March 11

Sing to the LORD, bless His name; 
Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.



Psalm 96:2 

March is:

Gardening, Nature, and Ecology Books Month - Read a book about gardening, nature, ecology, botany, agriculture, or biology. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

Herb Month in Missouri - Sponsor: Ozark Regional Herb Growers

Today is:

Champagne Music Day - Celebrated on the birthday of Lawrence Welk.

Human Services Day - On the anniversary of Whitney Young's death, we honor social workers. Sponsor: National Association of Social Workers

Johnny Appleseed Day - Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees all over the old Northwest. He died on this day in 1847.

Born on this Day

• 1544: Torquato Tasso
  

• 1731: Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
  

• 1860: Thomas Hastings, architect of the New York Public Library.
  

• 1899: Frederick IX, King of Denmark
  

• 1903: Band leader Lawrence Welk (some sources 1908)His "Lawrence Welk Show" was the longest-running TV show in history. (1955-1971).
  

• 1911: Tennessee Williams, American playwright
  

• 1916: Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson
  

• 1926: Civil rights leader The Rev. Ralph Abernathy
  

• 1931: Newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch
  

• 1931: Actress Valerie French (Harrison)
  

• 1932: Jazz musician Leroy Jenkins
  

• 1934: ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson
  

• 1934: Actress, Tina Louise, (Gilligan's Island)
  

• 1935: Actress Nancy Kovack
  

• 1936: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
  

• 1939: Musician Flaco Jimenez (The Texas Tornadoes)
  

• 1945: Actress Tricia O'Neil
  

• 1947: Singer-musician (Vanilla Fudge) Mark Stein
  

• 1950: Singer Bobby McFerrin
  

• 1950: Movie director Jerry Zucler
  

• 1951: Actress Dominique Sanda
  

• 1952: Actress Susan Richardson
  

• 1955: Singer Nina Hagen
  

• 1955: Country singer Jimmy Fortune (The Statler Brothers)
  

• 1957: Singer Cheryl Lynn
  

• 1961: Musician (Big Country) Bruce Watson
  

• 1963: Actress Alex Kingston ("E-R")
  

• 1965: Actor Wallace Langham ("Veronica's Closet")
  

• 1967: Actor John Barrowman
  

• 1969: Singer Pete Droge  
  

• 1982: Actress Thora Birch ("American Beauty")
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0250: Death of St. Pionius
  

• 0537: Goths lay siege to Rome
  

• 0638: Death of St. Sophronius
  

• 0859: Death of St. Eulogius of Cordoba
  

• 1513: Election of Pope Leo X
  

• 1514: Death of Bramante; Raphael takes over the building of St. Peter's
  

• 1566: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, receives Moray and his adherents
  

• 1602: Death of Emilio di Cavalieri, composer
  

• 1676: Allart van Everdingen, Dutch artist, dies at about 54
  

• 1810: Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
  

• 1829: The Bach revival began. At that time, when people said "Bach" they meant one of the sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The performance in Berlin on March 11th, 1829, of "St. Matthew Passion"conducted by the 20-year-old Mendelssohn himself, was a sensation.
  

• 1847: John Chapman 'Johnny Appleseed' died in Allen County, Indiana.
  

• 1851: "Rigoletto" premiered in Venice producing a tremendous success for Verdi.
  

• 1861: The Confederate convention in Montgomery, Alabama, adopted a constitution.
  

• 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
  

• 1888: Some 400 people died as a four-day snow storm crippled New York City. It came to be known as the Blizzard of '88.
  

• 1892: 1st public game of basketball.
  

• 1903: New York's Metropolitan Opera took a great social step forward by performing an opera composed by a woman, "Der Wald" by Ethel Smyth.
  

• 1926: Irish statesman Eamon de Valera resigned as head of Sinn Fein. He later formed the Fianna Fail party.
  

• 1927: The "Flatheads Gang" was responsible for the first armored-car robbery which took place near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was reported that $104,250 was taken in the heist.
  

• 1930: William Howard Taft became the first presiden of the United States to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
  

• 1930: Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for a sum of $80,000.
  

• 1935: Hermann Goering officially created the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force.
  

• 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease
  

• 1941: After a long debate, the Lend-Lease Bill to help Britain survive attack by Germany was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Roosevelt.
  

• 1942: As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War Two, General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, vowing: "I shall return."
  

• 1953 First woman doctor commissioned in regular army - F. M. Adams
  

• 1954: The US Army charged Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his subcommittee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Private G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee.
  

• 1959: The Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater.
  

• 1964: Senator Carl Hayden broke the record for continuous service in the U.S. Senate. He completed 37 years and seven days in the upper chamber.
  

• 1965: The Reverend James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Alabama.
  

• 1968: Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for the single, (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay. Redding was killed in a plane crash in Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1967.
  

• 1969: Levi starts to sell bell-bottomed jeans
  

• 1977: More than 130 hostages held in Washington DC by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
  

• 1985: The Soviet Union announced the death the day before of its leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed Chernenko.
  

• 1986: 187.27 million shares traded in the New York Stock Exchange.
  

• 1987: The US House of Representatives approved a resolution calling for a freeze on 40 million dollars in aid for the Nicaraguan Contras for six months.
  

• 1988: Saying, "The people have decided," Gary Hart withdrew a second time from the race for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
  

• 1989: Former World Bank head John J. McCloy, who had advised several presidents, died in Stamford, Connecticut, at age 93.
  

• 1990: The Lithuanian parliament voted to break away from the Soviet Union and restore the republic's independence.
  

• 1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker III visited Israel, where he met with Foreign Minister David Levy to discuss prospects for Middle East peace.
  

• 1992: Members of the UN 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.
  

• 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 in a harsh rebuff of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development sites for inspection.
  

• 1994: Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Beijing, the mood of his trip already soured by a fresh government crackdown on Chinese dissidents.
  

• 1995: President Clinton nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
  

• 1995: Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, arrived in the United States for a St. Patrick's Day visit.
  

• 1996: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 110.55 to end the day at 5,581 following a 171.24 plunge the Friday before.
  

• 1997: In a startling turnaround, Senate Republicans agreed to a broader investigation of campaign financing that would include a look at huge "soft money" donations.
  

• 1997: Senate confirmation hearings for CIA Director-designate Anthony Lake began.
  

• 1997: Rock star Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth the Second.
  

• 1998: The International Astronomical Union issued an alert, saying a mile-wide asteroid could zip very close to Earth on October 26th, 2028, possibly colliding with it. They said the asteroid, which had not been seen before, would pass as close as 30,000 miles to the Earth. Dr. Brian Marsden of the International Astronomical Union said. Even if it were on a path to hit Earth, technology might be available by then capable of deflecting the asteroid. (But the next day, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said there was no chance the asteroid will hit Earth.)
  

• 1998: A Florida appeals court restored Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami after charges of voter fraud on absentee ballots.
  

• 1998: President Suharto was sworn in for a seventh term as leader of Indonesia's 200 million people, warning them in somber tones of tough times ahead in overcoming the country's ravaging economic crisis. As Suharto was being sworn in, thousands of university students demonstrated in the central Java city of Yogyakarta, demanding an end to his rule.
  

• 1999: 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.
  

•  2000: Ricardo Lagos was sworn in as president of Chile, the second socialist to take the post since Salvador Allende was killed in a 1973 coup. 
  
  
  
  
  

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