March 11

Holidays

• Zambia - Youth Day.
• Saint Rosina
• Saint Alberta
• Saint Vindician
• Blessed Auria
• Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day.
• Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence.
• United States - Johnny Appleseed Day, 311 Day
• Blessed John Righi
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Events

• 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani: International military intervention against ISIL. US-backed Syrian forces resume offensive on Baghuz, the last enclave under ISIL control in Syria.
• 2018 2017-18 South Pacific Cyclone Season: Cyclone Hola made landfall in New Zealand.
• 2017 Syrian Civil War: At least 40 people are killed, most of them Shia Iraqi pilgrims. More than 100 were injured in twin bombings in Damascus' Bab al-Saghir.
• 2016 Insurgency within the Maghreb (2002-present: Three suspected Islamist militants are killed by the Algerian Army near El Oued in the east. The Army also seizes large quantities of weapons, including six antiaircraft missiles.
• 2015 2014-15 Australian region Cyclone Season: Tropical Cyclone Nathan intensifies into a Category 2 system near Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland.
• 2014 Nils Horner, Swedish Radio's foreign correspondent, was killed by gunmen in Kabul Afghanistan.
• 2013 In the latest insider attack on coalition forces, two US and three Afghan soldiers were killed in Afghanistan's War in Afghanistan (2001 to present). Two Afghan civilians are also killed by American soldiers who failed to stop at a Kabul checkpoint.
• 2012 16 civilians are killed by a US soldier in Afghanistan's Panjwayi District, near Kandahar.
• 2011 A tsunami that killed thousands of people is caused by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. It struck 130km (80 miles) east Sendai, Japan. This event was also responsible for the second-largest nuclear accident in history and was one of two events that were classified as Level 7 on International Nuclear Event Scale.
• 2010 The Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals rules in favor of a 2007 challenge to the motto "In God We Trust" on US coins.
• 2009 Winnenden school shooting: 17 people are shot and killed in a school in Germany.
• 2008 The US Federal Reserve has promised to lend up US$200 Billion of Treasury bonds monthly with collateral in the form of mortgage-backed securities.
• 2007 Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley, Abkhazia. Russia denies this accusation later.
• 2006 Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, was found dead in his cell at The Hague in The Netherlands.
• 2005 Three people are killed, including a judge at the Fulton County Courthouse, Atlanta, Georgia. Brian Nichols, the main suspect surrenders to police the following day.
• 2004 Madrid train bombings: 191 people were killed in simultaneous explosions at Madrid's rush hour trains, Spain.
• 2003 After twenty years of delays, the Brazilian government finally fulfilled its legal obligation to demarcate the lands belonging to the Awa tribe.
• 2002 Robert Mugabe won the Zimbabwe election with 54% vote, compared to Morgan Tsvangirai’s 40%. This was a 55.9% turnout. His win is controversial. It comes amid allegations that many people were prevented from voting and that there was an intimidation campaign. However, observers from South Africa and Organisation of African Unity believe that the result is valid.
• 1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• 1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 versus New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup.
• 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
• 1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile.
• 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.
• 1992 Manuel de Dios Unanue, former editor of ''El Diario La Prensa'', is slain in a restaurant in Queens after having received death threats from the Colombian drug cartels.
• 1991 Janet Jackson signs US$40 million three-album deal with Virgin Records.
• 1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International.
• 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire.
• 1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point.
• 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4 / 21 / 753 BC
• 1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic.
• 1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean
• 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus / Hawker in Suriname
• 1981 Chile constitution takes effect; military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President for another 8-year term.
• 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game.
• 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, Israel; 45 killed.
• 1977 Muslims hold 130 hostages in Washington DC.
• 1976 Near Newport, Rhode Island, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurs.
• 1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails.
• 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts.
• 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic.
• 1972 Inner City closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
• 1970 12th Grammy Awards: "Aquarius", Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win.
• 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
• 1967 Pink Floyd rock group releases their first song ("Arnold Layne").
• 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out.
• 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto.
• 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
• 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus.
• 1959 Raisin in the Sun, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
• 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show 21
• 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• 1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics.
• 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned
• 1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
• 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen with 4,662 ton bombs.
• 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
• 1943 Nazi Militia forms in the Netherlands
• 1942 US General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.
• 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill
• 1940 Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for The Sea of Cortez on a collecting expedition.
• 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
• 1935 Bank of Canada opens
• 1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer.
• 1930 US President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington cemetary.
• 1928 Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1
• 1927 First armored commercial car hold-up in US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein.
• 1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Ottawa Senators in two games.
• 1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in two games.
• 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed.
• 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
• 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad.
• 1910 Jack Hobbs first Test ton (187 versus South Africa), his only Test hit wicket.
• 1905 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, two games to 1.
• 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in two games.
• 1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black second baseman Charlie Grant.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 11?

• Johnny Knoxville

  American stunt performer, comedian, actor, screenwriter and film producer.

• Terrence Howard

  American actor.

• Thora Birch

  American actress, she landed her first role in a TV commercial at age 4..

• Dominique Sanda

  French model and actress.

• Anton Yelchin

  Russian/American actor.

• Marc-André Grondin

  Canadian actor.

• Alex Kingston

  English actress.

• Matthias Schweighöfer
• David Anders

  American actor.

• Sam Donaldson

  American TV newscaster, reporter and anchor, a regular on ABC Weekend News from 1979, and on Prime Time Live for ABC from 1989.

• Sandra Milo

  Tunisian-Italian actress.

• Peter Berg

  American actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Jeffrey Nordling

  American actor.

• Cheryl Lynn

  American singer-songwriter.

• Barbara Alyn Woods
• Anna Tsuchiya

  Japanese model actress and singer (Spin Aqua).

• Jodie Comer
• Thomas Middleditch

  Actor.

• Cochi Ponzoni

  Italian actor, screenwriter and comedian, who first became known as one half of the popular comedy duo Cochi & Renato, along with Renato...

• Tricia O'Neil

  American actress.

• Joachim Fuchsberger

  German actor, television host, lyricist and businessman best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in...

• Wallace Langham

  American actor.

• Shemp Howard

  American actor and comedian (heart attack) (b.

• Austin Swift

  Family Member.

• Mariko Shinoda

  Japanese singer and actress (AKB48).

• Jessie Matthews

  London, England -- Actress (Gangway, First a Girl).

• Rob Brown

  American actor.

• Daniella Kertesz

  Israeli actress.

• Rob Paulsen

  American voice actor.

• Carlos Larrañaga

  Spanish actor (d. 2012).

• Reiley McClendon

  American actor.

• Nina Hagen

  German singer, well known in the new wave-punk scene shortly after she made it to the West, 1976.

• Nina Hartley

  American porno superstar with numerous X-Cinema awards.

• Didier Drogba

  Ivorian footballer who currently at age 34 plays for Shanghai Shenhua.

• Rupert Murdoch

  Australian-American entrepreneur who, after journalistic experience in London in 1962, took over the family's small newspaper and parlayed a...

• John Barrowman

  Scottish-American versatile actor of stage, West End musicals, TV children's shows and U.S.

• Henri Guaino

  French political speechwriter and politician.

• Laure Adler

  French journalist, woman of letters, editor and producer.

• Benji Madden

  American guitarist (Good Charlotte).

• Antwerp (Belgium)
• Douglas Adams

  British sci-fi writer known for his wacky "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a 1979 cult favorite.

• Eric Naulleau
• LeToya (singer)
• Bobby McFerrin

  American musician, jazz and pop vocalist, and conductor.

• Jean-Paul Baudecroux

  French founder and director of a radio station.

• Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

  British television presenter.

• Katia Labèque

  French international classical pianist (duo with her sister).

• Antonin Scalia

  American jurist, the first Italian-American Supreme Court Justice, appointed by President Reagan in June 1986 to take over the seat of...

• Jacques Santi
• Arnaud Tsamere
• Lisa Loeb

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and actress (Liz and Lisa).

• Sophie Maréchal
• Tun Razak
• The Lady Chablis
• Andres Velencoso
• Shurik'n

  French hip hop artist, also known as Shurik'n Chang-Ti.

• Ralph Abernathy

  American Civil Rights Activist and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harold Wilson

  British politician who became Prime Minister 3/04/1974 upon Edward Heath’s resignation.

• Christophe Gans

  French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video game adaptations.

• Alba de Céspedes
• Sacha Pitoëff
• David Lachapelle
• Raoul Walsh

  US director (High Sierra), dies at about age 88.

• André Dalibert

  French actor and singer, who died on 7 June 1997, aged 89, in Grainville-sur-Odon, France.

• Lawrence Welk

  American bandleader and accordion player who had his own TV show from 1955-1982 on ABC and, in 1953, was nominated for a TV Emmy as the most...

• Céline Couderc
• Jerry Zucker

  American film producer and director who began producing movies with brother Dave Zucker, then went on to his own productions of...

• Zino Davidoff
• Franco Basaglia

  Italian psychiatrist and neurologist, who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, pioneer of the modern concept of mental health,...

• Gülse Birsel

  Turkish actress and screenwriter.

• Karine Fauconnier

  French sailor, who has sailed in various events: monohull, multihull, in solo regattas, and on lakes.

• Elias Koteas

  Canadian actor.

• Marisa Del Frate

  Italian cabaret singer.

• Jacques Dominati

  Ajaccio Politician.

• Robert Antony Hayward
• 2004 Madrid train bombings
• Lindsey McKeon

  American actress.

• Thomas Gravesen

  Danish footballer.

• Graham Lyle

  Scottish-British songwriting team member with Benny Gallagher, starting their professional careers in 1964.

• Cedric Henderson

  NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers).

• Cindy Santos (Nouvelle Star)
• Vinnie Paul

  American drummer (Pantera).

• Christopher Rice

  American writer, son of author Anne Rice and poet/painter Stanley Rice.

• Jacinta Marto

  witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (Born 1910).

• Nigel Lawson

  British conservative politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1983.

• Benjamin Diamond
• Peter R Hunt
• Pascale Breugnot
• Raymond Delisle

  French road bicycle racer, the only rider to have won a stage of the Tour de France on 14 July, France's national day, while wearing the...

• Fábio Coentrão

  Portuguese footballer.

• Stu Nevitt
• Mary Wong (actress)
• Anthony Davis

  Basketball Player.

• Henri Reznik
• Bruno Podalydès
• Arturo Merzario

  Italian pro race car driver of the Formula One series.

• Conal Gregory
• Fabrice Barrao
• Yoann Fréget
• Paul Keller
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Famous Deaths

• Betty Hutton

  Battle Creek, Michigan -- Actress (Greatest Show on Earth).

• Geraldine Farrar

  American singer with a powerful operatic voice, a lyric soprano.

• Vince Edwards

  Brooklyn, New York -- Actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse).

• Merlin Olsen

  American athlete, pro football player,sports analyst and actor.

• Whitney Young

  American civil rights activist (d. 1971).

• James Reeb

  American Unitarian Universalist minister and a pastor and civil rights activist in Washington, D.C.

• Sonny Terry

  American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986).

• Haydn Wood

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Will Vesper

  German Author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79.

• Roy Glenn

  Dies at 56 in Los Angeles, California.

• Fredric [William] Brown

  Sci-fi Author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65.

• Edmund Cooper

  British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55.

• Pham Hung

  Premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74.

• David Carroll

  Actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41.

• Edgar Nelson Barclift

  Dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76.

• Manuel da Fonseca

  Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81.

• FW Murnau

  German film director (Born 1888).

• Admiral Richard E Byrd

  American explorer (Born 1888).

• Sherburne W Burnham US astronomer (binary stars)

  dies at age 83.

• Hendrik W van Loon

  Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at age 62.

• Johan Fleerackers

  Flemish linguist, dies at age 57.

• Manuel De Dios Unanue

  US anti-drug journalist, murdered at age 48.

• Frank Fidler

  artist, dies at age 84.

• Ernest Kabushemeye

  Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered.

• Thomas Alexander Browne

  Australian writer (Born 1826).

• Anastasios Charalambis

  Greek general and interim Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1862).

• Joseph S Cullinan

  American oil industrialist (Born 1860).

• Sir Alexander Fleming

  Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (Born 1881).

• Oscar Mayer

  Bavarian-born American meat packer (Born 1859).

• Ole Kirk Christiansen

  Danish inventor of Legos (Born 1891).

• Sofia Vembo

  Greek Female Singer, dubbed the ''Singstress of Victory'' (Born 1910).

• Alberto Rodriguez Larreta

  Argentine racing driver (Born 1934).

• Kostas Roukounas

  Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (Born 1903).

• Horace Gregory

  American poet (Born 1898).

• John J McCloy

  United States Secretary of War (Born 1895).

• Dean Horrix

  English footballer (Born 1961).

• Bernie ''Boom Boom'' Geoffrion

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1931).

• Ivar Hansen

  speaker of the Danish Folketing (Born 1938).

• Charles Lewis

  Jr.

• Leena Peltonen-Palotie

  Finnish human geneticist (Born 1952).

• Jean Casimir-Perier

  French politician, serving as Prime Minister and fifth President of the Third Republic.

• Jacques Doucet

  French pioneer and leader in haute-couture.

• Myfanwy Talog

  Welsh actress and singer (d. 1995).

• Richard Brooks

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood).

• Paul Scheinpflug

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Pierre Renoir

  French actor and noted family, the son of impressionist painter Auguste Renoir and the elder brother of film director Jean Renoir.

• Roy Chapman Andrews

  American explorer and adventurer (Born 1884).

• Hans van Mierlo

  Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (Born 1931).

• Victor Hely-Hutchinson

  Composer, dies at 45.

• Juan Lamonte de Grignon

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Florence Arliss

  Actress (Disraeli), dies at 78.

• Erle Stanley Gardner

  US writer (Perry Mason), dies at age 80.

• Philip Bezanson

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Sammy Spear

  Orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65.

• Walter Kinsella

  Actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74.

• Julio Garavito Armero

  Colombian astronomer (Born 1865).

• Philo T Farnsworth

  American television pioneer (Born 1906).

• Claude Francois

  French singer (Born 1939).

• Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria)

  murdered.

• Peter Milne composer

  dies at age 83.

• Harald Fryklof composer

  dies at age 36.

• Philippe of Isacker

  Belgian minister, dies at age 66.

• Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko

  Russian opera composer, dies at age 83.

• Andreas Hallen

  Composer, dies at 78.

• [Wayne] Woody Hayes

  football coach (Ohio State), dies at age 74 (born 1913).

• John Henry Pyle Pafford

  librarian, dies at age 96.

• Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson

  public servant, dies at age 70.

• Charles William Oatley

  electrical engineer, dies at age 92.

• Barry Appleby

  cartoonist, dies at age 86.

• Mikao Usui

  Japanese founder of Reiki method of healing.

• Joe Gladwin

  English actor (Born 1906).

• Benjamin Waugh

  English activist founded the NSPCC (d. 1908).

• Camille Laurin

  Canadian psychiatrist and politician 7th Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1999).

• Dino Bravo

  Italian-born professional wrestler (Born 1949),.

• Walford Davies

  English organist and composer (d. 1941).

• Nakagawa Soen

  Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at age 76.

• Richard E Byrd

  United States -- Explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68.

• John Wyndham [Parkes Lucas B Harris]

  Author (Chrysalids), dies at 65.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
• 2006 James Blunt - You're Beautiful
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Joe - Stutter
• 2000 Lonestar - Amazed
• 1999 Cher - Believe
• 1998 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• 1997 The Spice Girls - Wannabe
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Mr. Big - To Be With You
• 1991 Mariah Carey - Someday
• 1990 Janet Jackson - Escapade
• 1989 Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
• 1988 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
• 1987 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• 1986 Mr. Mister - Kyrie
• 1985 REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
• 1980 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• 1979 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
• 1978 Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
• 1977 Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
• 1976 The Miracles - Love Machine (Part 1)
• 1975 Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow
• 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
• 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
• 1972 Nilsson - Without You
• 1971 The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
• 1968 Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
• 1967 The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
• 1962 Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby
• 1961 Chubby Checker - Pony Time
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• 1958 The Silhouettes - Get A Job
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision