March 11......

March 11 is the 70th (71st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).

● 417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome

● 537 - Goths lay siege to Rome

● 843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople

● 928 - Trpimir II succeedes to the Croatian throne

● 1387 - Battle of Castagnaro

● 1502 - Tebriz shah Ismail I of Persia crowned

● 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X

● 1563 - League of High Nobles' second protest against King Philip II

● 1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel

● 1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France

● 1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.

● 1665 - New York's English Deputies approved a new legal code, which guaranteed all Protestants the right to practice their religious observances unhindered. (There were currently a host of Protestant groups thriving within this now-English colony, acquired only seven months earlier from the Dutch.)

● 1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

● 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

● 1738 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'Suffering times are a Christian's best improving times; for they break the will, wean us from the creature, prove the heart.'

● 1779 - Army Corps of Engineers for the United States was authorized by the Congress

● 1789 - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC

● 1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent

● 1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols

● 1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne.

● 1811 - England - Luddites attack machines designed to replace them in the weaving of wool.

● 1812 - Luddites suffer first defeat at Rawkolds Mill, Great Britain.

● 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews

● 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT

● 1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

● 1833 - U.S. troops intervene in Nicaragua.

● 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile

● 1845 - Seven hundred Maoris led by their chief, Hone-Heke, burned the small town of Kororareka. The act was in protest to the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, which was a breach of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

● 1845 - Wittenberg College was chartered in Springfield, Ohio, under Lutheran auspices.

● 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Also, Henry Jones invented self-raising flour on this day.

● 1847 - John Chapman 'Johnny Appleseed' died in Allen County, Indiana. This day became known as Johnny Appleseed Day.

● 1849 - Birth of Eliza Nicholson, first woman newspaper publisher in South.

● 1850 - Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)

● 1860 - Birth of H. Frances Davidson, pioneer missionary. In 1892, she became the first woman from the Brethren in Christ Church to earn an M.A. degree, and in 1897 became one of her denomination's first missionaries to travel to the African continent.

● 1861 - Delegates in Montgomery, Ala. unanimously ratify a permanent constitution for the Confederate States of America. The constitution banned the African slave trade but permit interstate commerce in slaves.

● 1862 - General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia

● 1862 - Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief

● 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee

● 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.

● 1865 - General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC

● 1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)

● 1872 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. Also on this day in 1872, the Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.

● 1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

● 1892 - Anarchists in Clichy, France retaliate for the trial of their colleagues, bombing the homes of the presiding judge today and, two weeks later, the prosecutor. Police in Clichy had attacked a six-man anarchist labor rally. The workers defended themselves with guns and ended up with long terms at hard labor.

● 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed

● 1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

● 1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.

● 1901 - Britain rejected an amended treaty to the canal agreement with Nicaragua.

● 1905 - The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated.

● 1907 - U.S. President Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.

● 1907 - Bulgarian Premier Nicolas Petkov slain by anarchist.

● 1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.

● 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

● 1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded

● 1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed

● 1923 - Death of Mary Ann Thomson, 89, American hymnwriter. Among her most enduring contributions to the Church were the lyrics to "O Zion, Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling," which she wrote at age 34.

● 1924 - 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins

● 1926 - Birth of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. Linden, Alabama.

● 1926 - George Lansbury proposes in Parliament abolition of Royal Navy, Britain.

● 1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein

● 1927 - The Flatheads Gang stole $104,250 in the first armored-car robbery near Pittsburgh, PA.

● 1930 - U.S. President Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, VA.

● 1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union

● 1935 - The trial of prolific child murderer and incorrigible sexual deviate Albert Fish begins for murdering and eating 10-yr. old Grace Budd; he will be convicted and executed, White Plains, New York.

● 1935 - Bank of Canada opens

● 1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe

● 1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.

● 1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria

● 1938 - German troops enter Austria

● 1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.

● 1942 - As Japanese forces continued to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia, vowing: ''I shall return.''

● 1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp

● 1942 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra

● 1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands

● 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested

● 1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

● 1945 - Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death

● 1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.

● 1946 - Communists and Nationalists began fighting as the Soviets pulled out of Mukden, Manchuria.

● 1946 - Pravda denounced Winston Churchill as anti-Soviet and a warmonger.

● 1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

● 1948 - Reginald Weir became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open

● 1950 - American Airlines maintenance workers win nationwide strike, gaining first severance pay clause in industry and limits on subcontracting.

● 1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

● 1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

● 1954 - U.S. Army charges Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his counsel, Roy Cohn, with using threats in trying to get preferred treatment for Private G. David Schine. Robert Kennedy has left his staff by this time. McCarthy and Cohn's witch hunting days are about to end.

● 1955 - Farewell to scientist who discovered penicillin; Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin - dies of a heart attack.

● 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opens, transforming American theater.

● 1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus

● 1963 - Andre Georges Roulot (1885-1963) dies. Individualist anarchist and free thinker. Sympathetic to the Bolsheviks in the '20s, he moved away from anarchism, focussing on anticlericalism, and the Federation of Free Thinkers, of which he became president in 1958.

● 1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain

● 1964 - U.S. Senator Carl Hayden (D-AZ) he record for continuous service in the U.S. Senate. He had worked 37 years and seven days.

● 1965 - The American navy began inspecting Vietnamese junks in an effort to end arms smuggling to the South.

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

● 1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto

● 1965 - Almost 100 civil-rights activists picket the White House, demanding support for equal rights in Alabama. The protest culminates as a dozen picketers march into the presidential mansion and begin a sit-in. After six hours, police arrest the demonstrators. Today's sit-in is one of several massive protests across the country against police and mob actions in Selma, Alabama. Just this year in Selma, more than a thousand protesters have gone to jail, state police have beaten to death an African American youth, white hoodlums have killed a Boston minister, the Ku Klux Klan has murdered a Detroit housewife, and state trooper attacks have sent more than 50 peaceful marchers to the hospital.

● 1966 - Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years in prison for trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a small amount of marijuana; Leary appeals and gives press interviews.

● 1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.

● 1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.

● 1966 - Three men were convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.

● 1968 - Polish students battle Communist police in Warsaw. Workers join the three-day-old student uprising.

● 1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting

● 1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation

● 1971 - Uprising at University of Puerto Rico.

● 1973 - Formation of independent Oglala Sioux Nation proclaimed during the AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. FBI agent killed in firefight.

● 1974 - 'Anti-IRA spies' break out of jail; Two self-proclaimed British Government spies have escaped from a top-security prison in Ireland where they were serving sentences for armed robbery.

● 1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts

● 1975 - Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails

● 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1976 - Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers.

● 1977 - Roman Polanski charged with rape; French film director Roman Polanski is charged with raping a 13-year- old girl in Hollywood.

● 1977 - 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway

● 1977 - 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.

● 1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.

● 1979 - In anti-tax demonstrations 50,000 people march through Dublin calling for a general strike.

● 1981 - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins

● 1982 - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

● 1982 - Harrison Williams (Senator-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion

● 1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC

● 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.

● 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.

● 1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC

● 1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm

● 1988 - Beginning of ten days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. The event is almost completely ignored by mainstream media.

● 1988 - £ note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by £ coin

● 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Ceasefire declared.

● 1990 - Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control.

● 1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1973.

● 1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.

● 1992 - Former U.S. President Nixon said that the Bush administration was not giving enough economic aid to Russia.

● 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.

● 1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection.

● 1994 - In Chile, Eduardo Frei was sworn in as President. It was the first peaceful transfer of power in Chile since 1970.

● 1995 - -36.8ºF (-38.2ºC) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67ºN

● 1995 - President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament

● 1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

● 1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.

● 1996 - EU Database Directive passed

● 1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.

● 1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

● 1998 - The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.

● 1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

● 2001 - Zapatista rebels complete two week nonviolent march to meet peace commission, Mexico City.

● 2001 - Big rise in new cases of foot-and-mouth; It is the worst day for new foot-and-mouth cases since the disease was first diagnosed two weeks ago

● 2002 - Two columns of light were pointed skyward from ground zero in New York as a temporary memorial to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

● 2002 - Israel lifted Yasser Arafat's three-month confinement in the West Bank.

● 2003 - Fort Drum, NY, 11 troops were killed and two were injured during a training mission when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed.

● 2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.

● 2004 - 10 bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and wounding more than 2,000 in an attack linked to al-Qaida..

● 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. A suspect, Brian Nichols, surrendered the next day.

● 2006 - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed a quarter of a million people.

● 2006 - Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

BIRTHS

● 1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)

● 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)

● 1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; dissented in the Dred Scott decision (1857) (d. 1861)

● 1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)

● 1811 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877)

● 1822 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)

● 1836 - Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician and educator (d. 1900)

● 1836 - Charles Eastlake, English museologist and art writer (d. 1906)

● 1863 - Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)

● 1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)

● 1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)

● 1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)

● 1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)

● 1885 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948)

● 1890 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)

● 1892 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)

● 1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)

● 1899 - Frederick IX of Denmark, Danish King (d. 1972)

● 1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)

● 1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)

● 1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)

● 1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)

● 1915 - Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (d. 2004)

● 1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

● 1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate

● 1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)

● 1921 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)

● 1922 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (d. 1997)

● 1923 - Terence Alexander, Actor

● 1926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)

● 1927 - Robert Mosbacher, United States Secretary of Commerce

● 1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)

● 1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur

● 1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter

● 1936 - Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice

● 1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician (Texas Tornados)

● 1945 - Tricia O'Neil, Actress

● 1946 - Mark Metcalf, Actor

● 1947 - Mark Stein, Rock musician (Vanilla Fudge)

● 1948 - César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player

● 1948 - Dominique Sanda, French actress

● 1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer

● 1950 - Jerry Zucker, American director

● 1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)

● 1952 - Susan Richardson, Actress (''Eight is Enough'')

● 1953 - Jimmy Iovine, Head of Interscope Records

● 1954 - Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior

● 1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Country singer (The Statler Brothers)

● 1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer

● 1956 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor

● 1957 - Cheryl Lynn, R&B singer

● 1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)

● 1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist

● 1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress

● 1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director

● 1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor

● 1963 - David Talbot, Country musician

● 1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress (''ER'')

● 1964 - Vinnie Paul, American musician (Pantera)

● 1964 - Shane Richie, British actor

● 1965 - Wallace Langham, Actor (''CSI'')

● 1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter

● 1967 - John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor

● 1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer

● 1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor

● 1969 - Pete Droge, Rock singer (The Thorns)

● 1969 - Rami Jaffee, Rock musician (Wallflowers)

● 1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality ("Jackass")

● 1974 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player

● 1975 - Eric the Midget, American radio personality

● 1976 - Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer

● 1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast footballer

● 1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer

● 1979 - Benji Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)

● 1979 - Joel Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)

● 1979 - Fred Jones, American basketball player

● 1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player

● 1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer

● 1981 - David Anders, American actor (''Alias'')

● 1981 - Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster

● 1981 - Lee Evans, American football player

● 1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)

● 1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)

● 1982 - Thora Birch, American actress

● 1985 - Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player

● 1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

● 1990 - Reiley McClendon, American actor

DEATHS

● 222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor

● 222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)

● 1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)

● 1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)

● 1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)

● 1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)

● 1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer

● 1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer

● 1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)

● 1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)

● 1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)

● 1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)

● 1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)

● 1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)

● 1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)

● 1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho

● 1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)

● 1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)

● 1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)

● 1931 - F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)

● 1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)

● 1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)

● 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)

● 1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)

● 1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)

● 1969 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)

● 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)

● 1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)

● 1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)

● 1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)

● 1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)

● 1982 - Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)

● 1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek singer (b. 1903)

● 1993 - Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949)

● 2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)

● 2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)

● 2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)

● 2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aengus
● St. Alberta
● St. Amunia
● St. Aurea
● St. Benedict Crispus
● St. Candidus
● St. Constantine
● St. Firmian
● St. Heraclius and Zosimus
● St. Peter the Spaniard
● St. Rosina
● St. Teresa Margaret Redi, Italian Carmelite
● Sts. Trophimus & Thalus
● St. Vigilius
● St. Vindician
● Bl. Auria
● Bl. John Righi

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 28 (Civil Date: March 11)
● St. Basil the Confessor, companion of St. Procopius at Decapolis.
● Saints Marina, Cyra, and Domnica (Domnina), nuns of Syria.
● Hieromartyr Proterius, Patriarch of Alexandria.
● Hieromartyr Nestor, Bishop of Magydos in Pamphilia.
● Apostles Nymphas and Eubulus.
● Blessed Nicholas of Salos of Pskov, fool-for-Christ.
● New-Martyr Kyr-Anna.
● St. Romanus, desert-dweller of Condat in the Jura Mountains (Gaul).

● Greek Calendar:
● Six Holy Martyrs of Egypt.
● St. Barsus of Damascus, Bishop Martyr Abercius.
● St. Shio of Georgia, monk.
● Repose of Arsenius Matseivich, Metropolitan of Rostov (1772).
● St. John Cassian the Roman, abbot.
● (Commemorated on February 28 / March 13 in non-leap years)
● St. John, called Barsanuphius, of Nitria in Egypt.
● Martyr Theocteristus, abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa.
● St. Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Meletius, Bishop of Kharkov.

● Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.

● Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.

● United States - 311 Day.

● Zambia - Youth Day.

● Mauritius : Maha Shivaratree

● US : Johnny Appleseed Day (anniversary of his death-1845)

● World : World Culture Day (leap years)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Memphis TN: Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) - ( Tuesday )
● New Mexico: Arbor Day - ( Friday )

IN FICTION

● 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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