MARCH 11
1942:On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Japanese forces
advance on the Philippines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves the island of
Corregidor, later vowing "I shall return" to the 90,000 American and Filipino troops left behind. He will make good on his promise, returning to the island of Leyte on Oct. 20, 1944.
1948: Reginald Weir is the first African American to compete in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association national championship. Weir, a physician, will lose in the second round to Bill Talbert.
1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes the first female African American playwright to have her work debut on Broadway. Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York on this day. They will reprise their roles in a movie version two years later.
1948: Reginald Weir is the first African American to compete in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association national championship. Weir, a physician, will lose in the second round to Bill Talbert.
1959: Lorraine Hansberry becomes the first female African American playwright to have her work debut on Broadway. Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York on this day. They will reprise their roles in a movie version two years later.
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