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 &ndash; Roman Emperor Elagabalus an his mither are murthert bi the Praetorian Guards.
*1770 &ndash; James Cook discovers the Solander Islands tae the Sooth o New Zealand.
*1864 &ndash; The Dale-Dyke Dam break in Sheffield, Ingland, causes a fluid that kills 270 fowk.
*1879 &ndash; Shō Tai formally abdicatit his poseetion o King o Ryūkyū, unner orders frae Tokyo, endin the Ryukyu Kinrick.
*1882 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A yirdquauk in Lang Beach, Californie, kills 133 fowk.
*1951 &ndash; The first Asian Gemmes end in New Delhi, Indie.
*1955 &ndash; Scots scientist Alexander Fleming dees o a hairt attack, agit 73.
*1983 &ndash; Bob Hawke becomes Prime Meenister o Australie.
*1985 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader o the Soviet Union.
*1990 &ndash; Lithuanie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
*1990 &ndash; Patricio Aylwin becomes Preses o Chile, endin the rule o Augusto Pinochet.
*1996 &ndash; John Howard becomes Prime Meenister o Australie.
*2004 &ndash; Terrorist bombs explode on trains in Madrid, killin 191 fowk.
*2006 &ndash; Michelle Bachelet becomes the first female Preses o Chile.
*2011 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Rugby union: Scotland suffers a record-Calcutta Cup defeat tae Ingland at Twickenham in Lunnon; the score wis 61-21.
*2018 &ndash; The Communist Pairty o Cheenae votes tae extend Preses Xi Jinping's term in affice indefinitely.

## Births

*1544 &ndash; Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
*1811 &ndash; Urbain Le Verrier, French mathemateecian an astronomer (d. 1877)
*1899 &ndash; King Frederick IX o Denmark (d. 1972)
*1916 &ndash; Harold Wilson, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1995)
*1920 &ndash; Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American pheesicist (d. 2017)
*1926 &ndash; Ralph Abernathy, American ceevil richts activist (d. 1990)
*1931 &ndash; Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media tycoon
*1932 &ndash; Nigel Lawson, Inglis politeecian
*1936 &ndash; Harald zur Hausen, German virologist
*1936 &ndash; Antonin Scalia, Unitit States Supreme Court Juistice (d. 2016)
*1941 &ndash; David Provan, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
*1952 &ndash; Douglas Adams, Inglis author an playwricht (d. 2001)
*1955 &ndash; Nina Hagen, German sangster
*1963 &ndash; Alex Kingston, Inglis actress
*1967 &ndash; John Barrowman, Scots-American actor
*1967 &ndash; Jeremy Balfour, Scots politeecian
*1978 &ndash; Didier Drogba, Ivorian fitbawer
*1981 &ndash; LeToya Luckett, American sangster
*1982 &ndash; Thora Birch, American actress
*1989 &ndash; Anton Yelchin, Roushie-American actor (d. 2016)
*1994 &ndash; Andrew Robertson, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
*222 &ndash; Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
*1514 &ndash; Donato Bramante, Italian airchitect (b. 1444)
*1661 &ndash; Mary Scott, 3rd Coontess o Buccleuch, Scots peer (b. 1647)
*1892 &ndash; Archibald Scott Couper, Scots chemist (b. 1831)
*1955 &ndash; Alexander Fleming, Scots biologist, pharmacologist, an botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
*1977 &ndash; Willie Bauld, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
*2006 &ndash; Slobodan Milosevic, Preses o Yugoslavie (b. 1941)
*2010 &ndash; Willie MacFarlane, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
*2016 &ndash; 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)