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On this day: March 11

POSTED: 09:10 AM PST Mar 05, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Mar 10, 2013

Spanish Influenza breaks out, Janet Reno is confirmed as the first female attorney general, and a massive earthquake and tsunami cripple Japan, all on this day.

OTD March 11 - Oscar Mayer — 17 / 42

Wisconsin Historical Society

1955: Oscar F. Mayer, the Bavarian-born American entrepreneur who founded the processed-meat company that bears his name, dies in his sleep at the age of 95 in Chicago, Ill.

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OTD March 11 - Ralph Abernathy

OTD March 11 - Rupert Murdoch

OTD March 11 - Sam Donaldson

OTD March 11 - Antonin Scalia

OTD March 11 - Lend-Lease Act

OTD March 11 - Rudolf Hoss

OTD March 11 - Bobby McFerrin

OTD March 11 - Jerry Zucker

OTD March 11 - Douglas Adams

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OTD March 11 - Terrence Howard

OTD March 11 - THX 1138

OTD March 11 - Johnny Knoxville

OTD March 11 - Airport 77

OTD March 11 - Bobby Hull

OTD March 11 - Paul Wall

OTD March 11 - Thora Birch

OTD March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev

OTD March 11 - Anton Yelchin

OTD March 11 - Janet Reno

OTD March 11 - Paul McCartney

OTD March 11 - World Trade Center

OTD March 11 - Madrid train bombings

OTD March 11 - Slobodan Milosevic

OTD March 11 - Betty Hutton

OTD March 11 - German school shooting

OTD March 11 - Merlin Olsen

OTD March 11 - Japan earthquake

OTD March 11 - Wisconsin budget bill

OTD March 11 - NFL lockout

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