On this day in history (March 11) :

 Johnny Appleseed Day 1847
 Technology visionary Vannevar Bush born 1890
 Musician, accordion player, and bandleader, Lawrence Welk born in Strasburg, North Dakota 1903
 Worldwide media mogul and chairman of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch born in Melbourne, Australia 1931
 Author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams born in Cambridge, England 1952
 Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union 1985
 Lithuanian Independence Day 1990