What are the important events that happened on March 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 11: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 11 is the 70^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 26, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,027,520 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,463 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 11 Historical Events

• 1848 –
  Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
• 1851 –
  The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
• 1867 –
  The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
• 1872 –
  The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
• 1917 –
  World War I: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
• 1942 –
  World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
• 1978 –
  Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel’s Operation Litani.
• 1985 –
  Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 1993 –
  Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
• 2007 –
  Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.

Who were born on March 11?

• 1878 –
  Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (d. 1927)
• 1899 –
  King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
• 1926 –
  İlhan Mimaroğlu, Turkish musician and composer
• 1939 –
  Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
• 1953 –
  László Bölöni, Romanian football player and manager
• 1962 –
  Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
• 1975 –
  Eric the Midget, American radio personality
• 1982 –
  Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
• 1983 –
  Bianca Gonzalez, Filipina TV host and model
• 1983 –
  Marietta Chrousala, Greek fashion model

Who died on March 11?

• 222 –
  Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• 1856 –
  James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
• 1863 –
  Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
• 1874 –
  Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
• 1907 –
  Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
• 1951 –
  János Zsupánek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (b. 1861)
• 1958 –
  Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
• 1960 –
  Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)
• 2002 –
  James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
• 2009 –
  Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer (b. 1963)