TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019

It is World Plumbing Day

On this day in history:

537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.

1302 - Romeo and Juliet were married according to William Shakespeare.

1810 - Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

1845 - Seven hundred Maori led by their chief, Hone Heke, burned the small town of Kororareka. The act was in protest to the settlement of Maori land by Europeans, which was a breach of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

1871 - The springs after which Alice Springs, central Australia, were named are discovered.

1900 - British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury rejected the peace overtures offered from the Boer leader Paul Kruger.

1905 - The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated.

1907 - In Bulgaria, Premier Nicolas Petkov was killed by an anarchist.

1946 - Communists and Nationalists began fighting as the Soviets pulled out of Mukden, Manchuria.

1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev was named the new chairman of the Soviet Communist Party.

1988 - A ceasefire was declared in the war between Iran and Iraq.

1990 - Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control.

1990 - In Chile, Patricio Aylwin was sworn in as the first democratically elected president since 1973.

1993 - North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty refusing to open sites for inspection.

1994 - In Chile, Eduardo Frei was sworn in as President. It was the first peaceful transfer of power in Chile since 1970. Birthdays

Torquato Tasso 1544 Thomas Hastings 1860 Malcolm Campbell 1885 Shemp Howard 1895 - Actor, comedian

Lawrence Welk 1903 Harold Wilson 1916 Mercer Ellington 1919