March 11<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted, taking effect on February 22, 1862.<\/p>\n
1888 \u2013 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.<\/p>\n
1927 \u2013 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act<\/em> into law, allowing American built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies ‘on loan’.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 The hostages held in Washington, D.C. by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 38 Israelis are killed and 71 wounded by 11 Fatah moslem terrorists – 9 of whom are later killed at a roadblock – when they hijack a bus traveling on the Israel Coastal Highway<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making him the USSR’s last head of state.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Bombs set by al-Qaeda moslem terrorists simultaneously explode on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, killing 191, and wounding 2000 people<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, murders 16 and wounds 6 more Afghan civilians in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai of the Panjwayi District near Kandahar, Afghanistan. He is later sentenced to life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 11 1861 \u2013 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted, taking effect on February 22, 1862. 1888 \u2013 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people. 1927 \u2013 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90655,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65692\/revisions\/90655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}