5 History Lessons + 3 Births & 3 Deaths for March 11, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1918 – The first confirmed U.S. cases of the deadly global flu pandemic were reported among U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, leading to millions of deaths worldwide.
- 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the United States to supply Allied nations with war material during World War II.
- 1959 – The Lorraine Hansberry play “A Raisin in the Sun,” the first by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
- 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, initiating significant reforms like glasnost and perestroika.
- 2011 – A massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan kill nearly 20,000 people and cause severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
- 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born media mogul and founder of News Corporation (94).
- 1934 – Sam Donaldson, American journalist and former news anchor for ABC News (91).
- 1950 – Bobby McFerrin, American jazz vocalist known for the hit song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” (75).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel laureate who discovered penicillin (age 73).
- 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer and explorer known for his expeditions to the polar regions (age 68).
- 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, former President of Serbia and Yugoslavia, dies in prison while on trial for war crimes (age 64).
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