Shemp Howard 1895 - Actor, comedian, Lawrence Welk 1903, Rupert Murdoch 1931 - Media mogul
Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice , Mark Stein 1947 - Musician (Vanilla Fudge), Bobby McFerrin 1950 - Singer
537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.
1867 - In Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted.
1888 - The "Blizzard of '88" began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than 400 people died.(March 11-14)
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act, which authorized the act of providing war supplies to the Allies.
1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev was named the new chairman of the Soviet Communist Party.
1986 - Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.
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.
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