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

1990: Map o Lithuanie

2011: Tsunami an yirdquauk damage in Japan

• 222 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus an his mither are murthered 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 flood that kills 270 fowk.
• 1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicatit his position o Keeng o Ryūkyū, unner orders frae Tokyo, endin the Ryukyu Kinrick.
• 1933 – A yirdquauk in Long Beach, Californie, kills 133 fowk.
• 1951 – The first Asian Games end in New Delhi, Indie.
• 1983 – Bob Hawke acomes Prime Meenister o Australie.
• 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev acomes leader o the Soviet Union.
• 1990 – Lithuanie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
• 1990 – Patricio Aylwin acomes Preses o Chile, endin the rule o Augusto Pinochet.
• 1996 – John Howard acomes Prime Meenister o Australie.
• 2004 – Terrorist bombs explode on trains in Madrid, killin 191 fowk.
• 2006 – Michelle Bachelet acomes 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 also triggered the seicont lairgest nuclear accident in history, an ane o only twa events tae be classified as a Level 7 on the Internaitional Nuclear Event Scale.

Births

Douglas Adams

• 1544 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1595)
• 1811 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathemateecian an astronomer (d. 1877)
• 1899 – Keeng Frederick IX o Denmark (d. 1972)
• 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American ceevil richts activist (d. 1990)
• 1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media tycoon
• 1932 – Nigel Lawson, Inglis politeecian
• 1936 – Antonin Scalia, Unitit States Supreme Court Justice (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
• 1978 – Didier Drogba, Ivorian fitbawer
• 1981 – LeToya Luckett, American sangster
• 1982 – Thora Birch, American actress

Daiths

• 222 – Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• 1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian airchitect (b. 1444)
• 1955 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, an botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 2006 – Slobodan Milosevic, Preses o Yugoslavie (b. 1941)

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)