This Day in History

March 11th in History

FDR signs Lend-Lease, Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor, and Rigoletto premiers! It's the birthday of Joey Buttafuoco, Douglas Adams, Antonin Scalia, Rupert Murdoch, Lawrence Welk, and Shemp Howard. RIP Philo Farnsworth, Erle Stanley Garner, Oscar Mayer, and Pharaoh Thutmose III (above). And in Lesotho, it's Moshoeshoe Day!

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Quote of the Day

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

Douglas Adams, author born March 11, 1952