11 Mairch

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 
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  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 
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 tycoon
1932 – Nigel Lawson, Inglis politeecian
1936 – Harald zur Hausen, German virologist
1936 – 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 sangster
1963 – Alex Kingston, Inglis actress
1967 – John Barrowman, Scots-American actor
1967 – Jeremy Balfour, Scots politeecian
1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian fitbawer
1981 – LeToya Luckett, American sangster
1982 – Thora Birch, American actress
1989 – Anton Yelchin, Roushie-American actor (d. 2016)
1994 – Andrew Robertson, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
1514 – 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
 Regainin o Unthirldom (Lithuanie)
 Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)

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Category:Days o the year