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Thursday, March 11, 2010.

On this day in history ..

• 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
• 1911 - The Mendel Beilis affair begins
• 1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
• 1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
• 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
• 1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
• 1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
• 1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1950 - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
• 1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84