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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 - Blizzard of March 1888 — 4 / 42

Brooklyn Museum Collection

1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Over the next four days, it would shut down commerce and result in more than 400 deaths.

OTD March 11 - Bureau of Indian Affairs

OTD March 11 - Rigoletto

OTD March 11 - Confederate Constitution

OTD March 11 - Blizzard of March 1888

OTD March 11 - Shemp Howard

OTD March 11 - Lawrence Welk

OTD March 11 - Spanish Flu

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

OTD March 11 - Oscar Mayer

OTD March 11 - Richard Byrd

OTD March 11 - Becket

OTD March 11 - Malcolm X

OTD March 11 - Lisa Loeb

OTD March 11 - Otis Redding

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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