Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.
- 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.
- 1986 - Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.
- 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.
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