March 11
March 11 this yearin various calendars Akan Monowukuo Armenian 24 Areg 1475 Aztec Tecuilhuitontli 20, 9 Tōchtli Babylonian 21 Shabatu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Menala, Paing, Maulu, Buda of Wayang, Uma, Gigis, Manusa Bengali 26 Falgun , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Wood Monkey ・Winnowing Basket Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 1 , Day 23Jingzhe , 9 days until Chunfen )Common Era 11 March 2026 CE Coptic 2 Paremhat , AM 1742Egyptian 29 Epiphi , 2774 NE Ethiopian 2 Magābit, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Primidi de Ventôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 11 March , AD 2026 Hebrew 22 Adar , AM 5786 Hindu Jyeṣṭhā ・Vajra Phālguna , 1947 SE Aṣṭamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Phālguna , 2082 VE Rāudra ・5126 KY ・1,872,645 Icelandic Miðvikudagur, 18 Góa 2025 Islamic 22 Ramadan , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W11-3 Japanese 23 Mutsuki , Reiwa 8Keichitsu , 9 days until Shunbun ) Julian 26 February , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461111 Korean 23 Horangidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.7.8 6 Cumku , 9 Lamat Roman ante diem IV Kalendas Martias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 20 Esfand , SH 1404 Tibetan 23 mchu, me pho rta
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Day of the year
March 11 is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 295 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
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 .1649 – The Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil .1702 – The Daily Courant 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill , the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.1795 – The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad , resulting in Maratha victory.1845 – Flagstaff War : Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi , chiefs Hōne Heke , Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororāreka , New Zealand.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 .1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice .1861 – American Civil War : The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield , England.1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery , South Wales , begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom .1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.1892 – The Saint-Germain bombing ushers France into the Ère des attentats 1917 – World War I : Mesopotamian campaign : Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Frederick Stanley Maude .1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre .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.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.
1946 – Rudolf Höss , the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp , is captured by British troops.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.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 .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 .1982 – Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik , Norway.1983 – Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia .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.1990 – Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague .2004 – Madrid train bombings : Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid , Spain kill 191 people.2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.2008 – Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-123 , carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō International Space Station .2009 – Winnenden school shooting : Fifteen are killed and nine are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.2010 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile . Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquakes hit central Chile during the ceremony.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 .2012 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar .2018 – A Bombardier Challenger 604 crashes into the Zagros Mountains near the Iranian city of Shar-e-kord , killing all 11 people on board.2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic .2021 – US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.2023 – The Burmese military kills at least 30 villagers, including 3 Buddhist monks , during the Pinlaung massacre in Shan State, Myanmar .Births
1738 – Benjamin Tupper , American general (died 1792)1785 – John McLean , American jurist and politician (died 1861)1806 – Louis Boulanger , French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator (died 1867)1811 – Urbain Le Verrier , French mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)1815 – Anna Bochkoltz , German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (died 1879)1818 – Marius Petipa , French-Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1910)1819 – Henry Tate , English businessman and philanthropist, founded Tate & Lyle (died 1899)1822 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand , French mathematician, economist, and academic (died 1900)1863 – Andrew Stoddart , English cricketer and rugby player (died 1915)1870 – Louis Bachelier , French mathematician and theorist (died 1946)1876 – Carl Ruggles , American composer and painter (died 1971)1880 – Harry H. Laughlin , American eugenicist and sociologist (died 1943)1884 – Lewi Pethrus , Swedish minister and hymn-writer (died 1974)1885 – Malcolm Campbell , English race car driver (died 1948)1887 – Raoul Walsh , American actor and director (died 1980)1890 – Vannevar Bush , American engineer and academic (died 1974)1893 – Wanda Gág , American author and illustrator (died 1946)1897 – Henry Cowell , American pianist and composer (died 1965)1898 – Dorothy Gish , American actress (died 1968)1899 – Frederik IX of Denmark (died 1972)1899 – James H. Douglas, Jr. , American lawyer, and politician, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 1988) 1903 – Ronald Syme , New Zealand historian and scholar (died 1989)1903 – Lawrence Welk , American accordion player and bandleader (died 1992)
1907 – Jessie Matthews , English actress, singer, and dancer (died 1981)1908 – Matti Sippala , Finnish javelin thrower (died 1997)1910 – Robert Havemann , German chemist and academic (died 1982)1911 – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet , Scottish general and politician (died 1996)1913 – Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke , German colonel and pilot (died 1944)1915 – Vijay Hazare , Indian cricketer (died 2004)1915 – J. C. R. Licklider , American computer scientist and psychologist (died 1990)
1915 – Dude Martin , American country singer, bandleader, radio and television host (died 1991)
1916 – Harold Wilson , English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)1920 – Nicolaas Bloembergen , Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)1921 – Astor Piazzolla , Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player (died 1992)1922 – Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek economist and philosopher (died 1997)1922 – Abdul Razak Hussein , Malaysian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (died 1976)
1922 – José Luis López Vázquez , Spanish actor, costume designer, scenic designer and assistant director (died 2009)
1923 – Louise Brough , American tennis player (died 2014)1925 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff , American biochemist and academic (died 1983)1926 – Ralph Abernathy , American minister and activist (died 1990)1927 – Vince Boryla , American basketball player, coach, and executive (died 2016)1927 – Freda Meissner-Blau , Austrian activist and politician (died 2015)
1927 – Robert Mosbacher , American businessman, and politician, United States Secretary of Commerce (died 2010)
1927 – Josep Maria Subirachs , Spanish sculptor and painter (died 2014)
1929 – Timothy Carey , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1994)1929 – Jackie McGlew , South African cricketer (died 1998)
1930 – David Gentleman , English illustrator and engraver1930 – Claude Jutra , Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (died 1986)
1931 – Rupert Murdoch , Australian-American businessman and media magnate1932 – Leroy Jenkins , American violinist and composer (died 2007)1932 – Nigel Lawson , English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023)
1934 – Sam Donaldson , American journalist1936 – Antonin Scalia , American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 2016)1940 – Alberto Cortez , Argentinian-Spanish singer-songwriter (died 2019)1941 – Shelly Zegart , quilt historian (died 2025)1943 – Arturo Merzario , Italian race car driver1945 – Dock Ellis , American baseball player and coach (died 2008)1945 – Harvey Mandel , American guitarist
1946 – Mark Metcalf , American actor1947 – Tristan Murail , French composer and educator1948 – Roy Barnes , American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia 1948 – Jim McMillian , American basketball player (died 2016)
1950 – Bobby McFerrin , American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor1950 – Jerry Zucker , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1951 – Dominique Sanda , French model and actress1952 – Douglas Adams , English author and playwright (died 2001)1953 – Derek Daly , Irish-American race car driver and sportscaster1953 – Jimmy Iovine , American record producer and businessman, co-founded Beats Electronics
1953 – Bernie LaBarge , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – David Newman , American composer and conductor1954 – Gale Norton , American politician, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 – Leslie Cliff , Canadian swimmer1955 – Nina Hagen , German singer-songwriter
1956 – Willie Banks , American triple jumper1956 – Helen Rollason , English sports journalist and sportscaster (died 1999)
1957 – Qasem Soleimani , Former Iranian commander of the Quds Force (died 2020)1958 – Anissa Jones , American child actress (died 1976)1959 – Nina Hartley , American pornographic actress/director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author1960 – Warwick Taylor , New Zealand rugby player1961 – Elias Koteas , Canadian actor1961 – Bruce Watson , Canadian-Scottish guitarist
1962 – Matt Mead , American politician, 32nd Governor of Wyoming 1962 – Jeffrey Nordling , American actor
1963 – Gary Barnett , English footballer and manager1963 – Alex Kingston , English actress
1963 – David LaChapelle , American photographer and director
1964 – Peter Berg , American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor1964 – Raimo Helminen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Vinnie Paul , American drummer, songwriter and producer (died 2018)
1964 – Shane Richie , English actor and singer
1965 – Nigel Adkins , English footballer and manager1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr. , American lawyer and politician
1965 – Wallace Langham , American actor
1965 – Jenny Packham , English fashion designer
1966 – John Thompson III , American basketball player and coach1967 – John Barrowman , Scottish-American actor and singer1967 – Sergei Bautin , Belarusian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
1967 – Brad Carson , American lawyer and politician
1968 – Lisa Loeb , American singer-songwriter1969 – Terrence Howard , American actor and producer1969 – Soraya , Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2006)
1969 – Michael Rulli , American politician and businessman
1971 – Johnny Knoxville , American actor and entertainer1971 – Martin Ručinský , Czech ice hockey player
1971 – Lee Sang-hoon , South Korean baseball player
1974 – Bobby Abreu , Venezuelan baseball player1976 – Thomas Gravesen , Danish footballer1977 – Becky Hammon , American-Russian basketball player and coach1977 – Michal Handzuš , Slovak ice hockey player
1978 – Didier Drogba , Ivorian footballer1978 – Albert Luque , Spanish footballer
1979 – Elton Brand , American basketball player1979 – Fred Jones , American basketball player
1979 – Benji Madden , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Joel Madden , American singer-songwriter and producer
1980 – Rich Hill , American baseball player1980 – Mark Rober , American YouTuber and engineer
1980 – Dan Uggla , American baseball player
1981 – David Anders , American actor1981 – Lee Evans , American football player
1981 – Russell Lissack , English musician
1981 – LeToya Luckett , American singer-songwriter and actress
1982 – Brian Anderson , American baseball player1982 – Thora Birch , American actress, producer, and director
1983 – Lukáš Krajíček , Czech ice hockey player1984 – Rob Brown , American actor1985 – Paul Bissonnette , Canadian ice hockey player1985 – Daniel Vázquez Evuy , Equatoguinean footballer
1985 – Cassandra Fairbanks , American journalist and activist
1985 – Stelios Malezas , Greek footballer
1985 – Greg Olsen , American football player and commentator
1985 – Nikolai Topor-Stanley , Australian footballer
1986 – Dario Cologna , Swiss skier1987 – Marc-André Gragnani , Canadian ice hockey player1987 – Tanel Kangert , Estonian cyclist
1987 – Ngonidzashe Makusha , Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper
1988 – Pedro Báez , Dominican baseball player1988 – Fábio Coentrão , Portuguese footballer
1988 – Cecil Lolo , South African footballer (died 2015)
1989 – Malcolm Delaney , American basketball player1989 – Orlando Johnson , American basketball player
1989 – Anton Yelchin , Russian-American actor (died 2016)
1990 – Ayumi Morita , Japanese tennis player1992 – Austin Swift , American producer and actor1993 – Jodie Comer , English actress1993 – Anthony Davis , American basketball player
1994 – Andy Robertson , Scottish footballer1996 – Conor Garland , American ice hockey player1997 – Travis Konecny , Canadian ice hockey player1997 – Ray Spalding , American basketball player2003 – Tristan Vukčević , Serbian-Swedish basketball player2004 – Margarita Kolosov , German rhythmic gymnastDeaths
1602 – Emilio de' Cavalieri , Italian organist and composer (born 1550)1607 – Giovanni Maria Nanino , Italian composer and educator (born 1543)1665 – Clemente Tabone , Maltese landowner and militia member (born c. 1575)1689 – Sambhaji , second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire (born 1657)1722 – John Toland , Irish philosopher and theorist (born 1670)1759 – John Forbes , Scottish general (born 1707)1820 – Benjamin West , American-English painter and academic (born 1738)1851 – Marie-Louise Coidavid , Queen of Haiti (born 1778)1851 – George McDuffie , American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (born 1790)
1863 – Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet , English general (born 1803)1869 – Vladimir Odoyevsky , Russian philosopher and critic (born 1803)1870 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (born 1786)1874 – Charles Sumner , American lawyer and politician (born 1811)1898 – William Rosecrans , American general and politician (born 1819)1907 – Jean Casimir-Perier , French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (born 1847)1908 – Edmondo De Amicis , Italian journalist and author (born 1846)1908 – Benjamin Waugh , English minister and activist (born 1839)
1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne , English-Australian author (born 1826)1931 – F. W. Murnau , German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1888)1937 – Joseph S. Cullinan , American businessman, co-founded Texaco (born 1860)1944 – Hendrik Willem van Loon , Dutch-American journalist and historian (born 1882)1944 – Edgar Zilsel , Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (born 1891)
1949 – Henri Giraud , French general and politician (born 1879)1952 – Pierre Renoir , French actor and director (born 1885)1955 – Alexander Fleming , Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)1955 – Oscar F. Mayer , German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (born 1859)
1956 – Aleksanteri Aava , Finnish poet (born 1883)1957 – Richard E. Byrd , American admiral and explorer (born 1888)1959 – Lester Dent , American author (born 1904)1960 – Roy Chapman Andrews , American paleontologist and explorer (born 1884)1967 – Geraldine Farrar , American soprano and actress (born 1882)1969 – John Wyndham , English author (born 1903)1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American lawyer and author (born 1889)1971 – Philo Farnsworth , American inventor, developer of the first all electronic television system (born 1906)1971 – Whitney Young , American activist (born 1921)
1978 – Claude François , French entertainer (born 1939)1982 – Edmund Cooper , English poet and author (born 1926)1982 – Horace Gregory , American poet, translator, and academic (born 1898)
1986 – Sonny Terry , American singer and harmonica player (born 1911)1989 – James Kee , American lawyer and politician (born 1917)1989 – John J. McCloy , American lawyer and diplomat (born 1895)
1992 – Richard Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)1995 – Myfanwy Talog , Welsh actress and singer (born 1945)1996 – Vince Edwards , American actor and director (born 1928)1999 – Herbert Jasper , Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (born 1906)1999 – Camille Laurin , Canadian psychiatrist and politician (born 1922)
2002 – James Tobin , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)2006 – Bernie Geoffrion , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)2006 – Slobodan Milošević , Serbian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1941)
2010 – Hans van Mierlo , Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1931)2012 – James B. Morehead , American colonel and pilot (born 1916)2013 – Martin Adolf Bormann , German priest and theologian (born 1930)2013 – Simón Alberto Consalvi , Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (born 1927)
2014 – Dean Bailey , Australian footballer and coach (born 1967)2014 – Joel Brinkley , American journalist and academic (born 1952)
2015 – Walter Burkert , German philologist and scholar (born 1931)2015 – Jimmy Greenspoon , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1948)
2016 – Iolanda Balaș , Romanian high jumper (born 1936)2016 – Doreen Massey , English geographer and political activist (born 1944)
2018 – Ken Dodd , English comedian and singer (born 1927)2018 – Siegfried Rauch , German actor (born 1932)
2018 – Karl Lehmann , German cardinal (born 1936)
2018 – Mary Rosenblum , American science fiction and mystery author (born 1952)
2021 – Ray Campi , American singer and musician (born 1934)2021 – Takis Mousafiris , Greek composer and songwriter (born 1936)
2022 – Rupiah Banda , President of Zambia (born 1937)2024 – Paul Alexander , Polio survivor (born 1946)2025 – Junior Bridgeman , American basketball player and businessman (born 1953)2025 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor and singer (born 1930)