Here's a quick overview of our top stories for Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2026:
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TOP HEADLINES:
New affordable housing development near Fowler Lane draws concern from Bozeman neighborhood
Proposed Low-Income Housing ‘Rocky Mountain Flats’ Draws Pushback in Rural Bozeman Neighborhood
Butte restaurant owner raises menu prices as tomato costs nearly triple due to tariffs, inflation
Butte restaurant owner raises menu prices as tomato costs nearly triple due to tariffs, inflation
MTN reporter shares story of her return to Montana from Dubai amid US-Iran conflict
MTN Reporter shares story of her return to Montana from Dubai amid US-Iran conflict
Bozeman Health plans major expansion to meet population growth
Bozeman Health plans largest expansion in its history to keep up with community growth
30 Years of Rent: Broadway show hitting the Ellen Theatre
30 Years of Rent: Broadway show hitting the Ellen Theatre
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Historical Events on March 11
- 1811 — The Luddite Movement begins in England, as textile workers start smashing industrial machines they feared would destroy their livelihoods — the original "rage against the machine."
- 1888 — The Great Blizzard of 1888 slams the eastern U.S., killing over 400 people and dumping up to 55 inches of snow in some areas. New York City was brought to a near standstill.
- 1941 — President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the U.S. to supply war materials to Allied nations before formally entering WWII.
- 1985 — Mikhail Gorbachev is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — the man who would ultimately oversee the USSR's dissolution.
- 1989 — Cops, the groundbreaking documentary-style reality TV show, debuts on Fox.
- 1990 — Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to declare independence from the USSR.
- 2004 — Coordinated terrorist bombings on commuter trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people in one of Europe's deadliest attacks.
- 2011 — A magnitude 9.0 earthquake strikes off the coast of Sendai, Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster — one of only two Level 7 nuclear events in history.
- 2021 — President Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
🎂 Notable Births on March 11
- 1811 — Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune through calculation alone
- 1903 — Ronald Syme, renowned New Zealand/British historian and classical scholar
- 1926 — Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader and Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest associate
- 1931 — Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media mogul and founder of News Corp/Fox
- 1931 — Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon virtuoso
- 1936 — Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and father of "originalist" constitutional interpretation
- 1950 — Bobby McFerrin, Grammy-winning singer best known for "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
- 1952 — Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
💀 Notable Deaths on March 11
- 1955 — Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin — one of the most important medical breakthroughs in history (born 1881)
- 1957 — Richard Byrd, American admiral and legendary polar explorer (born 1888)
- 1960 — Roy Chapman Andrews, scientist and explorer who discovered the first known dinosaur eggs and inspired the character of Indiana Jones (born 1884)
- 1971 — Philo Farnsworth, American inventor widely credited as the father of electronic television (born 1906)
- 2000 — Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer of artificial intelligence research (born 1918)
- 2006 — Slobodan Milošević, former Serbian president and war crimes defendant, found dead in his cell at The Hague (born 1941)
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