History for March 11

History for March 11 - On-This-Day.com

Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice

• 537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.
• 1702 - The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper was published.
• 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)
• 1901 - U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world's richest man.
• 1907 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
• 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.
• 1990 - Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control.
• 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.