March 11
Today in America's Present Past
1665 | New York enacted religious liberty guarantees for Protestants.
1731 | Founder: Robert Treat Paine was born.
1738 | Pioneer Benjamin Tupper was born.
1779 | Revolutionary War: The US established the Army Corps of Engineers as a separate Army branch.
1785 | SCOTUS: Justice John McLean was born.
1786 | Founding: Politician Charles Humphreys died.
1789 | Architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant presented a plan for the building of Washington, D.C.
1824 | The U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1862 | POTUS: Republican President Lincoln relieved General McClellan for losing too much.
1865 | Civil War: General Sherman liberates Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1874 | Politician Charles Sumner died.
1882 | The Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association was formed.
1895 | New Orleans, Louisiana dockworkers riot.
1903 | Inventor James Franklin Hyde was born.
1903 | Composer Lawrence Welk was born.
1917 | Lawyer Robert Carter was born.
1926 | Activist Ralph Abernathy was born.
1931 | Entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch was born.
1936 | SCOTUS: Justice Antonin Scalia was born.
1941 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Bill.
1955 | Entrepreneur Oscar Mayer died.
1957 | Explorer Richard Byrd died.
1957 | TV: In what later is revealed to be a rigged, Charles Van Doren lost on the game show “Twenty One.”
1960 | Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews died.
1963 | The Pentagon adopted the use of the M16 assault rifle designed by Eugene Stoner.
1969 | Actor Terrence Howard was born.
1970 | Author Erle Stanley Gardner died.
1971 | Actor Johnny Knoxville was born.
1986 | Researcher Sherman Kent died.