History for March 11

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

Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice

• 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)
• 1907 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (R) 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.
• 1993 - Janet Reno (Waco massacre) was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first female attorney general.
• 1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection.