On this day

1964 - The first Ford Mustang rolled off of the Ford assembly line.

1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais.

1934 Yuri Gagarin Born

1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.

1952 Bill Beaumont Born

0515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.

0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.

March 11th events.


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

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.

537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.

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

birthdays

rupert murdoch-79
jerry zucker-60
john barrowman-43

1985-mikhail gorbachev becomes leader of the soviet union.

March 12th. Some interesting events!


1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.


1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Dandi March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.


1964 – New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first state to sell lottery tickets in the modern era

birthdays

ron jeremy-57
coleen nolan-45
liza minnelli-63

1969-Paul McCartney weds Linda Eastman in london.

1984-more than half the uk's 187,000 coal miners strike over threat to jobs.

1993-At least 200 people are killed and 800 injured in Bombay bomb blasts.