On This Day:
Tuesday March 11, 2014 This is the 70th day of the year, with 295 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: artifacts Artifacts found and investigated by archaeologists include anything made by human beings and range from the very earliest stone tools to the manmade objects buried or thrown away in the present day. After discovering these artifacts, archaeologists must analyze, describe, and classify them; most people do not realize that archaeologists spend more of their time describing and classifying than out in the field digging. To complete their research, archaeologists draw on the scientific expertise of many others, including colleagues specializing in geology, petrology (rocks), metallurgy, and the natural sciences.
Holidays Lesotho: Moshoeshoe's Day.
Feast day of St. Oengus, St. Vindician, St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, St. Constantine of Cornwall, St. Eulogius of Cordova, St. Aurea, St. Benedict of Milan, and St. Teresa Margaret Redi.
Lithuania: Restoration of Independence Day.
Events 1779 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was established.
1824 - The U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1861 - The Confederate convention in Montgomery, Alabama, adopted a constitution.
1865 - In the Civil War, General William T. Sherman captured the town of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1888 - The famous "Blizzard of '88" hit the northeastern United States with approximately 40 inches of snow; around 400 people died.
1930 - President Howard Taft became the first U.S. President to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, {Virginia.
1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis Powers.
1942 - In World War II, General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines for Australia as Japanese forces advanced, vowing "I shall return."
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko.
1990 - Lithuania proclaimed its independence from the USSR, the first Soviet republic to do so.
1990 - American tennis player Jennifer Capriati, aged 13, became the youngest-ever finalist in a professional contest.
2004 - Spain is the victim of terrorists when at least 10 bombs explode on four commuter trains in Madrid during rush hour, killing 202 people and wounding more than 2,000. An Arabic newspaper reports it received a fax alleging that al-Qaeda was behind the attack.
Births 1903 - Lawrence Welk, American bandleader.
1916 - Harold Wilson, English Labor Party politician; twice prime minister.
1926 - Ralph David Abernathy, American civil rights leader.
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian media mogul.
Deaths 1957 - Richard Evelyn Byrd, American aviator and explorer.
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