March 11

March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). There are 295 days remaining.

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.
1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the thrown.
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. Also, Henry Jones invented self-raising flour on this day.
1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi.
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.
1867 - The first perfomance of Don Carlos written by Verdi.
1872 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
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 - Second 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.
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.
1966 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
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: Ceasefire declared.
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.
1996 - EU Database Directive passed
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 192 people.

Births

1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
1863 - Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)
1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
1876 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
1885 - Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1948)
1890 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)
1892 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
1899 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
1915 - Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
1926 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, United States Secretary of Commerce
1928 - Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
1936 - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1948 - Dominique Sanda, French actress
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer
1950 - Jerry Zucker, American producer, director, and writer
1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)
1954 - Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 - Nina Hagen, German singer
1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1959 - Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress
1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director
1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
1964 - Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera)
1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
1965 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1968 - Lisa Loeb, American singer
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
1974 - Russ Haas, professional wrestler and brother of Charlie Haas (d. 2001)
1974 - Bobby Abreu, baseball player
1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast footballer
1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1979 - Benji Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Joel Madden, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1981 - David Anders, American actor
1981 - Lee Evans, American football player
1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer and former Destiny's Child member
1982 - Thora Birch, American actress
1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian hockey player
1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

Deaths

222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)
1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
1969 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1982 - Edmund Cooper, Author and Poet (b. 1926)
1993 - Dino Bravo, Professional wrestler
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author and broadcaster (b. 1921)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
2006 - Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)

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