11 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 11, the day number in a year is 71 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 72. March 11 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1669	The Etna volcano erupted in Italy, killing 15,000 people.
1689	Aurangzeb murdered Shivaji's son Sambhaji.
1702	The publication of the first English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" was started.
1779	For the first time the US Army established the Corps of Engineers.
1810	Napoleon married Marie-Louise of Austria.
1823	Concord Academy, Concord, VT, was the first general school opened in the United States.
1843	Eta Carinae flared up to become the second brightest star in the night sky.
1848	Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the firstPrime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically electedunder a system of responsible government.
1851	Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto was first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
1864	A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused itto fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than600 homes.
1879	Sho Tai, the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, abdicated whenthe kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.
1888	The Great Blizzard of 1888 struck the northeastern UnitedStates, producing snowdrifts in excess of 50 ft (15 m) and confiningsome people to their houses for up to a week.
1895	The Spanish ship Reina Regenta sank in Gibraltar, killing 400 passengers.
1912	The Minors Federation of Great Britain initiated a meeting with the Prime Minister.
1931	David Samanage became President of Ocampo Peru.
1941	World War II-The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law, allowingthe United States to supply the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China,France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material.
1945	World War II-The Empire of Japan established the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with B?o Ð?i as its ruler.
1945	Burma saved Mamte, the 36th division of the British.
1946	Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, was captured by British troops.
1948	The country's first modern vessel Jal Usha was launched in Visakhapatnam.
1955	Sir Alexander Fleming was awarded the 73 Scottish Scientist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1966	Indonesian President Sukarno was forced to sign the Presidential Order Supersemar, giving Suharto the authority to take whatever measures he deemed necessary to restore order during the Indonesian killings.
1978	Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state, with B?o ??i as its ruler.
1978	After hijacking a bus north of Tel Aviv, members of Palestine Liberation Organization faction Fatah engaged in a shootout with the Israel Police, resulting in the deaths of 38 civilians and most of the perpetrators.
1978	The terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv killed 45 people.
1985	Mohammed al-Faid bought London-based department store company Harrods.
1985	Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the Soviet Union, became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
1986	1 million days passed since traditional foundation of Rome.
1990	Maggie won the Desert Inn LPGA Golf International Championship.
1991	Amateur wrestler, John Smith, won the wrestling championship and was honoured with ‘James E Sullivan Award’.
1993	Kurt Browning CAN won The Men’s figure skating championship which was held in Prague.
1993	Janet Reno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1996	To create the third century, Mark Waugh in the World Cup scored 110 runs against New Zealand.
1997	San Francisco giant J.T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket. His eye socket was fractured when he was hit by a pitch.
1998	Danish Parliamentary Elections 1998: Prime Minister Pul Nyarup Rasmussen is re-elected.
2001	Pullela Gopichand became the world champion in badmintal.
2004	A series of simultaneous bombings on Cercanías commuter train skilled 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 in Madrid.
2004	A series of bomb blasts on the rail network in Spain's capital Madrid killed 191 people.
2006	Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female Presidentof Chile.
2007	Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
2007	Sunita Chakraborty completed the 2,012 km journey from Kolkata to Wagah in reverse gear in seven days.
2008	26 people were killed in two suicide blasts in Lahore, Pakistan.
2009	A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondaryschool in Winnenden, Germany, killing sixteen, including himself.
2011	After the earthquake, Japan’s Fukushima I Nuclear Plant had suffered a radiation leak in which thousands of nearby residents are evacuated.
2011	A massive earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
2011	The earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed thousands and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant accident.
2012	Krasma Horka is heavily damaged due in fire. It’s a historical Slovakian castle.
2013	It was threatening that Shanghai’s drinking supply may contaminate due to the rotting of 900 pigs in the Huangpu River in China. The Government said the quality in the city tested as normal.
2014	For the treatment of migraine headaches, the US Food and Drug Administration approve an electric nerve stimulating device.
222	Disgusted with Roman emperor Elagabalus's disregard for Romanreligious traditions and sexual taboos, the Praetorian Guardassassinated him and his mother Julia Soaemias, mutilated their bodies,and threw them in the Tiber River.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1795	Battle of Kurdal India: Maharat defeated Mogol.
1881	The statue of Ramnath Tagore was installed in the town hall of Calcutta (now Kolkata). She is the first Indian to be enshrined in the town hall.
1999	Infosys is the first Indian company to figure in the Nasdaq International Stock Exchange list.

Day/Observance	Level
World Kidney Day	International Day
Lithuania Independence Restoration Day	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1915	Vijay Hazare / Cricketer / India
1942	Amarinder Singh / Politician / India

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