11 March

1198       Marie of France (died), Countess of Champagne (born 1145)

1514       Donato Bramante (died), Italian architect, designed the San Pietro in Montorio (born 1444)

1702       The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.

1819       Henry Tate (born), English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle (died 1899)

1820      Benjamin West (died), English-American painter (born 1738)

1822       Joseph Louis François Bertrand (born), French mathematician (died 1900)

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

1845       Johnny Appleseed (Jonathan Chapman) (died), American environmentalist (born 1774)

1851       The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.

1861       The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adoptedied

1866       Ulysses F. Doubleday (died), American politician (born 1792)

1867       The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.

1870      Louis Bachelier (born), French mathematician (died 1946)

1872       Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

1873       David Horsley (born), English-American businessman, co-founded Universal Studios (died 1933)

1874       Charles Sumner (died), American lawyer and politician (born 1811)

1880      Harry H. Laughlin (born), American eugenecist (died 1943)

1885      Malcolm Campbell (born), English race car driver (died 1948)

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

1898      Dorothy Gish (born), American actress (died 1968)

1903       Lawrence Welk (born), American accordion player and bandleader (died 1992)

1908      Benjamin Waugh (died), American minister and activist (born 1839)

1915       Hans Peter Keller (born), German poet and author (died 1988)

1915       J. C. R. Licklider (born), American computer scientist and psychologist (died 1990)

1920       Nicolaas Bloembergen (born), Dutch-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1921       Frank Harary (born), American mathematician (died 2005)

1927       In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

1931       Rupert Murdoch (born), Australian-American businessman, founded News Corporation

1932       Leroy Jenkins (born), American violinist and composer (Revolutionary Ensemble) (died 2007)

1932       Martin Richards (born), American film producer (died 2012)

1934       Sam Donaldson (born), American journalist

1936       Antonin Scalia (born), American jurist

1937       Joseph S. Cullinan (died), American businessman, co-founded Texaco (born 1860)

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

1942       World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.

1945       Harvey Mandel (born), American guitarist (Pure Food and Drug Act and Canned Heat)

1945       Tricia O’Neil (born), American actress

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

1947       Mark Stein (born), American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Vanilla Fudge)

1950       Bobby McFerrin (born), American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor

1950       Jerry Zucker (born), American director, screenwriter, and producer

1953       Derek Daly (born), Irish-American race car driver

1953       Jimmy Iovine (born), American record producer and businessman, co-founded Interscope Records and Beats Electronics

1955       Alexander Fleming (died), Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)

1955       Oscar F. Mayer (died), German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (born 1859)

1956       Joey Buttafuoco (born), American businessman and criminal

1957       Richard E. Byrd (died), American admiral and explorer (born 1888)

1958       Eddie Lawson (born), American motorcycle racer

1958       Ole Kirk Christiansen (died), Danish businessman, founded The Lego Group (born 1891)

1960       Roy Chapman Andrews (died), American explorer (born 1884)

1962       Peter Berg (born), American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer

1967       Geraldine Farrar (died), American soprano and actress (born 1882)

1969       John Daly (died), Irish runner (born 1880)

1969       Terrence Howard (born), American actor, singer, and producer

1970       Erle Stanley Gardner (died), American author (born 1889)

1971       Philo Farnsworth (died), American inventor (born 1906)

1971       Whitney Young (died), American activist (born 1921)

1974       Adam Wakeman (born), English keyboardist for Ozzy Osbourne’s band and also plays keyboards for Black Sabbath

1977       More than 130 hostages held in Washington, DIEDC. by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.

1977       Ulysses S. Grant IV (died), American geologist and paleontologist (born 1893)

1978       Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel’s Operation Litani.

1983       Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.

1986       Sonny Terry (died), American singer and harmonica player (born 1911)

1990       Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

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

1996       Vince Edward (died)s, American actor and director (born 1928)

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

2004      Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.

2006      Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

2006      Slobodan Milošević (died), Yugoslav politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1941)

2007      Betty Hutton (died), American actress and singer (born 1921)

2009      Charles Lewis, Jr. (died), American businessman, co-founded Tapout Clothing (born 1963)

2009      Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.

2010      Merlin Olsen (died), American football player and actor (born 1940)

2011       An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

2012       A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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