Today in History for 12th March 2018:
Historical Events
1919 – Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1966 – Love’s 1st album released “Love”
1966 – Bobby Hull’s 51st goal of season, sets record
1987 – David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1991 – OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
Famous Birthdays
1938 – Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1949 – Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1952 – Eliézer Niyitegeka, Rwandan journalist, politician and genocidaire
1969 – Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1985 – Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1447 – Shahrukh Mirza, Ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (1405-47), dies at 69
1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1998 – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)