital in a park. He then fled in a hijacked car, and killed 2
more people before apparently shooting himself to death. Kretschmer
graduated last year from the school of about 1,000 students. In 2011
Stuttgart state court gave Kretschmer’s father a 21-month suspended
sentence for not securing his 9mm Beretta pistol.
(AP,
3/11/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kretschmer#Perpetrator)(AP,
3/12/09)(AP, 2/10/11)
2009 Mar 11, In Iraq Tariq
Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister, was convicted of
crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the
1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of price gouging while Iraq
was under UN sanctions.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Italy's highest
court sided with the government and threw out key evidence in an
alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Italy,
dealing a blow to the trial of 26 Americans charged in the case.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Prosecutors in
Kyrgyzstan charged a prominent opposition leader with murder in a
case that government critics say is politically motivated. Alikbek
Jekshenkulov was accused of involvement in the shooting of a Turkish
citizen in late 2007 and illegal possession of a weapon.
Jekshenkulov was foreign minister until February 2007.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, In Madagascar Col.
Andre Ndrianarijaona, the leader of a group of mutinous soldiers,
declared himself head of the army, raising questions about the
president's hold on power on this impoverished Indian Ocean island.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Officials in
Namibia said at least 92 people had drowned in its northern regions
since the start of rainy season in Dec.
(SSFC, 3/15/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 11, Pakistan arrested
hundreds of opposition activists and banned protests in two regions
ahead of a planned rally outside the parliament that could weaken
the already shaky rule of the country's US-allied government.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, Saudi Arabia
hosted the leaders of Egypt and Syria in an effort to persuade
Damascus to move away from Iran and join with US-allied Arab
countries in working to blunt Tehran's influence.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 11, The African Union
extended by three months the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in
Somalia, and called on the UN to lift its arms embargo there.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, Sri Lanka’s
military killed Sabaratnam Selvathurai, a senior rebel leader, in
fighting in Puthukkudiyiruppu, the last town held by the rebels.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 11, In Sudan armed men
abducted three international aid workers and two Sudanese guards in
the Darfur region, a week after the government ordered aid groups
expelled in response to an international arrest warrant for Sudan's
president on war crimes charges. The abducted workers were from the
Belgian branch of Doctors Without Borders and they were seized from
their offices in the Saraf Umra area.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2010 Mar 11, US Republican
senators sent a letter to the head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of
America board of governors seeking detailed financial information
about executive compensation, travel and lobbying expenses, and how
the national charity awards grants to local clubs. The four senators
said they were concerned that the chief executive of a charity that
has been closing local clubs for lack of funding was compensated
nearly $1 million in 2008.
(AP, 3/12/10)
2010 Mar 11, A US
court-appointed examiner report investigating the failure of Lehman
Bros. was unsealed. It said Lehman executives had manipulated
balance sheets to temporarily remove $50 billion of troubled assets.
Lehman’s bankruptcy in September, 2008, helped spread fear
throughout the global financial system.
(SFC, 3/13/10, p.D1)
2010 Mar 11, In NYC lawyers
representing construction companies, and rescue and recovery workers
agreed to a settlement that could pay as much as $657.5 million to
responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
On March 19 a federal judge rejected the ground zero settlement
saying it was insufficient and that too much of it would go to legal
fees. In June a $712 million settlement was reached.
(SFC, 3/12/10, p.A8)(SFC, 3/20/10, p.A5)(SFC,
6/11/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 11, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, during a visit to Pakistan, said Afghanistan does not
want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought
on its soil. Five Afghan civilians, four of them children, were
killed in an explosion in Kapisa province. A gunmen shot dead a
South African construction contractor and his Afghan colleague in a
separate attack in Khost province. One member of the NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an
explosion in the south of the country.
(Reuters, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Brazilian
television network SBT broadcast a tape of Luiz Marques Barbosa (83)
in bed with a 19-year-old that was widely distributed on the
Internet. The station said the video was secretly filmed in January
2009 and sent anonymously to the network. Barbosa was detained in
april out of fear he would flee the country.
(AP, 4/20/10)(http://tinyurl.com/y7vwfnz)
2010 Mar 11, British bank HSBC
said information on 24,000 customers with Swiss accounts has
been stolen, potentially exposing large numbers of international
clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Greece clashes
between some 200 masked youths and riot police broke out as some
20,000 striking workers protested in central Athens against
government austerity measures.
(SFC, 3/12/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 11, In Honduras David
Meza (51), a radio journalist whose career spanned three decades,
was ambushed and killed in La Ceiba as he arrived home in his car.
(AP, 3/15/10)
2010 Mar 11, Preliminary
election results released by Iraq's electoral commission showed PM
Nouri al-Maliki leading in Babil province by nearly 14,000 votes and
in Najaf by 7,000, two Shiite provinces in southern Iraq. Manaf
Abdul al-Rawi, alleged Baghdad leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq, was
arrested. He soon gave investigators information that eventually led
to the April 18 strike that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu
Ayyub al-Masri.
(AP, 3/11/10)(SFC, 4/23/10, p.A2)(AP, 5/1/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Kazakhstan a
dam at the Kyzyl-Agash reservoir in the eastern Almaty region
ruptured, pouring water into several nearby villages and affecting
3,000 residents. A 2nd dam was washed away in the nearby Karatalsky
district. Emergency officials said heavy rain and melting snow have
caused severe floods across a region of Kazakhstan neighboring
China, flooding villages and claiming at least 35 lives.
(AP, 3/12/10)(AFP, 3/12/10)(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Mexico 2
glowing brides in matching white gowns and four other same-sex
couples made history in Mexico City as they wed under Latin
America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Mexico gunmen
burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened
fire, killing 5 young men and wounding 5 others, including a
10-year-old girl, during a wake being held for a young man shot to
death in his car earlier in the week. The death toll rose to 6 the
next day after a woman died of wounds suffered in the attack.
(AP, 3/12/10)(AP, 3/13/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Pakistan a
homemade bomb exploded on the outskirts of the northwestern city of
Peshawar, killing four people, including one child.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Somalia heavy
fighting between insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at
least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used
tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent
attack.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Sweden's
parliament narrowly approved a resolution recognizing the 1915 mass
killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish
government to recall its ambassador in protest.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, Ukrainian
lawmakers formed a new majority coalition around President Viktor
Yanukovych. Before forming the new governing coalition, Yanukovych
signed a new law allowing individual deputies to break away from
their parliamentary factions, which allowed his coalition to
eventually control 235 of the chamber's 450 seats. Mykola Azarov,
who served as Yanukovych's campaign strategist in this year's
presidential elections, was chosen as premier.
(AP, 3/11/10)
2010 Mar 11, In Yemen 3
southern independence activists were killed and five wounded as
demonstrations in southern towns sparked clashes with police and
sympathy rallies in the north against the crackdown. Yemeni
authorities confiscated Al-Jazeera television broadcasting equipment
from the station's San'a offices after complaining of its coverage
of the country's restive southern region.
(AP, 3/11/10)(AP, 3/12/10)
2010 Mar 11, The Zimbabwe Red
Cross said at least 2.17 million Zimbabweans need food aid and the
figures are set to rise because of an expected poor harvest this
year.
(AFP, 3/11/10)
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