Past March 11s: 1824: John C.Calhoun, Secretary of War, creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs, within the War Department. Thomas McKenney is appointed its first head. 1850: Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania is established (first female medical school). 1959: “Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry opens—the first Broadway play by a black woman. 1972: In Spain, a sentence of 384, 912 years is requested against postman Gabriel Grandos for failing to deliver 42,768 letters. He is actually sentenced to 7,109 years. (When we lived in Shelby County, our postman was arrested for throwing mail in the Cahaba River. He reason: It was mail I wouldnt want to get.) 1993: Janet Reno unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be nation’s first female attorney general. 1997: Paul McCartney is knighted. 1997: Ashes of “Star Trek” creator, Gene Roddenberry, are launched into space 2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:31:56 +0000