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.
Library of Congress
1926: Ralph Abernathy, a pastor and civil rights leader, is born in Linden, Ala. A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy was with King in Memphis, Tenn., when he was assassinated. He took up leadership of the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign after King's assassination.
