ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ONLINE WORLD ALMANAC
Gun Plot's Online Almanac provides an online diary of important birthdays and historical world events. It also provides 'What Happened This Day In Australian Military History".
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Times Below are Server Time and Local AEST:
Local Time Australian Eastern Standard
Friday, 12 March 2010 12:12 amServer Date, On This Day, Thursday, March 11, 2010.
Birthdays
1780 A.L. Crelle --1855
1903 Lawrence Welk
1926 Ralph Abernathy
1931 Rupert Murdoch
1934 Sam Donaldson
Events
Zeta Bo”tid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
1892 First public game of basketball.
1938 Germany invades Austria.
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill with England.
1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
1960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko.
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