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Mildred H. McAfee

The WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) served in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. In July 1942, the Naval Reserve was authorized to accept women as commissioned officers and at the enlisted level, effective until six months after the war, which freed up many men for ship duty. Mildred H. McAfee (pictured), on leave as president of Wellesley College, became the first director of the WAVES. The notion of women serving in the Navy was not widely supported in Congress or by the Navy, but it was supported by the Navy's Women's Advisory Council, Margaret Chung, and Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the United States. The WAVES were primarily white, but eventually included 72 African-American women. Serving at 900 stations in the United States and the territory of Hawaii, many of the women experienced workplace hostility, but almost all of them looked upon their service as beneficial. (Full article...)

Nao Tōyama

• ... that Nao Tōyama (pictured), whose solo singles have been used as theme songs for anime series on television and in film, was tone-deaf as a girl?


• ... that Eco-Link@BKE, the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?


• ... that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?


• ... that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek?


• ... that Qiu Dahong studied the force of sea waves?


• ... that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant?


• ... that a small group of Holocaust survivors tried to kill six million Germans?


• ... that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?


• ... that for Pacific Islanders, the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults?


• ... that "Three Incarnations" by Pu Songling may have been inspired by certain stories in Feng Menglong's Stories to Caution the World?


• ... that Arthur Blackburn was the first South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War I?


• ... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?

Ethiopian Airlines aircraft ET-AVJ in February 2019

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  Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) crashes shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 people on board.


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  A severe tornado outbreak hits the Southeastern United States, with one tornado causing 23 deaths in Alabama.


• Heightened tensions remain between India and Pakistan after both countries conduct airstrikes.


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  Muhammadu Buhari is re-elected President of Nigeria.


• Cardinal George Pell becomes the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church to be convicted of child sexual abuse.

March 11: National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2019); Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2019); Independence Day in Lithuania (1990)

Dale Dyke Dam, after its rupture

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  1845 – Māori forces led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke destroyed the British settlement of Kororareka in New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War.


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  1864 – A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam (pictured) in Sheffield, England, caused it to fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than 600 homes.


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  1941 – World War II: The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowing the United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war materiel.


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  1999 – Infosys became the first Indian-registered company to have its shares listed on NASDAQ.


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  2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

Clemente Tabone (d. 1665) · Benjamin Tupper (b. 1738) · Didier Drogba (b. 1978)