Today in History -
March 11, 1302 -
Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
March 11, 1669 -
After a series of premonitional earthquakes near Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe spectacularly erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
More on the Wacky Russian Revolution
On March 11 the Russian Cabinet finally became indignant and tried to dissolve the Duma, but the Duma refused to dissolve. The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies also refused to dissolve, even though the Cabinet had not asked them to. (The Cabinet could not ask them to, because the Cabinet had determined that The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies did not exist.)
The Roxy Theatre in New York City was a 6,214 seat movie theater at 153 West 50th Street at 7th Avenue, opened on March 11, 1927 by Samuel Roxy Rothafel. It was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager. The opening night film was The Love of Sunya produced by and starring Gloria Swanson. The Roxy was overshadowed by the opening of Radio City Music Hall in the Rockefeller Center in NYC in 1932. The Roxy closed and was demolished in 1960, and Swanson was famously photographed on October 14, 1960 by Time-Life photographer Eliot Elisofon in the midst of the ruins during the theater's demolition.
March 11, 1938 -
Germany enters Austria in the "Anschluss", to annex it as part of Grossdeutchland. Oh those wacky Germans and their World Domination Tour.
March 11, 1958 -
A B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the town of Mars Bluff in South Carolina. While it did not detonate a nuclear explosion, conventional explosives within the bomb left a 75 foot crater, destroying one house and damaging five others. The government has to send out hundreds of 'oops' letters to the town's residents.
March 11, 1970 -
Actress Suzanne Somers arrested (and strip searched!) for writing bad checks. She was not prosecuted.
March 11, 1990 -
Vice President Dan Quayle sends a Secret Service agent proxy into a Chilean tourist shop to purchase a wooden male, anatomically correct "peekaboo" statuette.
Mar 11 1998 -
The town of Cicero, IL agrees to donate $10,000 towards the printing of KKK literature to be mailed to its residents, in return for the Klan not holding a scheduled rally.
And so it goes.
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