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1791 - Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the first person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Four patents were issued for his machines: (1) to thresh corn and grain, (2) to break and swingle hemp, (3) to cut polished marble, and (4) to raise the nap on cloths.1888 - A blizzard started to roar along the Atlantic Seaboard of the U.S., shutting down communication and transportation lines. The white stuff continued to fall for three days in the “Great Blizzard of 1888.”
1900 - Happy Hooligan debuted. The comic strip ran successfully thru 1932.
1927 - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opened the famous Roxy Theatre in New York City. The showplace was indeed a palace. It cost $10,000,000 to build and held 6,200 theatregoers. The Roxy truly was part of the ‘golden age of the movie palace’. The screen was 18-feet by 22-feet. The first feature shown at the Roxy was The Loves of Sunya, starring Gloria Swanson and John Boles.
1930 - Former President and U.S. Chief Justice William Howard Taft was the first president to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, The portly president weighed more than 300 pounds at the time of his death.
1935 - Hermann Goering officially created the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis. It also helped Britain survive attacks by Germany.
1942 - As Japanese forces advanced in the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor in the Philippines, bound for Australia. As he departed, he vowed, “I shall return.”
1942 - Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra recorded the classic, Sleepy Lagoon. It was the last song Monroe would record for Bluebird Records. Vaughn sang on the track while Ray Conniff played trombone. Both later moved to different record companies. Monroe went with RCA and Conniff to Columbia. The big-voiced baritone of Monroe was regularly heard on radio and he was featured in several movies in the 1950s. He died in May 1973. Racing With the Moon and Ghost Riders in the Sky were two of his greatest contributions to popular music.
1948 - Reginald Weir of New York City became the first black tennis player to participate in a U.S. Indoor Lawn Tennis Association tournament.
1956 - Sir Laurence Olivier starred in the three-hour afternoon NBC-TV special, Richard III. The network reportedly paid $500,000 for the rights to the program. A writer named William Shakespeare was responsible for Richard III.
1958 - An American B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an unarmed atom bomb on a farm near a Florence, South Carolina. The bomb’s conventional explosives exploded, injured six people, leveling a farm house, and blasting a thirty-five-foot-deep crater.
1960 - The Pioneer 5 spacecraft was launched into an orbit between Earth and Venus.
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 serving the people of Arizona.
1967 - The World Cup skiing title was earned by Jean-Claude Killy of France.
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, WI on December 10, 1967. He recorded 11 charted hit songs between 1965 and 1969. Otis Redding was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
1970 - Writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of the immensely-popular Perry Mason novels, died in Temecula, California. He was 80 years old.
1971 - Television networks ABC, NBC and CBS were told by the Federal Communications Commission that a limited three-hour nightly program service -- or ‘prime time’ -- would begin in September of that year.
1973 - Héctor Cámpora won the first presidential election to be held in Argentina since 1963.
1978 - Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1985 - DJs around the U.S. began questioning listeners to see which ones could name the 46 pop music stars who appeared on the hit, We Are the World. The song, airing first on this day as a single, contains a “Who’s Who” of 1985 contemporary pop music.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. At 54, he was the youngest member of the ruling Politburo.
1986 - Popsicle announced its plan end to the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model.
1988 - Gary Hart withdrew from the race for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
1989 - Former World Bank head John J. McCloy died in Stamford, CT at the age of 93. McCloy had advised several U.S. presidents.
1990 - General Augusto Pinochet stepped down as president of Chile, opening the way for an elected civilian leader for first time since the 1973 coup.
1992 - 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.
1993 - Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the first female U.S. attorney general.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be director of the Central Inteligence Agency (CIA).
1997 - Paul McCartney was knighted by the Queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Hundreds of fans, some wearing T-shirts that read “Arise Sir Paul,” cheered his arrival and stayed outside the palace until he emerged.
1998 - French authorities dug up the remains of legendary French singer and actor Yves Montand and whisked them to a laboratory for DNA tests to settle a paternity suit. The tests would determine if Montand was the father of Aurore Drossart, age 22, who claimed she was his daughter and wanted part of his estate. Montand died in 1991 at age 70, just three days before he was to testify in the lawsuit. While alive, he refused to submit to the DNA testing, but was forced to do it in death. The tests confirmed that Yves was not Drossart’s father.
1999 - The U.S. Rodman Naval Station in Panama was transferred to Panama.
1999 - Norway approved a $57.7 million package to compensate the nation’s Jews for suffering during WW II.
2000 - Eighty miners died in an explosion at the Barakova mine in eastern Ukraine, in the country’s worst mine disaster for at least two decades.
2001 - Lawrence Summers, former Clinton Administration Treasury Secretary, was named as the 27th president of Harvard University.
2002 - Two columns of light soared skyward from Ground Zero in New York City as a temporary memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks.
2003 - Striking Broadway musicians settled a contract dispute with theater producers to end a walkout that had shut had down 18 musicals. The agreement called for a smaller number of musicians working in the largest theaters.
2004 - In Madrid, Spain, a series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession at train three stations. The blasts blew apart four commuter trains, killing some 200 people and wounding over 1,450. Spanish leaders accused Basque terrorists but a shadowy group claimed responsibility in the name of al Qaeda.
2005 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Hostage, with Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollack, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Serena Scott Thomas, Marshall Allman, Michelle Horn, Jimmy Bennett and Rumer Willis; and the animated Robots, featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear, Drew Carey, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge and Robin Williams.
2005 - Russian chess master Garry Kasparov, ranked #1 since 1984, announced his retirement.
2006 - Police stormed Paris’ Sorbonne University to evict students occupying the building in protest of a new national employment measure. The charge was carried out after the student protestors hurled furniture and ladders from windows of the school.
2008 - The U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks announced an infusion of $200 billion into the financial markets 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 -- while gas prices rose to a record $3.2272 per gallon.
2008 - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a law requiring chain restaurants to post nutrition information on their menus.
2009 - German prosecutors 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 extradited him from the U.S. Demjanjuk’s trial began in Munich, Germany on Nov 30, 2009.
2009 - Forbes magazine released its list of 793 of the world’s richest people. Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, 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. Bill Gates lost $18 billion but regained his title as the world’s richest man.
2010 - Lawyers representing construction companies, and rescue and recovery workers in New York City agreed to a $657.5 million settlement to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center. (On March 19 a federal judge rejected the settlement saying it was insufficient and that too much of it would go to legal fees. A $712 million settlement was reached in June 2010.)
2010 - A U.S. court-appointed examiner report on the failure of Lehman Bros. was unsealed. It reported 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.
2011 - Films opening in the U.S.: Battle: Los Angeles, with Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi and Ne-Yo; Ne-Yo; the animated Mars Needs Moms, featuring the voices of Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Joan Cusack, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling and Kevin Cahoon; Red Riding Hood, with Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Shiloh Fernandez, Billy Burke, Lukas Haas and Michael Shanks; Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti and Adrian Moore; Elektra Luxx, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Ermahn Ospina, Jake Hames and Patrick Kocou; Kill The Irishman, starring Val Kilmer, Ray Stevenson, Linda Cardellini, Christopher Walken, Vincent D’Onofrio and Laura Ramsey; and Jane Eyre, with Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots and Judi Dench.
2011 - Japan experienced its worst crisis since WWII. TVs around the globe displayed the unimaginable. What was the most powerful earthquake (magnitude 9.0) ever to hit Japan, a country well-prepared for earthquakes and their aftershocks, was not solely the cause of the unbelievable destruction and almost 20,000 deaths that followed. The earthquake, with an epicenter 20 miles under the sea, triggered a tsunami with wave heights up to 133 feet (at Miyako, Iwate Prefecture). No one, not even those who study earthquakes and tsunamis believed that a tsunami could reach such heights, no less travel six miles inland (Sendai area of Japan).
2011 - Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and severely damaged harbors in California after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific. Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island of Hawaii and low-lying areas on Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Hawaii damages from the tsunami surges were put at over $30 million for the entire state. Over $22 million in damage was caused by the tsunami as it hit the Santa Cruz, CA harbor alone. Experts estimated the damage along the entire California coast would top $50 million.
2012 - Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Taiwan, calling on the government to shut down the island's nuclear power plants. The demonstrators cited the painful lesson of Japan’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake of March 11, 2011.
2012 - An Egyptian military tribunal acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity. The claim had been filed by a protester who claimed that she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention. The ruling was seen by those in the country’s revolutionary movements as a sign that the generals who took over from deposed President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 were carrying on his repressive practices.
2013 - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down the mayor’s ban on large sugary drinks sold by restaurants, movie theaters and other New York food service businesses.
2014 - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein [D-CA], head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, charged the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) with illegally searching a Congressional computer network. Feinstein accused the CIA of secretly removing documents, searching computers used by the committee and attempting to intimidate congressional investigators by requesting an FBI inquiry of their conduct. The computer network in question had been established for Congress to help with its investigation of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and/or interrogation program.
2014 - Ukraine’s interim leaders established a new National Guard and appealed to the U.S. and Britain for help against Russian aggression in Crimea. This, under a post-Cold War treaty.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama signed a $410 billion spending bill, stuffed with earmarks, to fund the operations of all but 3 Cabinet departments. The bill also rolled back Bush administration restrictions on Cuban Americans visiting relatives in Cuba.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: 10 Cloverfield Lane, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr.; Grimsby, with Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong and Isla Fisher; The Young Messiah, starring Sean Bean, David Bradley and Jonathan Bailey; About Scout, starring Jane Seymour, Nikki Reed and Shelley Hennig; Backgammon, with Noah Silver, Olivia Crocicchia and Brittany Allen; the documentaries, Boom Bust Boom, City of Gold and Talent Has Hunger; Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Michelle Williams; Creative Control, with Benjamin Dickinson, Nora Zehetner and Dan Gill; The Dog Wedding, with Rosalie Thomass, Matt Bloom, Bernhard Schütz; Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and Alan Rickman; Hello, My Name is Doris, starring Sally Field, Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs; Lolo, with Julie Delpy, Dany Boon and, Vincent Lacoste; and The Perfect Match, starring Terrence Jenkins, Paula Patton and Kali Hawk.
2016 - Retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed billionaire Donald Trump, describing his former rival as “a very intelligent man.” That same day, Trump cancelled a campaign event in Chicago after a violent outbreak between protesters and his supporters.
2016 - Israeli armed forces raided a TV station run by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank. The assault was part of a crackdown to curb months of violence that Israel said was been fueled by incitement in the Palestinian media.
2017 - Opponents rallied in Seoul, South Korea to demand the arrest of leader Park Geun-hye, who had been thrown out of office the previous day over a corruption scandal involving the country’s conglomerates.
2018 - China’s National People’s Congress passed a historic constitutional amendment that abolished term limits and enabled President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. The hand-picked delegates voted 2,958 in favor -- with two opposed, three abstaining and one vote invalidated. The move marked the end of China’s 40-year-long reform era that began after the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976.
2019 - The United Nation’s anti-drug agency reported production of methamphetamine was skyrocketing in Southeast Asia, with prices dropping and usage growing. The agency said meth had become the main drug of concern in 12 out of 13 East and Southeast Asian countries. The only exception was Vietnam, where heroin was considered the big problem.
2019 - In the 2020 budget POTUS Donald Trump submitted to Congress, he demanded $8.6 billion to build a US-Mexico border wall. The record $4.75 trillion budget called for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programs.
2020 - COVID-19 news: The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak to be a ‘pandemic’. The Pentagon suspended travel to several coronavirus-hit countries, affecting all service members, employees, and their families. Countries around the world began closing borders to foreign travelers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its strongest travel warning, urging Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to Europe. And POTUS Trump barred most foreign nationals who had recently been in Europe from entering the U.S. The U.S. reported 1,039 cases of confirmed coronavirus, the eighth-highest in the world, and a death toll of 31.
2020 - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced in New York City to 23 years in prison. This, two weeks after a jury convicted him of sexual assault and rape.
2020 - From our Sign of the Times Dept: In South Dakota the Oglala Sioux Tribe announced that a referendum had passed to legalize medical and recreational marijuana on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A proposal to allow alcohol in the tribe’s casino failed.
2021 - Merrick Garland was sworn in as U.S. attorney general. He pledged that the Justice Department would adhere to “norms”, alluding to its politicization under Republican Donald Trump.
2021 - Music industry body IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) reported South Korea’s K-pop group BTS dominated world music sales in 2020. BTS put out the year’s best-, and second-best selling albums.
2022 - Disney Chief Executive Bob Chapek said the company was ‘pausing’ all political donations in Florida after an employee outcry over state legislation that would limit discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools.
2022 - The Texas Supreme Court ended a challenge by clinics to a state law that banned most abortions in Texas by ruling that only private citizens, not state officials, can enforce the law. But those private citizens can sue anyone who performs or assists a woman in obtaining an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
2023 - Russia slowed down the speed of Twitter after the company failed to remove what the country’s media watchdog described as prohibited or harmful content. The Russian government said the actions against Twitter would remain unless the platform removes the barred information. The information that the government was prohibiting related to recent protests in support of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
2023 - Eight people died after two smuggling boats capsized near the shore of Black’s Beach in San Diego County, California. Someone on one of the panga boats, a type of small fishing boat powered by an outboard motor, called 911 to report victims in the water. Lifeguards, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard were sent to the beach where one boat, carrying eight people, made it to shore, while another panga boat, carrying 15, “overturned in the surf,” said Captain James Spitler, Coast Guard sector commander in San Diego.
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Birthdays on This Day March 11
1544 - Torquato Tasso
Italian poet: Jerusalem Delivered [Conquered]; died Apr 25, 15951885 - Sir Malcolm Campbell
auto racer: first to travel 300 mph in a car [301.13 mph: Sep 3, 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats]; died Dec 31, 19481895 - Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz)
comedian, actor: The Three Stooges: Crazy Knights, The Gentleman Misbehaves, Jiggers, My Wife, Society Mugs, Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, All Gummed Up, Squareheads of the Round Table, I’m a Monkey’s Uncle, Jerks of All Trades, Three Hams on Rye, Scrambled Brains, The Tooth Will Out, Booty and the Beast; over 170 films; his brothers were fellow Stooges Moe and Curly Howard; died Nov 22, 19551898 - Dorothy Gish
actress: The Cardinal, Harvest, The Whistle at Eaton Falls, Centennial Summer, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Wolves, Madame Pompadour; died Jun 4, 19681899 - King Frederik IX
King of Denmark [1947-1972]; married to Queen Dronning Ingrid; his father was King Chrisian X; mother was Queen Ingrid; his daughters were Queen Margrethe II, Queen Anne-Marie and Princess Benedikte; died Jan 14, 19721903 - Lawrence Welk
bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater; died May 17, 19921916 - (James) Harold Wilson
British Prime Minister [1964-1970, 1974-1976]; politician: head of British Labor party; died May 24, 19951917 - Earl Bellamy
director of more than 1,600 episodes of television: The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Mike Hammer, Bachelor Father, Perry Mason, My Three Sons, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare, McHale’s Navy, The Munsters, Get Smart, The Mod Squad, Marcus Welby, M.D., M*A*S*H, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, Trapper John, M.D.; died Nov 30, 20031919 - Mercer Ellington
songwriter: Blue Serge, Things Ain’t What They Used to Be; owned Mercer record label; bandleader: only son of Duke Ellington: led the Duke’s band after he died and for musical Sophisticated Ladies; died Feb 8, 19961923 - Louise Brough
tennis champion: U.S. Open [1947], Australian Open [1950], Wimbledon [1948, 1949, 1950, 1955]; died Feb 03, 20141926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy
minister, civil rights leader: President of the Southern Christian Leadership Council [1968-1977]; father of actress Donzaleigh Abernathy; died Apr 17, 19901927 - Vince Boryla
basketball: U.S. Gold Medal Men’s Teams [1948: London]; NBA: NY Knicks; coach: NY Knicks [1956-1958]; died Mar 27, 20161928 - Valerie French (Harrison)
actress: Jubal, The 27th Day; died Nov 3, 19901930 - Troy Ruttman
auto racer: youngest winner of Indianapolis 500 [1952]; died May 19, 19971931 - Diane Brewster
actress: The Man in the Net, The Young Philadelphians, King of the Wild Stallions, Pharaoh’s Curse, Torpedo Run, Quantrill’s Raiders; died Nov 12, 19911931 - Rupert Murdoch
conservative media mogul/CEO: News Corporation: Times of London, HarperCollins book publishers, New York Post, TV Guide, 20th Century Fox film studios, Fox Television, Los Angeles Dodgers, The Wall Street Journal1932 - Leroy Jenkins
violinist: groups: Creative Construction Company, Revolutionary Ensemble; composer: Mother of Three Sons, Fresh Faust, The Negro Burial Ground; died Feb 24, 20071934 - Sam Donaldson
TV newsman: ABC White House correspondent; host: Primetime Live1935 - Nancy Kovack
actress: Diary of a Madman, Frankie and Johnny1936 - Antonin Scalia
U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice; died Feb 13, 20161943 - Bob Plager
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, SL Blues1944 - Ric Rothwell
musician: drums: group: Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: Game of Love1945 - Dock (Phillip) Ellis
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series/all-star: 1971], New NY Yankees [World Series: 1976], Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, NY Mets; died Dec 19, 20081945 - Harvey Mandel
musician: guitar: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Same All Over, Let’s Work Together, Time Was, Boogie Music, Going Up the Country1946 - Jim Niekamp
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings1947 - Mark Stein
musician: organ, singer: groups: Vanilla Fudge: Take Me for a Little While; Boomerang; more1947 - Blue (Derek) Weaver
musician: keyboards: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half As Nice, Natural Sinner; Bee Gees, Strawbs1948 - Jim McMillian
basketball: Columbia Univ; LA Lakers1948 - Cesar (Francisco Zorrilla) Geronimo
baseball: Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972, 1975, 1976], KC Royals1948 - Dominique Sanda (Dominique Varaigne)
actress: Joseph, 1900, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Conformist, A Gentle Woman1950 - Windlan Hall
football: Minnesota Vikings safety: Super Bowl XI1950 - Bobby McFerrin
pianist, jazz musician, songwriter, singer: improvisational solo: all voices and imitates instruments1950 - Jerry Zucker
film director, producer: Unconditional Love, Rat Race, My Best Friend’s Wedding, First Knight, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!1952 - Douglas Adams
author: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; died May 11, 20011952 - Rod Derline
‘The Rifle’: basketball: Seattle Supersonics1952 - Susan Richardson
actress: Eight is Enough1954 - David Newman
composer: film scores: Anastasia, Critters, The Phantom, The Brave Little Toaster, Malone, Ice Age, Serenity1955 - Jimmy Fortune
singer: group: Statler Brothers: LPs: Today, Atlanta Blue, Pardners in Rhyme, Four for the Show, Radio Gospel Favorites, Maple Street Memories; more1959 - Nina Hartley
actress [1984-2012]: X-rated films: Looking for Lust in All the Right Places, The House of Blue Dreams, Outrageous Orgies 5, Debbie Does Wall Street, Syrens of Sex, Debbie Duz Dishes Again, It’s Okay! She’s My Mother in Law 51961 - Elias Koteas
actor: The Prophecy, Fallen, The Killing, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Shutter Island, Die, Chicago PD1961 - Bruce Watson
musician: guitar: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown1962 - Jeffrey Nordling
actor: Once and Again, 24, Desperate Housewives, Body of Proof, CSI: NY, Malibu Country1962 - Barbara Alyn Woods
actress: One Tree Hill, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, A House of Secrets and Lies, Striptease, I Downloaded a Ghost, Taste It: A Comedy About the Recession1963 - Alex Kingston
actress: ER, Doctor Who, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Croupier, The Poseidon Adventure [2005], Hope Springs, Upstairs Downstairs [2012]1965 - Wallace Langham
actor: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Medium, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Little Miss Sunshine, The Great Buck Howard, Growing Op, The Social Network, Hitchcock1965 - Steve Reed
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles; more1967 - John Barrowman
singer, dancer, actor: theatre: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Matador, The Fix; films/TV: De-Lovely, The Producers, Titans, Central Park West, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Arrow; more1968 - Lisa Loeb
singer: group: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories: Stay (I Missed You); actress: House on Haunted Hill, Serial Killing 4 Dummys; more1969 - Terrence Howard
actor: Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Idlewild, The Brave One; Factor X, Iron Man, Pride, The Brave One, Four Brothers, Hustle & Flow, Hart’s War, Iron Man; singer, rapper: Shine through It, It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp, Whoop That Trick1971 - Johnny Knoxville
daredevil, comedian, actor: Jackass, Jackass: The Movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, Father of Invention, The Dry Gulch Kid, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa1972 - Salomón Torres
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates1974 - Bobby Abreu
baseball [right field]: Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees1977 - Michal Handzus
hockey [center]: NHL: St. Louis Blues, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks: 2013 Stanley Cup champs1977 - Kirby Law
hockey [right wing]: Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota Wild1981 - David Anders
actor: Alias, The Vampire Diaries, Once Upon a Time, Necessary Roughness, Hell’s Kitchen1981 - LeToya Luckett
songwriter, singer: founding member of Destiny’s Child: Survivor, Second Nature, Bridges, Tell Me, Bootylicious, Gospel Medley, Sexy Daddy; solo: LeToya, Torn, Lady Love1982 - Thora Birch
actress: American Beauty, Dungeons & Dragons, The Smokers, Patriot Games, Hocus Pocus, Monkey Trouble, Now and Then, Alaska, Ghost World, Dark Corners, Train, Winter of Frozen Dreams1982 - Lindsey McKeon
actress: Chastity, Class Warfare, Shredder, The Guiding Light, Opposite Sex1982 - Brittany Perry-Russell
actress: Starsky and Hutch, Cedric the Entertainer Presents, Perfect Combination, Glee1983 - Jade Harlow
actress: Passions, Old Man Music, Getting Back to Zero1985 - Greg Olsen
football [tight end]: NFL: Chicago Bears [2007–2010]; Carolina Panthers [2011– ]: 2016 Super Bowl 501986 - Amanda Weir
U.S. world-class, Olympic swimmer: silver medal in 4x100 medley [2004]; more1989 - Anton Yelchin
actor: Along Came a Spider, Hearts in Atlantis, Huff, House of D, Star Trek [2009], Terminator Salvation, The Smurfs, Fright Night, Like Crazy, Star Trek Into Darkness; died Jun 19, 20161992 - Jude Demorest
actress: Dallas [2013], Hollywood Heights, Star1993 - Anthony Davis
basketball forward/center: NBA: New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans [2012–2019]; Los Angeles Lakers [2019– ]
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Hit Music on This Day March 11
1946Oh, What It Seemed to Be (facts) - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Let It Snow (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
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