‘’’THIS DAY IN HISTORY: MARCH 11’’’

Anon researching WHY Q picked March 11th (or so we think). Generally, March 11th has been quite an interesting day in history actually, including the following:

1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, AL

1942: MacArthur leaving Bataan for Australia

1948: The bombing of Jerusalem

1954: US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy.

1963: US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle.

1967: U.S. 1st Infantry Division troops engage in Operation Junction City

1985: Mikhail Gorbachev selected as the new leader of the Soviet Union

2018: China’s National People’s Congress removes term limits and allows Xi Jinping presidency for life.

The following events stuck out to me even more, because I see so much of POTUS and Q in them. Some are pretty funny!!!

Birthdays:

1731: Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) is born in Boston, MA

1936: Antonin Scalia, 105th Supreme Court Justice is born in Trenton, N.J.

1950: Bobby McFerrin (“Don’t Worry Be Happy” - 1989) is born in New York, NY

1955: Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (for anons and their hot dog memes!)

1957: Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Grand Chessmaster, is born in Leningrad, Soviet Union

1971: Johnny Knoxville, American TV personality, is born in Knoxville, TN

2006: Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and co-innovator of the slapshot, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Deaths:

Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer (Perry Mason)

Events:

1779: US Army Corps of Engineers established

1789: Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

1862: Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellen as general-in-chief and shuffles the Union command

1888: Great blizzard strikes northeastern US. Resulting in around 400 deaths, it comes to be known as one of the worst blizzards in American history

1927: 1st Golden Gloves Tournament

1945: 1000 Allied bombers harass Essen, 4662 tons

1945: Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death

1982: Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion

1989: “Cops” debuts on Fox “Bad Boys, Bad Boys…”

2011: Japan is hit by tsunami after massive earthquake

Sauce is History Channel, Wikipedia, https://onthisday.com