March 11 in History
1784 — The Treaty of Mangalore is signed between Tipu Sultan and the British East India Company, ending the Second Anglo-Mysore War in India. 1810 — Emperor Napoleon of France, 40, marries his second wife Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, 18, by proxy in Vienna, with Archduke Charles standing in for Napoleon.
1811 — Ned Ludd leads a group of craftsmen in a wild protest against mechanisation in 19th-century England. The Luddites began near Nottingham as they destroyed textile machinery that was eliminating their jobs. By the following year, Luddites were active in Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, Lancashire and Leicestershire.
1885 — Sir Michael Campbell, the first man to exceed 300mph on land — 301.129mph (484.598km/h), on September 3 1935 — is born in Chislehurst, England. 1929 — Sir Henry O’Neil de Hane Segrave, the first person to travel over 200mph (320km/h) in a vehicle (327.97km/h, on March 29 1927), sets his last land-speed record of 372.48km/h at Daytona Beach.
1890 — Vannevar Bush is born in Massachusetts. He joins the electrical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1919. During the 1920s and ’30s, he and his research laboratory become the pre-eminent designers and builders of analogue computers. 1900 — British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury rejects the peace overtures offered by Boer leader Paul Kruger.
1931 — Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, is born in Melbourne, Australia.
1955 — Alexander Fleming, 73, bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, dies in London.
1966 — Three men are convicted of the February 21 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.
1969 — Levi-Strauss starts selling bell-bottoms. 1971 — Philo Farnsworth, 64, inventor of television, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1990 — The Lithuanian parliament votes to break away from the USSR, the first republic to do so. 2007 — Betty Hutton, 86, (Annie Oakley in the 1950 “Annie Get Your Gun”), dies in Palm Springs. 2010 — The Zimbabwe Red Cross says at least 2.17 million Zimbabweans need food aid and the figures are set to rise because of an expected poor harvest this year.
2012 — Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, 1995 Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies in Orange County, California. He had warned of Earth’s thinning ozone layer and crusaded against man-made chemicals that harm the atmospheric blanket.