March 11

Today in History
• 1502 - Tebriz, shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
• 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
• 1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
• 1669 - Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000
• 1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes
• 1779 - US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
• 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
• 1824 - US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• 311 Day
• Genealogy Day
• Independence Restoration Day
• National Dream Day
• National Johnny Appleseed Day
• National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
• World Plumbing Day
• Worship of Tools Day

Birthdays
• 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain
• 1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer, Declaration of Independence
• 1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country
• 1785 - John McLean, American Supreme Court Justice (1829-61)
• 1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune)
• 1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer Tate Gallery
• 1860 - Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library)
• 1899 - Frederick IX, Christian FFMKWG, King of Denmark, 1947-72