March 11 is:
National “Eat Your Noodles” Day According to Jamie Geller.com: Legend has it that noodles were first made by 13th century German bakers who fashioned dough into symbolic shapes, such as swords, birds and stars, which were baked and served as bread. In the 13th century, the Pope set quality standards for pasta.
1302 Romeo & Juliet‘s wedding day, according to Shakespeare
Publication of Federalist Paper #67: The Executive Department written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
from www.gradesaver.com/the-federalist-papers/study-guide/
“This is the first of eleven papers in which Hamilton defends the office of the presidency as described in the proposed constitution. The presidency was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the proposed form of government. Anti-federalists accused the federalists of seeking to recreate a monarchy through the creation of a president with extensive executive powers. These claims were particularly worrisome to the American people since they had just fought a war to rid themselves of a monarchy they considered tyrannical.
“Hamilton does not offer his opponents the benefit of the doubt. He questions not only the soundness of their arguments but also the goodness of their intentions. His strategy in this paper is to show, in exhaustive detail, that his opponents are purposely misinterpreting and distorting the meaning of the Constitution in order to convince the American people that it will lead to a despotic, tyrannical form of government.”
1818 – Mary Shelley’s book “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus” was published. (Prometheus was a Greek Titan credited with creating man and giving fire to mankind. I read that Mary Shelley was a vegetarian and blamed Prometheus for giving man fire, thus allowing people to eat meat.)
Frankenstein is now in the public domain and can be read at our site NextDoor eStore.com
Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman in 1845, known as Johnny Appleseed. He was an American pioneer nurseryman and missionary who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.
1901 – U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steel Corp. The event made Andrew Carnegie the world’s richest man.
1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US were reported at Fort Riley, Kansas. It is believed to have spread by soldiers traveling from fort to fort. Per Wikipedia: “The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. Probably 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million (three to five percent of Earth’s population at the time) died, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.”
By contrast WHO reports 6,859,093 deaths worldwide from Covid-19. (if their statistics mean anything).
1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $656 billion today) worth of supplies were shipped.
March 11, 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union.
1986 – Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.