Claudete and the cake

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 11 March.

1. 1st London daily newspaper
2. Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
3. John Chapman `Johnny Appleseed' dies in Allen County - Ind
4. Confederate convention in Montgomery - adopts constitution
5. Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville - NC
6. Great Mauna Loa volcano erupts
7. Blizzard struck NE US - 400 die
8. 1st public basketball game (Springfield - Mass)
9. Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
10. Germany invades Austria
11. FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
12. Gen MacArthur left Bataan for Australia
13. 1st woman army Dr commissioned (FM Adams)
14. Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV's 21
15. Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus
16. Rings of Uranus are discovered
17. Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko
18. 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

These famous people were born on 11 March.

1. 1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet
2. 1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind
3. 1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune
4. 1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min
5. 1898 - Dorothy Gish, silent film Actress (Orphans of the Storm)
6. 1903 - Dorothy Schiff, (NY Post)
7. 1903 - Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles)
8. 1914 - Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
9. 1916 - Sir Harold Wilson, (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
10. 1926 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
11. 1931 - Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia
12. 1934 - George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist
13. 1934 - Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent
14. 1934 - Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann
15. 1936 - Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice