This day in History - March 11

373 Historic Events for March 11
1823 Event 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 Event US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1826 Death Gervais-Fran‡ois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1827 Birth Septimus Winner, composer
1832 Birth William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1832 Birth Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test)
1833 Death Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1835 Event HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1840 Birth Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1845 Death John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], dies in Allen County Indiana
1846 Birth Ant¢nio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1850 Event Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1851 Event Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1857 Death Manuel Jos‚ Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1860 Birth Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1861 Event Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 Event Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief and makes him head of
1862 Event 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1863 Birth Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
1863 Birth Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1864 Event Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 Event Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
1867 Event Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1867 Event Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
1872 Birth Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector