Time Will Tell: March 11th

Sunday, March 11, 2012

March 11th

March 11 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 285 days remaining until the end of time.

537 Goths lay siege to Rome. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun Times re-examines the fall of Rome in light of contemporary debates.

1302 Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

1789 Benjamin Banneker with his lover Pierre L'Enfant begins to lay all of Washington D.C.—the horny bastards

1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein

1824 The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

1845 Sexually ambiguous John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] takes root (date disputed) [Please note: Today is also Johnny Appleseed Day in the USA, but I think naked Zambian youth are a lot hotter!

1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts)

1953 US Air Force B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches. Remember Fort Sumter, bitches?!?

1959 Lorraine Hansberry’s "Raisin in the Sun" (1st Broadway play by a black woman) opens

1982 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat hug it out in Washington D.C.

1986 1 million days since traditional founding of Rome, 4/21/753 BC

1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first alleged female Attorney General of the United States.

2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.