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 70th 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, 1,741,651,200 seconds 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.
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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.
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March 11 Historical Events
- 1811 –During André Masséna’s retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
- 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.
- 1872 –Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- 1872 –The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
- 1941 –World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
- 1977 –The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- 1999 –Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- 2010 –Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
- 2011 –An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Who were born on March 11?
- 1818 –Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1910)
- 1945 –Harvey Mandel, American musician
- 1956 –D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
- 1956 –Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
- 1963 –Alex Kingston, English actress
- 1971 –Martin Ručinský, Czech ice hockey player
- 1978 –Christopher Rice, American author
- 1980 –Dan Uggla, American baseball player
- 1984 –Tom James, British rower
- 1990 –Reiley McClendon, American actor
Who died on March 11?
- 1851 –George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
- 1856 –James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
- 1863 –Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
- 1870 –King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
- 1874 –Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
- 1955 –Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
- 1989 –James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2003 –Ivar Hansen, Danish politician (b. 1938)
- 2006 –Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
- 2009 –Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer (b. 1963)
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