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.
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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 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
- 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
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