Historical Events on March 11, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on March 11th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2021 | US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. |
| 2020 | The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic. |
| 2012 | A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. |
| 2011 | An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. |
| 2010 | Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile. Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquake hit central Chile during the ceremony. |
| 2009 | Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany. |
| 2006 | Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile. |
| 2004 | Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people. |
| 1990 | Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 1990 | Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. |
| 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state. |
| 1983 | Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia. |
| 1982 | Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway. |
| 1981 | Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement. |
| 1978 | Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani. |
| 1977 | The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations. |
| 1946 | Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. |
| 1945 | World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. |
| 1945 | World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established. |
| 1941 | World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. |
| 1927 | In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre. |
| 1917 | World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Frederick Stanley Maude. |
| 1888 | The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people. |
| 1879 | Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom. |
| 1872 | Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. |
| 1864 | The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England. |
| 1861 | American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. |
| 1851 | The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice. |
| 1848 | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. |
| 1845 | Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand. |
| 1795 | The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory. |
| 1784 | The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end. |
| 1708 | Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. |
| 1702 | The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time. |
| 1649 | The Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. |
| 1641 | Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina. |
| 1387 | Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona. |
| 1343 | Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague. |
| 843 | Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire. |
| 222 | Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. |
Famous People Born on March 11
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1927 | Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 2014) |
| 1910 | Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic (d. 1982) |
| 1931 | Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media magnate |
| 1988 | Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer |
| 1926 | Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (d. 1990) |
| 1959 | Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress/director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author |
| 1960 | Warwick Taylor, New Zealand rugby player |
| 1985 | Greg Olsen, American football player |
| 1903 | Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (d. 1992) |
| 1953 | Bernie LaBarge, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
Famous People Deaths On March 11
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 11. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1870 | Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (b. 1786) |
| 1955 | Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
| 1971 | Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906) |
| 1956 | Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (b. 1883) |
| 1992 | Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912) |
| 1970 | Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author (b. 1889) |
| 1982 | Edmund Cooper, English poet and author (b. 1926) |
| 1999 | Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (b. 1906) |
| 1960 | Roy Chapman Andrews, American paleontologist and explorer (b. 1884) |
| 2010 | Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1931) |
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