Rupert Murdoch 1931 - Media mogul
- 537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.
- 1888 - The "Blizzard of '88" began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than 400 people died.(March 11-14)
- 1907 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.
- 1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
- 1998 - The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.
