The 11t o Mairch is the 70t day o the year (71st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 295 days ti come.
Events
1990 : Cairt o Lithuanie 2011 : Tsunami an yirdquauk damage in Japan 222 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus an his mither are murthert bi the Praetorian Guards.1770 – James Cook discovers the Solander Islands tae the Sooth o New Zealand .1864 – The Dale-Dyke Dam break in Sheffield , Ingland , causes a fluid that kills 270 fowk.1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicatit his poseetion o King o Ryūkyū, unner orders frae Tokyo , endin the Ryukyu Kinrick .1882 – Andrew Watson , the first black internaitional in recordit fitbaw histerie, maks his 3rd, and feenal, appearance for Scotland , in a 5-1 win ower Ingland .1933 – A yirdquauk in Lang Beach, Californie , kills 133 fowk.1951 – The first Asian Gemmes end in New Delhi , Indie .1955 – Scots scientist Alexander Fleming dees o a hairt attack, agit 73.1983 – Bob Hawke becomes Prime Meenister o Australie .1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader o the Soviet Union .1990 – Lithuanie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union .1990 – Patricio Aylwin becomes Preses o Chile , endin the rule o Augusto Pinochet .1996 – John Howard becomes Prime Meenister o Australie .2004 – Terrorist bombs explode on trains in Madrid , killin 191 fowk.2006 – Michelle Bachelet becomes the first female Preses o Chile .2011 – An yirdquauk measurin 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east o Sendai , Japan , triggerin a tsunami killin thoosands o fowk. This event an aa triggered the seicont lairgest nuclear accident in history, an ane o anly twa events tae be clessifee'd as a Level 7 on the Internaitional Nuclear Event Scale .2017 – Rugby union : Scotland suffers a record-Calcutta Cup defeat tae Ingland at Twickenham in Lunnon ; the score wis 61-21.2018 – The Communist Pairty o Cheenae votes tae extend Preses Xi Jinping 's term in affice indefinitely.
Births
Douglas Adams 1544 – Torquato Tasso , Italian poet (d. 1595 )1811 – Urbain Le Verrier , French mathemateecian an astronomer (d. 1877 )1899 – King Frederick IX o Denmark (d. 1972 )1916 – Harold Wilson , Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1995 )1920 – Nicolaas Bloembergen , Dutch-American pheesicist (d. 2017 )1926 – Ralph Abernathy , American ceevil richts activist (d. 1990 )1931 – Rupert Murdoch , Australian-American media tycoon1932 – Nigel Lawson , Inglis politeecian1936 – Harald zur Hausen , German virologist1936 – Antonin Scalia , Unitit States Supreme Court Juistice (d. 2016 )1941 – David Provan , Scots fitbawer (d. 2016 )1952 – Douglas Adams , Inglis author an playwricht (d. 2001 )1955 – Nina Hagen , German sangster1963 – Alex Kingston , Inglis actress1967 – John Barrowman , Scots-American actor1967 – Jeremy Balfour , Scots politeecian1978 – Didier Drogba , Ivorian fitbawer1981 – LeToya Luckett , American sangster1982 – Thora Birch , American actress1989 – Anton Yelchin , Roushie-American actor (d. 2016 )1994 – Andrew Robertson , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
222 – Elagabalus , Roman Emperor1514 – Donato Bramante , Italian airchitect (b. 1444 )1661 – Mary Scott, 3rd Coontess o Buccleuch , Scots peer (b. 1647 )1892 – Archibald Scott Couper , Scots chemist (b. 1831 )1955 – Alexander Fleming , Scots biologist, pharmacologist, an botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881 )1977 – Willie Bauld , Scots fitbawer (b. 1928 )2006 – Slobodan Milosevic , Preses o Yugoslavie (b. 1941 )2010 – Willie MacFarlane , Scots fitbawer (b. 1930 )2016 – Billy Ritchie , Scots fitbawer (b. 1928 )
Halidays
11 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:St. Aurea
St. Constantine
St. Aengus
St. Amunia
St. Benedict Crispus
St. Vigilius
St. Teresa Margaret Redi
Sts. Trophimus & Thalus
St. Candidus
St. Firmian
St. Heraclius an Zosimus
St. Peter the Spaniard
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