March 11

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 11. From 1900 until now. March 11 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Nina Hagen (1955), Didier Drogba (1978) and Nina Hartley (1959). Several movies were released around March 11 over the years, such as The King and the Mockingbird in 1980 directed by Paul Grimault and Breathless in 1960 directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
But much more happened on March 11 over the years: find out below

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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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2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, International military intervention against ISIL: US-backed Syrian forces resume their offensive on the final enclave controlled by ISIL in Syria at Baghuz. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
2018 2017–18 South Pacific cyclone season: Cyclone Hola makes landfall in New Zealand. (Newshub)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Twin bombings kill at least 40 people, mostly Shia Iraqi pilgrims, and wound over 100 in the Bab al-Saghir area of Damascus. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
2016 Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present): The Algerian Army kills three suspected Islamist militants near the eastern city of El Oued and seizes a large quantity of weapons, including six anti-aircraft missiles. (Reuters)
2015 2014–15 Australian region cyclone season: Tropical Cyclone Nathan intensifies to a Category 2 system as it nears Cape York Peninsula in the north of the Australian state of Queensland. (The Australian)
2014 Gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner. (Washington Post)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: Two US and three Afghan soldiers are killed in Wardak Province in the latest insider attack against coalition forces. In a separate incident, two Afghan civilians are shot dead by American soldiers after failing to stop at a checkpoint near Kabul. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
2012 A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. (BBC)
2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) 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 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules against a challenge (filed in 2007) to the motto "In God We Trust" appearing on US coins.
2009 Winnenden school shooting : 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2008 The US Federal Reserve promises to lend up to US$200 billion of Treasury bonds on a monthly basis with mortgage-backed securities as collateral.
2007 Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2006 The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević has been found dead in his prison cell in The Hague, Netherlands. (CNN) (Reuters) (BBC) (Times)
2005 Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.
2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2003 After 20 years of delay, the Brazilian government fulfilled its legal commitment to demarcate the lands of the Awá tribe.
2002 Robert Mugabe wins the Zimbabwe elections with 54% of the vote to Morgan Tsvangirai's 40% on a turnout of 55.9%. His victory is controversial and comes amid claims that many have been prevented from voting and there has been a campaign of intimidation. But election observers from South Africa and the Organisation of African Unity state that the outcome is legitimate.
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 (GRB)
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 (FM Adams)
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 (lend money to Britain)
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 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
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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