March 11
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March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (71st in leap years). There are 295 days remaining.
[change] Events
- 1513 – Leo X is elected Pope.
- 1649 – The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
- 1702 – The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
- 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- 1824 – The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1845 – The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Maoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
- 1880 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
- 1888 – The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- 1897 – A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
- 1900 – Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
- 1917 – Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.
- 1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
- 1936 – British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
- 1941 – World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
- 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
- 1959 – In Cannes, France, Teddy Scholten wins the fourth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Een beetje" (A little bit).
- 1966 – President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
- 1966 – A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
- 1977 – 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
- 1978 – Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
- 1983 – Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
- 1988 – Iran-Iraq War: Cease Fire declared.
- 1989 – The television show COPS premieres.
- 1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
- 1991 – A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
- 1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
- 1996 – John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1997 – An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
- 1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- 2003 – The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
- 2004 – Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 191 people.
- 2005 – Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Brandau and deputy Hoyt Teasley are all murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect being Brian Nichols who surrendered to police on the 12th.
- 2006 – Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic dies while on trial for war crimes in The Hague.
- 2006 – Michelle Bachelet becomes the first female President of Chile.
- 2009 – 17 people are killed in a shooting in Winnenden, Germany.
- 2011 – 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami: A powerful magnitude 9.1 earthquake strikes off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving many more missing, destroying buildings, as tsunamis are triggered. The quake also leads to a nuclear accident, causing concern about radiation levels.
[change] Births
- 1544 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1495)
- 1811 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1877)
- 1819 – Henry Tate, British sugar merchant and philanthropist (d. 1899)
- 1838 – Okuma Shigenobu, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1922)
- 1847 – Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician (d. 1922)
- 1885 – Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver (d. 1948)
- 1887 – Raoul Walsh, American director (d. 1980)
- 1894 – Otto Grotewohl, German politician (d. 1964)
- 1899 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Paul Janes, German footballer (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Kenneth Dover, British classicist (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American Civil Rights campaigner (d. 1990)
- 1927 – Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and entertainer
- 1931 – Janosch, Silesian writer and illustrator
- 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media tycoon
- 1932 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice
- 1950 – Jerry Zucker, American director and screenwriter
- 1952 – Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)
- 1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer
- 1964 – Leena Lehtolainen, Finnish writer
- 1964 – Vinnie Paul, American guitarist
- 1967 – John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor
- 1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
- 1973 – Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
- 1976 – Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
- 1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
- 1978 – Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – Benji Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
- 1979 – Joel Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
- 1980 – Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
- 1981 – LeToya Luckett, American singer
- 1982 – Thora Birch, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
- 222 – Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
- 1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
- 1847 – Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
- 1870 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
- 1931 – F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
- 1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer and explorer (b. 1888)
- 1958 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (Lego) (b. 1891)
- 1971 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor (b. 1901)
- 2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Hugh Martin, American songwriter (b. 1914)
