Major Events
- 843 Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople
- 1502 Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)
- 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
- 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
- 2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
- 2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be presidency for life
- 2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths
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Mar 11 in Film & TV
- 1957 Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed
Mar 11 in Music
- 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
Mar 11 in Sport
- 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
Did You Know?
Digital art work "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" a digital college by Beeple, with a non-fungible token, sells for record $69.3 million in online auction by Christie's
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Harold Wilson
Ralph Abernathy
Douglas Adams
Shemp Howard
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Rupert Murdoch
Terrence Howard
Thora Birch
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Malcolm Campbell
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Didier Drogba
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Fun Fact About March 11
1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC
Famous Weddings
- 1302 Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
- 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
- 1787 Naval officer Horatio Nelson (28) weds Frances Nisbet at Montpelier Estate on the island of Nevis
Famous Divorces
- 1958 Actress Agnes Moorehead (57) divorces actor and film director Robert Gist (40) after 5 years of marriage
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Paul AlexanderArticles, Photos and Quiz
Read All About It! UK's First Daily Newspaper
There were to be no ‘shock, horror’ stories in the UK’s first daily newspaper published on this day. Readers were asked to judge reported events for themselves.
March 11, 1702
Spanish Flu
Staff of the American Red Cross remove a Spanish flu victim from a house in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
March 11, 1918
